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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

Turning Back the Clock - 1

This blog aims to follow the conversion of my existing layout to an earlier time-frame. I hope that others will find it of interest and helpful, if they are also considering the Pre-Grouping era.   By way of background: I built a small layout about 30 years ago for my then-young son. It was based on old Hornby-Dublo (2-rail) track and I added an 009 narrow-gauge section for additional interest. More recently, I had another look at this old layout and thought it would be suitable for ru
MikeOxon

MikeOxon in general

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So you want a Council House??

So you want a council house? Take a sheet of white card...

"In days of old when modellers were bold (or at least, a lot younger than we are now!) and the internet wasn't invented, modellers went in search of inspiration and at Pendon their search ended"....   Many of you will know of 'Pendon' (www.pendonmuseum.com), and those of you still living in blissful ignorance should follow the link! I first visited in 1970, went home and tore up my model of 'Swanage' station building and made two promises. first to model better and second to model for Pendo
scanman

scanman

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Big Update - 3 Subjects.

3 posts from S4 crammed into 1. ? 1) ---- I have a small update. Nothing mind blowing. I've rebranded the numbers to D3 in nickel silver by Fox-Transfers. Added all the buffer beam detail to both sides. Ignored the plastic screw link and forced a Hornby semi working one in instead. I had to drill a hole, file the hole and also file the stub on the coupling to complete the join. I've also fitted the letters to the front, but they look cack because I cannot put them in neatly to save my life
Knuckles

Knuckles

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leopard1299's Blog

been a while but can log in now! so new loco build! southern Q class

well sorry for no news for ages its been a long time as been busy with lots of other things but got a couple of new builds going now so hope to do a few more posts! and finally been able to log in after months of not being able to???? anyway shot below shows Golden arrows southern Q class on the work bench! should have some more news soon! cheers ian.   Just a quick update q class is now back on the go! new chimney has been found & a set of buffers so will be adding new photos soon! ho
leopard1299

leopard1299

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

Blue 47

Been a long time since I added anything to the blog on weathering so here is a recent commission - A blue Western Region Class 47 - Amazon.   The Heljan 47 is big and very heavy. Weathering something this size needs good reference colour photos - and I have a number of these but not of this loco.   First up Three Quarter side on view... As usual - top down - water and black ink, then bottom up brown ink and water mix as a base coat followed by powders once the ink is dry to the touch.   S
Barry O

Barry O

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andymac-2008's Blog

Your Model Railway Village

Hi all A new magazine has come out called YOUR MODEL RAILWAY VILLAGE http://modelrailwayvillage.com/ It looks quite good First issue costs £3.99 and you get the magazine a MK1 coach and a piece of straight track. Each issue you get more stuff to build a OO gauge model layout.   Please keep this blog up to date with your pictures and news on how you get on.
andymac-2008

andymac-2008

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Braking the mould

Okay so after 8 months I've now finally come to the end of the first chapter of 16mm scale modelling. With this, my new brake van.       It is a modified IP Engineering kit with saftey chains, handrails, foot boards and a furnished interior built from scratch.     The van is weighted wth a fishing weight under the chassis and hidden by a box ala LMS style.   The roof is removable to access the interior which include a seating area with table, a stove (built from plastic tube and a
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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wiggoforgold's Diddington blog

The coal merchants

Scenic work at Diddington progresses, with the addition of a small coal merchants premises in the goods yard. I spent some time thinking about the buildings, and finally decided on a small coal office, with a disused container as a store, and a set of coal cells.   The office building was made from the Wills kit. After assembly, the brickwork was painted with red-brown Tamiya acrylic, and some individual bricks were picked out with different shades of Tamiya acrylic. Once dry, the brick areas
wiggoforgold

wiggoforgold

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The Bigbee Line's Blog

Bashing Stock

My main road for US modelling is the Southern. Like the Southern in the UK they were very fond on innovation. They would have a idea and soon something would pop out of the workshop. Here are a couple of my test runs to use up some Athearn cars:- This is a Pulp Rack (used to carry sawn tree trunks across the wagon, no securing). Its an Athearn 40' flatcar with box car ends grafted on. The next a Boxcar with hopper doors, slope sheets and extended sides. I used an Athearn Reefer for this on
The Bigbee Line

The Bigbee Line

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The GC and Met in OO

Centenary breaks cover

My conversion of a Hornby Railroad 'Flying Scotsman' to classmate 'Centenary' is now good-as finished, so it's time for a couple of photos...         I'm surprised how well even the cheaper Hornby offering scrubs up with just a little work. Most of alteration of course concerned the tender, which needed an entire new body (which could only be sourced in a dark navy blue clour and thus needed repainting). The coal rails I eventually added by folding some brass wire to shape, and then g
James Harrison

James Harrison

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The Bigbee Line's Blog

A bit of my history

Just getting used to this blogging lark.   I started in HO in the early 90's with the purchase of an Athearn F7 with a huge open frame motor and brass wheels. Instantly attracted to the slow running. A lot of water under the bridge since then.   I am waiting a house move and will need to rationalise my excess stock (too many loco's).   Currently trying to discipline myself into a south eastern US backwaters layout, prpoably dual period - 50's and early 90's.   The images below are from
The Bigbee Line

The Bigbee Line

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The Great Leap Forth to Proto4!

The planning begins

Afternoon all,   After talking to a P4 modeller from my native land of Australia, I have decided to move to P4. Before going all out, I shall be building a test layout with a stretch of track, passing loop and a general siding. The point of this is to gauge the difficulty and time commitment needed to model in P4.   I shall be converting a few Bachmann wagons and a suburban break coach as well in the greatness of time.     I shall try and keep this upto date.     Zach
Speedbird

Speedbird

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St Ruth

Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea Siding

I was going to find some modern marketing speak for 'digging up the track' but the language used by the real railway is now so far detached from reality that I decided against it.   As most readers will know, St Ruth is 'based on' Penzance but exactly how far that goes is rather flexible. Starting from the pre-1938 track plan, the very first departure from reality that we made was to add a headshunt to the goods yard and then continue this along the sea wall as a goods loop. This has been very
D869

D869

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Paternosterrow

Boilers and Frames

Had some fun with another Dapol 9F kit. I've tried to emulate the scene below from British Railways Illustrated (August edition). The prototype photo shows a 9F being fitted with a Crostis Boiler in March 1955 at Crewe. My take, however, has to make do with a standard boiler.       This is a shot from the other side.     A final pic of the welder at work on a stripped down 4MT  
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Fourgig East

Home alone - no longer, but still the work continues

Managed to grab an hour this afternoon to get the shorter platform section glued down. I needed to have both boards joined together so that I could make sure it all lined up. The capping was also added to the walling and I took the opportunity to pose the camping coach in it's eventual home             I also "wooded" the corner by the signal box - starting to come together now  
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Baseboard progress and backscenes underway

The last few weeks have shown a good deal of progress on the layout. The remaining framework for the baseboards have been completed and the infrastructure is coming together. It is good to see a nice smooth and level surface covered with the templot drawing. Today I trimmed the old MDF backscene from Empire Basin, reducing the height slightly as the baseboard is now higher than it was. I've also purchased some timber to frame the backscene so that it can be held firmly against the wall. The inte
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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The Farthing layouts

Scratchbuilt GWR one-plank wagon (1)

As part of the wagon building programme for Farthing, I wanted one of the early 1-plank opens with wooden solebars. There is no 4mm kit available, but then RMwebber Wagonman pointed out that they are in fact a very straightforward design. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to gain some experience in scratchbuilding wagons, which I’ve never tried before.         I chose to build one of the 18ft types - namely no. 5141, of which there is a drawing and photo
Mikkel

Mikkel

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The GC and Met in OO

Works update

Not really much to show, but a lot has been going on this week. Trouble is, it's mostly been things I've talked about before...   First up, I've completed my rake of GCR stock. These were four hackbashes of Mainline LMS stock into GCR 'lookalikes'. I'm now the proud owner of a pair of brake thirds, a composite and an all-first. Of course, this was before I found that GC expresses generally ran to five carriages of the order brake third, restaurant first, composite, open third and brake thi
James Harrison

James Harrison

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #26 The four Urie G16 large tanks

I have a bit of a soft spot for all large tank locomotives and a number of classes of large tanks existed on the Southern Railway such as the H16 4-6-2T, W 2-6-4T, the Z class 0-8-0T that I featured in my Talking Stock# 19 post here and the topic of this post the G16 4-8-0T. The H16 and W classes will I am sure be the subject of future posts.   The ex London and Southern Western (LSWR) Urie G16 class of four 4-8-0tanks were introduce in 1921, the same year as the larger H16 4-6-2T. The two c
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Northall

Northall Dock – Road modelling part 2

I started with the road along the warehouses. Progress is going slowly. After every step I had to wait for 24 for hours before I could do the next step: 1. glued track on the baseboard 2. spray painted the track with a primer 3. painted the track with Humbrol acrylic rust paint 4. painted the track with Tamiya gun metal   road modeling progress   Then I looked how I could to make the card road. I noticed that it take more time than I thought. Progress will go slowly:     - Fitting
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Building Buckden

Ballasting at Buckden

Things have been a bit quiet at Buckden over the past month, both on the blog and in the railway room. This has been mainly been to work and travel, and as I'm heading off on Eurostar today that isn't going to improve soon! I've also been distracted by another little railway project not directly related to Buckden, but which I might share here sometime.   Anyway! One thing that has happened at Buckden and not been blogged is ballasting. Buckden, like many Midland branch lines, was a lightly la
Ivatt46403

Ivatt46403

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