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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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Wenlock's Blog

Station building 5 Completed!

Well it's been a long time coming, but here are some pics of the finished William Clarke station building. Its painted using Humbrol and Railmatch enamel paints, with the colour being built up in a number of washes and then followed by some dry brushing. I followed the discussion on the forum about GWR window colours in the Edwardian period with great interest. I found the evidence presented highly convincing, so have consequently painted the windows chocolate. To my eyes the black and white pic
wenlock

wenlock

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Richard Jones' Blog

LBSCR C2X brakegear

Talking about settling down to projects,   Does anyone have, or can point me in the direction of, a set of drawings for the modified brakegear and spring hangers fitted to the LBSC C2X rebuilds - the relevant parts don't appear to be available as commercial etches, so I need to make some up.   many thanks   Richard
Richard Jones

Richard Jones

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Snitzl's Main Blog

The Works or Halfwits Wondrous Wagon Works.

The Works or Halfwits Wondrous Wagon Works.   The works is a small wagon / loco repair shop, managed by Jack Halfwit, that services  the rolling stock of Snitzl. Comprises of three small buildings, water tower, hoist and pit. Most, if not all the inspiration for "The Works" was taken from photographs of  Tregarrick MKIV 1980 by Iain Rice in Model Railways February 1981. 'The Works' is presented here as a complete project with the usual snitzl step by step pictorial approach.  
snitzl

snitzl in Buildings

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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

raking it in...

Good evening,   Unfortunately the title is not a comment on my financial status...its nice having an income again after 5 years of fluctuating circumstances, but those new Dapol releases are dangerously giving rise to impure thoughts   It of course refers to my rake of wagons which I began the other week and thought it would take me an evening or two to crack - how wrong I was, but building the first did throw a few issues up that I thought might be worth sharing.   I touched on before th
bcnPete

bcnPete

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The sleepers workspace

PART 5A 1308 LADY MARGARET THE MISSING PHOTOS [1-5]

I've had considerable problems with posting photos but when I posted them to the test area they came up ok [ called Murphy's law] or something like that. Right in part 5 you'll see 12345 listed where the photo's should be here they are in that order:-   1   2   3   4   5   Shhh it seems to have worked.   Conclusions drawn? I talk to 'kin much!!   TTFN
sleeper

sleeper

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The sleepers workspace

1308 Lady Margaret - scratch build part 5

I've applied the paint to this model now. I started with Railmatch GWR loco green but on inspection the finish was p!$$ poor so I rubbed it all down again with wet and dry [used wet] and then re-sprayed it with Humbrol No 3 Brunswick Green, not my favourite colour an not 'olivy] enough for my liking but who's to know what colour this loco's first livery was? I haven't been able to find any info online about this one. I guess as it was a one off and scrapped early on [1948], it's slipped under t
sleeper

sleeper

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Adventures in N-gauge

A gang of hoodies

As noted in the last post, the "production batch" of IHA wagons is progressing, albeit very slowly, towards completion. I'm building three more of these wagons, which will complete the planned requirement for this type in my steel coil fleet (which I described in my very first blog post, back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth). I've made some changes in the building sequence for these models, the most notable so far being that I haven't added any surface detail at all to the underframes. The variou
Jim Martin

Jim Martin

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Paternosterrow

Forced Perspective

Decided to have a go at a bit of forced perspective by using a smaller scale building in the background behind the Signal Box. I decided on a typical country Church - it is not to any particular scale, just a copy from a photo. I knocked it up out of some mounting card and scored the ashlar stonework with a scalpel. I was surprised just how pleasing the effect can be as I was expecting it to look a little daft or out of place. The only problem now is that the lighting at the front of the mod
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

((Post 3) LBSCR 'E2' Build)

I added the chimney and dome. This wasn't the easiest thing do do becasue the pre drilled holes on the boiler were not in the right place, and the pip in the castings wern't in the center either. I did try aligning them ofset but it didn't work so I cut and smoothed the pips off. On the dome before I even deflashed it, there was a small chunk missing and when I tryed to sort that the metal was so thin it flacked away leaving a nice gap. Brilliant. The chimney I couldn't put on perfectly straigh
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Giant 45 degree block

Having started a discussion on laser cutting on a thread in the 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and CAD group (Thanks to AndyY for adding the laser cutting bit!) I'll continue to post some of what I'm doing here just too.   One of the things that is concerning me is how to make the corners of building. Some people are trying interlaced brickwork and I'll probably try butt joining some ABS as well but one thing I wanted to try was to mitre the corners. I had trying to sand anything accurately so I'm
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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DonB's Bridgnorth Funicular Blog

Trying to establish a plan of action.

I’ve been thinking… now there’s a surprise!   The subject of my mental exercises?... How do I build and store a Funicular?   And, just as important, how do I transport it should anyone be foolish enough to want it at a show? These questions were prompted by two things, first the acquisition of a new(ish) car, downsizing from a Mondeo to a Focus, and second, the sketch posted in my previous blog, which allowed me to more accurately predict the likely final dimensions of the beast which I e
DonB

DonB

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SRman's Workbench Blog

Painting the G16 and Glazing the 2 HAL

Only a little more progress to report on both the ex-LSWR G16 tank and on the Ayjay Models 'Tin' 2 HAL kit.   I have painted the bogie wheels to better match the rest (i.e. got rid of those shiny silver tyre rims!) and given the whole locomotive a second coat of black. It is now too black as this really hides any detail (an also any inaccuracies!!). The chassis needs a small adjustment as the mounting gives the body a very slight lean to one side.     I have finally got around to glazing
SRman

SRman

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grimsby4mm doyle's Blog

Fiargate

After 8 months or spending weekends building we decided that it was time to have a play.....well set up some shots to capture the feel of a mainline railway during the 70's -80's.
grimsby4mm doyle

grimsby4mm doyle

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DRAG TT2 progress

A trip round the circuit

Tonight's entertainment included plonking a Lumix TZ30 camera on a bogie well wagon and filming a trip around the outer P4 circuit on TT2. Two circuits in fact, one facing and one pointing backwards.   The whole train (CK's) comprised wholly rigid wagons - no springing or compensation. There was quite a lot of other traffic running at the time too.       How many trains, voices and faces can you identify?
10800

10800

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ess1uk's Workbench Blog

Concrete Lineside Huts

I've been making the Ratio concrete lineside huts recently to kill a bit of time. Painting a realistic concrete colour is not easy but i hope i have captured the look of a decaying hut. They seem to be all sorts of colours out in the real world. the Lima PGAs in the background are waiting on the centre bulkhead being cut away. i do think i should have painted the doors and windows green before glueing together though. I'm unsure whether to glaze them or not, or leave them as if the glas
ess1uk

ess1uk

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The Farthing layouts

Low-tech coach restoration (4)

When I was a boy I hated The Weasel with all my heart. The Weasel was our maths teacher and to me he was the prototype of the Evil Teacher. When he taught he got all worked up and saliva formed at the corners of his mouth, and he would walk down among the desks while talking and suddenly pounce on you and slap his hand into your desk and hiss “Am I RIGHT, or am I WRONG?!” It was a rhetorical question of course. We were expected to confirm that we was right, and we always did even if we understoo
Mikkel

Mikkel

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Im still going.....Just!

Hello   As the blog post says I am still managing to get some modelling done although the enthusiasm isnt what it should be.   Firstly I had a great time at the St Albans show, which is now I think my 4th year there. I thoroughly enjoy myself there and thanks goes to David and the CMRA for inviting me once again. It was a great opportunity to meet up with friends once again plus also meet and chat to others so thank you to all those that took the time to come and say hello.   As usual I d
-missy-

-missy-

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The sleepers workspace

1308 Lady Margaret - scratch build part 4

I made and fitted the buffer beams, generally filled and cleaned up the body, finally giving it a coat of primer to highlight any faults. These were rectified and the primer coat proper was applied           Well that pretty well brings this blog up to date, The loco is now in the paint shop. It was coated with 2 coats of Railmatch GWR Loco Green but that didn't look too clever so I rubbed it all down with wet and dry and resprayed it again with Humbrol #3 Brunswick Green and it no
sleeper

sleeper

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The sleepers workspace

1308 Lady Margaret - scratch build part 3

Next I attached the boiler, smokebox, built up the tanks etc despite ordering a white metal chimney I made one from 5.5mm plastic tube with a drawing pin head [ pin removed] filed to size, upturned and glued on top with superglue, topped with a sliver of 5.5mm tube. The bell shape made with Squadron Green filler as per DF. I made the dome from plastic wrapped tube and filler. The safety valve cover was a plastic one from a Hornby detail pack mounted on a base fashioned from plasticard filed to c
sleeper

sleeper

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The sleepers workspace

1308 Lady Margaret - scratch build part 2

I then made the cab front, again using my hole punch to great effect for the front spectacle windows. I made the smokebox subframe in the shape of a tee and cut out the front and rear again from a card template fixing these together with poly cement and leaving overnight to set properly. I then wrapped this with 0.050 plasticard         At this stage I might add that I later found out my mistakes made here when I tried to fit the chimney. I drilled down through the center of the smokebo
sleeper

sleeper

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

((Post 1 & 2) LBSCR 'E2' 0-6-0 kit builds into 'Thomas' (x2))

Rather than call this, 'Moving to P4 Post 41' I think I can safely say I have now 'Moved to P4', Although 00 isn't 100% abandoned. I'd like your opinion on whether you think it's safe for me to call myself a P4 modeller yet. I would rather have it collectively said of me than me say it becasue I know I'm still new to it. Opinions please.   Ok...   As some of you may know, I'm going to try to build two LBSCR E2 locomotives, the first one as a straight E2, and the second as a slight kitbash.
Knuckles

Knuckles

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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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