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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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This is the slow train, crossing the border - a European Travel(b)log

2. A walk in the Black Forest

A nice day for a walk, so I picked up the Panoramaweg (no translation needed) around Hornberg, a town chosen for (1) being in the Black Forest, (2) having a station and (3) having a viaduct. After briefly unzipping the lower legs of my convertible walking trousers, the sun decided to come and go for the rest of the day, but still, there were some good views to be had.   Looking across to the castle, we have the typical regular services of an electric with 3-4 double-deck coaches working push-
eastwestdivide

eastwestdivide

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This is the slow train, crossing the border - a European Travel(b)log

1. Rotherham to Rotterdam (to the Black Forest)

Well it's that time of the year again, and this year sees a train journey into Europe, using a 5-days-in-10 InterRail pass, crossing a lot of borders on slow trains and on foot, and including a walk from east to west through an entire country. Every journey has to start somewhere, and mine started at Rotherham, where this hove into view:   before I took a Northern pacer to Doncaster, East Coast to Peterborough, and Anglia through to Harwich for a meal in Harwich town, before boarding the ov
eastwestdivide

eastwestdivide

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR MOGUL (7)

Got a little further with this, the boiler and smokebox are now joined together. The washout plug holes drilled. But not the oned for handrails, front platform supports, or the ones for the clearance around the valve gear rockers.       I have built the firebox, added the washout plugs but still need to add the mud hole covers.       The cab roof has now been added, and looks better for the added rivet detail.     I have al
N15class

N15class in GWR 63XX MOGUL

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bgman's Blog

GWR Steam Railmotor

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask, however here goes.........   Further searching in my boxes unearthed an unfinished Blacksmith kit which I commenced ( probably just after King Edward VII was crowned !) and never completed.   It would be nice to get it finished and running sometime this year but there is a stumbling block, I have lost the instruction sheet which was included !   May I ask the good folk of this parish if anyone has a copy of the original instruction sheets avail
bgman

bgman

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N-Gauge LMS Layout

Foster Street - Vandals Attack (Stage 1 8F Restoration)

What is the world coming too? you turn your back for two minutes and before you know it you're the victim of a bunch of brainless vandals.   Yes Foster Street has been attacked and horrific damage has been inflicted on the environment, will the layout ever be the same again? There was I being a busy little bee, and there was a knock at the from door.   I was only away 5 minutes, trying to explain politely to the salesman that although his product was environmentally friendly, it was not for
paulprice

paulprice

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Up the Line - 1918

Found the camera so here are some pics.

So having finally found the camera here we go.     This was the state of play on Saturday night. Now, those of you who have been following this blog will probably be able to guess what happens next ......     Turning a lovely roof into this   I then got a bit of help in painting the ground while she was avoiding getting her hair dried     A bit more weathering and the starts of building up some rubble brought us to here     There is still plenty to do but is now presentable
KH1

KH1

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Jessy1692's modelling bits and pieces

Tinsley Special, 13 003 Part 3, Doors & Painting

Evening all, in between all this football iv managed to get a bit of modelling done.   The class 13 is slowly coming along, since the last update iv got some small details added but the biggest job left to do was change the doors from wooden to steel panelled looking ones.   After a bit of a think i came up with a plan, first job was cutting some plasticard to fill up the recessed panal, easy enough and then milliput the gaps. To create the curved corners of the steel panalled doors, i
jessy1692

jessy1692

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Barry Ten's Blog

Detailing the level crossing area

After a few adjustments, I'm happy enough with the operation of the crossing gates that I feel OK about continuing with the scenic development in this area. Still much to be done in terms of small details, but here's an overview of the scene as it now stands:     Originally the road was on a steeper slope as it approached the edge of the board, but in the end I decided I preferred a more gentle approach so the road and surrounding landforms were removed and re-done, including a new profile
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

Legless layouts and (finally) tidying up some leftovers!

Not much got done over the weekend, except to visit the Chatham show and pick up a few bits and pieces...   So, I now have some yard lights, and platform lights (although ZB platforms don't really have them, I'll put them in for the atmosphere). A Viesmann HO water crane also arrived. This is the motorised variety so will swing through 90 degrees on command. It's even DCC compatible right from the box!   I think there might be an opportunity for a British version! Would make a great addition
AllScales

AllScales

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BRM Blog

RAF Manston Museum

Whilst on a whistlestop tour of Kent last week Phil and I dropped into RAF Manston Musem which is chocked full with interesting memorabilia and artefacts.     There's a cracking railway-related model in there, even if it looks somewhat tired, depicting one of the main stores building pre-WW2 with a rail siding. Pop 20p in and you can watch a Bachmann C-Class tootle back and forth shunting for a few minutes.     The buildings are quite delightful.     Outside I turned into a rivet-
Andy Y

Andy Y

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The outcast modelling Blog

Tudor House part 3: Walls, pond and an espalier apple tree

I still haven't decided what to do with the rear elevation of the house so have been slowly working on the garden,   The shed as discussed in the last post is getting there,   small raised pond and flowbed sit between the house and the shed, the ensemble is made from laminated card to build up the hight with a skin of bricks around the edges, painted ballast was used to make a mound of compost for the flower bed, the plan is for roses to be in this bed.   The walls are in and two of th
outcastjack

outcastjack

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR MOGUL (6)

I suddenly realised I ought to do a post, most of the brass work is almost finished.   The footplate makes up nicely on a frame, they recomend removing it after the footplate assembly is done. but I am waiting until the cab and boiler are ready to be fixed or are fixed. I feel that this will make it easier to keep everything square.   I have added some more rivet detail to the cab sides and roof as I felt these wrer too flat when compared to the protot
N15class

N15class in GWR 63XX MOGUL

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St Ruth

Everything under Control?

It's quite some time since I posted the draft of the new signalling diagram on here. Since then we have been constantly debating over the right time to actually put the thing on the panel. It's always been easier to say 'right after the next show' but we've finally got fed up with all of the annotations, crossings out and other amendments on the panel so have got around to doing it.   Here's the middle part of the panel showing the state it had got into after four years of 'clarifications' and
D869

D869

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Feltenham mk 3

Board meeting

Back again!!   as mentioned in the first blog, i'll upload some images of the board in progress! so here they are...   the reason for the cladding is purely decorative, it'll go around the front 3 sides, (the front isnt added yet - i work nights so by the time im awake im sure my neighbours wouldnt appreciate powersaws working!) then comes the wooded edging, and a roof! (tiled with foamboard tiles with gwr awning on the front with the station name fixed to it - if anyone knows where i can ge
Sr-Dixon

Sr-Dixon

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Feltenham mk 3

First stop!

Hi all, thanks for being nosey and coming to check this out!   lets get some basics!,   firstly, this is my 3rd attempt at creating a model railway, originally i hada specific room that the layout was permanantly fitted to, but that wasnt working out too well with the lady of the house so i agreed to do something smaller but of the same style etc....also didnt work, got broken :/ So here we are at the 3rd attempt, and reduced scale too! im now working in n gauge, back to my childhood roots!
Sr-Dixon

Sr-Dixon

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Fourgig East

Signal Wires, Pulleys and "Horses"

Thanks chaps, as no-one offered any kind of therapy following my decision to model the rodding exits from the signal box I found myself ordering cast wire pulleys, 0.11mm stainless wire and another etch of pully wheels etc.   Slow progress mainly due to the fact that the pulley castings are not the best and need to be drilled out to allow the wires through - I am getting through a lot of 0.5mm drills with the brass castings .......   I've done a run of 4 wires from the 'box to the foot cross
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Up the Line - 1918

No Pictures Tonight I Am Afraid

Sorry, I seem to have lost the little camera, well not lost exactly as I know I had it earlier but where it is now..........   On it are a bunch of pictures from an action packed weekend and significant progress on the latest building.   Saturday saw me off to Burton upon Trent for the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association annual do. As always, a good selection of layouts and traders and some very useful chats with several people. One in particular which has saved me a lot of trouble in scratch build
KH1

KH1

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Beatty 139's Blog

Only a few feet of boarding required...

Some projects just hang around for years and I have always had a fascination for the Halesowen Railway as I have lived close to it for over 30 years and my farther has may memories of it.   Well sometime ago I came across a drawing for the Goods shed at Hunnington, and having previously built Rubery signal box the temptation to build it was to great, Cad work made great progress and that's where it stalled, the other day I was looking for something else and came across the laser ready files, s
Beatty 139

Beatty 139

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A Wellingborough Fireman

April 1953

W 1 7.15-5/15 Wboro – St Albans 48553, St Albans – Wboro 48553 Th 2 7.15-4/30 Wboro – St Albans 43977, St Albans – Wboro 43977 F 3 BO Sa 4 7.15-4/35 Wboro – St Albans 48150, St Albans – Wboro 48150 Su 5 11.30-6/30 Ballast 43878 M 6 BO Tu 7 12/35-8/25 Wboro – Yarton 48150, Northampton – Wboro 48721 W 8 12/35-9/0 Wboro – Yarton 48008, Northampton – Wboro 48131 Th 9 12/35-8/40 Wboro – Yarton 48471, Northampton –
nomisd

nomisd

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Engine Wood

Callow Lane - how to hoist oneself by ones own petard

I suppose you could say that I have a bit of 'form' when it comes to telling tall tails to support the supposed 'histories' of my first two layouts, 'Engine Wood' and 'Bleakhouse Road'. Certainly the first article in the Railway Modeller didn't give any sign that 'Engine Wood' was fictitious, and my former website enginewood.co.uk (currently temporarily off line) didn't give much away, either. At shows, both layouts have information boards describing the 'history' of each location, together with
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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The GC and Met in OO

Metropolitan 'E' class (I)

So lets make a start, shall we?   First off, this is the donor model...     First step is to release a screw underneath to separate the body and the chassis....     Then another screw comes off the chassis, taking the front coupling with it.     Out with the Dremel! We need to remove 5mm of the chassis block from in front of the driving wheels.     Then we need to do the same to the rear of the chassis, behind the trailing bogie.   Now comes a very delicate operati
James Harrison

James Harrison

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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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