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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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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

A Bit about the Track

As I mentioned in my first entry in this blog, my layout started many years ago as a Hornby Dublo layout for my young son. The plan was taken directly from the Hornby Dublo Handbook of 2-Rail Track Formations (1st edition), as shown below, drawn using SCARM software     Original Track Plan (as built in 1979)   This track plan formed the basis for a small, simple layout, to which I added a narrow gauge section (009) at a higher level, for additional interest. The up
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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The GC and Met in OO

A minuet

Now for one of my smaller projects....   A few months ago I bought an F1/ F2 off of ebay. The body I thought was sublime but sadly the same couldn't be said of the chassis. In particular, the wheels were woefully under-sized.     I began by taking the wheels off (and ripping my fingers and thumbs basically to shreds in the process- who knew that bunt brass flanges make excellent knife blades?)   I then replaced them with spares from a Hornby M7, and fitted new connecting rods which a
James Harrison

James Harrison

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andymac-2008's Blog

Modelling British Railways Diesel Locomotives

Hi all. On the market is a new special Edition annual/magazine called MODELLING BRITISH RAILWAYS DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES ( Yes its a bit of a mouth full )   It comes from My Time Media that is one word if you look on line. The editor is Phil Parker.   The annual is a paper back and comes with 180 pages with covers and costs £9.99. But stop there you do get a voucher for £10 off at Modelfair.   opening the annual is a delight the book covers all the classes over the years.   From class 01 to c
andymac-2008

andymac-2008

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Northall

Northall Dock – Fanshawe Ltd

For the members of the RMweb John Thaw fan club.   I have followed the TV series of inspector Morse and became a fan of John Thaw. For my diorama’s I searched for names so I started to read some of the Inspector Morse detectives by Colin Dexter. I discovered that the personality of inspector Morse was more complicated in the books than represented in the series. I also discovered a nice link between inspector Morse and our interest in railways and railway history. You can read my discovery i
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The LCDR brake van brake gear construction continues slowly

Having found the correct SECR grey I gave the ex-LCDR brake van a quick coat. The grey is darker than I thought it would be and seems to resemble Great Western wagon grey fairly closely. The paint will have to be touched up as construction proceeds but it is nice to get an idea of what the final appearance will be like.     I have now commenced fitting the 'wooden' brake shoes, adding them to the rigging already started last week. I have only done one side as this is extremely fiddly work
SRman

SRman

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Chas's Model Railway

The Parish Church

Over the past 3 months I've had the most enjoyable and satisfying time building this model of one of the local parish churches. In the process I have learnt an awful lot and next time, if there is a next time, there are things I would do differently.. In particular, I experimented with using DAS for the some of the stonework and hadn't realised what a versatile medium it is. Similarly with styrene sheet. I thought I'd really struggle with the spire but with styrene sheet it was relatively straig
crayment

crayment

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Up the Line - 1918

Ditched!

Drainage ditches are not really very interesting - well about as - no even I can't commit that pun! But, they are important and I have realised that I have got mine all wrong. A couple of days ago on a military rail forum someone posted some links to a couple of original films. on British and one German and I have watched each several times over now. Strangely enough it is actually the German one which is most interesting as it must have been shot after the big break through in March 1918 and sh
KH1

KH1

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Mattmaz's Blog - locos

A "modeller's licence" solution to a running problem

Hello to those of you out there who have been interested enough to come and read my ramblings   I have been on RMWeb for a while now, and always intended on setting up a blog. This is my first venture into it, so here goes ....   My present model railway features a depot/yard, and the use of a Bachmann 08 shunter is an important part for one of the shunting moves that takes place (weekly tanks to fuel point). I have had no end of trouble with unreliable running of my shunter, which I knew
Mattmaz

Mattmaz

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Atso's Blog

Another Day, Another Loco!

Well I've managed to just about complete another loco, the C12. This means that only the C1 (the most difficult!) remains.   Actually the C12's chassis is only a temporary solution based around the Dapol 14xx chassis. The 14xx was Dapol's first effort in N gauge and while mine runs reasonably well the wheelbase is a little too far out for my liking and those wheels! Just looking at those wheels remind me of the old Triang TT models! Still to be fair, I think that the N gauge 14xx marked the st
Atso

Atso

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So you want a Council House??

Making a Start - take the sheet of card...

Something of a misnomer this... What I want to do is to have a 'demo piece' that I can take to exhibitions etc to show how the buildings are made. At the same time it can be used to demonstrate the three types of 'brick bond' commonly in use - and (hopefully) how they CORRECTLY relate to apertures, quoins (corners etc.).     Here is the 'demo sheet' with various markings on it. The sheet is 30 gsm ACID FREE white card - available from good art shops. The first thing to note is that ther
scanman

scanman

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Bonham's Blog

Bachmann noisey motor`s after decoder fitted

hi all   I have been fitting all my Bachmann class 37`s (8-pin) with 2-3 function decoders,   but most of them are now making a noise when moved in either direction,   does anyone have an idea what it might be as I have given them all a service but still make it,   cheers   Dan
Bonham

Bonham

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Redgate's Modelling

Camping Coach - The Comfy Chair(s)!

At long last the eBay seller has come back on line and I was able to order the sofas for the living room. I've not had to wait that long for the real thing   anyhoo, a couple of snaps of them in place in front of the TV ready for occupants       Just waiting now for Black Cat Tech to finish getting married/moving house (bless) and then I'll fit one of his lovely universal lighting kits to the roof
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Redgate's Modelling

Standard Eight - only 14 more jobs

sad I know, but I made a list of things to do to finish the loco - 14 things, so that's two weeks if I only do one a day - eeeek!   so here was the kitchen table workbench last night     The chassis is ready for primer, as is the front bogie having cut off the front section of the Hornby lump and drilling to take a self tapper to hold a Bachmann small coupling in place.       The bodyshell is almost done, I still need to add the screen/window that does behind the driver's seat. I
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Up the Line - 1918

Layout in the office

No pictures tonight I am afraid as far too late for that sort of thing and I have been playing with money making pictures all (well most!), of the day so have had enough of them! Anyway, in little gaps when I have run away from the computer I have made some progress - sort of. Have cleared the accumulation of junk from one side of my office (oh the joys of working from home!), and have installed two of the base boards so I can do some scenic work. Ok, problem one - I really don't think my leg sy
KH1

KH1

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Station Buildings for 'Netherley'

Netherley Station Canopy -'Are We There Yet?'

The exhibition is getting CLOSE!   The ridge was then added from 'curly masking tape' from 'Halfords. Designed to follow curves it dealt with the ridgeline quite well, and its 'wrinkled' effect represents canvas/tarpaulin very well when sprayed with a 'sea grey'.     The next step was to fit the valancing. Faced with the choice of making my own - thousands of 'v'-shaped cuts, thousands of 1mm holes - or using Brian Lewis's 'Timbertracks' product, I bottled it! The laser-cut valancing co
REC Farnborough

REC Farnborough

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

Broad and Narrow

One aspect of modelling, which interests me, is the ability to compare the proportions of locomotives that are rarely photographed together.   Many years ago, I built a K's Milestones kit of the GWR Broad Gauge 'Rover' class locomotive, so I decided to photograph this model alongside my Tri-ang Dean single, to illustrate the profound differences between these types:       The Broad Gauge locomotive takes advantage of the width between the wheels to use a much
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Rumors, Demise, Exaggerated!

Waiting for the trains at Ropley Hi all.   Firstly I must apologise for the recent quietness on the blog front, I know I say that every entry but a house move and a busy period at work have left very little time for any modelling to take place recently. However hopefully now the move is complete and everything is more or less settled I can get back to progressing the layout along. A small amount of work has been done in the last week, namely a start on the low sleeper wall separating the
TomE

TomE

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Coopercraft GWR Van and N13 open

As previously mentioned this the body has already been built following the coopercraft, all that remained was to build the chassis and detail.   I have started off by adding weight, I cant stand the liquid stuff, preferring to work with lead sheet. so a 3 bits of lead were cut to fit the 3 recesses in the floor, this places the majority of the weight directly above the suspension units. (to save time the second build has it fitted inside the van.....)   The solebars have been filed down to
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Somewhere in Germany

My mojo rose- beginnings of a TT layout set in 21st century Saxony

I've been attracted to TT scale for a long time, being a firm believer in the old Berliner slogan of it being "die ideale Spur". It's small enough to produce an entertaining layout in a reasonable space, but large enough for fine detail to be visible and not too fiddly to work with. It also has more "presence" to me than N, somehow the models just seem to look weightier and sit down on the track better.   Continental TT scale is 1:120 scale, unlike the 1:100 used by Triang and the following Br
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

Class 47 detailing project - Conversion of Bachmann 47. "A P4 Brush 4". Part 10 - Finishing touches and weathering

The final stage of the lengthy 47 project began with the glazing. For this I used two packets of Extreme Etchings laserglaze... one packet for the Bachmann 47 (which I used in the bodyside and cabside windows) and the other for the Heljan 47 which I needed for the windscreens which were to sit in scale frames... and the Bachmann ones were too small. However, the Heljans ones were still a little large but these were simply sanded back using three grades of Tamiya sanding sticks to achieve a ni
Jon020

Jon020

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