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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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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

This Time I have had a rest!

I decided that I would take a rest from modelling over the Christmas period. The usual health niggles during winter months (“it’s your age” says my GP) have made that a longer break than wanted, and getting Honley Tank (workshop) to a comfy temperature here on the Pennines takes time and costly electricity. To limit that cost I’ve been computing away like an idiot, driven by this urge to produce etching drawings. So I have been active, but in the warmer climes of our ‘office’. That used to b
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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SRman's Workbench Blog

Dapol Western Headcodes Updated Using Heljan Headcodes

I wasn't entirely satisfied with the way the headcodes looked on my Dapol Western. You may recall that I mounted some Heljan class 53 headcodes inside the Dapol headcode boxes but the font is not right on those.   I have now redone the headcodes, using Heljan headcodes supplied with their Western diesels. These were mounted on bits of 20 thou plasticard, approximately 17mm x 6mm which were then stuck inside the headcode boxes using a little Black-Tack (actually Homelux Bath Seal). The font typ
SRman

SRman

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Erudhalion's Blog

Whizz whizz grind

So, things have been trundling on.   The basic body is now assembled: I have persevered in my wicked ways as regards the solder used (still the electrical stuff I had lying around) but I have ordered some 100° solder and some appropriate flux, which should get to me eventually (I ordered some humbrol paints as well, but it turns out you can't send them by air, so I'll have to arrange things differently). I have also managed to make a hole in the tank front with my soldering iron. I will have t
Erudhalion

Erudhalion

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Attaching two more signal box diagrams. The first is Hirstwood. It had a 16 lever frame including one spare. I see I failed to number the ground signal controlling the setting back move through number 6 points, it should be numbered 5. The two ground signals 8 and11 had yellow aspects and could be passed for shunting purposes when in the on position. Note the odd track layout of the sidings. at number 12 points. There was a couple of works served by the yard. Scot motor cycles was one
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Up the Line - 1918

Something I should have done a long time ago!

And should have chosen a day which wasn't the rainiest, windiest and stormiest day for ages. The act in question was actually trying to fit the completed boards into the back of the car. Quite why I have gone this far without doing this just re enforces the fact that I am inherently stupid at times! I did do a lot of planning and even made up card board mock ups of the boards so they should fit....... and they did! Not a lot to spare but they did. I must now turn my attention to working out a wa
KH1

KH1

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Northall

Placing details

I’m still busy with creating the solution of the L-shape design I described in my last entry.   An other point of concern I mentioned in an early blog post. This has to do with the rule of thirds I use for the design of my diorama’s.     The white circles are all filled in, with the right amount of details:   Top left: the inside of the warehouse Below left: the visible unloading scene Top right: The name sign and the view to the alley Below right: the wooden pile at the corner of the d
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Fourgig East

Steps to completion (or the Mansfield Show cometh)

SWMBO was out at a meeting last night, so the kitchen was requisitioned for the purpose of train set work.   First he camping coach steps were sunk into the cinders and then glued in place. I hoovered up all the cinders scraped away into a handkerchief for re-use. The coach was then screwed to it's mountings. The mountings consist of a long 8BA screw through each bogie pivot into a nut soldered to the sleeper beneath. A solder tag sits under the head of each screw so that power can be passed i
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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What have I let myself in for??

Progress continues!

Another month down and I am pleased to report more progress with the Weston on Trent 2014 show. Following the announcement in the last entry of two new exhibitors for this year's event, I can confirm that further layouts have now been booked. Ken Jones is one exhibitor who has agreed to return for a third year with more of his micro layouts whilst another third time returnee, Malcolm Hughes, has agreed to bring some more of his heritage collection. For this year it looks likely that he will prov
andyram

andyram

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Rannoch in 2mm Finescale

Rannoch in 2fs - Second Attempt

A few of you may remember I previously had a few blog entries featuring some CAD plans and baseboards for my attempt to model Rannoch in 2mm Finescale. That was almost two years ago and pretty much no progress has been made on the layout front. I have been slowly collecting and converting/detailing rolling stock in preparation for track laying which never happened. Most rolling stock items which I started to detail and convert haven't been finished yet so there isn't much to report on that fr
Rammstein2609

Rammstein2609

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Jessy1692's modelling bits and pieces

Spencer, the hacked about WD Hunslet.

Evening all, so following on from last time, I have cracked on a bit and got Spencer back into one piece. The cab roof i made time was consigned to the bin and another one made that was square, every concievable space hase been filled with liquid lead, expecially the tanks to try address the balance issue and i even managed to get a bit of paint on it! The chassis is a lot better than it was although it does make a lot of noise campared to the farish 08 powered pecket & drewery diesel, any o
jessy1692

jessy1692

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thesteambuff's Blog

Work Table

HI Folks   I am wanting to make a work table that slides out from underneath the baseboard,does anyone have plans for one and what type of draw runners are required.
thesteambuff

thesteambuff

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brianuk46's Blog

BR class 1600 Pannier tank locomotive kit

I am trying to locate a white metal locomotive kit of an ex. BR 1600 class locomotive kit. I think they were produced in the 1980's under the name of Westward, Sutherland or Nu-Cast. If anyone has one for sale, at a reasonable price I would like to hear from you. Also interested in a white metal body kit of a Westward GWR Railcar No. 18. My email is: bryanuk95@gmail.com Many thanks.
brianuk46

brianuk46

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Dean D14 - bogies

Managed a quick hours modelling while wife and baby were out for a mums coffee morning. Finally made a start on the bogies.   First up the design, I don't like the inside bearings design, I particularly don't like the fact that you have to send away for the p4 sub frame (without which the bearings will fall out of the guides.) nor the fact that the main bogie etch fouls the wheels. However I do like the carful design of the break bits, and the quality of etch and castings.   The latter was
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Redgate's Modelling

O Gauge Pug ready for Mansfield (or else!)

So here it is again, I've just painted the motor and it blends in pretty well. I still might make some fill panels sometime if the small amount of daylight visible bugs me too much ....     Here's the underside showing the "gearbox"     I've also refreshed the couplings, a few have commented in the past that the 3 links were out of scale so I had a few links left over from the Ivor build which have been put to good use     I did a test run yesterday of just the chassis on a bit of
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi. I'm posting the Leeds Jcn drawing, the last of the Shipley triangle boxes. A quick personal note. I was made a Train Recorder in 1945 having reached the age of 16 and able to work nights. There was a lad on each shift from Monday 0600 to 0200 Sunday morning. I am also attaching a very simple drawing of the box's down distant signals relevant to the two boxes in rear. I tried yesterday when I started this post to explain the distant signal operation in words but it became almost impossibl
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Up the Line - 1918

Getting carried away

You may remember that a couple of days ago I said that I seemed to have spent a lot of time being busy but not actually managing to really do anything - well, things don't seem to have improved much! One reason that I can firmly point a finger at though is that the new issue of Narrow Gauge and Industrial Review popped through the letter box. Amongst other things there was an article on a rather lovely Baldwin entirely scratch built with milled frames and split axle pickups - both of which I asp
KH1

KH1

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Redgate's Modelling

Pug back together (again!)

OK, took a bit of time with the rotary tool to hack away the underside of the boiler to make room for the new motor, but it's back together       As you can see, the motor is pretty visible, I'm going to paint it matt black first to see how it looks, failing that some new thin false sides can be fitted to hide it above footplate level at least.   Old Lenz Standard decoder has been found and pressed into service. Hopefully now a mainstay of the Fourgig East operating fleet. Just not ve
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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malcoblues' Blog

East kent models

Hi I have just been trying to order parts from Eastkent models but the telephone is dead I wondered if they have closed down or the line is down, has any one got any information of the situation with them I know they want to retire? Its a great shame if they have closed will leave a big hole in the spares market.
malcoblues

malcoblues

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Redgate's Modelling

Pug chassis one last time

The Mansfield Show is fast approaching and Ivor needs another engine to play with as well as the sentinel. So the motor I fitted the last time was unscrewed from the mount/gearbox and the bracket unsoldered. The face of the gearbox was made flat and the new larger motor bonded to it.   After a bit of tweaking to get the mesh right we have a pretty smooth running chassis.   I did say this last time.....     I need to find a spare decoder as the last one is toast, the magic smoke escap
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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kyle of lochalsh

Kyle 2014 - you've been framed...

Good evening,   A quick update on progress this week following the initial entry last week and very encouraging comments.   Decided to take on board Rich B's idea (thank you Sir) for losing the corner post to the right hand end and cantilevering the fascia to complete the corner. That corner was troubling me somewhat as it would have meant covering up a part of the dockside in addition to looking like there was a piece of back scene missing.   I sketched out the components and laser cut th
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Chris' Minor Blog

Novel Fine-scaling

One of the reasons that is most off-putting for people to move to finescale is the additional job of replacing the wheels of RTR stock in order to get things running. Inevitably this leads to a back-log of items in the gloat box of things waiting for wheels, alongside all of the additional kits. So far I have used the conventional methods of replacing coach wheels with replacements, sending wheels off to Gordon for re-profiling and attempting to build a replacement chassis (with only partial suc
MinerChris

MinerChris

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Empire Mill - into the yard

The small yard on Empire mill is entered by a trailing point from the down-line. This had been built while I was building the continuous run around the room. However the yard itself needed a asymmetric double slip to give access to the two sidings and the cattle-dock. the crossings are all 1:8 but one of the curved sides is quite a bit tighter that the other. As with the rest of the track Templot was used to draw it out. The crossings, both standard and obtuse were made as separate units solder
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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