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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Eleven Months and Counting

I don't agree with the idea that Deadlines = Motivation but a deadline does require a certain work-rate and focus for it to be met. For the next eleven months I need to maintain focus combined with a reasonable work rate to complete the work required to transform the bare wood and pink hills into something resembling a small part of Oxfordshire all those years ago. I feeling quite motivated at the moment however.   Below the baseboard I have the TOUs issue to resolve once and for all along wit
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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4mm rolling stock

More progress - LCDR 3rd and various wagons from Cambrian, ABS, 51L and Finecast

The D&S etched Chatham six wheel coach featured a few blogs earlier is now finished. The lining isn't the greatest, but it's all my own work. The yellow is Valejo acrylic applied with a cheap ruling pen, the black is a 0.1mm fibre tipped drawing pen. Lettering by HMRS pressfix and the Smoking signs in the windows are from a Fox sheet of SECR coach lettering. I could do with another of these, and a SER birdcage brake van to replicate a typical branchline train of the late 1920s and early 1
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Set 1 - Pt 2 : Stumbling towards finished bodies

I've made further progress with the bodies, though it hasn't been without problems and blemishes , and I'm afraid the all third is definitely going to be the inferior model of the two. However the brake composite is thus far (fingers crossed) going pretty well   All the sides have been fitted,without any further damage to paintwork. I then moved onto fitting seats, and here I made a blunder from sheer ignorance.I dug out what turned out to be almost all of a packet of Ratio coach seati
Ravenser

Ravenser in Constructional

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #21 – Bulleid’s Q1 ugly duckling or powerfully out of the ordinary?

During the second world war the need for a goods locomotive with wide route availability at a time of scarce raw materials and labour was to provide Bulleid with a challenge. He has already voiced his dislike of the Maunsell Q class 0-6-0 (appartently stating he would have cancelled the build if he had taken over as CME soon enough). Bulleid being Bulleid, looked away from usual convention in some areas and introduced the 40 strong Q1 class. It was a powerful, reliable loco with a large fire gr
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Hydraulic Heaven

Coal... or maybe 50 Shades of Black

Fancying a break from slaving over a hot soldering iron I thought I’d have a go at a job that I’ve been failing to ‘get around to’ for a long time – making some loads for my mineral wagons.   Naturally I thought this would be easy, but maybe I was wrong.   The first bit is very straightforward - cut some rectangles of black card to fit inside the wagons and glue some lumps of foamboard and card underneath them to hold them at a sensible height. Then (assuming a fairly level load) coat the to
D869

D869

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Stringfingerling's Blog

I'm still at it

To the kind people who've said nice things about my project so far; I'm still at it though all I've done in the last month is wiring.     I decided I would get all the main wiring done before laying the track, so there is a main power bus ( anticipating possible DCC later - probably much later) , some isolated sections, wiring for a number of tortoise point motors and wiring for uncoupling electromagnets. I've also installed my two old Pentrollers, with the whole layout being switchable bet
Stringfingerling

Stringfingerling

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

The Beginning of the Dawn of an New Era: A totally unexpected sighting

Evening all!   While in Frankfurt for running some errands, I found myself with some time to spare and stopped by at Southern Station, where I was surprised to be able to spot the following two units...       As I was emerging from the stairs to Platforms 7 and 8, I saw the class 410.1 departmental ICE unit – also known as ICE S or, more recently, ICE R – rolling into track 9, and eventually reversing to shunt to a holding position right in front of the station's signal box. The 410.1 is
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Redgate's Modelling

O Gauge Pug - primed and ready

And lo the primer was warmed on the radiator and applied to the shiny brass     There's one or two bits that could do with a touch of filler, so will wait until next week now until after the BRM SHow at Doncaster (see you all there!)   It won't do any harm for the primer to harden off over the weekend anyway
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Redgate's Modelling

O Gauge Pug - ready for primer

Seems to be the time for painting this week, thanks to all the advice from Buckjumper (on here and in his mag article) the O gauge Pug body is prepped for primer. I bought some "Bar Keepers Friend" from Amazon (other internet retailers available) and with a cheapo kids electric toothbrush (spiderman) and some work with scrapers, fibreglass brush and wet-or-dry stuck to coffee stirrers we have this:     Next step a few coats of primer, then see if any filling etc needs doing. I'll get some f
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Wheal Elizabeth at Stafford

Had a mixed show at Stafford last weekend. The venue, organisation and exhibition itself was great, as was the hospitality. Had some dodgy running to start off with, but things gradually settled down.   Saturday was steam and green diesel and unfortunately I discovered that sheeted diag 1/051 wagons are not air braked. That is the air doesn't slow their descent when they're driven off the edge of the fiddle yard by a co-operator. Grrr. Total wipeout I'm afraid. Most of the underframes hav
ullypug

ullypug

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

(Post 9 (LBSCR 'E2' Perfect Chassis Running))

Ook, high Level gearbox arrived today so I spent an hour or two carefully building it. Apart from me not shaving the crank pin retainers enough, and the coupling rods 'possibly' being a wee bit slack, here is the resultant running. I'm very bloody happy! Also I think it's safe to say you have another High Level proselyte.     Please see what you think.
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Marsh Lane Sidings

'You're a nutter!', someone once said to me...I don't see how?

Yes, that is what a fellow member of my local club said to me some years ago when I told him what I had done to the model.     The model is the mating of a Poole-based Grafar body on to a Minitrix chassis. A good friend, Rolf Farrell, said he was looking at doing this to have a model of a class 47 where the undercarraige ACTUALLY sat underneath the model rather than level with the sides, as per the old Farish offering. The Minitrix bodyshell was deemed unworthy as the Farish one was better
RobboPetes

RobboPetes

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Box in a box

Box in a Box - mark II

Having just purchased a BachFar 'Warship, 3 BR Collett coaches and a Class 108 DMU set,I've found out something that should have been glaringly obvious from the start... a boxfile fiddleyard ain't BIG enough!!! Cannot imaging how I'd run a '28xxx' & long coal train or a 'King' & 14 bogies.... So some lateral thinking has been applied. I'd like to continue with the 'minimal' baseboard concept and I do like the effect of running in the deep cutting that the boxfiles give. Current opti
scanman

scanman

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Redgate's Modelling

Crosti 9F #2 - Time to get down and dirty

So '23 is resplendent in ex-works shiny black     Just the plates to fit, then off to Roomey for weathering.     Narrow Planet's work, painted with white enamel, left 24 hours, overpainted with matt black acrylic and immediately wiped off with a finger. Note two sets - the ones for '021 are for the similar version I am building for a member of this parish at the same time.   Roomey's going to be busy as that's two Crosti 9Fs and my Hornby O1 to deliver to him at the Doncaster show.
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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david51's Blog

Back to the southern

This is my first entry.I have been a member for a while but I have viewed other blogs with admiration but now I have taken the plunge. I have had a model railway for as long as I can remember. Being born south of the river in London my first love has always been the southern usually based on the south western division although I live on the south eastern and have done for many years. However 20 years ago I went to America and came back with a loco and box cars and the start of a love affair wi
david51

david51

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Clevedon WC&PR

Lower Queens Road 3

Have just about finished the building in Lower Queens Road. DAS was applied to the plasticard building shell and stonework carved with a pasteboard scraper when dry.   Paints are a mixtures of acrylics and emulsions for the Bath stone decorative sections.   Just a little toning down required with the airbrush, but that's for another day.
ullypug

ullypug

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The Farthing layouts

A tall bird from Paddington

Here's a little scratch-building project that I'm working on in-between the coach painting. The prototypes were used extensively at Paddington Goods in the 1900s. A similar but more austere type was used at Hockley. I couldn't find any drawings, so the dimensions are guesstimates based on photos. The build was a real pleasure, especially sourcing the parts. I'll let the pictures explain the rest - gradually!                  
Mikkel

Mikkel

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Lee m22's Layout Blog

Railway Reboot

Hi All!   This is my first Blog celebrating the fact that I have found the light and currently making a return to my modelling after nearly a year out.   I've got a new project on the boil atm, involving a 12'x3' roundy roundy layout based on Rhyl, North Wales.     I chose this location as it offers a masive variety of traffic passing by, interesting trackwork and a mix of signals that I hope to recreate. I'm not tryingto model Rhyl exactly, but rather use it as a source of inspiration
Lee m22

Lee m22

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Work Day

A couple of weeks time marks the annual Midhurst show, and the club's regular attendance. This year, we are providing no fewer than six layouts in one shape or form. Of that group, four congregated at Milland village hall for a club working day; which gives us the opportunity to carry out some more substantial work that may otherwise not be possible. Notable absentee was 009Matt's Lumpy Barmcake and Salted Cracker Railway, which had a weekend out at the Alton show.   Some layouts, such as Erhw
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Show visits 2016

Stafford 2013

And so it begins! The Stafford exhibition begins my model railway show expeditions for this year. Stafford is always one of my favourite events and I have been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks now. It always promises to be a big event with three halls packed full of impressive layouts and trade stands.In many ways it did not disappoint again this year. There were many large and impressive layouts to view. Just a shame my digital camera has decided to have a mood and won't let me downl
andyram

andyram

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Fen End Pit's Blog

The Wickham trolley moves!

I managed to find 4 bearing in Brian's 'box of useful bits' which allowed me to make some progress on the paxolin 'chassis'. In order to be able to remove the wheels I have found some bearings which fit into some U channel. The Polish motor has a 1mm shaft which I sleeved with a 1.5mm brass tube.     The little runner wagon has wheels shorted out on one side so while I've fitted pick-ups on both sides with pickups I may well just try and short out the wheels on the opposite side on the main
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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The sleepers workspace

4101 Dubs 0-4-0Tcrane project part 2

Some of you who've been following this blog will remember me having problems with uploading photos due to the post getting too full, it's why I only post a few photos with a bit of text, because it becomes a nightmare once the thing crashes, so in this case less is more, if you get my drift.   So where was I? Once all the 'rivets' had been punched I stuck the 0.25mm layer on to the 1mm layer. Some will have noticed that in the last picture the layers are marked 0.5mm. Originally I had planned
sleeper

sleeper

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    • Neal Ball
      Autocoach upgrade

      By Neal Ball · Posted

      Maybe with the new bottle, I should have sent it back…
    • MikeOxon
      A Tender for Viper

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Thank you Annie - I really enjoy re-creating these early engines.  It would have been impossible if the young Edward Lane had not taken a liking to them in the yard at Swindon.  By then, most of them had been superseded by later designs, such as Firefly, but he must have had a sense of 'history'.
    • The Fatadder
      Autocoach upgrade

      By The Fatadder · Posted

      If the IPA is not removing paint, a good trick is to warm it up which makes it more effective.   Though like you say after a number of uses it does loose its potency, I recently had to change mine after it got to the point where it was barely touching the paint 
    • MikeOxon
      A Tender for Viper

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Thank you Chris - I think it's lovely too!  The Lane drawing was probably made in around 1848, ten years after this engine was delivered and after its time on the South Devon. As my final sentence suggested, I am now looking hard at 'Ajax' which had similar-looking solid wheels.
    • MikeOxon
      A Tender for Viper

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      My impression from the sketch was of a round section and I think the way they are arranged to slide through those supports works best of they were.  Round rods were often used on early engines when flat strip came later - possible driven by the availability of steel.

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