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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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St Ruth

Burton 2013

First of all an apology - no pictures this time!   Yesterday we took St Ruth to the Burton show held in the brewery museum. I spent most of the day on the fiddle yard where it is at least possible to make eye contact with the audience so was able to talk to a few people. We had some favourable comments from the audience although behind the scenes things were not entirely going according to plan.   Burton is a one day show so it was an early start, setup, do the show and pack up all in the sa
D869

D869

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PetersSpares' Blog

Peters Spares, Oils, Replacement Spares

Dear all, We are pleased to announce out ventures into replacement parts & Lubricating Oils for older locos is going well so far we have made:   PS1 Peters Spares Precision Light Lubrication Oil 15ml £6.50 With Needle Applicator End for fine Oiling of your locos / Rolling Stock / Scalextric cars and similar mechanical small items. Made in the UK Supplied in a Plastic Storage Tube 15ml Oil Lightweight high lubricity oil for precision parts. Advanced friction reducing performance. Plastic
PetersSpares

PetersSpares

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greslet's Blog

Designing the upper level

My micro layout is intended to have two levels. The upper level will allow a single carriage and tank engine emerge from behind a back scene to service a platform and then return to where it started. This could be automated so that the service runs while shunting takes place in the yard below. I […] The post Designing the upper level appeared first on Rede Valley Railway.
greslet

greslet

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greslet's Blog

Designing the upper level

My micro layout is intended to have two levels. The upper level will allow a single carriage and tank engine emerge from behind a back scene to service a platform and then return to where it started. This could be automated so that the service runs while shunting takes place in the yard below. […]   Source
greslet

greslet

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Clevedon WC&PR

Backscene

Evening all I have been a bit preoccupied with the backscene of late. I must admit to getting really stressed doing them. SWMBO is quite a talented artist and has helped with the last two layouts but it very nearly ended in divorce last time...   The plan for Clevedon has always been for a continuous backscene. This will include the town at the Portishead end, pan round including Hangstone Quarry then flatten out to reflect the levels towards Weston. Originally I envisaged a
ullypug

ullypug

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Barry O's Loco Blog

Anyone for a Caley Tank?

As Weaselfish identified my father built all sorts of oddities   So next up a Caledonian 0-8-0 Tank. Plasticard with a scratchbuilt brass chassis and an X04 type motor, Ks wheels.   Painted and lined by me...   some more oddballs coming up..
Barry O

Barry O

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Up the Line - 1918

Poppy day

It's been a whole week since my last post and I have spent the entire time making this little scene. Well, no actually, there were a couple of windswept days in Brighton and another couple in a shed, sorry, camping pod in Dorset only a little less windswept. After having finally cleared up the debris of a twenty kid party yesterday I have managed to get back to some more serious business. Have finally managed to thread the barbed wire but will be much easier next time due some very useful commen
KH1

KH1

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Cowes & Newport in 4mm scale

Still no pictures worth posting...................

... but lots of progress. I finished wiring up all the hidden tracks - tested them and established that everything was basically working. However, as a long-time lapsed modeller it has taken some time for old skills to re-emerge, and even to remember how things "should be done". As a result, there was a long list of things that I generally wanted to improve and effectively raise everything to a consistent standard of tracklaying and wiring. So now starts a period of re-work, and the installation
ChrisG

ChrisG

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi all. A couple of postings ago (stone walls) I mentioned having a tour of the Burlington slate Quarries. I had hoped to see the slate crusher in action but it wasn't working that day. This visit was in connection with a new layout I was working on. The Little Langdale Railway. The time was to be the present. I was looking at a Heritage line which would also be used to carry crushed slate from a quarry to a seaport. It was to be situated in Cumbria, Yes, not all slate comes from Wales
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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greslet's Blog

More Thoughts on Sound

Recently I wrote about the idea of hiding an MP3 player within a building to supply a micro layout with sound. While technically this is a great solution it does raise one very obvious question. Where do I actually get the sound effects from? Fortunately I think there is quite an easy solution to this. […]   Source
greslet

greslet

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Whole Plate or Compact Camera

I've been reading the thread started recently by Robin2 on "Why have moving trains on layouts?" - ( http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78169-why-have-moving-trains-on-layouts/ )   There've been lots of interesting and thoughtful replies and it has made me think. On the one hand, I couldn't build an engine without wanting to make it work satisfactorily and, on the other, I don't run trains very much but do enjoy setting up various static scenes for photography. I do find
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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The GC and Met in OO

Matchboard redux

With my latest attempts at creating GC-esque carriage stock from RTR and Ratio offerings producing results, my first tries (a rake of matchboarded 1911 mainline carriages) started to look a bit tatty. In addition, since first creating them new information has come to light, suggesting I made the matchboarding too heavy in appearance and got the teak wrong- I went for a generally lighter hue, whilst photographs and paintings seem to suggest the matchboarding should be nigh-on invisible and the h
James Harrison

James Harrison

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SRman's Workbench Blog

More Pre-Grouping Stuff - LSWR and Met Brake Vans

I have just started on some more pre-grouping brake vans, this time from Smallbrook Studios (http://www.smallbrookstudio.co.uk/). These are all resin kits and come complete with Dapol OO wheels, white metal buffers, NEM coupling pockets on self-centering mounts with (changeable) tension lock couplings, and all the handrail wire, microstrip, styrene and other bits and pieces to makea complete model, except for paint and transfers. The instructions seem reasonably clear and a re backed up with di
SRman

SRman

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

A GRONK (7)

I was hoping to get all the brass work finished today. But every time I looked a picture I saw something else to add, and never got the parts done that came in the box.   I at least got the handrails and doors sorted out. I would of like one of the doors ajar, but the sides are very flimsy without them.   Also today I fitted the radiator filler pipes, most of the electrical conduit to the front. The rear lamp irons were also fitted, along with the one in the middle of the rad
N15class

N15class in 08, 350hp shunter

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Northall

Northall Dock – Pavement

In one of the replies on my entry Street Scene Design was written: “Also bear in mind that in the 'fifties' these areas would still have 'flagstone' paving rather than the later concrete types - and they would be rutted & disrupted by vehicles. Road surfaces would often be of cobblestone or granite setts.”   For the road surfaces I already choose for granite setts. For the pavement I didn’t make an decision. So after the reply I liked to see if I could create a flagstone paving with granit
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Barry O's Loco Blog

A Southern interloper

Sometimes my father built a loco because he liked it - hence an ex LSWR D15.     quite why he built it I don't know - it is fitted with a motor and runs but I don't imagine building a Southern Region layout for it to run on - so its back into storage for this one...
Barry O

Barry O

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greslet's Blog

(DCC?) Sound for the 300 inch challenge

One of my initial objectives for my micro layout was to incorporate sound. The intention is to operate with small tank engines and this gives the issue of very little room to install DCC sound decoders in the loco. My initial idea was to install a speaker somewhere under the layout and connect it up […]   Source
greslet

greslet

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Dad-1's Blog

Never Enough Time +1 Day

I took a few snaps last evening, showing the few odd jobs that I've been doing. We all like photographs so here are a couple more.       just 6 foot 8 inches of it !! The station platforms measure 6 foot 1 inch straight, a little more because of the curve.   Dad-1
Dad-1

Dad-1

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OFFTHE RAILS Projects

43xx With Airfix Prairie Chassis

The GWR 43xx 2-6-0s had the same wheelbase, cylinders and motion as the large Prairie Tanks (41xx, 51xx, 61xx, 81xx) so having picked up a Mainline 53xx body and tender and a redundant old Airfix GMR 61xx Prairie Tank, I investigated if the Mogul body would fit on the 61xx chassis.   I measured the width of the Airfix motor and found it should just fit into the body. The chassis was disassembled so that the chassis block could be modified. The Airfix chassis block incorporates large weight bl
OFFTHE RAILS

OFFTHE RAILS

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Steam_Julie's Layout Blog

Trefeglwvs Road Cambrian Railways 17

Hi   I've been working hard since the last post, and the pictures below will show you the fruits of my labours. I have cut the baseboard into two parts, on with the scenic area and the other the fiddleyard.       This makes the area of the layout for transport smaller, but of course makes the depth larger. Another advantage in transit the electrical wiring is now inside and not exposed. This means that when I am transporting it on a train, I am not breaking National Carriage Conditions
Steam_Julie

Steam_Julie

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What have I let myself in for??

The clock is ticking....

As the pumpkins appear outside some of the doors on our street, and little witches, ghosts and wizards start begging at my door, it reminds me that November is almost here. In fact there are now just 17 days until the second Weston-on-Trent model railway exhibition. That is quite a scary thought as there is just so much to do. Here is the latest update:   The show After the children had left school at the end of the half term last Friday, I finally made it into the junior classroom to comple
andyram

andyram

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Stringfingerling's Blog

Forge building, bridge and more rocky bits

I've been busy making a model of St Fagan's Forge, which is going to be located near the bridge over the road featured in these photos.   The forge is going to be squeezed in front of the embankment on the left of the bridge. The layout is set in 1947, so I am having some fun figuring out how the forge would be used by that time. I'm leaning towards the idea that its owner is doing some repairs to motor vehicles, as I fancy having a rusty old tractor or lorry parked outside.
Stringfingerling

Stringfingerling

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