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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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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

packed...unpacked...presented...repacked...epilogue...

Good evening,   An update on how the layout faired and some initial thoughts on my future modelling plans...   Yesterday, PWBIAB was launched at the BHMRC exhibition 2013, a one day exhibition which I exhibited KIAB at in 2010.   Time had run out on me last week, a mixture of work commitments, the untimely demise of the office laser cutter and a general over optimistic approach from me on how much I could get built between bcn and london. That said, I had committed to ChrisR (the exhibitio
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Northall

Northall Dock - Northall Gazette

After Nice Street my wife asked my to design something with water again. I had done that before on my first attempt with the Scalescene factory and an Inglenook shunting puzzle.   So I decided to build Northall Dock. Quit a challange in an APA box. I want to build something more than just a quay and a ware house. My starting point for the design were two pictures. One from John Atkinson from 1890 and one from Edward Hopper (not published here)     The information on Northall Dock I fo
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Argos' Blog

All the fives and three little ducks - part 1- Body and bogie

Not much modelling has been achieved in the past few months as I’ve been using all my spare time to train for an Ironman distance triathlon on the 1st June. However a bad calf strain has all but put pay to that ambition. The silver lining is that I now have a more time for modelling.   Fearnan is at one of those stages where any advancement is being resisted. The fiddle board has warped, well it would wouldn’t it? It’s the one I skimped on the bracing; I figured the small size meant it woul
Argos

Argos

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The GC and Met in OO

We can get 'em moving, now to make 'em stop

There is one slight problem with my latest loco builds. Most of them have been goods engines... which is fine, I have the rolling stock to go with them, except for one crucial example.   A decent brakevan....   I've got three ready to run- two GWR Toads (one Dapol, one Bachmann)- but they don't count on account of being GWR- and an LNER 'D' (at least, I think it's a D....) from Bachmann. Thing is, of those three, two are completely the wrong geographically speaking, and the other I suspec
James Harrison

James Harrison

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Engine Wood

82044 - almost completed

I've not had a lot of time for modelling over the last few weeks, for one reason or another, but I've been doing a bit on 82044 here and there, and having got the running sorted out, I finally got the airbrush out last weekend to weather it.   To recap on the story of this loco, a couple of years ago I thought to detail, re-number and weather a Bachmann R-T-R 82XXX in time for Railex at Aylesbury in May 2011, when I took 'Engine Wood' to the show. Problems with a poor-running Bachmann chassis
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Hydraulic Heaven

Taking a Proper Engine to London

In a scandalous misuse of the limited time remaining before Railex, Jackie and I took the Cheltenham Flyer from Tyseley to Paddington and Back with 'Castle' class 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe'.   The run was superb - a storming ascent of Sapperton and some fast running in both directions on the main line. 40 minutes early into Paddington and then an hour early back to Gloucester. A shame that NR couldn't find us an earlier path back to Brum so we all had to sit in Gloucester for an extra hour forlo
D869

D869

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RJRs Branch Lines

Ballasting Big Track

With a bit of spare time I decided to tackle ballasting the second base board half. I have been using what woodland scenics, describe as "Fine"     When its this big there is no point messing with an eyedropper.. So its get a half full bottle of PVA and top it up with water and a dash of Fairy Liquid     Prior to ballasting I had decided to reduce the amount of track in front of the fiddle yard, so the point work has gone and its a single line siding now.It just needs extending a littl
johnteal

johnteal

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Show visits 2016

Derby 2013

It has long been a tradition that my Dad and I always visit the Derby show on the Saturday. We have done so right back to the days of the Assembly Rooms, and the late opening until around 7pm. We always used to do the Darwin Suite first to get the foreign stuff "out of the way" (it is not our thing!). Then we would do the balcony, great hall and finish off in the foyer at the top of the stairs before a spot of lunch and a pint (when I was old enough) before going around our favourite exhibits ag
andyram

andyram

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The GC and Met in OO

One project down, one project half-way done, one project started!

First off, the project down....   The Ratio suburban carriage is finished. I've now got two brake thirds, another all third and an all first to either build or re-build.   The project half done is the third of my LMS/GC bashes. I'm doing a composite carriage and so far have finished the interior, added the matchboarding and begun the teak finish and white roof. I anticipate that the teaking will be finished today and then I'll be able to reassemble the carriage.   The project newly be
James Harrison

James Harrison

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46444's Teign Valley Blog

Pannier capers

Evening.   A quick update on 9717's progress.   Following on from starting the weathering yesterday I muttered a few words about opening rear cab doors and adding lamp irons etc,   My mind was made up when I re-read PMP's blog for Albion Yard set in the Forest of Dean capturing the works of Ben Ashworth nicely in model form. Other than the rake of Berry Wiggins tank wagons which kind of encapsulates the Forest is the close attention to detail Paul has applied to the ubiquitous Pannier tank
46444

46444

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LC's 5 inch gauge blog

The Red pannier, She Lives!

Anyone who has followed this blog for more than a few posts will notice 2 things...   1. Posts tend to be very long (for which i apologise )   2. I have an ongoing project to rebuild a 5 inch Great western pannier tank to its London transport guise.   But in this shorter installment, the great day has arrived...     After 8 months of work, a few set backs and missing a good few target dates, she's steamed!     A very last minute affair, but we made it to the booked outing last wee
London cambrian

London cambrian

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

Class 47 detailing project - Conversion of Bachmann 47. "A P4 Brush 4". Part 8 - Some diversions, painting and detailing... and exhibition preparation

It’s been a little while since my last update and I wish that I’d more to show, but I’ve been busy with work, a writing project and “real” trains and photos... but there has been some progress and with the impending “exhibition” tomorrow, I though a brief update would be in order. Not much here requires much in the way of explanation, so the text will be kept short; I think that the pictures will be able to do most of the explaining and make up for the absence of the 1000s of words.   First o
Jon020

Jon020

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 10/05/2013

Hi,   Since the last Blog entry, we have been moving forward with more scenic work on the layout.   Ground Works   With the rough shape of the bridge of the dis-used branch line in place on the scenic boards, it was now time to start forming the rest of the surrounding terrain. As we don't want the bridge to appear like a lump on our otherwise very flat boards, our plans are to shape the scenery so that the main running lines look like they are running in a very shallow cutting. This means
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

A Duchess or two...

Finished my last two Duchesses for this week.   First up a blue nameplated Princess Alice. - the blue background is due to it being a Polmadie locomotive.     and then a nice Maroon Duchess with some added patches as per a lovely colour photograph I have of a maroon Duchess..     and a quick pic of the two side by side - my apologies but I haven't (yet) got any EM track to stand them on.  
Barry O

Barry O

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Northall

From diorama to black box

I started Nice Street (Urban Scene) as a diorama. With a new build model and some models from Bridge Street I made a muck up in the APA Box     Non of these models was used on Nice Street.   During building the diorama I start to do more research about how to build a diorama. I already accepted the rule of thirds for the planning.   Also read some interesting things about how to design an urban scene.   Most information about building a diorama is to be found in other modeling dicipl
Job's Modelling

Job's Modelling

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Barry Ten's Blog

A pair of Toplights

The construction of the brake toplight in this pair was one of the first things I ever posted on RMweb, back in 2006. I'd already built the other one a year or so earlier. Unfortunately, I was never happy with the design of the Slaters bogies, which (to my mind) were a triumph of over-complication, using inside bearings and springing as well as a tricky rocking mounting onto the bogie bolster. I found them very unreliable and not at all smooth running, and after a while the springing became uneq
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

BEATTIE 0298 TANK(2)

I decided to continue with the well tank chassis. Before I came to Brazil I had got some nice castings from Laurie Griffin, Springs, crossheads etc.   The kit has turned brass cylinders, which are very nice but need a lot of work to get LG's slides bars fitted. So I fabricated some using the turned ones for size.   Well that was just the start of my problems. The slidebars fitted nicely, but to get the piston rod lined up with the centre of the driving wheels everything sits
Fen End Pit's Blog

Top of a tank and a wagon turntable

First up, here is a picture of what I've done with the top of the water tank. in the absence of pictures or drawings I'm hoping I've got something which is plausible. I stuck some plastruct angle inside the tank and then tried to model some tie-bars to hold it all together. The water is clear acrylic with the bottom painted black.     Next is a little experiment on one of those things which is just so much easier to make when you have something that cuts accurately! I drew up this wagon tur
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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derekarthurnaylor's Blog

Aire Valley Railway

Hi again.   First a correction to my last blog. I got P.D.Hancock's first name wrong. It's Philip not Peter. I played about with standard gauge in the early days as I guess many of us did. My interest in NG took off after reading the late L.T.C. Rolt's "Railway Adventure".It's hard to define why one should take a shine to a particular type of railway. Anyway I constructed 18 inch of 8mm gauge track and an 0-4-0 chassis. None of this was done overnight and I came round to realising that with
llanben's Blog

Class 31 (Hornby Railroad Range) - Bargain ?

I'm busy buying stock to give me the option to switch my layout from the early 60's to the early 70's so that I can 'ring the changes' in about an hour. I'd really like a Class 31 in blue but think the only one that's available is the Hornby Railroad version and just want to be sure that it's smooth runner and not of the coffee grinder motor ilk of some earlier Hornby offerings. I'd be grateful for any views that owners of this loco might have.
llanben

llanben

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Barry O's Weathering Blog

Wagons, loco and a Mk 1 coach weathered for me!

Just for a change here are some of my own stock weathered for use on a variety of layouts.   First up a Hornby Black 5 which was part modified by Tim of RMWeb at Doncaster   The modification at the front end make a big difference - thanks Tim!   and now a dirty Mark 1 Corridor First. Nice looking coach just a bit plastic shiny out of the box so a bit of brown ink/water and brown coloured powder up to the tumblehome and black in/water and black powders     and finally a couple of ph
Barry O

Barry O

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