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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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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - Going To Plan? (I Think Im Clairvoyant)

One of the benefits to having feet the size of a Yeti, is that my shoe boxes are great for hiding (sorry storing my N gauge stock in) the only problem is I have lots of shoe boxes. I'm sure the Domestic Overlord must think I have some sort of shoe fetish   Anyway a couple of weeks ago I was looking for something, I cant remember what now, so had to search through a few of the boxes, which I always find is an enjoyable process, and its good to find those items you have forgotten buying.   Wh
paulprice

paulprice

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 28/06/2014

Hi,   As it's been nearly two months since the last blog entry, there's been quite a flurry of activity, particularly with the scenic items.   Retaining Wall   This is where the bulk of the effort has been spent. The left hand side of the wall is now complete and it is now being painted and weathered. I notice a section has even been tagged already buy a local 'youf'         The bridge (the break between the on and off scene sidings) is also progressing well and is now nearly c
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Northall

Dogs, "snow" and coal

Last week we were married for forty years.     To celebrate this I had arranged a short stay in a local city hotel just over the border in Germany. We have enjoyed our trip and could combine our both interests. The owner of the hotel has the same breed of dogs we have: Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers. A bread that doesn’t affect my allergic constitution to much, with the right approach. So we took the dogs with us on our walks. My wife could work with them. She is a coach of dog owners
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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The outcast modelling Blog

Tudor House part 4: Roofing and Gardening.

I have continued the gardening with the bulk of the focus being slabs and the flowerbed in the centre. This bed contains Delphiniums, lavender and will contain something else once i think of something to make, I am tempted by a Hydrangea bush but any suggestions would be great. The bed soil is made from a pile of ballast and then painted a dark brown. The delphiniums are made using a 0.1mm copper wire, painted and coated with a foam scatter, painted light blue, leaves were cut from painted ti
outcastjack

outcastjack

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR MOGUL(10)

I thought I had finished the body apart from the cab detail. Only to find whilst looking at the photos to publish, I have not replaced the missing cleat on the firebox, and the front vacuum pipe still needs adding.   But apart from that you will see the rest is fairly well up together even though dirty. I altered the vacuum pump covers, I also added some linkage on the same side, I presume it is for the sanding gear. The castings for the front steps and the pony were added at the front
N15class

N15class in GWR 63XX MOGUL

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Up The Long Ladder

A slightly cruel comparison between real and model. I couldn't quite get the camera into the right position on the model! Looks like I need a 2mm scale pigeon...   Hi all.   Some more small steps on Ropley. The water tower is heading toward completion and now has steps and a few other little details added. Still some more to go but they are quite delicate so will probably be left off until the tower is ready to be installed permanently. The interior tank details were added with th
TomE

TomE

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barrowroad's Blog

Bristol Barrow Road - The 20ft Workshop Turntables

The Workshop at the rear of the roundhouse was accessed through the shed - across the turntable - and via four 20ft turntables one for each of the workshop repair bays. By the 1950/60s - the period I am modelling - only two remained in situ the other two having been removed. Repair bay 2 remained in use for minor repairs whilst bay 4 contained a wheel lathe. Wheels were dropped on the hydraulic wheel drop and rolled to a small turntable at the end of the wheel drop road [ Number 14 ] and then i
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Thinking Inside The Box

Creation

I have decided to give the blog thingies a go, so bear with me, I'm a noob!   For anyone who hasn't seen what I have been up to the basics are here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/81699-apa-park-n-gauge-modern-in-an-ikea-box-now-dcc/page-1   Basically, an Ikea APA toybox with a railway. Current holder of the NGS Graham Farish Tropy for small layouts and will be hopefully featured in a magazine by the end of the year.   With APA Park pretty much completed, I am taking tim
Steve Purves

Steve Purves

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Neil_S_Wood's Blog

Stocktake

It had been a while since I've been working on my layout I've forgotten what I needed to get and what I already have. I did have some of this information on spreadsheets but am not able to find them either now. For example, I could have swore that I had 4 Lenz LS 150's (point decoders); 1 that I'd broken and 3 that worked. Couldn't find the third working one so ordered another. Lo and behold, I'd just bought another one when I came across the missing one the following day! Inevitable really.
Neil_S_Wood

Neil_S_Wood

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Up the Line - 1918

GW Rivet Press and an H class wagon

I have had a GW rivet press sitting somewhere under my piles of stuff for quite a few months now but have only now found an excuse to play with it. Actually, the Mercian H class tank has been sitting under the same pile for even longer but started it off as something to do while my lovely wife was in the same room Googleing where I am being sent off to on holiday this year. As regular readers will know, no filing of metal or soldering is allowed to occur in the same room as her! After a bit of m
KH1

KH1

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drduncan's workbench

The wagon and carriage shop - West Country China Clay Co wagons

The Empire Mills project's next phase is, as I may have blamed Gareth for in the past, back-dating the china clay dries to the Edwardian period, which means it needs a new set of china clay wagons. I managed to find an interesting picture of what appeared to be a line of china clay wagons which had peaked ends and a solid roof - rather like salt wagons. Gareth, clearly in a mood of contrition, found a drawing of such a wagon belonging to the West Of England China Clay company. It looks like it w
drduncan

drduncan

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The EMpire Project

A busy Sunday

The Empire Mills team have had a busy day.   Les has been hard at work first replacing the highly temporary loading platform that Gareth had to cobble together to show the BBC - who then cancelled the day before the shoot.     The new loading platform will be stonefaced toward the track, with the ground falling away gently on the platform side.     While the papiermache was drying Les then had a crack at placing the cosmetic chairs - a job that everyone had been working very hard to
drduncan

drduncan

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The GC and Met in OO

Metropolitan 'E' class (IV)

Bit of progress on the Met 'E'.... actually quite a lot!       The first thing I did was to build up the coal bunker with 0.5mm plastic sheet. I then added the tops to the wheel splashers using paper.   Now the next thing to do was to paint the model.... two coats of Humbrol #73 provided the crimson lake livery whilst the tank tops and smokebox were painted up in Humbrol #33. The boiler was then given a wash with mekpak to smooth out the lingering roughness to the filler I'd applie
James Harrison

James Harrison

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Baby Deltic 1

I'm conscious that the blog has been inactive for a long time , and it certainly feels as if I've been inactive too   However a certain amount of modelling has been done - I just haven't written it up.   One project that has been making intermittant progress is the Baby Deltic referred to in an earlier post here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/296/entry-12459-baby-needs-some-new-paint/   Much of the progress has been painting - however despite seeing this as a "quick win"
Ravenser

Ravenser

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Remember This....?

Hello   This weekend has seen a change in direction with my modelling and once again I have returned to my layout Highclere. Enthusiasm for this comes and goes just as quickly as the seasons (much to exhibition managers annoyance!) but progress is once again being made in the form of ballasting this time. Now that the point rodding is finished (remember that!?!) I am now looking towards more scenic work and the next thing on the list was the ballasting. Ok, so I have only done one board so fa
-missy-

-missy-

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BRM Blog

Perth MRC Show 2014

Writing this on my way back from an excellent weekend at the Perth MRC 2014 show. Once again it was well worth the trip north to see numerous quality layouts (more on that in a minute) and meet up with some familiar faces from the Scottish model railway scene. If you've never been to this show, I can thoroughly recommend it. Thanks to the efforts of Stan Moug and the Perth MRC exhibition team, the exhibition has grown in stature over the last few years and is now widely regarded as one of the
61661

61661

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BRM Blog

Perth MRC Show 2014

Writing this on my way back from an excellent weekend at the Perth MRC 2014 show. Once again it was well worth the trip north to see numerous quality layouts (more on that in a minute) and meet up with some familiar faces from the Scottish model railway scene. If you've never been to this show, I can thoroughly recommend it. Thanks to the efforts of Stan Moug and the Perth MRC exhibition team, the exhibition has grown in stature over the last few years and is now widely regarded as one of the
61661

61661

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

Modbury - Trackwork 2

Before a start can be made actually trying to lay track work, I first decided to try to make some of the components for the Baulk Road track.   The plain track work will be represented by laying HO scale (2.3mm wide) PCB sleeper strip longitudinally beneath the rails. However, the Baulks that lie beneath the crossing V's and the switch baulks themselves were somewhat wider (about 20" or so). So the first thing to do was to make some 3.5mm wide PCB sleeper strip - for this I have some 4mm s
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Chronicles of Notlob's Siding

Peckett "Y" Class - Framed! (part 2)

We last left our intrepid adventurer holding a set of parts for a 2mm chassis but with no way of assembling them. So the first task is to find a way to hold the frames & spacers together. In this case, the frames will be screwed to the plastic spacers using 12BA screws. The first step is to mark out and centre-punch the screw locations. The actual position isn't critical so I decided to place the screws behind where the footsteps will be located.   In this photo you can just about
2mmMark

2mmMark in Loco construction

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Ze German way ov railways

Anachronistic Eurosprinter – DB Schenker class 152 with "Railion I" markings

Morning all!   As I'd like to reduce the backlog of updates a bit, I should now like to present you with one of the oddballs to have been part of the DB Schenker locomotive inventory – bringing variety even to highly standardised locomotives as the class 152 electrics. The model we're looking at here is one of the newest releases of the highly refined Roco rendition of this class, and was marketed with catalogue number 72482.   For basic information about Siemens Eurosprinter type locomotive
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street (Let There Be Light)

Well the good news is this will be a very short update, in fact it will probably take me longer to type this than I have actually spent modelling (I can use multiple fingers - the problem is it multiplies the mistakes )   Anyway I have made a little progress on the streets around Foster Street and as you can see the Street lights are starting to go up, even though with the advantage of the camera (pesky thing) some of them appear not to be totally vertical .   I have even started to add a li
paulprice

paulprice

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Neil_S_Wood's Blog

Back on track

I had a bit of a hold up with construction of this layout back when I was building it. Funding had become an issue as we just had our new house built and needed to buy lots of stuff for the house, create gardens, driveways paths etc. Then my wife got sick and was unable to work for a year however all back on track now and work on the layout had now resumed.   There's a few things happening; lots of kit building for the city scene and railway yards, track laying, point instalation, electron
Neil_S_Wood

Neil_S_Wood

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leopard1299's Blog

Southern Q class work in progress part 2

just a quick update photo now have chimney! thanks to a GBL model! and also have a set of buffers(thanks to brown.sauce/flee bay) so thought id do a quick update on the "Q" before anyone jumps in & comments! this is being made up as is from what bits i can get hold of and from my own stash because as we know model shops have not been interested in selling bits or scale items for years so its a case of use what i can to make it look as near as possible to make a cost effective model. so ta
leopard1299

leopard1299

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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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