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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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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

Procrastination DCC style

Hi All,   So the Ally Pally show is now over, got a bargain just like last year. Last year it was a On30 loco, this year was an N-gauge DB BR-215, mint condition Roco model...   Anyway, play with the Z21 continues, this iPad now has a copy of my mates' layout, he e-mailed it too me! It includes stock, track plan, the works... Nice! If you're both on the same WIFI network you can send it direct but we didn't try that...   I've spent some time this evening adjusting the maximum speed on some
AllScales

AllScales

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Wenlock's Blog

Track Laying Begins!

It's been a long time coming, but after a lot of procrastination I've finally started laying the track for my branchline project. I bought some rubberised cork sheet from the C&L stand at the Bristol O gauge show back in January to use as a trackbed foundation, so the first step was to get that laid in the correct position on the baseboards. I cut the track plan into sections, so that I could use the pieces as a template to dictate where the cork had to go. I started by positioning the mainl
wenlock

wenlock

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witherbrow's Blog

private siding

afternoon all   building on a comment from the previous entry I've added another siding to the plan, just to see what it looks like mind as I fear I may be filling the board with track. I imagine this being a private siding for the local brickies/cement yard maybe even for the towns prize cattle?   I feel I have the track plan near enough sorted, baseboard plans are done and permission from SWMBO has been obtained. All I need to do is finalize this plan and set a location/theme for the layo
witherbrow

witherbrow

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Don't fence me in

A visiting 3F pauses to take on water as another service enters the station.   Hello all.   A short entry today, but I wanted to show some of the new fence that has been specially made for Ropley. Those familiar with the site will know it is festooned with this green, loop top fencing which is made on site by the railway. After measuring up a section a while ago, all of the information was sent to Pete Harvey at PHD designs who then worked his magic and produced the fencing you can see i
TomE

TomE

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Ed-farms' Blog

Missenden Abbey Modellers Weekend

Having recently returned from the excllent spring modellers weekend at Missenden Abbey I wanted to review the weekend to let those of you who have not been yet to have the chance to see what it is like and hopefully attend.   In the weeks leading up to the event a few helpful emails were received form the course leaders and the tutor in charge of my part of the course (Tim Shackleton teaching weathering) offering advice on what tools and equipment to bring as well as details of what to do on a
Ed-farms

Ed-farms

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Modelu's Workbench

5726 - Replacement Whistles & Shield

One of the last detailing jobs for 5726 is replacing the molded whistles and whistle shield. For this I've used the Comet GWR Detailing Etch which has short and long whistle shields and a pair of Markit's turned brass whistles.   It took a little while to work out which of the 4 versions of whistle were the ones required, Markit's provide Long, Thin and two variations of short. Here's a comparison of Long, Thin and Short type 1 against the original mold:     I'm no
alanbuttler

alanbuttler in DETAILING

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Hydraulic Heaven

The Little House on The...

More steamy goings on from my workbench. Now that I'm not frantically trying to make South Yard look less unfinished I've got back to some of the other items that have been in progress for a while. The main build effort amongst these is the David Eveleigh chassis for the Dapol 45xx. The various bits of this have been liberated from their paint shop boxes and put together in hopefully something resembling the right order.     Under the hood is a Nigel Lawton motor coupled to the worm via a U
D869

D869

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Match-built Carriage Truck - 2

My photo alongside might look similar to the final one in my previous post but is, in fact, the result of a complete re-build, in an attempt to correct at least some of the mistakes I'd made!   I'd already found some of the problems in trying to adapt real drawings to an 00 gauge model, in that the wheels fouled the diagonal members of the chassis. Then, when my grease axle boxes arrived from 'MJT' (after 15 days and well within the 21 days maximum), I found that there was insufficient
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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The GC and Met in OO

The D9, Part 4

With work almost finished on the locomotive, attention turns to the tender.   I decided to make use of the Fowler tender and see what I could about making it GCR-esque. There are a couple of fairly big differences in the 2 designs that make a completely accurate conversion difficult, if not impossible. The bigest of these is that the frames of the LMS tender are about 3mm taller than those of the GCR type.   Wishing to keep the conversion as simple and easy as possible I decided there woul
James Harrison

James Harrison

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Lordy lord, what have I done...

Hello.   I think its time for an update. I havent got that much to talk about this time really apart from a little bit of work I have done on my Lord Nelson Ebay purchase. The initial intentions were to do a little bit of tweaking to it then repaint it into something a bit more appropriate to my modelling era then move onto the next thing. Of course me being me, it hasnt quite worked out like that...     This is what the underside of the tender originally looked like and I wasnt that
-missy-

-missy-

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Buckingham West

Slow, but steady

Progress has been slow, but steady.   You will be pleased to hear I did complete the 2nd Ratio bracket signal and fitted the 2 servos in a similar fashion to the first one. Using the rocker arm behind the lattice and platform is a huge improvement, but I had to remember that the operating wire for the bracket operated in the opposite direction from the main arm, when it came to fitting the servo levers.   I also fitted servos to the remaining 3 stop signals. One is the bay starter, one the u
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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Up the Line - 1918

Control Freak

As promised , (or is that threatened!), here is an update on the control panel situation. I have been dreading doing this bit of the layout, and quite rightly as it turns out. Electrics and I are not exactly soul mates but I do seem to get there in the end but not without a bit of smoke! As usual I have probably also set my expectations higher than my abilities, anyway.....   As a bit of background, I have decided to build two identical panels, interconnected at each end of the layout so it ca
KH1

KH1

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RJRs Branch Lines

Metrolink 4

Some more progress this afternoon. the second unit now has side panels. and the center section has some form   A bit of "artistic licence" Due to the length and the under minimum radius curves in the garden I have had to make the sections that will be concertina a bit bigger. Although at this point I haven't worked out how to make concertina sections.        
johnteal

johnteal

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Wheal Elizabeth at Ally Pally

Wheal Elizabeth is up at ally Pally this weekend. Unusually we ran air brake stuff first thing, then gradually worked towards steam by the end of the day. Might do the opposite tomorrow. Do pop by and say hello if you're passing.   Finally got round to fitting a route disk to the 02 too.
ullypug

ullypug

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Barry Ten's Blog

Abbotsbury chimneys - third try

Following the excellent example of Wenlock's 7mm model of a William Clarke station building, I thought I'd return to my own model of Abbotsbury and try and improve the chimneys ... again. As mentioned in a previous post, my model was started some 32 years ago but had been looking very tatty and neglected when I finally decided to tart it up. The original chimneys were just lengths of square section wood onto which I had tried to carve an impression of stonework but they had none of the details o
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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The GC and Met in OO

The D9, part 3

Part 2 of the Saturday Update!   The D9 has come along in leaps and bounds this week.       I've added side frames in 0.5mm plastic sheet. I then took a piece of balsa wood and carefully cut and filed it down until it fit between the frames, and glued it in place. I cut beading for the splashers out of 0.4mm plastic and set it in place with solvent (I found that the solvent was especially useful for softening the beading, when I cut it out of the sheet it had distorted but the solve
James Harrison

James Harrison

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The GC and Met in OO

The Gorton Mogul, Part 6

The mogul is finished!       HMRS pressfix transfers were used throughout. I came up with a running number by finding the highest GCR loco number (1252) and adding 5001 to it. To make a change I used the 'L & N E R' decals, setting the model in the 1923- c.1925 period. Very pleased with how this one has turned out!
James Harrison

James Harrison

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witherbrow's Blog

When is a square not a square?

Afternoon all   I've been jiggering about with the track plan seeing what I can do to it in the space I have. Looking at my spare room 4FT by 4FT may just be over the limit on what I can do with the space in there. It's still a do-able plan but I've been looking into an alternative and I think I may have it in the form of 5ft by 2ft.   The new plan is still based on the old circle but has a much smaller off scene storage siding (not to fussed about this to be honest). I've decided to try and
witherbrow

witherbrow

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Northall

Station Road – Shops under arches

After the evaluation and the reading of some literature about building a shadow box diorama I will try a different approach.   In his articles about creating a artful diorama, Ray Anderson mentioned that the following things will help any diorama:     1. Tell a simple story. You can hold the viewer’s attention for a minute or two at most. After finishing Northall Dock and reviewing the title of the diorama scene should have been “going to the pub”     2. The figures should be “smal
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi again. Back again after over a month. I am posting the last model railway I constructed. Cranly Lake Railroad. This was only the second 7 mm scale I had built, the other one being the Liquorice Line. I was seduced by the Bachman Shay. Also at the same time my Friend Paul Towers sent me details of a very short line in Canda. " The Portage Railway" which was only one and one eighth miles long with track gauge of 42 inches. It was a tourist line connecting two lakes and had two locos, t
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Up the Line - 1918

Kinky

Progress on the control panel is still painfully slow and would not make for entertaining reading at the moment (saving it up for all in one go), so shall talk about something kinky instead! With the Hunslet (4-6-0), now picking up on almost all wheels - I have cut one of the spring pickups too short so will have to replace - I tried it on a section of the layout. Result - much better but...... It just won't run through a small section which, rather inconveniently is right at the the start so no
KH1

KH1

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

Z21, what needs doing with the router?

Hi Again,   I've calmed down a bit now, after all I got it pretty much setup as it should be. This is: Change the SSID so it no longer has a number on the end. This is (probably) a serial number and gives hackers a way in... Change the Wifi password (this is very likely to be calculated from the serial number, so if the secret gets out...) Change the name of the Adminstrator (in the case of this router it's a well disguised admin) and password (admin again, so hard to guess!). Pre
AllScales

AllScales

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The Cuckoo's Blog

Beautiful Dioramas

I was using Stumble Upon tonight and it threw up this site with some beautiful pictures. Not railways, but a really good example of scenic modelling nonetheless.   Enjoy.   http://www.viralnova.com/takes-pictures-of-model-town/?_nospa=true
TheCuckoo

TheCuckoo

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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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