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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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Peter Findlay's Blog

Moving from the armchair to the workbench.

It's been a number of years since I discovered RMWeb and joined. At the time I had great intentions of getting back into modelling and create a blog as I went.   However, as can be seen from the date of my last (only!!!) entry this did not happen, instead the demands of life with three small children took precedence and I became an armchair modeller, regularly browsing RMWeb and enjoying my monthly dose of "modelling" from BRM and Model Rail.   This year however, I've decided to try and move
peter findlay

peter findlay

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Trevanion Dries

Dries mock-up

Quick shot of progress so far with work well underway on embankment and a mock-up of the dries and slurry loading point in cardboard/paper. All now running moothly over the concrete and both sets of pointwork; the pointwork is operated by wire-in-tube with no difficulties just yet! The siding in the foreground will be ballasted before weathering with a covering of clay muck. Next for attention: board 2, with the disused linhay.  
Kaolin2FS

Kaolin2FS

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Up the Line - 1918

Of pony trucks and dodgy track

I have rather been enjoying myself with the new pony truck for the Baldwin, a nice little project, not too taxing and quickly producing a very neat and quite substantial little unit. But what's more, it seems to work! My track record (pun intended!), of keeping such things where they belong is not good so really pleased with myself. Have managed to fit the roller bearings and to compensate it. This was fairly straight forward, all I have done is to leave the frames slightly loose on the spacer w
KH1

KH1

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bgman's Blog

What's lurking in the dark corners of your past ?

So......started rummaging through some boxes this afternoon and forgot about this one. Originally started back in 1994! because there was a distinct lack of Broad Gauge Rover loco's in the shops Ha ha ( no surprises there) . I accept there are mistakes but it was an exercise in trying to scratch build. Comments welcome.   What's in the dark corners of your past ?
bgman

bgman

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Chris' Minor Blog

The Good’s, the Coaches and the Ugly.

Circumstance is a funny thing. Everything that you see in this post has travelled westwards across the Atlantic to my residence for the year in Canada. Whilst this makes some things easier, like not wanting to venture outside during winter, it makes the logistics of most things much harder. I’m afraid that I’m not going to give a blow by blow account of the kits that have been put together, as instructions for the things worth repeating are mostly available elsewhere.   The Ugly (the Scenics)
MinerChris

MinerChris

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bgman's Blog

Re-cycled cottage

In answer to Mikkel, of this parish, I thought I would drop these onto the site to show the method used to create this from a previous layout.       The cottage was a trial build to see how effective the use of casting plaster would be and how it would stand up to scribing etc. and overall it faired reasonably well, however, I'm not happy with some of the joints but then it did sit on a hill as a background building ( so no rivet counters etc to be worried about :0 !!! ).   Happy mod
bgman

bgman

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

More Frustration! – the K3’s(?!?) at it now.

Oh dear! Old age is really having a go at me; it’s not the K3 at all, it’s the O6: - FOOL.   Some readers will not understand “O6”. During the second world war, the government (ROD? MOS? WD?, not sure) had the LNER build about 60ish LMS 8Fs. The Southern built some too; and each of the ‘Big Four’ had some on loan. It appears that the LNER purchased some of these and classified them O6 and they appeared as such in the stock book. Those on loan, the LNER called “WD® 2-8-0”. They had 68 O6s and 6
Snitzl's Main Blog

Walls Traverser Cover - Part 1.

Walls Traverser Cover - Part 1.   It was only last February that I thought to myself that Snitzl Town only required a  traverser and transportation rack to finish, then I could get on with some rolling stock  modelling. Thinking about the traverser, instead of using two pieces of plywood to hide the traverse sidings from the viewing public, what about an actual model of stone walls  and walkways. Searching the internet for ideas with search terms such as ' fantasy  castle ', ' stone wa
snitzl

snitzl in Misc

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Modelu's Workbench

2301- Research & Reference Photographs

I always get an extra buzz seeing a preserved locomotive that spent some or most of its working life on the Cambrian, especially if it's one I plan to feature in the works. 2516 is up there at the top of the list along with Cambrian stalwarts such as 9017, 7802, 7808, well any Manor to be honest!   During the few days I spent working in Swindon this week I was able to spend an evening walking around the works, what's left of it, and the McArthur Glen Outlet centre. The whole experience
alanbuttler

alanbuttler in Reference

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Barry Ten's Blog

Adding lights to an auto-coach

Back when I showed this pic:     I mentioned that I was thinking of adding lights to the coach. Last week I ordered a pack of DCC Concepts wheelsets, which cleverly incorporate pickup springs as part of the design. There are twelve wheels in the pack so enough for three coaches, and I thought that the auto-coach would be a good starting point, since I had a good idea of its construction.   Swapping the wheelsets is a doddle, or it would be if you didn't already have the extra brake gear u
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Canterbury 2mm Area Group

Now you see it now you dont

Martin quite rightly refused any scenic work until satisfied the track was working correctly now justly satisfied he produced this     mm 18 months work buried   On a more positive note Martin and Valentin will be exhibiting Haverhill South at the following show which comes complete with a brewery model railways and Beer Im not sure  
nick_bastable

nick_bastable

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BRM Blog

Little yellow project

A chance to get a bit of personal modelling done as it seems as we've been doing Sentinels to death of late (although this one's slightly different so I'm videoing it as I go along as a test of video more than anything else) but someone may find it of use later on.   The intention is to get to something close to the pictured Sentinel in Sheffield's back streets at Grimesthorpe so it's a case of subtraction and addition to get the right result.     An hour later the destruction's complete
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Mini Update

Hello   I feel its time for an update as its been a while. I haven't been upto much modelling really, the majority of my spare time has been taken up with trying to finish off my van as I made myself a new years resolution to finish it off this year.   Things haven't ground to a halt though, first bit of modelling in this entry goes to the King Arthur tender...     As in a previous post this has been virtually rebuilt from scratch, the initial intention was to tidy it up a little with
-missy-

-missy-

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The Legge Lane MPD Blog

Standard 4MT 4-6-0

Cold showery weather - what am I doing in England?! Well, Sunday is a good day to take a loco out of its box and do some detailing and I had forgotten about my Bachmann 75027 in "out of the box" weathered state. It is a very nice looking model and really does justice to the real thing.     I am about half way through the list of work on this model and much remains to be done once I take it back to France where I will apply some really heavy weathering, etc.   The most difficult part was
Focalplane

Focalplane

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Gilding Victoria

I've been starting to get my 'painting eye' in, by working on some of my 19th-century vehicles, before I attempt any people.   For the Victoria carriage, described in previous posts, I first spayed the entire vehicle with red car primer. After that I painted the undergear, footboards, and folding hood with black acrylic. I chose Crimson Lake as the main body colour and painted all the relevant panels with Humbrol enamel (now RC403, though I used an ancient tinlet of HR116 - these paint
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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Modelu's Workbench

43xx - Research & Reference Photographs

My continuing lack of modelling progress due to working away is counter balanced by it taking me near to shows, preserved lines and museums around the country that I otherwise wouldn't get to. Looking at the last month its been a bit of a whirlwind tour with there seemingly always something within an hour of the office that is worth seeing! The last couple of months I've been lucky enough to get to MOSI, Wakefield for Scaleforum, the NRM, York Show, Llangollen, The W&L, Didcot, The Bluebell
alanbuttler

alanbuttler in Reference

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Cowes & Newport in 4mm scale

Still heading North out of Newport

All sorts of complications in the last few weeks arising from the (right) decision to lengthen the platform roads. The worst moment was realising that I would need an 18" radius curve on the mainline and it would still only be an inch or so from the edge of the baseboard - which would make plausible scenic treatment impossible. To cut a long story short, I juggled the radii and eventually arrived at a compromise I can live with, albeit a small modification to the track plan. The photo here show
ChrisG

ChrisG

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bgman's Blog

Saturday night into Sunday morning

Having climbed down and refreshed themselves the guests were ushered into the parlour and having been thanked by Her Ladyship for coming along today, she felt it was close to her bedtime.   They all took the hint and politely said their fairwell's and sauntered past the gardners cottage having had a tree-mendous time.   As they shuffled back along the lane Perks was still in a quandary as to what had happened that day, non the less happy but rather uncertain why he seemed to have acquired a
bgman

bgman

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Chronicles of Notlob's Siding

Peckett "Y" Class - Bodywork

One of the things I'm pretty good at is starting a new project before finishing off others. Not sure why but I do like the planning & construction phase. I like to get a model running and then it can wait ages to enter the paintshop for final finishing. I also have a lot of unmade kits awaiting their turn on the workbench. I've recently done an inventory and have found at least 17 different locos of various types to build. Getting a little bit scary!   One that's been on the to-do
2mmMark

2mmMark in Loco construction

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Jubilee Point

Salisbury & S.Wilts R.S - 50th Anniv. Exhibition

33 Total Images     I had a very pleasant outing to the Salisbury MRC 50th Anniversary Show today. I was on a very definite mission to see two layouts in particular, first up Redford Junction in TT scale, built by fellow 3mm Society member Paul Hopkins: A real inspiration and an excellent demonstration of just what can be acheived in "The Modellers Scale". The man himself.  Second up was Mr Muz's most excellent Fisherton Sarum - back o
TT-Pete

TT-Pete

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bgman's Blog

It's Saturday night !

Having spent an entertaining day with Mrs.Farquhar, afternoon tea etc., I felt it was time to repay her kindness. I took myself off to the local haberdashery and asked Mr.Perkins, the owner, if he could supply me with enough material to make enough glad-rags for a special party this evening. He gave me plenty of samples to peruse and happy with these I took my leave. I sent out my man Perks to ask as many of Mrs.Farquhars' friends if they could attend a party this evening.   Lady Fanshaw has
bgman

bgman

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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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