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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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What have I let myself in for??

A rollercoaster ride!

It has been a few weeks since I posted an update about the Weston 2014 event. It has definitely been a busy time. The show has started to take shape with a number of RMWeb users set to attend. "Up the Line", "Wheelock Mill" and "Werrington Road" will all be representing this website at the event in November. A further RMWeb layout could be confirmed within the next few days. I also have one or two other layouts on the "probable" list that just need final confirmation and I hope to do this soon.
andyram

andyram

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The San Miguel Central RR

Part 38: Pratt truss bridge.

Hello everyone! I have built a bridge that I've longed to build for many years! Namely the Central valley 150 foot Pratt truss bridge in HO! It may probably be one of the trickier bridge kits on the market .. I think it may have something to do with that it is built of loose beams that has to be cut to the right lengths and angles ..... But the end result more than outweigh the difficulties. I built it as a dual gauge bridge with both HO and HOn3 gauges. With a bit of painting and weathe
M Graff

M Graff

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Atso's Blog

What to do when frustration hits

Hi all,   Well its been a really hectic couple of months with family members and friends in and out of hospital as well as some bumps in the road achieving the dreaded big 'D'. However, I have been able to get some more CAD work done (shame about the modelling in reality) and started on my promised 3MT tender locomotive body. I did also manage to get out to a couple of shows, St. Albans and Ally Pally and was lucky enough to catch up with some friends from here as well as meet some new people!
Atso

Atso

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RJRs Branch Lines

Metrolink update

Always a good idea to test as you go along ! So here is a quick video of a tram skeleton traveling around the garden     With everything working work continued         Thanks for the suggestions for the concertinas, either as comment or PM   I have tried a couple of my original ideas with varied success     Various thickness of paper and card with different fold sizes     10 thou plasticard held together with sellotape..   With some time I will try the ideas sent.
johnteal

johnteal

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The GC and Met in OO

The D9, part 5

I'm about half-way through painting the loco so before I go any further I think a bit of an update is in order.       I began by giving the model a coat of humbrol dark grey as a base and then lightly sanding down and filling in any gaps or marks.   The first part of the model to see any colour were the frames, and following the colour plates in John Quick's excellent book on Robinson loco liveries I started with a coat of humbrol #73, matt wine. This however looked too bright so th
James Harrison

James Harrison

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Engine Wood

Kit built Brighton 'K' Class mogul

An elderly retired friend of mine here in the village has long wanted to have a layout based on the LBSCR in Sussex, with the option to run it in either SR or BR (S) periods. He's not yet in a position to put baseboards etc. up at home yet, but for some time he's been accumulating RTR locos and rolling stock. Two locos that he's always wanted, though, were a Brighton Atlantic ('Beachy Head') and a 'K' Class mogul, both of which have specific family associations for him in the past.   Of course
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Engine Wood

Various bits and other items

I've managed to get one or two useful little model railway-related jobs sorted today.   First of all, I received a new hand-held controller from Stapleton Electronics, in Canada, in the post this morning. It works off 12 - 18v AC and has very good slow-speed control, with optional 'intertia' settings:   I've tried it out on various locos on Callow Lane and I'm very happy with it.   The reason I ordered the Stapleton controller, though, was due to my trusty AMR hand-held unit developing a
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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The Cuckoo's Blog

Payday again...

Payday is upon us once again, and the postman has been kind enough to drop this one through my letterbox. Lovely. Stupid box, stupid tender wiring connector, but lovely, lovely model. Hornby 28xx NRM special edition.  
TheCuckoo

TheCuckoo

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Up the Line - 1918

All Together Now!

After much deliberation I decided that my spectacular cock up on the control panel was due to a)messing about with it so much and b)not having the layout all together when I was working on it. So, to avoid any more problems I have cleared some junk and set it all up. This is principally so I can get the lengths of the cables between the panels correct but also so I can run some trains - well sort of! The good news is that the control panels do work but the trains don't! I have so much work to do
KH1

KH1

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Northall

Personality: Teddy boy

As I wrote before, for my new diorama Station Road I need some “top quality” painted figures. By top quality I mean the best I can achieve at this moment.   This is my second attempt painting a figure at my best at this moment. I used artist acrylic paints, different branches. I uses opaque colours for the basecoats and half-transparent and transparent colours for highlighting. For shadowing a mixture of my base colour with Payne’s grey or black.   The base colours are diluted 1:1 with ma
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Box in a box

Box - now a 'pointless' exercise...

You may remember (back in the mists of time!) that the quarry siding unprototypically joined the 'Up Main' just before 'Potley Lane Bridge' (the scenic break).     In 'real life' the siding actually ran on for another mile or so to Corsham station...   I've been giving some consideration to the future of this (and other) layouts. The original intention was to use 'box Quarry' as a 'test bed' and somewhere to run 2mm stock as it was constructed. It would run between two cassette-type fi
scanman

scanman

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Sir John's 'Special'

I've finally worked out a simpler method for constructing a clerestory roof, so now I have all the vehicles needed to take Sir John's family up to London for the season.   On my first U29 composite, described in recent posts, I folded the roof from a single sheet of 5 thou brass sheet but found it difficult to make the reverse folds correctly. For the family saloon, which I now believe to be Diagram G13, I have therefore made the roof in three parts - two separate sides and the raised
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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knapper's ScaleSpeed Tool Blog

Minor updates to my scale speed tool

I've made some small changes to my scale speed tool. Along with a couple of minor tweaks, the main addition is the ability to remove individual results from the table. This now means if you accidentally record a rogue result, it can be removed but leave the rest. Prior to this the only option to deal with a recorded result was delete the whole table.   http://www.entwinesolutions.co.uk/scalespeed/   As always, I hope people find it useful now and again.
knapper

knapper

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

"This is the day of the positioning moves and freight trains / This is the long distance call..."

Something like that anyway...   Well, following my successful trawl at Thekla Station yesterday, I decided to make good use of the wonderful weather we're having once again, and revisit the same location for another set of images. You will find my catch right below...       It's been a while for me to spot a 151! Here, 151 036 was heading east with a string of four-wheel hoppers.       The first positioning move I witnessed was 145 010...       ...soon followed by Pressnitzta
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Barry Ten's Blog

Platform faces

Following the comments after my last post, I decided - with the encouragement of Wenlock and Job - that it would indeed be a good idea to change the platform faces from brick to stone. If you've been following the saga, you'll know that the station area was originally going to be loosely based on Shillingstone on the S&D, which is why I opted for brick facing originally. As I started making the platforms, though, I made the fatal mistake of plonking my old GWR building on them as a reference
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

You've Been Tangoed - GWR Modelling Cliché No. 1 - Part 1

After an offer to Rabs of a file to try on his (then new) printer rather a lot of time passed and after an almost near miss with the postal service a little package arrived through the door recently with a bright orange one of these in it.     The detail is comparable to some of the finest stereolithography that I have witnessed from professional bureaus. I know Rabs has spent quite a lot of time tweaking and practicing, refining the machine and the process and it has been worthwhile. The n
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Rolling Thunder

Afternoon all...   While our local weather has become somewhat April-like ahead of time, it's been fair enough for me to decide to spend some time capturing freights at Thekla Station – still my favourite spot for doing so within Leipzig.       While it's not really possible to take good photos of these trains on the suburban level of Leipzig Central Station, let me just offer you this snapshot of ICE 1745 to Dresden. I forgot to take down the unit number, but it was one of those class
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Mock Me!

Two blog entries in two days! This must be some sort of record!   Regular readers of my ramblings will know that when this project first started, all those many eons ago, the only footbridge at Ropley was at the far Western end of the station. In the last 3 years however, significant changes have taken place in and around the yard, the most visual of which is the installation of the footbridge formally located at Kings Cross Station.   Acquired in order to improve accessibility to the boile
TomE

TomE

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ScottW's Blog

Paint Your Wagon-Part 2

Further progress has been made with painting the Caley wagons. A coat of gloss varnish was applied, then the decals, then another coat of gloss varnish to protect everything. Friday morning I sprayed the wagons with their final coat of matt varnish before disaster struck. For the first time I used Humbrol matt varnish, everything was going great until the varnish started to dry-slowly the wagons were turning white before me eyes.     Having done some research on this phenomenon I believe it
ScottW

ScottW

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Box in a box

Box Mk 2- Retaining Walls

This entry follows on from a throw-away remark about scribing the retaining walls...   Image courtesy Derek Hawkins - Wikipiedia Commons.   At first glance, the retaining walls appear to be in laid coursed stone - so no problem there - except some of the courses appear to be ashlar blocks. However -     A close-up lineside shot (with a telephoto NOT trespassing!) shows this is, in fact, the natural coursing of the limestone through which the cutting & tunnel was made.   So it w
scanman

scanman

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

Spring Weekend Over Again

The Missenden Modellers sprint weekend is over for another year, once again the weekend went really well, with both Daniel and I making significant progress on our projects. My High Level Black Hawthorn has seen some significant progress with the super structure, with a few steps back along the way. I used my newest toy, the RSU for some items, to great effect, but was a little cautious of some things, so used the standard iron and regretted the mess I made with it compared to the neat soldering
GWMark

GWMark

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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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