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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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cornish trains jez's Blog

Grantham Coaling Plant 2FS - A little home for my A4

Good evening all,   It's been a while seen I have added a blog entry, so thought it was time to pick up on this. This particular one is another "off Par station" subject, after having almost finished my class 90 upgrade, I decided that I would like to build a little home for my Dapol A4, purchased a while ago as I have always loved this loco. I currently run this loco on Par as a specials working, but thoughts have turned towards a mini layout set in it's own period late 50's.   So ideas hav
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Barry O's Loco Blog

Some other ex LNER tank engines

As some of you may have observed I have steam locos (and stock ) from the ex LMS, Ex BR Standards, and ex LNER..   This is due to the fact that my late father and I had slightly different views of the railway world (strangely enough he was very biased towards the LMS despite living in the North East. Despite this he did build a lot of ex LNER engines for me to paint and line...   ] as in   an ABS L1 - it weighs a ton, uses Romford wheels and a D13 motor and gearbox - and seems to have mo
Barry O

Barry O

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Barry O's Loco Blog

Some other ex LNER tank engines

As some of you may have observed I have steam locos (and stock ) from the ex LMS, Ex BR Standards, and ex LNER..   This is due to the fact that my late father and I had slightly different views of the railway world (strangely enough he was very biased towards the LMS despite living in the North East. Despite this he did build a lot of ex LNER engines for me to paint and line...   as in   an ABS L1 - it weighs a ton, uses Romford wheels and a D13 motor and gearbox - and seems to have more
Barry O

Barry O

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The LCDR brake van brake gear has been started

Also on the workbench again is the SECR (ex-LCDR) brake van. After pondering the diagrams and thinking about how the brakes would work, I have finally worked out how to do the rigging. This photo shows the first steps, with a little black-tack holding the components in the middle.     Next items to be fitted will be the wooden brake blocks. The kit has etched brass blocks which are way too thin to properly represent the wood, so my intention is to use the brass blocks as templates to add so
SRman

SRman

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SRman's Workbench Blog

A crew for the SECR 'C' class 0-6-0

A couple of shots of the Bachmann SECR 'C' class from my phone camera, using only the effects available on the phone. I actually took these to show off the newly painted crew, which actually look a little too glossy still - matt varnish coming up shortly! The full colour originals show the true colours, then the 'sepia' and 'antique' effects on two of the shots show how they might have looked at the turn of the 20th century. I was unsure what colours to use for them so made it up as I went!  
SRman

SRman

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

More wagon building, and future projects

With the wedding, honeymoon and the initial work preparing for January's arrival (painting the nursery pink) has all rather got in the way of modelling recently. Now all is sorted I have got the drive to get on with a couple of projects (though I would much rather still be in Manutius.   First up yet another wagon kit is now ready for painting, another parkside Lowfit. Will get the paints out and finish it off tomorrow hopefully. Then need to get on with sorting out a couple of appropriate
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Redgate's Modelling

Standard Eight - details details

Had a pretty peaceful weekend so in between my Dad's 80th and one of my oldest friends getting wed I managed to get some details done on the Eight.   The tender is done, speaker wired up and installed, coal in the bunker and ladder refitted. Just needs a coat or two of varnish to blend it in with the loco.     The Comet lubricators have been fitted and the holes above in the footplate filled with Squadron White. I've also stripped the lining and cabside numbers ready for painting.    
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

0 Gauge 20T Brake Van - Scale Experiment

0 Gauge 20T Brake Van. Not exactly P4.       Why? Because I've always fancied having a crack at 0 gauge but am always put off by two things; lack of room for anything substantial and the price, often being around 8 times as much. It's a bit unrealistic for some of us. Anyway, when I was on holiday in Devon I picked up this Parkside Dundas kit for £40 save a penny. Thought I might as well have a go and see how I feel about things. I've decided to model it in Pre 1936 condition. Don't w
Knuckles

Knuckles

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The GC and Met in OO

Workshop Round-up

I've decided until I've gotten a few of my non-railway modelling projects out of the way that I'm not going to do any more locos or rolling stock.   Which is of course why despite my working on an Elswick cruiser the last week has seen me replace the wheels on a B3, cut a part of the cab roof away on same, fit my new A1 and B5 with loco crews and, today, fitted new wheels to an F2 2-4-2 I bought a few months ago.   In honesty I'm working on projects I know, or at least think, I can manage
James Harrison

James Harrison

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Etched Pixels Workbench

TPM GWR full brake

Bernard (TPM) did some very nice sides for the K40 full brake that abused a Dapol B set as a donor. This build instead uses a generic 3D printed shell with etched trussing and the usual white metal detail. Given the underframe of the B set needs major work and the roof would need redoing anyway I think its an easier way to do the build (It doesn't really work for the BTK as that re-used the Dapol recessed door)   Sides are just tacked on for the moment as I'll need to take them back off for sp
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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Ingleside - Midland Lad's first serious layout from day 1

Day 1 the decision is taken to build a new layout

Hello All,   Welcome to the first post in this a new blog by a new blog author, who is commencing on his first serious layout...... Scared we all should be.   Before I get underway with this I think it is fair if some background to the forthcoming shenanigans is given as follows. I have been more than active in the hobby for over the last two decades even though I am only in my late thirties, having begun in N gauge, but in the last 4 years moved to 00 gauge as my 'quest' for more detail h
Midland Lad

Midland Lad

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Blacklade Artamon Square

"For you ze Var is ofer!"

The sirens have sounded the final all clear, the blackout and the blitz are things of the past - and about 40 years after it should have , Blacklade has finally acquired station lights and station signs. I'm even intending to sort out the "bomb damage" behind the station facade and actually finish off the station building. Not before time, either...   In short over the last couple of weeks I've had a big burst of detailing on the layout, and it's made a huge difference.   Not, I must admit,
Ravenser

Ravenser

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Up the Line - 1918

What's cooking and some new goodies.

Had a busy day today but a bit about what I achieved last night first. Thought I would tackle another small project and pretty much finished the construction of the PLM field kitchen. Another bit of unusual detail that should add a bit of extra interest to the layout. Very straight forward really and just need a little bit of detailing and then painting which shouldn't be hard.     Now apart from taking little one to a bowling party first thing the rest of the day was spent at the O Gauge G
KH1

KH1

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St Ruth

Trees for St Ruth (Part 2) - First part in personal blog

The basic trunk, branches and "twigs" were built up from multicore wire as described in my previous blog entry (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1009/entry-12142-going-round-the-twist-for-st-ruth-trees-pt-1/).   Once I had finalised the shape that I wanted, I attached the base of the trunk into a piece of 5mm diameter brass tube so that the tree could eventually be planted on St Ruth. The base of the trunk was thickened up a bit with some P38 car filler (having first planted th
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Atso's Blog

More CAD being turned into models.

Finally, time and finances have allowed me to get some more models printed! I now have my revised C1 and N2 models - the D2 was also printed but unfortunately I'd made a mistake converting the file to an STL format which resulted in losing most of the resolution and detail.   So along with the C12 printed earlier I have 3 loco bodies going through the works. The prints have been cleaned up using 400-600 grit wet and dry paper mounted on small blocks of rubber. The usual prime, sand, prime,
Atso

Atso

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MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog

After a Pause - 3 plank Wagon

I've now built my second GWR 3-planker from a David Geen kit. This time, I made a floor from 10 thou brass sheet, which acted as a template to keep the body panels square. It certainly solved the problem of trying to align several lumps of white metal in my far-from-steady hands!   My method, when working with brass sheet, is to print a scale drawing of the part onto paper and then stick the paper to the brass using a glue-stick. For the wagon floor, I simply used a guillotine to cut o
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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mikeandnel's Pre-group Blog

Third attempt

This week has been absolutely frantic with the Head of the house making unreasonable demands and therefore modelling time has been very limited. However, attached are photos of three vehicles finished this week.       [They are a LBSCR Craven Family/Luggage carriage from the late 1850s and a LBSCR Open Third of the 1840s. Both are kits from 5 and 9 Models and following my way of doing things, both the 1840s Open and 1850s Family carriage have been fitted with real mahogany steps and r
mikeandnel

mikeandnel

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi. Time now to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, "The Liquorice Line". Where on earth did that come from? Rewind to 1995 I was in my second year of retirement and off to Australia with my wife spend a few weeks with her Sister and Brother in law..One of the places we visited was Melaeuca Station. This was part of a Tea Tree Oil Plantation. You boarded a narrow gauge train which took you on a large continiuous circuit. The train stopped at various points and a train crew member explain
derekarthurnaylor

derekarthurnaylor

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Northall

Northall Dock – Coincidences

When planning Northall Dock I had the idea to build some stables along the now finished road. But when building a muck up I saw that the building did not hide the side of the main road as I wished. Then Scalescenes came with the canal cottage and I made the front and to put it along the road.     The question: How to create the right derelict urban appearance for the cottage? So I left the front unfinished. When I have such a problem I mostly do the following with success.   The Process
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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SRman's Workbench Blog

LBSC and LSWR wagon kits from Cambrian under construction - part 4

Almost all done now. The two Cambrian wagons have been running in service. However, they were still a little too clean so I have lightly weathered them with mixes of Humbrol 85, 62 and gunmetal, dry brushed or washed on according to the needs of the particular areas to be weathered.   The effects are fairly subtle and only just show up in the photos.       I also made a couple of videos of them in service with the Bachmann SECR 'C' or the Hornby LBSCR Terrier hauling them. I have poste
SRman

SRman

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Redgate's Modelling

Standard Eight - continuing the merge

After getting the body and chassis together the next step was to sort out the tender coupling/drag box area. I filed 1mm off the sides of the chassis at the rear and then cyano'd a 1mm piece of plastikard over the top. A suitable hole drilled in this allowed a shoulder screw to hold the chassis in place and also provide the pivot for the Britannia tender coupling.     frame extensions were then fabricated to fill the gaps and a new plate was cut from 10 'thou brass as the Bachmann one did n
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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DonB's Bridgnorth Funicular Blog

Lower Station / Guest House - Trial Build

I mentioned in my previous blog entry that the drawings of the lower station and guesthouse were the most advanced. To prove the correct positional relationship of the incline and the station a mock-up of the whole building was made, and give me an overview of the difficulties in assembling its complex shape. Having read somewhere that foamboard could be used as a backing for styrene brickwork sheets, and thinking that it would make a sturdy box structure, I purchased a small pack of 5mm thick
DonB

DonB

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