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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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Clachbeg: base and scenery

Landscaping the cutting and the mine

The cutting is where the track emerges from the fiddle yard (a cutting not a tunnel; the cutting is deep enough that the viewer cannot see around it to the entrance to the fiddle yard), and here the track passes between Creag na Còsaig to its rear and Creag Ór to its front, crossing the Allt Creag na Còsaig on a 15' bridge before reaching the station entrance turnout. The tiny gold mine is (fittingly) at the foot of Creag Ór and its spur crosses the stream on a 6' culvert.   All of the above m
Richard T

Richard T

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Clachbeg: base and scenery

Fiddleyard turntable—completion

I made good progress with the turntable, after various calculations to ensure that the top of the rails would match the spur leading to the layout itself. Finally I chose to lay a sheet of 18 mm MDF onto the turntable and then lay Code 143 rail directly to the MDF, to align with the top of the Code 205 rail on sleepers on a template... It worked, thank goodness!     The first picture shows the template for the fiddle yard ends laid out for size. The cutouts in the MDF are for the stiffening
Richard T

Richard T

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Northall

The final box

After building the 3D sketch the final diorama box had to be build. I use for that a MDF “baseboard.” A friend of us cut baseboards for the coming time. Don’t be afraid you will see only this kind of diorama’s in the future. My granddaughter (6 years old now) asked me to build a railway on which a loco could run. So somewhere in the future I have to build a diorama in an APA box in which a train can shuffle around.   I bought her in the past a Toby from Hornby. This loco is the reflection of
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Clachbeg: history

The story of Vijay Padurachee

Extract from The Minor Diaspora – Indians in odd places in the nineteenth century, R.K. Chetty, Chattapore University, 1926.     When one considers the talent which goes unobserved in Indian’s teeming masses, it is fortunate indeed to find one such talent that was recognized. Vijay Padurachee was born in the early 1860s in an obscure village in Uttar Pradesh. It soon became apparent to his parents that their son was either grossly stupid or a boy of great precociousness. His parents brought h
Richard T

Richard T

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SRman's Workbench Blog

Another Hants & Dorset bus plus another tweak to a Southdown coach

Further to the last post, I have painted the tyres on the coach wheels for the Duple Commander bodied Southdown Leyland Leopard. I think they work in this new installation, in spite of the extra diameter.       I have also started on another Little Bus Company resin kit, this time a Bristol MW bus with ECW body from 1958 or so, to go into Hants & Dorset livery.           All work done at this stage has been achjeved using an optivisor type magnifier because I can't yet focu
SRman

SRman

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Ashbridge blog

A couple more updates

A couple more pictures for you all, I have added a fence around the bus depot that I don't think was present in the other photos. 00 gauge 7675 by firstbusphotos, on Flickr 00 gauge 9006 'The Fife And Forfare Yeomanry' by firstbusphotos, on Flickr 00 gauge 47406 'Rail Riders' by firstbusphotos, on Flickr 00 gauge 47406 'Rail Riders' by firstbusphotos, on Flickr 00 gauge breakdown tool coach and 2/3s of a class 101 DMU by firstbusphotos, on Flickr 00 gauge breakdown tool coach b
Intercity 125

Intercity 125

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46444's Zillertahlbahn Blog

Halling Zillertalbahn VT1 Railcar and a Wolf!

The recent introduction of the Halling Zillertalbahn VT1 railcar has been well received by modellers of this iconic Austrian railway which runs between Jenbach-Mayrhofen and I brought one from Winco recently.   The prototype came from the SLB in 2013 and is on long term loan to the Zillertalbahn. Here's some photos of it being delivered (Scroll down):   http://www.alpenbahnen.net/html/zillertalbahn.html   The model itself is made in Austria and is crisply moulded. Those familiar with Vi-Tr
46444

46444

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Jubilee Point

Construction Time Again

Well, I'm still feeling motivated but am starting to come down off that initial high of seeing the layout standing again, whatever I am doing just seems to take so much longer than it did when I was planning it through in my head! Plus having moved recently I'm frustratingly still spending a lot of time hunting through cardboard boxes for elusive but absolutely critical odds n' ends that without which work comes to a grinding halt, e.g scalpel blades. (I have a hospital-sized box of the dratted
TT-Pete

TT-Pete

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BRM Blog

Crawley Show

An enjoyable visit to Crawley Club's show in Horsham last weekend. Always and enjoyable event, it was good to see Kier Hardy's Wibdenshaw for only the second time, another chance to view all 58' of Alton in OO, which I haven't seem for years and also have a natter with Gordon and Maggie Gravett.     If you turn your head to one side and part close your eyes - you can see Alton!       It's always interesting to see a layout In S scale, espcecially when it includes equipment that is readi
Dicky W

Dicky W

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Penmaenmawr station and sidings in 7mm c.1995

On guard! - More fencing

Finally I've managed to get back round to working on Penmaenmawr. The next update can be seen in the June issue of BRM (on sale May 8th).   Work has commenced on the yard hut area, a small driver rest room and surrounding beds. I made use of some of Poppy's Woodtech LNWR fencing, but I won't spill the beans too much - you'll just have to pick up a copy of the magazine to read the full article.   General view taken by Dave Sallery in 1996.   Now to the model:   Still much to do, the f
Howard Smith

Howard Smith

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BRM Blog

Beer research

The current beer-themed issue of BRM includes a piece on the National Brewery Centre in Burton-on-Trent. Andy York and I spent a fantastic afternoon with the team behind the museum and I can wholeheartedly recommend it as somewhere well worth a visit.   I took the train to Burton and local(ish) lad Andy picked me up from the station. With a few hours to kill before we were due at the museum, we drove around looking for interesting old buildings to photograph.       The first
Phil Parker

Phil Parker

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Fourgig East

Lighting done (well apart from the actual lights!)

I am Christmas crackered but the woodworking is all done for the new lighting rig. I moved on from the last posting by adding the pelmet that for Fourgig East sits to the left of the public     You will see that the support is set in 9" from the edge so that the bottom of the legs will not stick out beyond the nominal footprint of the layout - I have had them kicked too many times by neighboring operators to leave it as it was! I will have to add some packers to the key points on the under
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Beckton Light Railway

Welcome To The Beckton Light Railway

Hi all,   Welcome to the Beckton Light Railway's blog page.   Beckton is a large seaside resort on the east coast based on Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, it has a standard gauge terminus near the town center and its own narrow gauge railway.   The BLR runs from the sandy beaches on the north side of Beckton, to the small fishing village of Addington to the south with a junction to another narrow gauge line through the Rifle valley to the town of Newton-on-Rifle.   Freight traffic on the li
Narrow Gauge Jordan

Narrow Gauge Jordan

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Fourgig East

Lighting continued .....

So, this morning the centre pelmet that the other two will hang off was finished     Pretty pleased, all lines up and the pelmet just drops onto two dowel pegs - no other fixings.   Now for the two side ones
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

In – Out; – In – Out; No! Not the boat Race.

What with C13 chassis and this etching drawings thing, I’ve been flitting between workshop and computer room like a (blue something) flea.   First let me tell about the drawings-for-etching saga. Regular visitors to this blog, -(which is supposed to be about building a very light-weight, portable, EM layout, but which rarely seems to mention that project!) – will be aware that I like my rolling stock to have sprung suspension.   They’ll also be aware that I have religiously used the Bill B
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi all.   After posting the last blog I found a couple of images of a model of Emett's Nellie which I thought I had already posted but looking through my past posting I cannot find them so I'm attaching them today. If I have posted them before my apologies. Nellie is now in the hands of my daughter down in Ellesmere and. is usually kept in a show case and just comes out at Christmas as will be seen in one of the attachments. Also attaching a pic of a model Hiab sea crane. She works in
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Fourgig East

Let there be light

I have a couple of days off this week whilst SWMBO takes the boys to camp and thought turned to the lighting rig for Fourgig.   I wanted it to be easy to assemble at a show and also needed to be modular so that most of it could also be used for my other layout Summat Colliery. As the layouts share the same legs modification of the legs to take a cantilevered lighting pelmet seemed the way to go.     I started by making new longer top cross members for the lauout supports then fixed some b
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The San Miguel Central RR

Part 40: The Minturn, Kings divide & Eastern RR

Hi all, I felt that it has become a lot of changes to my model world . So much so that it required a new layout thread . It all started with my Middletown, Kensington & Eastern RR that I built for the 2010 challenge. A layout that would depict a fictional New England in 1943. Thanks to a move to larger premises etc. I started to build on it, and add on to it a little, but felt that it did not really work ... : (   My good friend and museum owner Peter Haventon offered then to aquire the
M Graff

M Graff

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Up the Line - 1918

Not so simple Simplex

The adjustable legs for the layout are finished and fitted and seem to work so am just about justified in playing with the Simplex kit but wish I hadn't! It all looked lovely - nice clean castings that interlocked perfectly and soldered up nicely only to find that the outer panels didn't stand a chance of fitting. I have made the protected version previously (basically the same but with doors), I don't remember any real problems but this one was just not going to work. It all boiled down to the
KH1

KH1

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    • 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.    
    • WFPettigrew
      Post Scaleforum 2024

      By WFPettigrew · Posted

      If only you'd brought some crossing timbers, we could have had them down too 🤣. It was a pleasure to be able to help!   All the best   Neil 

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