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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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Hydraulic Heaven

The Little House on The... (Part 2)

... but he hasn't done anything at all!     Well looks can be deceiving. Actually quite a lot of work has happened on the 45xx over the past week or so but the overall appearance is not hugely changed. Let me put it another way... here is how it looked a couple of days ago...     When I stopped work on this project I really wasn't happy with the way it was running. The worst issues had been solved but it still had pretty poor slow running and a nasty tendency to stall. All in all not a
D869

D869

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Cowes & Newport in 4mm scale

Tracklaying at Cowes

Despite my silence, there has been a lot of progress on the layout. As usual, each step forward has been accompanied by a step or steps backward. Tracklaying is well progressed at Cowes - I have switched from PCB construction to fully chaired construction. Firstly I tried C&L pointwork with plastic sleepers. Whilst these looked good, I experience a strange gauge reducing effect once they were completed. In the course of constructing a number of plastic-sleepered turnouts I learned a lot abou
ChrisG

ChrisG

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Pack Lane

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops

I am currently very unpopular with my sister! I was doing some modelling at her house recently. I was painting a culvert which I constructed from a Peco Bridge kit. I was using model paints and therefore needed to use a brush cleaner.     I was working at a table, with a plastic table cloth, and then I spilt the brush cleaner. When I went to wipe it, I found that the pattern also wiped off. Oops! The bottle was not designed for pouring and the cleaner had run down the front and onto the bot
Steam_Julie

Steam_Julie

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BRM Blog

How green is my turtle?

In November's BRM, I built the armoured Simplex kit for Owen's Bridge and commented that I wasn't really sure of the colour it should be finished in.   The problem is that there aren't any colour pictures of the real things running around during WW1. A quick chat with Andy Roden, who was writing his latest book “Trains to the Trenches” at the time established that even someone who was carrying out original research couldn't find any.   All the black and white pictures seem to show relatively
Phil Parker

Phil Parker

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3mm Society TT at shows

3mm at Warley 2014

It was very interesting to be invited to help out on the 3mm Society stand at Warley a couple of weekends back – my first time “the other side of the table” at an exhibition. There was a good showing with 3 stands of TT;   Firstly Andrew Shillito with his 3mm finescale layout Lindhurst http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/exhib07/lindhurst.html   Then a display of a selection of locos and stock made by various members;   And lastly but not leastly, a table with Bob Brown and Kevin Wes
TT-Pete

TT-Pete

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Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

Modbury - Signalling Diagram

Tonight I have been trying to finalise the signalling diagram for my fictional GWR through station Modbury.   Below is the diagram that I have come up with. Hopefully it is a realistic representation of what the GWR would have provided for my Edwardian modelling period of c. 1906.   All being well others who are better informed than myself will be able to provide guidance to any errors that I may have made. The main query I would have is whether the turnout on the main line at the right of t
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Arrivals, Departures and Cancellations

All Change...

It probably looks like it's been rather quiet on Platform 1 since the Spring. Far from it!   The almost empty space in the loft above our garage has been beckoning for some time - 16x14 ft seems such a waste! So after considerable um-ing and ah-ing, I took the plunge and had it converted into a proper room, girders, joists, insulation, walls, the whole nine yards.   Work started in June, and by golly those guys got through urn-fuls of of tea! This is after the joists went in:
Platform 1

Platform 1 in Building work

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The sleepers workspace

further adventures with Inkscape

I've reverted to type with this project, maybe it's a case of 'old habits die hard' but I find it difficult to just dream up components and draw them up in Inkscape. What I've done is cut the parts by hand tried them for fit and then re-produced them in inkscape and ultimately as a Silhouette cutting file so now I have virtually a goods wagon kit ready to be cut and that will be the next stage, seeing if it all works and carrying out necessary modifications along the way. One problem I've enco
sleeper

sleeper

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Operation Abyss

new / very old shunter, revamp

so i have been thinking about rolling stock for this layout (which is more like everyday), after attending some shows i have come to the conclusion to keep interest i need a few different locos to keep things changing and moving.   i wanted a little steam shunter. this layout will never be 100% accurate and is not based on what actually happened, its a model its more what could have been. i want to build something that pleases. i want to produce something that looks as if it could of happened.
Jimmy styles

Jimmy styles

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The EMpire Project

Hard at it at Empire Mills

Last Sunday the team met up to continue to work on Empire Mills.   The first job was to remove one of the lift out sections so it would be easier to work on the new loading bank area. To get the lift out section out, however, required lots of swearing, several broken knife blades, and a great deal of straining in order to break the seal of the glue and paint that had seeped down between the baseboard joints.     With the lift out section removed, Les was able to work on adjusting the posi
drduncan

drduncan

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gc4946's Model World

My OO scale "County" collection - Part 15

This is another of my locos I've bought in advance at a modest price even though my mum still hasn't decided where's she relocating, so I've covered my bases.   I've opted to model a class 31, 31428 North Yorkshire Moors Railway, over a GNER class 91 as it's much more operationally useful in my railway collection. According to images I've consulted on the web, it was recorded as far south as Rugby and Bletchley on engineering duties.   My choice will represent the loco in refurbished BR blu
gc4946

gc4946

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Up the Line - 1918

BGM - 3

Things seemed to move on very quickly , until I started to detail the cab that is!     The rods fitted very well and it all pushes along very nicely.   The resin bonnet was detailed p with the very nice lost wax castings. Again, in my attempts to get the most weight I can into the model, I have drilled the fuel tank and filled it with lead shot. Am sure there will be some scope for adding weight inside the bonnet but will wait until motor and chip are fitted.     And then the cab....
KH1

KH1

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patchballchris' Blog

Photos 0of items for sale

Can anyone out there tell me how to put an image on my advert?   I selected attach files and then my picture and it said download not selected!!! 'Trouble uploading' took me back to the same place.   Please help. I have ad with no picture so who will buy? Where is the upload picture button?
patchballchris

patchballchris

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Snitzl's Main Blog

Coffee Pot Modifications.

Modifications and detailing on Neilson & Co 0:4:0  Coffee Pot.   After reading other modellers blogs, its seems that quite a few of us are plaqued with infinished projects syndrome, with incomplete models littering our shelfs. In my case, I  had scratchbuilt 16 locos and 5 remained unfinished, so a decision was made to try and get  some of them transferred to the done section. This scratchbuilt model of the coffeepot was  started some 30 years ago, but because of its racehorse like
snitzl

snitzl in Locos

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Valve Gear

Valve Gear - Fitting, Repairing, and Upgrading

I've got some broken valve gear on my Hornby 9F. Close examination shows that a rivet hadn't been properly hammered (if that's the term) to form a rivet head. I'm thinking it's repairable, but would like some advice.   I've also bought a replacement valve gear assembly, from Hornby. But, after fitting, it feels too tight around the pistons. Someone on this forum will know the correct fitting of replacement valve gear.   What about repairs: soldering or replacing rivets? Is it doable? How?  
70021 Morning Star

70021 Morning Star

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Luke's Modelling Ventures

New Year, New Blog, New Layout

Evening All   I thought it about time I started a blog showing what I get up to. It isn't very often I post on here however when I do, I usually find the information very useful.   I will try and put up bits and pieces of my layouts and of my detailing and repaints when I remember but for now I will start with my new layout that is currently in the initial planning stages.   --- I thought as I was planning on building a new (small) 4'x2'3" layout I would post all my goings on in the forum
crossforth

crossforth

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

A new 'Old Engine' - GWR 184 - part 6

Although this may seem a short post, it represents a very big step for me! I had been seriously concerned that I would not be able to construct a chassis with sufficiently well-aligned axles, within the constraints of my own abilities and my lack of any real workshop facilities - just a desk and Dremel drill on a stand.     My work-desk   When one builds a kit, the designer has already made lots of difficult decisions for you. A scratch-builder has to think out eve
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

P4 Awkward Compensation Job & 0 Gauge Improvement from Crudery

To those on RMweb - I haven't updated this in a long time, less than at S4 because it took ages to work out how to paste due to RMweb making things a pain in the ass, so if you want to catch up you'll have to pop over to S4.       I haven't done much modelling for AGEEEES. I haven't been in the mood much and have had other things on the go that take priority, I have been doing a little bit of kitbashing and scratch building some loading dock but other than that not much.   I went Warley th
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Up the Line - 1918

BGM - pt2

Making good progress with the Baldwin Gas Mechanical (BGM for short), and now have a beautifully smooth (by push power!), chassis. Not without problems though!     Above picture shows the lost wax spring castings soldered on but just a bit too low it seems as they were fouling the cranks and had to be filed back quite considerably. Have just wondered why I didn't just re-solder them a bit higher but for this I have no answer! Even then I think they would still have required a bit of attenti
KH1

KH1

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Three Shire's Head

The Engines - Number 910 - Part One Introduction.

The 5’ 6” Precursor tank may seem an odd choice for a goods layout, but it fits into longer term plans. I originally went out to but a coal tank kit but found this on offer £60 cheaper. What can I say? I’m half Scottish, half Yorkshire…….   These useful locomotives were introduced in 1890, the starting date for the layout. They were tank versions of the earlier Precursors and thus perpetuated the annoying habit of the LNWR of giving the same name to more than one class of locos as the 1907 4-4
Argos

Argos

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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - HELP I MUST BE ILL

HELP ME I THINK I AM SERIOUSLY ILL - I'm actually contemplating adding a DIESEL to the locomotive roster for Foster Street.   I have a prototype Deltic which occasionally runs through now and again, but it's my trainset and what I say goes (well sort of, Phil - no more Southern)   Of all the projects filling my head, that I really want to start, the one that keeps jumping to the front, is to paint one of those old farish 08 models, black, and produce a lash up of the shunters the LMS had (ev
paulprice

paulprice

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Turin 60's Blog

009 to standard gauge (with appologies to Relaxing Hobby)

Inspired by "Relaxing Hobbys" conversions to standard gauge from 009 I thought I'd try my hand at following the same path! For some years now some slightly battered W&L vans have lurked in the "someday" box, well with nothing to lose I introduced them to Mr Razor saw and they got along splendidly as hopefully the photograph shows.   New ends and floor, a Cambrian Gloucester chassis kit, some Kenline wooden brake blocks, new roof, some Fourmost vents and the job's done. In fact I rebuilt t
Turin 60

Turin 60

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Engine Wood

Modelling interregnum

There's been no modelling done in Kernow Towers for some weeks now, because of recent changes to our feline demographic.   We've always had two cats in our household for many years, but sadly our 15 year old ginger female had to be put to sleep a few weeks ago due to deteriorating health.   We decided to get a new kitten a couple of weeks ago, and in order to manage the introductions to our existing cat, the room that 'Callow Lane' is normally kept in had to be completely re-orientated, and
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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    • 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
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Good to see it was a positive experience - and really nice to see a couple of photos of Ditchling Green (I didn’t realise it was still around).  Always struck me as a lovely layout: an early example perhaps of the ‘less is (so much) more’ approach to railway modelling that is now widely appreciated.  Keep up the good work, Keith.
    • Mikkel
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By Mikkel · Posted

      The layout and info display looks very good. Thanks for posting photos of the other layouts, always a gift for those of us abroad - especially when they are this good.   Imposter syndrome is common I think, it can hold us back but on the hand I'll take that over bragging anytime.  

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