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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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Buckingham West

Recycling part 3

We have been in the new house for about a month and are still sorting house things, but the railway room is becoming less crowded by the day!   In the meantime the final part of my recycling is about producing a batch of wagons.   For those of you that have followed my blog you will know that the junction station on my layout is called Newton Purcell. The real NP is south east of Banbury where there is a belt of ironstone. Accordingly I have an ironstone quarry and therefore need some priva
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Peckett E Class - lining

After a very brief update the other day, I thought I'd post some progress photos of 'Munchkin'. I haven't quite decided how to work blue into the colour scheme. I like the idea of a blue background to the nameplate though. I decided that I should at least try to stay vaguely in the land of semi-plausible, so decided to line out some of the panels using the rather excellent Fox lining transfers. I gave the initial coat of yellow a few coats of Klear first which has darkened the yellow down q
ullypug

ullypug

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Hydraulic Heaven

Logging On In Somerset

Having a little early autumn interlude in Somerset now that number 3 child has departed the nest. Usual recipe... cottage, log burner, kits, books, local ales, walking, cycling, the odd visit to the local steam railway... 'oh, I didn't realise it was that close, fancy that eh?'.   Also trying to see if I can do a blog post from the tablet, so anything might happen...   Kit assembly with suitable surroundings...   Suitable reading material. I've been saving this book for a suitable occasi
D869

D869

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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - Ive Run Out of Maroon Engines - But Have Found Plenty of Green One

Well the Domestic Overlord and I have spent a brilliant few days away in North Yorkshire and returned home today feeling totally refreshed. Then it hit me, its nearly the end of September and the exhibition deadline is rapidly approaching.   So I decided to start to overhaul some of the locomotive fleet, four use on the layout, I must admit I thought I had more maroon locomotives but I was wrong, ad two of them are Duchess's not what you would expect to find on a secondary line?   The prob
paulprice

paulprice

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR 850 CLASS (8)

I think GW loco men must of been underpaid so underfeed going by the width or the cab entry.     Some time was spent looking at photos to see what went wrong. There is no drawing with the instructions. Over size bunker side sheets. I have a couple of bang on side shots. Using a pair of dividers I worked out it was 2/3 bunker and 1/3 opening. I will need to sort out the handrail so it takes up less space, and work out how to hide the old handrail holes and get rivet detail in
N15class

N15class in GWR 850 CLASS

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The Legge Lane MPD Blog

The Prinnies by Brassmaster

I received a newsletter from Brassmasters the other day. They are about to market a rather exciting 4mm scale model of the Princess class pacifics.   I never got into the Princess pacifics. Semis (or whatever you want to call them) were what LMS pacifics were all about in my trainspotting days. But the truth is, I don't remember seeing many Prinnys (or is it Prinnies?) either at New Street or at Tamworth and Crewe. I know the last two locations would be more likely as they were mainly used
Focalplane

Focalplane

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Goosehill Central

Track Plan Update

The Updated Track Plan now features 1 small extra siding, that can be used while shunting to allow more complex maneuvers, a signal box has also been given a place, as well as a small cafe hut to welcome the many tourists/walkers visiting the surrounding countryside.
misterscrubb

misterscrubb

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garethashenden's Workbench

Jenny Lind Part 1

This post covers the the building of a 5&9 models "Jenny Lind" kit in EM gauge.   Jenny Lind is a 2-2-2 with a six wheel tender. Singles often provide problems when it comes to powering them and this is no exception. Others have powered this kit using a modified High Level LongRider bogie and this is how I have done it as well. The only real modification is to add a central axle.   The tender went together without a problem other than having to fabricate a footplate out of brass as the
garethashenden

garethashenden

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Atso's Blog

First blog entry in awhile, a possibly the last one for awhile!

Hi all,   It's been an age since I last updated this blog!   Firstly, following a very enjoyable time at TINGS, I'd like to thank MikeJ and the North of England Line (NoEL) team for being most welcoming on the Sunday and letting play with some of my creations (no layout of my own again at present!).   As seems to be the case in recent years, my own modelling picks up when I know I've got somewhere to run locomotives (and occasionally stock but not on this occasion) and TINGS was no excepti
Atso

Atso

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Fourgig East

DCC Shelf!

Those of you who were at the RMweb Live event and took a peek behind the layout would have seen the lash-up that was the control panel/programming track. I realized VERY late that I needed my OO rolling road/NCE power panel for the DCC demo     so I cobbled something together from an old ice cream tub and a bit of old kitchen kick board. I had a spare panel and autoSW for the programming track. A short length of Peco flexi completed the arrangement and it all worked well at the show.   Th
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Variants of Q....

The back end is on....

Returning to the project after a few days the bunker assembly has been attached to the rear of the main part of the loco:   Apologies for the tape over the cab roof, have not yet looked at that bit yet!!   The rear tender buffer beam from the donor Q1 loco has been cut off and added to the rear of the bunker replacing the GBL 4MT Standard one for more commonality (plus it has sprung buffers already fitted of course).     Also added all be it with double sided tape temporarily are some
John M Upton

John M Upton

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paul-dereham's Blog

Moving to DCC

Building a new small layout and have decided to go to DCC. So far I've put a decoder into my Heljan Class 15 which is working fine and a Bachmann 21 pin decoder into my Bachmann Warship which now doesn't work at all! Ho hum - off for repair to see what happened!   I have a non DCC ready Bachmann 08 so I've bought a decoder to hardwire in.   Control at the moment is a second hand basic Backman EZ controller but if everything goes well I'll upgrade to something a bit more sophisticated.
paul-dereham

paul-dereham

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Up the Line - 1918

Letting things slide!

In truth we probably have - had friends staying this weekend and it took almost all week to get the house into a decent state - but that is not what this is about! Top of my list to sort out for the next outing is the traverser fiddle yard and have mad a bit of a start here. Have decided to look at a rather more low tech solution and as an experiment I knocked up a test slider from some laminate shelving.     Actually seems to work pretty well now but will it with loads of weight on it and
KH1

KH1

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

T9.8 - 30719 ready for service

Just a quick update. Crew fitted to the T9 and smoke box plate fitted from Fox. I also found the screw coupling and am quite happy with the end results as per the photos. It hauls 2 coaches just... I'll need to make sure layout is absolutely level though!   Have put Wheal Elizabeth up and tested it ready for Scaleforum next weekend. There were a couple of running repairs but these have been fixed. Do come and say hello if you're at the show.   Now, I can start to think about
ullypug

ullypug

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Northall

Walden Books

The bookshop has its interior. For the interior I used the pub interior from Scalescenes as a base and the bookcases are from a free download of Clever Models. The used illustrations and book covers I selected from internet. This was a job I liked to do. Unfortunately when you resize them to 4 mm scale the sometimes beautiful designs get lost. Therefor I selected the fronts more on colour them on design. Books are very tiny in 4 mm scale and hard to work with in card and paper.     In t
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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ess1uk's Workbench Blog

PWA part 3

A start has been made on weathering the PWAs. Railmatch Frame Dirt has been used. The next one will be even muckier! I also want to remove the Procor signs on a couple.
ess1uk

ess1uk

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gc4946's Model World

My OO scale "County" collection - Part 12

This post covers progress of the two outstanding examples in my "County" collection.   390028 City of London   "London" has appeared far more times than many other locations as part of names given to locos and multiple units. I've gone through far more changes of mind on what to designate for London as part of this collection over the years.   Firstly, I modelled a Hornby/Lima hybrid class 47 47581 London Standard in NSE livery - I sold it as I rarely read the actual newspaper. I've owned
gc4946

gc4946

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR 850 CLASS (7)

Did some more on this over the last couple of days. It is taking shape nicely I think.   Why do kit manufacturers do this?????     If it was half etched all the way where the bend is it would be fine, as long as it is in the right place and big enough. But no they do bit of it so it will not curve properly. This does not help the modeller at all. Full thickness material is easy enough to bend.   Look at the tank the top two half etched abortions where alm
N15class

N15class in GWR 850 CLASS

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Shark from an LMS 20T brake van

Shark from an LMS 20t brake van - 3. Bodywork

Here is the progress made so far with the brake van conversion. I think it is starting to capture the look of a Shark which is the main idea. The project was never meant to be a faithful replica so i'm happy with how it looks. Here's a picture so you can make your own judgement!     All the main body structure is now complete. The sides have all been constructed from 40 thou plasticard with extra pieces of framework made from strips also cut off a sheet of plasticard. The 2 inside walls/doo
BobbyK

BobbyK

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Buckjumper's Blog

LNER (ex-GER) 6-wheel Brake Third

Companion to the six wheeled composite of the previous entry is this D&S brake 3rd which as you can see, was built and painted to a lovely standard by Danny Pinnock many years ago, but in the interim has gained some less than appropriate weathering:     I realigned some errant transfers, then again I tweaked the chocolate brown base to a rich chestnut with tinted mist coats, weathered it more appropriately as described in the last entry, and finally re-glazed the carriage with 0.13mm gl
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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Fourgig East

Pway Volunteers Save the Day!

Now that the dust has settled on the RMweb Live event last weekend I had to turn my attention to a track failure that occurred early on Sunday morning. The rod that links two of the tie bars together underneath the double slip had come adrift. My assistants on the day qucikly came up with a cumming double shunt move to enable the day to continue but as Wycrail is looming on the horizon something had to be done.   Lots of options were considered, including drilling under the slip from the back
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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    • 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.  
    • Mikkel
      Netherport and Basuto Quay Chronology

      By Mikkel · Posted

      That sounds like a good approach Nick, thank you for clarifying. A sense of space is so important, less is more and all that.   The Penzance photo shows unloading of flower traffic from the Scilly Isles (no date). It features on the front page of this volume by Tony Atkins. The book is perhaps not unexpendable and a tad dry, but it is informative and some of the photos are lovely.    

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