Jump to content
 

Blogs

Featured Entries

  • 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
    • 8 comments
    • 3,310 views
Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR 850 CLASS (5)

I have got the motor and gears fitted to the chassis, I have also added the the reversing arm, lift links and counterbalance weights to the valve gear. I have had a major panic with it though. I am not sure if the motor will fit inside the firebox clear of the cab and front wall. I have put a canon motor in, in place of the larger one I was going to fit.       So I have got on with the footplate. Once I have fitted the bottom of the firebox, and the cab, or at least the
N15class

N15class in GWR 850 CLASS

9
Fourgig East

Home Alone (again) Day Three

So my modelling fest is about at an end - for tomorrow I must tidy up!   However I am very pleased with the results and the magnitude of my efforts over the last three days. A few tweaks here or there, but Fourgig is about ready for RMweb Live!   Here's a few snaps                  
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

2
N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - Board 3 (Pest Infestation)

As the Domestic Overlord has granted my parole, because I have been such a good boy recently I decided to ballast the track on Board 3.   This usually boring job, progressed far quicker than I thought and as a result I had some free time, so out came the paint brushes and I attempted to make the girder bridge look more realistic. Feeling rather smug with myself I thought I would review some of my goods rolling stock, and work out how many wagons I needed to finish, a task I'm not looki
paulprice

paulprice

6
Fen End Pit's Blog

1865 Great Eastern station - Chimneys and more windows

After an excellent weekend with 'Fen End Pit' at the Southwold exhibition I came back and spent a few more hours on the PC producing the drawings for the roofs and chimneys of the test station building. No matter how hard I try to sort out the angles of hipped roofs by being mathematical I'm always surprised when they fit, more often than not after a bit of 'adjustment'.   The chimneys are cut from 1mm MDF and fitted together quite well. I'm less convinced about making 'interlocking' brickwork
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

0
Fourgig East

Home Alone (again) Day Two

First on the list today was to get the signal operating wires fitted to the centre board. This was done by lunchtime although I ran out of wire so one run from one end of the board to the other will have to be fitted at a later date. Andrew at Wizard Models had kindly agreed to swap a spare pack of rodding for another pack of wire - top man     I've also got the black paint on the woodwork for the left hand board, so that is currently in the "paint drying annex" ready for tomorrow.   Thi
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

0
Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

GWR Small Metro Tank (2)

The chassis has moved on a little since the previous post, a gearbox has been milled and the profile of the chassis has been milled/filed to shape.   The gearbox has a peg at the rear right corner which locates in a corresponding hole in the main chassis block, and a 12BA bolt secures the gearbox to the block at the front. Cutouts in the main chassis (and side frame) also locate the gearbox (although the one in the side frame is generous to prevent any shorts between the frame and the main c
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

9
Fourgig East

Home Alone (again) Day One

The wife, kids and mother-in-law left at 10am today for Great Yarmouth. Not set to return until sometime on Friday, so the whole house is my workshop   The left hand board as the public view the layout had it's external woodwork painted black (saves you a job Pete ) and left out in the sun. It's now sitting in the living room annex on two of the layout legs hardening off.   The centre board was the focus of today's efforts. Duly set up in the middle of the living room on it's legs, complet
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

2
Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Cannot paste blog -- HELP!

Hello everyone, can you please explain why I CANNOT no longer paste a blog here created on Scalefour and Proboards etc as I always have? I've tried typing anything, highlighting and pasting the blog on top as I usually have to but now nothing happens. If I can't get this fixed I have a good mind to leave RMweb altogether because buggered if I'm typing the whole thing out again just for here.       Please help if you can. *Sigh*
Knuckles

Knuckles

3
Neil_S_Wood's Blog

A couple of clips

I had been looking into this new Roco cab camera that is on their new E103 and was quite interested in that as it would be a perspective on the layout you normally wouldn't get to see. While I was thinking about it it occurred to me that Icould always put my handycam on the back of a flat in the meantime to see what it would look like from that perspective. Here's couple of test videos of the layout from this trial.   http://youtu.be/mo9N1HjDsuc   It's amazing how much you notice on film t
Neil_S_Wood

Neil_S_Wood

5
Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

North East Nostalgia – the arrival of Bachmann Class 101 DMU

I grew up in Middlesbrough and for a couple of years around 1960 I used to go ‘train spotting’, mostly to Darlington but occasionally up to Newcastle and even sometimes across to Carlisle (age about 12ish!). When it was announced that Bachmann would be producing a green, whiskered, Metro-Cammell DMU destinations Newcastle/Middlesbrough I would have to buy one. Bachmann Class 101 with whiskers My DMU has arrived and I am delighted. . Bachmann Class 101 arrived I might even have travelled
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

18
Up the Line - 1918

Baldwin in a Day

In an attempt to make up for some of the lost ground this week (and kindly facilitated by the awful weather), I attacked another Wrightlines Baldwin and have made great progress;     OK, so I cheated a bit. This is one which I got from Ebay a while ago with the chassis already completed and rather well at that! Only downside though is that it has been made as per the instructions so the flat motor drives the center wheel thus being visible where there should be daylight and it invades the c
KH1

KH1

0
Barry Ten's Blog

GWR 12 ton van

Might need to check the back to backs on this one, as it seems a bit out of gauge for my trackwork - should I have looked more closely at the box?   Yes, this is my first dabble in 7mm - but it's been a long time coming. I built this wagon about five years ago, after which it just sat around in bare plastic cluttering up the layout. I don't know what pushed me over the edge into finishing it - was it a visit to Wenlock's superb model in progress of a GWR branch line? Handling Marc Smith's 7mm
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

7
N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - Board 3 (Green Fingers, Hands and Arms)

Well I have managed to spend a few hours working on Board 3 in an attempt to get it to some sort of reasonable level, the first job was to work on the deck of the bridge. To be honest this did not take much effort and it was soon under a coat of dark grey (once this is dry yet another area to weather). I must admit the factory has grown on me, somebody suggested that it looked to neat, and that the buildings should have been more ramshackeled, but my excuse is that the original buildings blew
paulprice

paulprice

2
Fourgig East

Attention changes to the centre board

Now that the l;eft hand board has all it's rodding and wires in place I've put it to one side and put the centre board on the legs in the workshop. Today I have soldered up the PH Designs security fencing for the rear of the layout, just need some sun to spray it grey!     I've also coaled up the coal staithes, pretty pleased with this. looks most convincing     I have all this week off work to get the basics nailed ahead of RMweb Live! - I'm going to be fed up of train sets by Friday
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

2
Canterbury 2mm Area Group

Flood Defences

as a welcome change from track laying for my own layout and having been set the challenge I present the whalf for the plank.   Hope I've got the size right .....   Hopefully will get some shots in situ later this week
nick_bastable

nick_bastable

1
The GC and Met in OO

Purdon Viccars part II

With the detailing of the front plate for the tender complete, attention turned toward getting it to move. Unlike the kit I had for 'Sir Clement Royds' the tender of this example came with a moulded-in chassis of sorts, but there was a problem. Firstly the moulding was so thick as to make it the devil's own job to fit axles, and secondly once the axles had been forced into place the tender sat too low.   Looking at Sir Clement Royds to see how to overcome this problem I saw that the origina
James Harrison

James Harrison

0
Shipston-on-Stour Branch

Stroudley Terriers in Warwickshire!

Here's an interesting piece of history in South Warwickshire. Who would have thought that two Stroudley A1X Terriers found their way to the region? They were purchased by the Edge Hill Light Railway from the LB&SCR to work on shuttling iron ore to the Stratford and Midland Joint Railway. Ironically the workings were uneconomic and the two tank engines languished until finally being scrapped in 1946.   The tanks could have been perfect for working the theoretical Stratford-Shipston light
Focalplane

Focalplane

7
Layout - Fisherton Sarum

A view from the line #14 the cleaner rung of the ladder

Fisherton Sarum is set in the time when many boys, if asked about a career, wanted to be an “Engine Driver”. The dream of becoming a Driver in charge of crack express such as the ‘ACE’ or ‘Devon Belle’ whilst understandable, was not in those days a quick or easy process. For nearly all such drivers the first step on the ladder, often literally, maybe for boys as young as 14, was that of ‘Engine Cleaner’. I have a number of Cleaners going about their duties on Fisherton Sarum. Most are from ei
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

0
Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Ricoh preparations: Victoria Bridge Lighting, Carriages and Photographers

Hi All,   With RMWeb Live on the horizon I have, after the dust settled from moving house, got Victoria Bridge back home for some pre show improvements and adjustment. Big thanks to Wyre Forest MRC for keeping the 'shelf' and associated bits out of harms way over the last few weeks!   I like the arrangment in the Ricoh floorplan, with Victoria Bridge in between the likes of Cliffhanger and Kinlet Wharf in the Scenery Zone. Presumably sanwiched between these rather more epic layout presentati
Will J

Will J

8
buffalo's workbench

From T49 to U25: yet another GWR 4-wheel coach

We've seen several GWR 4-wheel coaches on the blogs in recent weeks so I thought I would add one that I've been working on. The origins of this project go back more than four years to this topic in the early days of the current incarnation of RMweb and long before I started on the current incarnation of my Camerton layout. I'd almost forgotten it until I was reminded by a post by Miss Prism in this topic. The original intention had been to identiy the unusual brake coach used on passenger and mi
buffalo

buffalo

7
TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - The (Rocky) Road to Ricoh

Ropley now has a place to fiddle. Hi All.   What is that saying about best laid plans.......!   In the run up to RMweb Live! and Ropley's first public appearance, I had hoped to increase the frequency of these blog entries to show some of the work being done to get the layout ready. It was always going to be exhibited as a work in progress, but events have somewhat overtaken the layout of late.   Sadly, last weekend we lost Dad after a 3 1/2 year battle with Myelofibrosis and latterly A
TomE

TomE

7
Redgate's Modelling

Slater's All Third - Brown!

As promised, the GWR coach brown was applied by my trusty 6 quid airbrush - which is now stripped down and it's vital parts soaking in thinners     That's all for a few days whilst the paint hardens, next step will be to flood the cream into the panels
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

3

  • Blog Statistics

    2,575
    Total Blogs
    22,152
    Total Entries

  • Blog Comments

    • 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.    

  • Blogs

×
×
  • Create New...