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    Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

    By SouthernRegionSteam

    Hold on to your socks - this is going to be a lengthy one! (In fact it's so long, I've now split it into 2 separate posts - the next will be up soon...)   I think it's fair to say that you are all long overdue an update on Coastguard Creek. Due to other commitments, no real progress has been made since the last post way back in March 2021; almost 15 months ago! If anything, things went backwards for quite a while, as I kept finding more and more inspiring locations that I really wanted
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Old AGWI Road - An oil refinery in 1:76 scale

Making a Mockery - Why Mock-ups Are So Useful!

Making a Mockery!     I've been busy the last two days making some cardboard mock ups of the buildings and track to try and get a feel for what might need changing. I'll warn you now, I only had bright coloured cardboard so it does look like something out of a primary school class (or maybe Blue Peter!). So in that style, here's one I made earlier...or rather, several!                     In my opinion, mock-ups ar
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Rannoch in 2mm Finescale

Modular Fiddle Yard Part 2

Here is the next stage in the modular fiddle yard design: Proof of Concept for the curved boards.   I took my drawings from Autocad, printed them out and stuck them to a scrap piece of 6mm MDF. The plan here was to create a neat template to use a router to cut all the boards from. I used a multitude of power tools to create the first 'rough' template before cleaning it up with a sander. Once I was happy with this I screwed this piece to another bit of 6mm MDF and proceeded to use a router w
Rammstein2609

Rammstein2609

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Rannoch in 2mm Finescale

Modular Fiddle Yard Part 1

Well, it's been another year since my last entry and still no progress due to yet more time spent improving my designs. My job has also meant I don't have much time to do any physical modelling so I spend a lot of time on my computer thinking of more ideas to add to the layout. The main part I wasn't entirely happy with was the fiddle yard. I think I had seriously over complicated it for myself then the realisation came that I couldn't re-use the fiddle yard for any other layouts as it was t
Rammstein2609

Rammstein2609

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Snitzl's Main Blog

LSWR class T14 4-6-0 Locomotive.

Brief Prototype History for the T14.   The LSWR Class T14 was a class of ten 4-6-0 locomotives designed by Dugald Drummond for  express passenger service for London & South Western Railway, built at Eastleigh between 1911 and 1912. The T14 was not one of Drummonds better loco designs, they suffered from heavy coal and water consumption and the axle boxes ran  extremely hot. Later modifications included removal of the paddlebox type splashers,  raising the footplate and forced lubri
snitzl

snitzl in Locos

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TheRSR

And elsewhere in the world.

Another friend of our group is building his first model railway and opted for American HO. He is not a purist and just wants a nice layout. He is using a lot of Woodland Scenics products. I have been helping him with ideas and showing him some techniques but he is proving to be a good modeller. This picture of his ‘tunnel’ – a long story – and the lake area shows Earth dyes being used to colour rocks.   Source
RichardS

RichardS

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TheRSR

Back to Bohemia

There has been much progress on Bohemian Saxony since the new year and the layout is really coming together at long last. Here’s some pictures of various bits.   Source
RichardS

RichardS

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TheRSR

A Little Diversion

A friend of a colleague is into 009 but has an unsteady hand. He had seen an article in Railway Modeller which described the conversion of a Bachmann ‘N’ gauge American shunter into a freelance narrow gauge loco. Could I help? Well yes and the following pictures show my first ever conversion project. Not a medal winner but I’m quite pleased with it and I hope the new owner will be too.   Source
RichardS

RichardS

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

Taking the slow line

Well, as predicted in my last update, the first running over the layout did occur the following evening, using the bus wires temporarily lashed up to an old Hornby controller. Much to my pleasure, and a little surprise, the whole thing worked perfectly, with my new-to-me (a £60 secondhand bargain!) Bachmann C looking very smooth as she coasted down the gradient into the station, before exploring all the sidings.   I fitted the feeds to track through the bottom of the baseboard, using some cut
dseagull

dseagull

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The EMpire Project

At last! A solution to our grass problem

Early on we decided to cover the front and back of the layout, most of the actual scenery, with carpet underlay. This produced a good effect, especially with a little bit of effort. It did, however, leave us with a dilemma about the middle of the layout. We tried a few different techniques for the ground cover round the various sidings, static grass, ground foam, but these didn't really produce the effect we wanted. There was too much contrast between the different materials and the change in co
garethashenden

garethashenden

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North Marsh Road - Eastern Region - BR Blue - OO

Making more wagon loads - 2

Well long time since last post, but hands are pretty full having two boys; 4 year and a 18 month. But we now have a basic 8x4 layout slowly growing in the attic conversion, so at least I get to play trains more now;-)   So I have had a go with the pipe insulation method again and crated some more wagon loads; lumpy (real) coal, ballast and gravel. Just like the MGR ones is did sometime back. Very happy with the result and they are so easy to pick out of a wagon and very robust in kids hands
Jaggzuk

Jaggzuk

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Coombe Barton

Building the Churchward 45xx Part Six

The Cab   This week’s purchase was an A4 cutting mat from The Works for three quid. This may seem a little unnecessary as I’ve already got a couple of A2 size, one atop the workbench and one for extra space. I did notice that as I was cutting small items off the frets and cutting up solder that one small area was getting significantly more wear then the rest, so an A4 mat chopped into an A5 and two A6 portions will allow me to chop and discard when necessary. OK, I could just buy another A2 bu
Coombe Barton

Coombe Barton

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Matthew Cousins' Blog

Hal o' the Wynd moves on and an odd livery

Peter brought 60116 to the St Albans show to let me see progress, and it's posed next to Blink Bonny, these will be my two BR Blue Pacifics, although knowing Peter 60116 will be pristine as opposed to the weathered A3.     I also received Colin Tyler's repaint of the J71 built by James King. It is such a well made loco that I felt that it deserved a special livery and so it has been given the almost unique hybrid livery of BR green with LNER black and white lining panels, as applied to the
Matthew Cousins

Matthew Cousins

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Blacklade Artamon Square

Hanging By A Thread

One of my outstanding projects is to do something about electrical connections and points on the boxfile   This arose from some comments from a fellow DOGA member a couple of years ago. DOGA had their stand at Watford show that year, I was helping on the Saturday, and I took along the boxfile as a display item , and also something to provide intermittent movement (We had a Hornby Sentinel on it for a while and it looked the part - I really must built my Judith Edge Vanguard Steelman..)
Ravenser

Ravenser in Electrical

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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - No more sitting on the Fence - Or the Start of a New Occupation

Well those of you who have been following my entries (more often rants) on the building of Foster Street will know that it is supposed to be set somewhere in the North West in the period up to that horrible day the railways were nationalised, and the beginning of the end began......   Anyway when viewed from the from the front, working from the left to right the urban sprawl of a typical northern town, gives way to the typical green-ish landscape we have up here between towns, the aim was capt
paulprice

paulprice

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Buckingham West

A bridge too far?

At the opposite end of my railway room from Newton Purcell there is the door.     I have 3 sets of lines to get across the door: the main circuits on base level, the descending line from Newton Purcell to those circuits and the branch from Newton Purcell climbing up to Brackley Road. So that's 3 different levels, on curves. The easiest way would be a simple duck-under. I have set the boards reasonably high, so it wouldn't be the end of the world. However the railway room is also the house
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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0820PerranporthPaddington's Blog

St Agnes Station Cornwall From dereliction to 1949

The branch line which ran from Chacewater to Newquay via St Agnes, Perranporth and Shepherds to Newquay had a short life by comparison, with seven unstaffed halts at Mount Hawke, Goonbell, Mithian, Perranporth Beach Halt, Goonhavern, Mitchell & Newlyn and Trerice and Trewerry. It was built by the GWR to stop further lines from th LSWR encroaching further west. In 1937, it was decided to widen the station layout to include a passing loop, with a new 300ft long island platform, allowing the pa
Chronicles of Notlob's Siding

Distracted from the straight, onto the narrow

I've come to the conclusion that I am my own "man from Porlock". I'm so easily distracted from whatever path I've embarked upon. I could have been CEO of a major British .... ooh what's that shiny thing over there?   Anyway, back here on Planet Mark, at the 2mm Expo in 2013, I was chatting with Allan Doherty about various things, including 2mm narrow gauge stuff and he gave me a part completed loco body for a Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Andrew Barclay tank loco (top one on
2mmMark

2mmMark in Loco construction

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

N gauge narrow gauge... 016.5, 009, this must be N3...

Hello everyone,   right, determined to get back blogging and true to the title, another truly random tangent of N-gaugery, this time going narrow gauge. A while back as a sheer impulse buy I picked up a 2mm/ft static model kit of a GWR era Vale of Rheidol railway carriage from NBrass. I have to confess this has sat for a year or two on a shelf but inspired by some 009 carriage-bodging I had been working on (more of this soon) I wondered if it could be made into something vaguely 'operational'.
Will J

Will J

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Up the Line - 1918

On the fiddle - (yard)

I know things have been a little quiet on the blog front but that was mainly as I have just been messing around with assorted things of no individual significance - well just messing around really - until now. Finally faced the elephant in the railway room and have attacked the fiddle yard problem hopefully for the last time. My previous attempts at rectifying the automatic uncoupling and derailing devices which passed for marks 1 to 4 were just rehashes of the original board, this time I have s
KH1

KH1

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BRM Blog

Rule 1 and other guidelines

I was just editing a feature for the April issue of BRM that mentions 'Rule 1' - namely "It's my railway, so I can run what I like." It made me wonder, if that's Rule 1, what should the other rules be for railway modellers? They don't have to be controversial, but what are your own golden rules? Share your thoughts with us and if we can, we'll condense the responses into a 'Ten Commandments of Railway Modelling' (or more if required!) as a bit of fun. As an example of something similar in the c
61661

61661

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Peter Findlay's Blog

Completing the tree - adding foliage

In an earlier blog I described my first attempts at modelling a trees, starting with a wire armature ...   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/758/entry-13961-branching-out-a-first-attempt-at-making-trees/ ... and adding bark.   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/758/entry-13972-adding-bark/   With the armature painted, it's time to add the foliage. For this intial attempt I am using Woodland Scenics clump foliage (Medium Green) torn into suitably sized pieces.
peter findlay

peter findlay

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