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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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Ambridge - the rolling stock.

Quarry Motive Power (4) Bodging Bodged...

In article (3) I mentioned I'd mis-drilled a pair of holes - quite important as the relevant screws hold the motion thingummy assembly to the frames & has to be removable. The bodge is quite simple - cut some spare N/S from the fret and solder it in place...     only don't cut it free with a slitting disc...   However, having hand-cut two pieces the relevant sizes with a fret saw -     one was attached to the underside of the cylinder block, and     the other to the upper f
scanman

scanman

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Up the Line - 1918

Barn Therapy

As an antidote to a month of wiring and locos that refuse to work properly I can thoroughly recommend building a barn. I now feel very much as Harrison Ford must have done in Witness, before people started chasing him again (crikey, I have had some strange dreams lately but that is for another forum!). Anyway, it has all gone together pretty well, there are a few things that I would do differently next time but am really pleased with results so far and pretty fired up over getting loads of extra
KH1

KH1

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Shipston-on-Stour Branch

Shipston on Stour station buildings

Thanks to rmweb.co.uk I have been able to meet a fellow member SteveNCB7754 who lived in Shipston and measured many of the old station buildings and then made beautiful models of them. They were without a home but now have one as I picked them up today. They will appear from time to time in future posts and I will always remember to give the true origin of the artisan workmanship that went into them. Thank you, Steve, for getting in touch. I have a lot to live up to now.
Focalplane

Focalplane

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Jubilee Point

Ed's Big Bruv comes to stay

A chance purchase from the RMweb classifieds (cheers Damian!) means I am now able to show a comparison between the relative sizes of a class 73 ED in OO and TT scales:   Unfortunately it also shows that the cab castings could have done with a little more work to make them more prototypical, but at the time I was only working from photographs and “close enough” was good enough.   It also shows another comparison between the two scales;   With OO you send off a cheque, get a package in t
TT-Pete

TT-Pete

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Model Trains in Petersfield

Our club held an open day last Sunday in Petersfield, as part of our 50th anniversary. We provided some of our usual suspects; which does give a good indication of the wide variety of interests covered by the club. Below are a few pictures:   Ehrwald - German DCC N Gauge   Hawkhurst - SR/BR(S)   Kanjiyama - Japanese N Gauge   Module board - UK N Gauge   South River Terminal - US DCC H0   The Wipers, Fish-hook and Menin Railway - WW1 Sn2   Demonstration Table - all sor
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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The outcast modelling Blog

Tudor House part 2 (windows and musing about gardens)

After much more cutting and a surprising amount of faff trying to assemble and insert the windows (the open one in the top left hand corner was amazingly hard) the building looks like this, I have something slightly different planned for the remaining front window which is proving to be a bit more trouble than I thought.   I am really looking forwards to trying to do the front it shall be an assortment of Warwickshire sandstone, cobbles and a few harder stone slabs which sit in a line immedi
outcastjack

outcastjack

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BRM Blog

Scary close-up

There are times when I wish magazine pages were smaller. For a future edition, I needed some figures and when looking at those available, one thought was running through my mind:   “What will these look like really, really close up.”   Look at your layout normally and you view it as though you are seeing the scene from a nearby field. Even in 7mm, the view is similar to that you might get from 50 feet away. The same scene, on the page will be viewed as close as you see your dentist – near en
Phil Parker

Phil Parker

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drduncan's workbench

The wagon and carriage shop - weathering GWR O13 china clay wagons

A while ago I posted some pictures of wagons that were being contructed for china clay traffic, both GWR and PO. Amongst the images were a pair of GWR O13 china clay wagons, painted, lettered, but not weathered.     I dedcided that I would weather one (92971) quite lightly, the other (94100) more heavily. To weather wagons, I tned to dry brush and use acryilic paints.   First, 'light rust' was lightly dry brished over the underframes using a mop headed soft brush.     Then 92971
drduncan

drduncan

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knapper's ScaleSpeed Tool Blog

The detail level is now optional

I've added a few minor tweaks to my scalespeed tool, nothing major just a few tweaks, the main one is a choice over how much detail to show for each run. On smaller screens like mobiles only the final mph is shown when the the page loads (you can see the effect if you shrink your browser on desktops or laptops). There is also a control button that allows you to switch between the two options, so if you are on a mobile you can still choose to see all the information for each run, or hide the extr
knapper

knapper

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi All.   I have just watched a TV program I recorded last Sunday evening on BBC 2. Britain's Greatest Pilot: The story of Caption Winkle Brown. I mention this as he was serving on the escort carrier Audacity I mentioned in my blog on Sunday when she was sunk by a U Boat. It is repeated tonight,Tuesday, again on BBC 2.at 1120pm, failing that you can catch up on BBC Iplayer. It really is worth a look   Derek
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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garethashenden's Workbench

850 Part 2

If part 1 was about springing, part 2 is about pickups. I hate pickups. They're fiddly and unreliable and a pain in the backside. There must be a better way.   About 9 months ago I built a replacement 2mm FS chassis for a Farish Jinty. That went together very easily and without the need for pickups as the 2mm Association recommends split chassis. Why isn't this more common in 4mm, it's so simple. The Jinty:   There are three things that need to be done differently with a spit chassis. The
garethashenden

garethashenden

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Ambridge - the rolling stock.

Quarry Motive Power (3) - a little progress

No update since early April - because I've been a good boy and followed my doctors advice... A very bad recurring bladder infection (they started to run out of antibiotics that would work - worrying) triggered by out-of-control diabetes (I'm now on insulin) has led to four months government sponsored model-making leave . Because of the insulin I've had to stop my driving job (temporarily I hope) so I'm on Statutory Sick Pay until the end of August... Very seriously my doc said to do absolute
scanman

scanman

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

True colours!

Hi All,   Not much progress today, housework gets in the way sometimes! However I need to do some work under the layout so tonight I cleared out all the crates stored underneath and stacked them elsewhere. So first job, some dangling cables under the layout. Now the previous weekend, I bought some new stuff to hold up cables under the layout. I had been using cable loops with nails, but it's a pain to try and nail these on whilst lying on the floor, so I'm trying these stick on pads and cable
AllScales

AllScales

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Barry Ten's Blog

Servo controlled level crossing gates

Ideally you'd design and install an operating level crossing at the early stages of layout construction, but things don't always work that way. When I built the boards and put in the track for the layout, I hadn't really been thinking about servo motors and so on, regarding such things as far beyond my ability to work with. Once I got further along with the model, and started gaining more experience, I began to think it would be nice to have operating gates, so while there wasn't yet a plan in m
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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knapper's workbench

First foray into metal kits and 0 gauge - Part 3

Edit: My goodness my grammer was bad when I first posted this.   More progress, and some problems. I started out on Thursday night by attaching the riveted plates for the deck reinforcing plates. It didn't go too well, at first I managed to loose one of them (which is still managing to hide from me despite repeated searches on the bench and on the floor) and then I just couldn't get the finish as good as I wanted.   Friday turned out to be a much better day, I got all the load tie down rings
knapper

knapper

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

This Can Not be Happening!

I’m back to virtually re-making this chassis. The wheels have been on-and-off their axles far too frequently for their good grip; nearly all the crank pins have been unseated; the wheel shifting has affected the electrical continuity between wheel rims and the stub axles; …..in fact throwing all in the bin and starting from scratch again would be easier.   Of course, three total lock-ups of a working chassis should really be expected to produce a good amount of peripheral damage, and it certai
Clachbeg: base and scenery

Platforms: making a start

Clachbeg station boasts three platforms in all: a 16' stone platform on the stonemason siding, a 27' low gravel platform for passengers, and a 31' stone platform beside the goods siding. The stonemason and goods sidings are 18" high (from the rail tops) and encroach 3" into the loading gauge clearway; the passenger siding is a simple gravel affair at rail height, bounded by sleepers on edge. I decided to lay these out before ballasting, as they form part of the ground cover and ballast border.
Richard T

Richard T

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What have I let myself in for??

A RMWeb festival?

It has been quite a while since I posted anything in this blog. Things have not been good at present. The new house is still not ready and we have found major damp in two rooms of our temporary accommodation (my late grandfather's bungalow). Stress levels are at an all time high and have led to some careless and costly errors which readers of the Early Riser's thread will be well aware of. I don't want to repeat myself but will say that all the trouble has kept me away from working too much on t
andyram

andyram

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sigtech's Blog

Sproston - running something for a change!

Decided to indulge in a little operating session during a break from construction, and try out some different train formations, as I wanted to run the latest additions to the stock - two Hornby Hawksworth coaches in BR maroon- a brake 2nd and a 1st/2nd composite. These are the most modern and also the longest coaches in use on the layout ( and the only ones with the luxury of toilets onboard...) In common with most modellers - I suspect, I have around 50% too much stock ( already!!) in
sigtech

sigtech

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Building Treviddo Viaduct

First steps

Background About three years ago I decided to take up railway modelling again after a break of about 35 years – the usual reasons: children and career followed by early retirement! The standards of all aspects of the hobby have improved so much during my time away that I was very apprehensive about my ability still to produce models of exhibition quality. Before trying to build my own layout, I decided to build a diorama to test my model making skills, before committing myself to a larger, mo
Philip1812

Philip1812

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR MOGUL (4)

I seem to of missed out an update.   The rest of the soldering on the brass work was straight forward with no untoward errors. The beading was a little fiddly but work out fine by just taking things easy. I did think I was a few castings short, but they were found hiding in the box with the loco.   The white metal castings are quite good, not needing much fettling. The axleboxes and springs are seperate castings and I did change the springs, only because the hangers sat bette
N15class

N15class in GWR 63XX MOGUL

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The outcast modelling Blog

Tudor house

As some of you may know Allan Downes suggested a Tudor building challange,on this thread. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/85293-how-about-a-little-tudor-competition/ Being in exam season I was keen for the opportunity for extra procrastination... so this is the first of a number of entries which will detail my progress.   It is a very simple layout sort of beer mat sized with a 2 up 1 down and a small walled back garden. The house is broadly based on a number of houses in D
outcastjack

outcastjack

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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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