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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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Fourgig East

Hardcore (no not what you think!)

Following a couple of weekends finishing off the study DIY (and a happy SWMBO) I managed to sneak in some work on Fourgig before the kids came back from Mum & Dad's yesterday.     Following advice from Chris Nevard I have rough ballasted the concrete infill area before applying the DAS clay - some left over aquarium gravel applied using the age old 50:50 PVA and water mix.   Once set I'll remove any loose and too high ballast before pressing the clay into the gravel.   Now where's t
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

a (blatant) plug for signals...

Good evening,   A productive start to the New Years modelling as with the Landlady away all last week I snuck in 4 consecutive nights of modelling...never managed that in BCN The work centred on the ARC wagons from my last post but more on that later this week...   Tonight I wanted to talk about signals...but not semaphores as have been demonstrated excellently on here of recent by other 2mmFS modellers (you know who you are ) but colour light signals.   I needed two for this layout, to m
bcnPete

bcnPete

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What have I let myself in for??

2013 Here we go again!

More details on the Weston-on-Trent, South Derbyshire model railway show!   Here we go again!!!!   2012 did not exactly have the most optomistic of starts. I saw the year in, practically on my own, whilst watching the BBC's "New Year Live" coverage on the lowest possible volume setting in order to avoid awaking my sleeping wife. My 2 week old daughter sucked away on her late night bottle before bed and I made do with a small glass of celebratory wine. I did wonder how much time I would find
andyram

andyram

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The sleepers workspace

1308 Lady Margaret - scratch build part 1

I first saw this loco on Google images, its character appealed to me together with its somewhat unusual wheel configuration, only found in locomotives built in the late 19th early 20th centuries, indeed this one being designed and built in 1902 by Andrew Barclay sons &Co. On doing further research I found out it was built for use on the Liskeard and Looe Railway which was taken over by the GWR in 1905 where upon 1308 was transferred to Oswestry and latterly worked from Machynlleth shed from
sleeper

sleeper

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Swiss layout in 2FS - Threading!

Good evening all,   Having received a parcel on Friday from the 2mmFS association packed full of easitrac, I decided to spend this afternoon threading the rails onto the sleepers. It has taken me approximately 45 minutes to an hour to thread both rails onto the sleepers/chairs to build a 550mm section. Thankfully the layout is small and it's not for my Par layout! I'd be here for days threading away!! However, the resulting trackwork quality and appearance is well worth the effort and patience
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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ess1uk's Workbench Blog

Lima PGA

Recently I decided to make my old second hand Lima PGAs look a little better by taking out the centre bulkhead. I've filed the plastic away with a small triangular file. The first couple I have done were originally in some sort of purple colour when bought, this can be seen where the grey I painted them in has been scratched whilst removing the bulkhead. needs a bit more weathering before it's finished though.   so far 4 started and 6 more to go! It's quite tricky to cut the plastic ou
ess1uk

ess1uk

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Copley Hill Works

"Thanks for Reading"

It all started here, in January 2008. The original post in what was intended to be my very first modelling project, building a Thompson Pacific, specifically no.60508, Duke of Rothesay.   That project ended somewhat abruptly, with metal fatigue present throughout the kit. Happily, bits of that original project live on in several different locomotives. The chimney and smokebox door were donated to two different Pacifics, the Romford wheels have been put to good use on a friend's P2, and the ten
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Grasslands Workbench

Converting a Bachmann BR 03 Shunter chassis to fit inside a Craftsman BR 07 Shunter (Pt3)

The bulk of the conversion is finished.   Chassis Modifications   As predicted (see Pt2), the rear of the chassis was the more difficult section to complete. I took to cutting down the back of the Bachmann chassis by grinding away the raised profile mouldings on the sides of the chassis (where the crank-shaft use to be). I lost a few cutting disks in this operation (goggles recommended). This aspect of the work was surprisingly easy.     The next problem was that the Bachmann chassis’s
Grasslands

Grasslands

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GWMark's Little Puzzle (Layout)

Forgotten post - Train Identification on my Mimic Diagram

It has been a while since I managed to do much (anything) to the little shunting puzzle, my problem has been that the layout had to go up into the loft in order to free the spare room for a visitor and has not made it down since. The problem being it is a big hassle to get it out of the loft to spend an hour working on it and then put it away again. Given the current weather conditions, and the amount of juke currently residing in the loft, the prospect of venturing upwards and doing work in the
GWMark

GWMark

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The Strawberry Line

First post

Funny how I always seem to spend Christmas and the New Year period playing with Templot and track plans. It's 2 years almost to the day since I first posted a plan of Cheddar on my other blog here, which I've been thinking about doing for some time now.   Whilst I've been building Clevedon, I've been tinkering with the ideas on and off and have been playing with various incarnations of the layout plan. I decided that if I was going to build Cheddar, it would have to be pretty much a dead scal
ullypug

ullypug

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Engine Wood

Callow Lane - what next?

Hmm, the other night I was wondering what to do next on Callow Lane...     More of this, perhaps? It needs doing, but I could do with a bit of a rest from it, to be honest...     Then again, there's this that I've been thinking about recently:     So, what's it to be?           No contest!!       Very basic conversions to P4 of the Bachmann Presflo. The wheels (a mixture of Maygib and Exactoscale) just slip right in. A bit of extra weight under the axles (roof lead),
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Atso's Blog

First models finished in an awfully long time!

Well 2012 wasn't the great year I was hoping it would be. I've now found myself single and managing the household bills that used to be covered by two salaries...   Needless to say that various projects have slipped and my modelling mojo was at an all time low.   Recently though I've started playing with CAD again and recently took delivery of several 3D printed bodies from Shapeways. These consisted of a C1, C12, J50 and N2 all produced in the FUD material.     Unfortunately, the
Atso

Atso

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The ex-LSWR G16 continues to take shape.

My 14mm 10-spoke bogie wheels arrived today from Mainly Trains in England, so I wasted no time in fitting them and testing again. Before I show the pic of it with the new wheels, though, I took a photo the other day before decoder fitting but after adding the motor and works back in and temporarily hooking up the wires for testing on analogue (12V DC). This also shows the various mods and add-on bits.     And now, with the body on, decoder fitted and the new bogie wheels. The capuchon has n
SRman

SRman

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grimsby4mm doyle's Blog

Wellowgate

This is the 2nd of three signalboxes for Grimsby Town all are of MS&L Rly design but painted in the drab BR olive grey to fit in with the 70's -early 80's. Though the box no longer exists at Grimsby fortunaly it has been preserved at the NRM in kit form at York.
grimsby4mm doyle

grimsby4mm doyle

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grimsby4mm doyle's Blog

Signal box's

Almost there, the blast walls are all done and the craphouse now built and installed just the Gable ends to do, fit the roof and construct the walkways around the front and side of the box then ready for the attack of the paint brush!]
grimsby4mm doyle

grimsby4mm doyle

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Fen End Pit's Blog

First attempts with a laser-cutter

I've joined an organisation in Cambridge called 'Makespace' who are setting up a public access 'hackspace' in Cambridge. These organisation seem to be springing up in quite a few large cities (see http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/United_Kingdom ) and are intended for people who want to build things to share the cost of owning and running tools. So for the price of a gym membership (and anyone who tells me that would do me more good is probably on the wrong forum) I can have access to tools which I w
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Wickham Trolley progress

On the advice of the honourable member of Litlington I took a look at the website of KK Produkcja Mikroantriebe in Poland. http://www.shop.kkpmo.com/ and purchased a frankly tiny motor and gearbox. The motor is obviously one from a phone and is 6mm in diameter the 80:1 gearbox takes the overall length of the unit to a massive 22mm! The unit was tested at takes about 4v to reach maximium speed, this shouldn't be a problem as I can limit the voltage using the DCC decoder which I'm going to have to
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Loco Building

Finally got my internet connection fixed,   Lots of work over the past week, covering locos and wagons...   First up 5813, Had another session with a few more detail bits fitting the smaller hand rails. The toolbox on the left hand side needed moving forward, so I cut off the moulding and then filled the gap with plasticard before scratch building a replacement. After which I gave it a quick coat of white primer. This highlighted a couple of issues, in that a lot of rivets are missing on
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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westerhamstation's Blog

westerham railway

Did anyone know? that a hot air paint stripper gun is not any good for drying glue, but fantastic for melting ratio plastic fencing in about a nano second. You would think that as you get older, at some point common sense might kick in. So the left hand corner of the baseboard is getting nearer to completion it still needs some bits and bobs doing like new fencing! The warehouse on the right hand side of the board has been started, its been mainly guess work as I didnt have much information o
westerhamstation

westerhamstation

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    • Annie
      A Tender for Viper

      By Annie · Posted

      Another fascinating blog post Mike.  We are very fortunate that E.T. Lane was such a keen sketch artist and that his sketchbooks have survived.
    • MAP66
      Autocoach upgrade

      By MAP66 · Posted

      Looking good Neal, you done well with the steps. I'm looking forward to seeing the end result, so that I can see what mine might look like when completed 😄
    • ChrisN
      A Tender for Viper

      By ChrisN · Posted

      What a lovely model.  One of my pleasures of making early carriages is that they do not have break gear, and this one looks a little complicated.   Are you thinking what I am thinking?  That the drawing was done not when it was new but later and they had swopped round tenders, or perhaps they just sent it off with a tender they 'had made earlier'.
    • David Bigcheeseplant
      A Tender for Viper

      By David Bigcheeseplant · Posted

      Hi Mike I have always assumed that the brake rodding would be flat strip rather than round section as you have drawn. David
    • Neal Ball
      Autocoach upgrade

      By Neal Ball · Posted

      Yes indeed Phil - but to be honest all the "gubbins" around the front could also be done better in 3D print - at least that way, I would have put it the right way round!     I found the details from Aston and Tyteford very useful when making it. Hence my thoughts about detailing it in this manner, to add to the collective RMWeb knowledge.   Re: IPA - I was surprised, but that doesn't explain why a fresh bottle still did not remove the paint.   Interestingly,

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