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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

Wibble wobble, jetty on my plate?

I would say I'm sorry for that blog entry title, but I'm not - this jetty has proven to be a real pain in the proverbial because of the lack of photos for me to work from.   This drawing took me 2 days, and it still isn't correct (especially after I gave up trying to draw the ropeway section on the far left). Also perspective and drawing things large are not my strong points! Still, I hope this goes someway to showing you all how the ropeway station will hopefully look when I've made it. It's
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Chris' Minor Blog

Re-Tracking

I had thought that the return of the winter weather would have resulted in slightly more activity on the bench, the new low score being -27oC, but as per usual life managed to get in the way of the things I would have liked to have done.   First up some housekeeping on Hingston Down Halt. After much deliberation, including considering picking somewhere that was a double to single track junction, I have installed a missing catch point on the siding for the quarry. Apparently it’s very much best
MinerChris

MinerChris

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adethesteam2014's Blog

Class 66 in Freightliner livery

A model I made recently was of a class 66 in Freightliner livery. It is from a RJH kit and was reasonably good to put together. It has both bogies powered and pickup is on one bogie going through to the second bogie which then returns the current to the rails. While I was working on this kit there were a few areas of concern: The fuel tank was particularly troublesome to form, (to be honest I did not make a good job of it) I also decided to put a thin brass overlay over the `light` tabs, (the k
adethesteam2014

adethesteam2014

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adethesteam2014's Blog

Hachette A4

Hi all,   I am currently making the A4 which will be painted, (eventually) in the grey and black livery as applied to the `Silver Link` ,(and its sisters) during the days of the `Silver Jubilee` train. I decided against making `Mallard` because I thought the grey and black livery to be more striking. My experiences thus far are these: I liked the idea of the parts being laquered as at least it stops the brass from getting stained etc before painting starts ! BUT as I prefer to solder my locomo
adethesteam2014

adethesteam2014

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The Cuckmere Valley Railway

Firming things up

Tonight has seen a productive session on the layout, after a frustrating evening with the soldering iron on Sunday. Soldering is one of those things I cannot seem to get to grips with (that's blown any pretensions of being a Finescale modeller!) and after some soul-searching, I have decided to go with the Peco pre-wired fishplates, at least initially. If I somehow develop the ability to connect a piece of wire to a piece of track using hot metal in the future, I will change it.   These though
dseagull

dseagull

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Col_Kilgore's kitchen table projects

My first project - A plate girder bridge

Here is the first project that I am currently working on. I was asked to make a girder bridge for this layout ;     Above you can see the gap that needed spanning . Originally the plan was to use Wills vari-girder but after rummaging around in a few boxes none could be found , so I decided to see if I could scratchbuild something suitable ;           Here it is after painting mocked up , hopefully no one will notice there's no rivets or bolts holding it together !      
col_kilgore

col_kilgore

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Col_Kilgore's kitchen table projects

About my projects

I have recently had the good fortune to be invited to contribute to one of the layouts run by Famous Trains in Markeaton Park , Derby , so I thought I would start a blog on any projects I get to work on.   Firstly I would recommend anybody with an interest in Model Railways within the East Midlands area to pay them a visit or have a quick peek at their website ;   www.famoustrains.org.uk/   As all work is undertaken on a volunteer basis they are always on the lookout for people to give a l
col_kilgore

col_kilgore

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Dabbling with third rail in 2mm - part 2

Good evening,   Since my last post I have put together a second (and final) baseboard for this little project. A templot plan has been glued down to it and will be ready to lay the rest of the track work later on in the week.   Here is the layout which is 2.6m long and 32cm wide. I will be adding another strip of plywood to the first board so it mirrors the width of the second board. Each board will have a basic fiddle yard at the end of it and will accommodate 3-4 trains. I'll try and put
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

2220 Finney build part3

Not a lot of progress over the past few days.   First up I double checked the instructions and the cab front was assembled correctly. I still agree it was a bit of a strange way of doing it though…   Unfortunately as I want to fix the boiler to the firebox before attaching to the loco (as per the instructions), I'm very limited as to what I can do now until I get the rolling bars. (I think I am right in saying the next show with GW Models in attendance is not until Expo EM in May.)   So
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

A new 'Old Engine' - GWR 184 - part 9

I've read that some people like blog posts to be fairly substantial, so I'll include a resumé, in this post, of the story so far, before showing photos of my model of GWR No. 184. There are more details in the earlier posts in this series.   Background   I chose this prototype since it was one of the first standard-gauge engines to run on the GWR, following the absorption of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (otherwise known as the 'Old Worse and Worse'). No.18
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Yard cobbles (setts) progress

Not a huge amount of progress since my last post. In fact, I didn't do any modelling at all over Christmas and New Year, but have got back to it in recent weeks. I had marked out the areas to be cobbled onto 1.2 mm thick mount card using the templates illustrated last time and since then, I've embossed about a quarter of the area needed and cut out some of the shapes to fit round the track and goods shed. My original intention was to paint the surface before fixing to the base-boards but have
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Silk Purse? – Airfix tender drive County

There have been questions about the mechanism of Hornby’s Hawksworth County. I was inspired to revisit an elderly Dapol County - ‘one that I made earlier’. Dapol County with Airfix Tender Drive My original model, County of Stafford - Dapol D4, dates from May 1984. It was purchased from the Oxford Publishing Company for the then not inconsiderable sum of £34.50. I think it was the first ready to run engine with a tender fall plate. I do believe the shape of the cab roof is wrong and that the
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Old AGWI Road - An oil refinery in 1:76 scale

Honey, it's snowing! - Part 2

Dad kindly agreed to help make a start on the woodwork aspect of the baseboards today. Only one photo for today as it was dark by the time we stopped for the day. As said in a previous post, the polystyrene will sit upon 35mm battens, and then faced with whatever thin ply we have to hand. We didn't get around to putting the ply on, but most of the battens have been done. The battens were attached by a mixture of screws and some special strong expanding glue. It gives you a couple minutes to put
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Barry Ten's Blog

And now for something completely different...

I was tempted to call this a Class 47 in O gauge, after all it is a C-47 and at 1/48th it's not a million miles off 7mm, is it?   I started this over the holidays as a break and a change of pace, and to make inroads into the mounting of model aircraft kits I've acquired over the years ... this was a nice, inexpensive Revell kit which I picked up for under 20 Euros during a trip to Holland a few years ago. It's based on the old Monogram kit from the 70s, which proved to be a real blast from the
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Old AGWI Road - An oil refinery in 1:76 scale

A Bridge Too Far? | The Jetty | Part 1

After having visited the model shop on Saturday I came back with a small fortune's worth of Plastruct, I decided to start work on the aerial ropeway. But no matter how much you spend on Plastruct, you never seem to have enough!   Anyway so I set about constructing the second aerial ropeway pylon. The first one will be reused from the diorama I built 3 years ago. It could do with a bit more bracing, but it'll do for now! In reality the pylons would be spaced a lot further apart (probably in the
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Modelu's Workbench

No.9000 - Top feed and a coat of primer

Considering the benefits 3D printing gives when tackling something like the top feed and sandboxes, there is still a good deal of traditional modelling required to integrate them into the model. The sandbox pull rods have given me a few hours of amusement trying to solder them (mental note: now might be a good time to look into etching some!); the casing for the top feed pipe, where it runs up the side of the boiler, was equally challenging. I'd originally tried used masking tape to replicate th
alanbuttler

alanbuttler in DETAILING

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Trains&armour's Blog

Parkside weathering part 2

After some more exercises in weathering, with faded lettering, planks painted over and load added,     I decided it was time I tackled my Parkside kitbuilt wagon:     And as to Robin's question earlier, I decided not to add a load, just a tarpaulin and some rope. So as not to hide the interior with the worn & faded planking. Not totally satisfied about the coiled rope though.   All three wagons:     Comments welcome!
Trains&armour

Trains&armour

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Building Buckden

Weighbridge hut and ground frame.

Back in June 2013 Wiggoforgold very kindly posted some pictures he had of Buckden in 1978 (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1362/entry-11926-buckden-station-1978/) showing the signal box and weighbridge hut/yard office. It spurred me on to do the signal box, and confirmed the colours, but, although I made a basic start on it, I never finished the yard office. SWMBO was on a train to Newcastle all day today (Lucky thing!) so I had time to get back to it. The roof was tricky (and a
Ivatt46403

Ivatt46403

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The Legge Lane MPD Blog

Caprotti Update

It's been a couple of weeks but I have been working on the Caprotti Black 5. It's slowly coming together with a lot of fettling around the cylinders, motion, etc. No photos to show at present.   Most of my activity has been on the Shipston Branch.
Focalplane

Focalplane

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Coombe Barton

Building the Churchward 45xx Part Five

Nuts   I said – “The next bits are the 8BA nuts to secure the body to the chassis. Must remember to open out the holes to take the bolts BEFORE soldering on the nuts.”   Then I changed my mind. Instead of opening out the hole to clearance I opened the holes to the tapping size approximately with a broach – this way you can centre up the nut more closely and then run a tap through it to allow the bolt to go through. I have been equipping with tools over the past few years – blame Guy Williams
Coombe Barton

Coombe Barton

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phil anderer's Blog

Automatic uncoupling with N gauge.

My thoughts and experiencies with N gauge auto uncoupling.   I was asked by the owner of Barnhill MRC s layout Chipbury to look into the possibility of adding auto uncoupling to the layout. I first set up a test track on a piece of half inch chipboard and a length of Peco concrete sleepered track lifted about 3 inches on timber blocks. I fitted some Peco rolling stock with the small steel frets from the Peco range as per instructions. A Peco N gauge magnetic uncoupling solenoid was then inst
phil anderer

phil anderer

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Fen End Pit's Blog

A little bit of Suffolk or learning to love Templot

I've spent this afternoon trying to draw up a plan for the new layout. I'm waiting for PPD to come back with an etch for the narrow gauge Ruston and felt like an afternoon in front of the PC. Having received the structural engineers report which means that hopefully we should soon get a quote from the builder I hope this isn't tempting fate.   I started off taking a scan of the OS map into Templot and then trying to draw track over it. This is an interesting task as I'm sure that what you thi
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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    • MikeOxon
      10ft (3m) Driving Wheels

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Thank you, Jeremy.  Those underslung springs were not unusual.  Early locomotives often used the boiler as a main structural member.  It led to difficulty when designing the Firefly replica, which has extra supports to meet current safety criteria.   I know that at least one early engine was rejected by Brunel because it was supplied with a single central buffer.  I suspect it took a while for these dimensions to be standardised.
    • Jeremy Cumberland
      10ft (3m) Driving Wheels

      By Jeremy Cumberland · Posted

      Impressive.   You say that the locomotive as per Lane's drawing had the footplate too high for Viper's tender, but surely it also has front buffers too high for other rolling stock. Were the front buffers not intended for use with other vehicles?   What do you reckon to the driving wheel spring and axlebox in Lane's drawing? Apart from the arrangement of the leaves, it looks as if the driving wheels are supported by the loco frame rather than the locomotive bearing down upon
    • bcnPete
      Kyle - an update...and a visit at last...

      By bcnPete · Posted

      Many thanks Mike - yes Scotland is indeed beautiful...in all weathers!   Interest in Kyle....hmmm...where do I begin!   I guess a number of reasons - I am an 1/8 Scottish so I guess part is in my DNA. A few trips up to Scotland over the years and I guess a love of the interesting small trains especially in the BR Blue era.   Kyle came about as my 2mmFS china clay layout layout was expanded too quickly so I became a bit bored with it...even though china clay seems to
    • Yan
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Yan · Posted

      Thank you for leaving the comments and thoughts guys, much appreciated.   Both Butley Mills and Ditchling Green are with new owners that are currently refurbishing them. Even the modelling skill and composition still shine through, so they were both well worth seeing in the flesh. One of Iain Rice's layouts I'd like to get the opportunity to see is Trerice.
    • BarryP
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By BarryP · Posted

      It's good to see so many positive reviews of a model railway exhibition. I did dabble in S4/P4 way back and Iain Rice's writings were inspirational. I saw Butley Mills when it was first shown at Scaleforum in 1987 and I loved it. Gordon Gravett's models are fabulous and I would love to see them in the flesh, as it were. I did visit two shows specifically to see the magnificent "Pempoul" layout that the Gravetts built, that was the finest I've ever seen. I'm dabbling in "O" Gauge and an opportuni

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