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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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Hilux5972's Blog

Hogwarts Coaches interior #1

Well I have just completed my first coach interior. Looks fab. Here's some pics to show the process: 1. Interior Decal Sheets 2. Painted interior moulding 3. Corridor carpets 4. Compartment seats and carpets 5. Compartment pictures 6. Vestibule wooden paneling 7. Reassembled interior view
Hilux5972

Hilux5972

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Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

2FS GWR 4 wheel Coaches - U4

Slowly making a little progress on a train of 4 wheel coaches for Modbury. The first is a 1st / 2nd Composite to what became diagram U4 when the diagram books were set up. The bodies for these vehicles are from the Worsley Works range, and comprise the sides and ends, a roof and a floor which also includes the sole bars and top foot board, and finally the headstocks - these kits are described as scratch aid and do not purport to be complete kits. The full set of coaches are Brake 3rd to diagram
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Northall

PERSONALITY

NO THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME! This is about figure painting.   If you like some appropriate background music to this entry open the link below :   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. The first step was to read chapter 5 of Sheperd Paine’s book How to build diorama’s. After reading I made a small painting guide for myself as a reference during my paint job.   I used artist acrylic paints, di
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Dad-1's Blog

Leaving the wife for 2 days ........ MKMRS Exhibition !

I should have got so much more done, but when the layouts 165 miles away it's difficult. So the cars packed & I leave first thing tomorrow morning for MK. With compact layout storage so much has to be detachable, giving other storage problems. This is my pile of 'stuff' for Saturdays exhibition.     It's almost embarrasing that there is still so much to do scenically, at least it should run fine with a couple of sound locos this year (not mine) a 4F & Ivatt 2MT.   May see some
Dad-1

Dad-1

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi again. Posting the last two box drawings. Keighley Station Jcn and Keighley North. Starting with Station Jcn. It had a 25 lever frame, all working, no spares. I guess the jumble of points in the center will be the first thing to catch the eye. The junction from the up main to the down branch (Oxenhope) is straight forward.. On the up branch the main route was onto the down main. .None passenger trains could also be routed into the down sidings. The sidings to the right of No 24 ground sign
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Stringfingerling's Blog

A start on the backscene.

I've been planning to do a backscene for the layout for a long time, but back trouble in the last few months has put me off doing any major bending and stretching. However, I'm a lot better now, and have made a start as can be seen here.     It's painted in acrylics on MDF, and eventually will go down the whole length of the layout. It's meant to suggest Mid Wales though the precise location in the area to the North East of Aberllefeni is fictitious.
Stringfingerling

Stringfingerling

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Barry O's Loco Blog

A BR standard and one which became one...

Been a while since an update but...   I have a few BR Standards. The Bachmann one     replaced an Airfix on which had a new chassis and running gear fitted. This one can pull most things but does anyone have a way of filling in the screw hole in the connecting rods other than modelling putty?   And another Bachmann loco - an ex LMS 2MT Mogul..  
Barry O

Barry O

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Up the Line - 1918

Digging Dirt and Mud Slinging!

No, I haven't turned into a News of the World reporter but have been putting down the ground cover. Firstly, I prepared some puddles by planting some microscope slides with bottom painted brown into the surface and then went to work with a mixture of plaster, PVA and paint. This was slopped around then attacked with my multi purpose coffee stirrers to make wheel tracks, hoof prints and the like. Once dry my trusty dried and sieved garden soil was sprinkled on and then Astonish floor polish dropp
KH1

KH1

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Black 5's Blog

9 and 6mm baseboard components

I am finally underway with the assembly of my baseboard modules. Having collected the cut timber from the timber merchants in Oxford, I have spent the last few weekends carefully marking out the components for the 9 separate boards which I am assembling. I have now reached the stage where I will be drilling out the enlarged holes for the alignment dowels before assembly of the tops, sides, ends and supporting battens   The design is based on the same principles of the the new layout based on O
Black 5

Black 5

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ScottW's Blog

Paint Your Wagon

A few weeks ago I decided that it was time to start painting some wagons. After all, one of them has been waiting about sixteen years for a lick of paint.   The wagons in question, three in total, are all Caledonian Railway and have been scratchbuilt from Plasticard. Two are mineral wagons to dia. 22, one of which has been converted to a coke wagon by the addition of extra planks above the main body. The third wagon is a four plank open to dia. 24. It is this wagon that was built sixteen years
ScottW

ScottW

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BurscoughCurves' Blog

Laying the foundations...Northlight Engine Shed

So where do I start….   I have always had a passion for model railways; it is so true when people talk about being ‘bitten by the bug’! So now I am in my 30’s and have more time and money to procrastinate in whichever way I see fit, I feel I am ready to well and truly ‘come out of the loft’ so to speak!   The only thing holding me back from my plans of a Havil Junction sized layout (!) is my temporary lack of space in my smallish apartment. I am hoping to resolve this issue fairly soon.  
BurscoughCurves

BurscoughCurves

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Erudhalion's Blog

Stocking up

I've taken a brake from the tram loco, pending the arrival of the solder, paints etc., so I've built the freelance mineral wagon and guard's van kits form Parkside Dundas.   The mineral wagon went together fine, I'm still getting used to how small these things are.     I decided to modify the guard's van to turn it into something more brake van like. I took inspiration from an L & B van that has a similar arrangement of central window on one end and duckets (I thinks that is the r
Erudhalion

Erudhalion

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

A BR Red Duchess..... a damsel in distress?

I have recently been busy with Murgatroyd tankers - but have had the opportunity to weather an EM Gauge Duchess. This is in one of the two types of BR Lined Maroon - and, as it happens, the owner is not over keen on that livery so..   a clean loco     and, after and application of inks and powders     and for some close ups...   running gear (powder applied while ink is wet)     and some dirt build up around the lower edges of the firebox/footplate "joint"     and some bi
Barry O

Barry O

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Slowly slowly catchee Monkey!

A rare view of Ropley, not4 one which will be easily seen once the layout is complete.   Hello all.   Embarrassingly little progress to show on Ropley, however there has been some. Mostly this has consisted of a few scenic touches in areas where all major landscaping or other works are complete or will not interfere!   The observant amongst you may have noticed a brown fence appeared between the yard and the wheel drop line in photos on the last blog entry. In reality this is a somew
TomE

TomE

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Marsh Green Road TMD

Marsh Green Road UPDATE

Its been a while since I last posted   Marsh Green Road TMD was exhibited at the 2013 EXE MRS show with all new scenery and was a great success with only a few niggles found again with the points,   as this is being written I am replacing/repairing the points so they are more reliable for this years show along with adding more items to the scenery.
Gilly

Gilly

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greslet's Blog

Stephenson Road is born

Every model railway needs a back story, whether it is a real location or a fictitious one. My micro layout has simply been known as the 300 inch challenge up to now. It really needs a name by which it can become known and a location with some historical story it can become part of. […] The post Stephenson Road is born appeared first on Rede Valley Railway.
greslet

greslet

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greslet's Blog

Stephenson Road is born

Every model railway needs a back story, whether it is a real location or a fictitious one. My micro layout has simply been known as the 300 inch challenge up to now. It really needs a name by which it can become known and a location with some historical story it can become part of. […] The post Stephenson Road is born appeared first on Rede Valley Railway.
greslet

greslet

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greslet's Blog

Stephenson Road is born

Every model railway needs a back story, whether it is a real location or a fictitious one. My micro layout has simply been known as the 300 inch challenge up to now. It really needs a name by which it… Read more ?   Source
greslet

greslet

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Up the Line - 1918

Forging ahead!

That is what my new building seems to be turning into - a forge and a French forge at that! Having finally got around to doing a mock up building, my idea of a house seemed to turn into a barn and then just to be different a smithy. This should be quite a challenge to fit out and I do think a timber framed building would add a nice contrast. It will be in a state of disrepair but needs to be pretty solid on the left hand side to hide the fiddle yard. Big doors should allow the scene with the wag
KH1

KH1

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Monon

Monon - from idea to layout

At a Monday night meeting of the Wakefield Railway Modellers Society I gave a talk on turning dreams into reality. From the ideas gained at this meeting I intend to plan, construct and operate a HO scale layout based upon the Monon   22/02/14 saw this paste table at local DIY store and have decided to use as the base for the Monon layout. It gives 200 cm by 56 cm of space so will have a go at converting it into the base for the new layout. The idea would be to replace the hardboard spacer piec
enginelane

enginelane

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Trevanion Dries

Trevanion Dries Progress

After much moving house, a little wagon building, some minor procrastinating and a great deal of trackplan re-working, Trevanion Dries has re-surfaced, at last in a more permanent guise. The new siding arrangement, although not maximising the amount of 'visible' trackwork, does increase the operational possibilities by some margin over the last plan. The two boards measure 100 x 30cm each and the trackwork is raised 5.5cm above the floor to allow for an embankment. In a flat without a proper spa
Kaolin2FS

Kaolin2FS

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Brackhampton - going underground

Having had to lift all the track at Brackhampton due to my revolutionary track fixing technique proving about as effective as Network Rails maintenance of the Dawlish sea wall. I've been concentrating on scenic modelling whilst I save up to buy more finescale flexible track.   Latest thing I've been doing is building the platforms. The arrivals side has been started, using large amounts of wills platform kits and additional paving sheets. This has also meant I have had to have a go at the subw
rovex

rovex

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Empire Mill - pleasure and pain

Pleasure...   I spent most of Saturday playing trains. I intended to 'do some work' on the layout, but having built the sidings and got the double-slip working I just seemed to let the afternoon slip by shunting trains in and out. I can see I'm going to have fun trying to 'think like the real railway staff'. Things like trying to work out how the pick-up goods would have been marshalled to make shunting at each station more straightforward or see how you would swap empty and full wagons out of
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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