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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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SRman's Workbench Blog

Bachmann blue class 25 - a quick weathering job

And now for something completely different!   I performed a quickie weathering job on a Bachmann blue class 25, 25 276. This locomotive has lost its sound-fitted chassis to a green example. I have used the usual weathering mixes of Humbrol #62 leather, #85 coal black and metallic gunmetal, plus some matt varnish.   I have tried to be subtle on the sides, leaving some nearly pristine blue showing. As a visual displacement technique, I have carried the yellow of the front up over the centre p
SRman

SRman

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Barry O's Loco Blog

LM engines - Beauty and the beast..

So Beauty and the Beast - first up beauty..   Cotswold compound - built by Nicktoix a long tine ago and repainted into BR Black by me - I find the compounds fascinating and really beautiful. This is a Sutherland Kit with the cylinders attached to the footplate so it has removable connecting rods..     and then the beast - a Ks garratt.. built by my father and painted by me - long due a strip down and rebuild but this time with two motors. Could have found its way to Chapel en le frith so
Barry O

Barry O

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Grantham Coaling Plant 2mmFS - Track plan.

Good evening,   I have put together a track plan today which is fairly close to the prototype. I want to keep it as simple as possible as this will be my test bed for building easitrac turnouts, in readiness for the 7 turnouts that I need to build for my Par layout. The layout will be 120cm long across two 60cm boards. 40cm to one end will be allocated for the fiddle yard which will be very simplified as it will only need to hold locos and some coal wagons which will be shunted onto the layout
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - FPL lock bar

Following on from my previous post on point rodding, I've now got stuck into the facing point lock lock bar. This is located immediately in advance of the king point to prevent the FPL being withdrawn if any stock was standing over the bar. Using information from the Scalefour Society manual and further information and photos from Robin Whittle (of Barrow Road fame) I've made good progress with my 4 mm scale representation. The bar is slightly the wrong proportions being a length of 0.82 x 0.8
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Up the Line - 1918

Figuring it out

Was sitting there the other night thinking I really should be getting on with something layout orientated but was constrained both by feeling really lazy and the fact that my wife was busying herself with something on the computer in the same room so no cutting or filing of metal allowed. She hate the sound but I retaliate by not letting her file her nails anywhere near me! Anyway, it seemed as if I had little option but to start on the forty or so figures I have been amassing. Now, I don't thin
KH1

KH1

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Wenlock's Blog

Baseboards and a name for my project!

I've finished painting and lining my Dean Goods, but it needs a final coat of satin varnish and some number plates before its ready for viewing on the blog. While I've been waiting for the various coats of paint to dry, I've made a start on building the baseboards for my proposed Edwardian, GWR, branch line terminus. As a reminder of what I'm trying to build, here's a picture of my 1/7th scale foam and cardboard mock up.   Mock up   The layout will fit along one wall of my workshop and com
wenlock

wenlock

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Broad and Narrow - 2

I visited the Swindon Railway Festival yesterday (15th Sep). It's always good to study prototype fittings, such as the sand boxes on the Dean Goods. In model form, these often show a 'draw' from the casting process, so it was useful to be reminded of the shape and details of the original.     Dean Goods no.2516 - Sand Box   There was also a sizeable model railway exhibition and I got talking on the Broad Gauge Society stand. I mentioned that I had recently photogra
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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PGC's workbench

A new layout

As I've said elsewhere, I'm a BR (ex GE) modeller who currently lives near Bishop's Stortford but is looking, in the future, to move to Norfolk.   For some time I've been harbouring an idea to build a layout that contains a portrayal of one of the most distinctive buildings on the North Norfolk Coast, Burnham Overy mill.       At the moment I don't have a large space to build a layout (it's my 8ft x 4ft shed that also has to store a lot of music - my other passion is choral music and I
PGC

PGC

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The LCDR brake van brake gear construction continues apace

I managed some further work on the brake gear on the ex-LCDR brake van on the weekend. All rigging is now in place - at least, all the rigging I am ever going to do! - but the tops of the brake blocks are not yet anchored. I have threaded the tops through holes in the floor. Where I managed to break off the top strips I have soldered short lengths of wire for the same purpose. The last photo shows these projecting inside the van body and also my stove, made from a resin barrel with a brass tube
SRman

SRman

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Mattmaz's Blog

It's the little things.......

In this case it really is the little things!..   Here is one of two Stop boards I have knocked together which are situated on roads around the depot area of my layout. They are based on the real ones made by MC Electronics.   They are a bit fiddly, but easy to make. If anyone wants measurements, then drop me a line.   They can be positioned either raised or lowered. Unfortunately they are non-flashing, but I think they suffice for my requirements.   P.S. I'll give you a fiver if you c
Mattmaz

Mattmaz

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Steam_Julie's Layout Blog

Trefeglwvs Road Cambrian Railways 3

Hi   Today I have been working on the backscene. I decided, some time ago that I did not want a flat backscene. The first stage, of building backscene was to built a sporting structure onto which I could fix the curved backscene.     I decided that I wanted the backscene to extend into the bridge box and hence the it was not to be a simple rectangle.     The structure of the backscene is made from 4mm MDF, which was wet and then bent to shape, then allowed to dry for more than 24 hou
Steam_Julie

Steam_Julie

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Mattmaz's Blog

FGW Barrier Vehicles - Work In Progress 2

Well, some progress has been made today.   The window blanking plates were superglued in place yesterday. However, there is very little contact surface for the glue to adhere to, so for longevity I opted to apply Araldite Epoxy Resin to the insides.   Once set, a trip to the spray booth was the order of the day for a coat of primer. (As an aside - I can recommend the portable "fold up" spray booth, they are good value for money).   Halfords Grey Plastic Primer was applied evenly, and th
Mattmaz

Mattmaz

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Grantham Coaling Plant 2mmFS - Making a start

Good evening,   A small amount of progress has taking place over the past two evenings. As I have already added all the measurements scaled down to the plans found on the LNER website, I have now made a start on drawing out the various parts on a 1.5mm thick sheet of plasticard. I chose this thickness, as the structure will be relatively high, I would like it to be durable and not be too flimsey. However this thickness is a nightmare to cut out and takes a while for the knife to go through eac
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Etched Pixels Workbench

15 (well 18" gauge) in N

The open coach I built a while back has died somewhat so it seemed to be time to build something more robust, and perhaps a little less "garden railway" looking. The body is a narrow gauge coach off Shapeways which has been slightly anglicised by paint job and then fitted on a scratch built chassis using T scale parts to run on 3.1mm soldered track.   The weight may need adjusting - with a vehicle that size on 15" track the weight needs to be low but at the same time the mechanisms can't haul
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

More Waggoning in P4

OK, Back to 4mm. The first wagon is actually one you have seen before, only last time it had no numbers and the 'NW' was much much smaller. It was grating at me so I decided to give it a small make over to fit the 'company style' I've invented. Kind of a cross between GW for the lettering and SR for the tare weight and serial number positions, yet, NW. Eeugh. So, I've re weathered it to look a little newer. Still has my buggered plank that I quite like. This other one is a new one, t
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Project 3G

Progress in to the buffers!

As the final weeks of the summer holiday slipped by I was able to make further progress on the garden railway project. The flower bed, which I dug out before the last entry, was covered in the frost proof sheeting before a good layer of decorative stone was added. I then edged the front with some cheap (£1 shop!!!), but decent looking white plastic picket fencing. All looked very nice and I was ready to head out, purchase the set and get the track temporarily placed down. I also had a helpful me
andyram

andyram

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Mattmaz's Blog

FGW Barrier Vehicles - Work In Progress

As I eluded to in a recent status update, I appear to have developed a fascination with Barrier Vehicles lately..   A while back there was an article by Mick Bryan in Rail Express Modeller section, detailing a conversion of 2 x Bachmann Mk1 Full Brakes into a pair of Neville Hill based Barrier Vehicles.   I duly ordered a pair of the etchings from Mick, the necessary roof vents (From MJT) and sourced some cheap coaches on Ebay. That was as far as it got at the time as there were more pressin
Mattmaz

Mattmaz

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Mattmaz's Blog - locos

No Airbrush? No problem!...

Well, I do actually own one... but sometimes I just choose to "go with the flow" when it comes to weathering.. especially so with wagons. I have had to be a little more careful with which products/techniques I use in the hobby since having kids, so I very rarely get the airbrush out these days.   The photo below shows the wagons, in this case some Bachmann Seacows, in different stages of weathering. I find it helps if I set up a "production line" when doing this sort of work.     The wago
Mattmaz

Mattmaz

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Netherley's rolling stock

Netherley Goes With A Bang...

This will be an 'occasional' blog - mainly to prove that I can build the 'roundy-roundy stuff' - when pushed, and when the moment takes me! One basis for the blog is the unfortunate habit that club members have of passing to the 'great model-room in the sky' - and this means that sometimes unbuilt kits become available. Without being ghoulish, this can actually be a way of honouring an old friend and at the same time helping to provide direct financial support to their loved ones. Right, that
REC Farnborough

REC Farnborough

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Etched Pixels Workbench

More from the carriage department

Things have been a little slow owing to a number of deliveries for other railway lines and the continued bad weather keeping the paint shop closed. It wasn't helped today when the works closed for the cricket.     Another Nightstar sleeper has however joined the formation, which leaves two more to do to build the full rake.     and while tidying up the scratch etches I decided this slighty faulty horsebox could be rescued even if not sold. Its now waiting some filling and the paint shop,
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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The GC and Met in OO

Carriage 6672

I've always wondered just how much work is involved in converting old Hornby short clerestories into Edwardian GCR suburban carriages. I've read it can be done, and I've seen one or two projects achieving just such a feat. I've also read in Peter Denny's 'Buckingham Great Central' that the amount of work involved meant his rake of three took as long as a scratchbuild would have done whilst giving him much less pleasure.   You can perhaps get a better understanding of my curiosity when I tel
James Harrison

James Harrison

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PGC's workbench

Welcome to my new blog

Working in IT as I do, you'd think I would understand how blogs work. Well, I don't! I understand how networks and hardware work but I don't get involved with the software side of things so blogs are an unknown to me. Having been reading through other blogs, I've realised that the blog I've already set up isn't really the most wonderful blog so I've decided to set up a new blog that links to all the articles I've posted in the past about what I'm working on and where I can post new entries of wh
PGC

PGC

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