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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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Legomanbiffo's sound Blog

Slug it out

I've had to set the Deltic to one side for a while as it was seriously doing my head in! However, one man's loss is another's gain as my time has been temporarily diverted to the recordings of 37901 made at the East Lancs Railway last year. Regular viewers will know this to be a habit of mine, switching from one project to another in order to maintain sanity and enthusiasm. Progress on the slug has been rapid and satisfying. Don't get me wrong, I love the Deltic sounds and they are really good i
legomanbiffo

legomanbiffo

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McRuss german modelrailway Blog

Silvester Layout

Yesterday I attended the so called Silvester Layout from a friend of mine. Every Year between Christmas and the first or second weekend in January he held operating sessions with a modular layout at his home. Here are some pictures and a film I made from yesterday.   https://picasaweb.google.com/107465074458422577260/Silvesterlayout20122013?authkey=Gv1sRgCK7E_6fpg7ONTw     Markus
McRuss

McRuss

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The West Mersea Branch - Essex, June 1946.

Progress 2010 - 2012

it's been a very long time since I've updated and I'll try to remember to take a camera to the meeting at the end of the month. In the meantime, here's some video clips of progress through of progress through 2010 and 2011 (all clips by Jonathan Bushell) followed by some of my photos from 2012.           By mid-2012 much of the initial ballasting was completed.         I can't admit to having much to do with progress over the last two or three years - that's been
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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Ouse Viaduct/Balcombe/Lewes project

Some medium sized silver birches.

Some medium sized silver birches.   A few more smaller ones will be made and then some other more predominent species will be next, oaks, chestnuts, sycamores and probably some elms would be nice.   There was quite a prominent stand of pines (Scots or Maritime) at the Brighton end embankment. They stood on the road side of this embankment during the main time period that we are modelling. Totally different techniques will have to be mastered to make them!    
Re6/6

Re6/6

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Ffarquhar: A Thomas Themed Layout

Trackwork? Completed, Wiring?... Wiring?... WIRING? Absent presumed missing

So the Track laying for Ffarquhar has been completed:     To start with the baseboard tops were covered with cork which was stuck down with Copydex. After previously using it on two layouts I am a firm copydex convert and love it's sound reduction properties!     On the cork a copy of the trackplan was stuck down. Then on top of the plan the track was stuck down again with Copydex. Sounds simple, but is slightly more complicated than that...     All the track is Peco Code 75, The Tu
Flyingscotsmanfan

Flyingscotsmanfan

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The sleepers workspace

Gaiety 57xx refurb

I bought a rather dilapidated castle arts/ Gaiety GWR 57xx pannier tank model for about £4. It was in quite a sad state, the drive gear on the axle had come loose so although I got the motor to turn it couldn't transmit any power to the wheels. The body for this model was sold at one time on its own so that it could be matched up with a RTR [Triang/Hornby chassis. After a lot of faffing around I eventually acquired a suitable chassis for it and I modified it to accept the same method for fixing
sleeper

sleeper

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Q4 Progress

Hello again and happy New Year. Christmas always limits progress in “The Tank” and increasingly I find that age too has its effect on progress. However I have managed an hour or two there, and the Q4 chassis is getting fairly close to its first running trial. The pics show left and right sides but with only front and third axles in place. Fairly evident is the colour coding for the axleboxes (bearings if you prefer). The tin-plated wires showing through the horn way for the second axle, are
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Ben Alder's Blog

Helmsdale- a Far North Line Background

As a companion piece to the other station on the layout, I will lay out the background to Helmsdale, about half way between Wick and Inverness, and an important staging post in steam days. It has the usual two platforms, typical HR goods shed with minimal goods facilities, but most interestingly for modellers, an engine shed where the Dornoch locos were maintained and some elderly pre-group engines were used for banking and PW duties. Until the end of steam, some services started/terminated here
Ben Alder

Ben Alder in Category

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Some further thoughts on the ride height of Bachmann Thompson Brakes and Hornby Gresley Brakes

This Post follows on from comments received on the last Post. As bought I think there is a significant difference in the ride heights of the Bachmann Thompson coaches and the Hornby Gresley coaches.   Early Bachmann Thompson BG compared to super detail Hornby Gresley   I am indebted to John who commented on my previous Post describing a means of remedying the situation. I am not sure what I was thinking about when I said that there were differences in ride height between ‘old’ and ‘new’ Ba
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Adventures in N-gauge

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest...

Wow. I've managed to get through an entire calendar year without adding so much as a word to this blog. This is going to change: the modelling mojo is strong right now and I'm adopting a more organised approach to this whole business. In a shameless ploy to attract more readers I've also added a link here to my signature file; but the quid pro quo is that there has to be stuff for them to read. Look at that: they're not even here yet and already I feel a sense of obligation towards them.   So,
Jim Martin

Jim Martin

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

Workshop Update

Here is the state of play at the moment.   Things have progressed well the house is basically done, I have some doors etc to paint, and the garden needs something doing with it. The kitchen will be fitted next month. We will not be moving in as yet but I will be going to use the workshop. The bench has been made and now just needs the central hole filling with a piece of marble. I have had a piece of marble set in to work on for a few reasons. Firstly it will help stop destroying the bench. Se
N15class

N15class

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Snitzl's Main Blog

Servo Mod Point Motor

Servo Mod Point Motor.   Following on from my previous episode with radio controlled servos as point motors, it did eventually dawn on me that there might be a way of using servo's without the electronic drive and sensing circuitry. A stripped down servo is made up of three main components :-     5volt dc motor.   Precision spur gear box. Small PCB with electronics and sensor.   By discarding the electronics and sensor, it should then be possible to utilise b
snitzl

snitzl in Electrics

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

When is 'enough is enough'?

Hello   One thing that I have is tenacity. I find it very hard to give up on something, especially when that thing is a challenge. Sometimes it works against me so much that I end up getting very frustrated with it and I will admit, loosing my temper.   My poor Peckett has been a victim of this, some of you know that the chassis has been rebuilt as a result of it bouncing off a door after a flight across my living room. Fortunately the chassis was salvageable afterwards and was rebuilt to w
-missy-

-missy-

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Ffarquhar: A Thomas Themed Layout

Annie and Clarabel

So the layout is progressing very well the main woodwork on the boards has been completed with the asthetic woodwork to be completed later on in the build. Track has started to be laid and will hoefully be completed by the middle of next week. A small update on some of the rolling stock I have been working on:         Season 1/2 Annie... she has a lowered bufferbeam and I have fitted handrails to her. This is the closest I can get the Bachmann model of Annie to look like the season 1/2
Flyingscotsmanfan

Flyingscotsmanfan

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Ben Alder's Blog

Thurso- a Far North Line background

I thought I would give a background to the terminus of my new build, which is based on, and called,Thurso- furthest north station in the UK. Using an actual name is of course a hostage to fortune, and some alterations to the layout have been made, but I have endeavoured to retain a degree of fidelity, albeit in the usual,for me, cramped site. The track layout is as it was in steam days, with the exception of the engine shed, which has been placed 180o to the original,and is a two road shed, as o
Ben Alder

Ben Alder in Category

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Grasslands Workbench

Converting a Bachmann BR 03 Shunter chassis to fit inside a Craftsman BR 07 Shunter (Pt2)

I have been trying to answer three niggling questions: How can I fix the Bachmann chassis into the brass kit body? How can I fill the gap between the chassis and the front of the loco (see left)? Can I refit any of the little details from the original brass chassis to the Bachmann one (sand boxes and the lubricator arm)? As most of my time in this hobby is spent thinking about how to solve such problems (rather than actually doing anything) I decided, in the mean time, to see if I co
Grasslands

Grasslands

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The G16: powered and test run

A quick update (but no photos at this point): I reinstalled the motor and intermediate gear this morning then hooked up the wires temporarily to test it on DC power. It ran perfectly on the test leads so I placed it on the track and switched that over to DC (from DCC). There was an initial stickiness but after a couple of circuits it ran perfectly, although there was an annoying ticking noise that I traced to the front articulation on the coupling rods touching the spacing washer on the valve ge
SRman

SRman

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Paternosterrow

Return to Cheslyn

Had a couple of GWR ground signals turn up from an outstanding order a few months back so I thought I'd do a bit more work on Cheslyn. Also started installing some Spratt and Winkle couplings on some more coach stock.   One day I was playing with a Vi Trains class 37 whilst working on the couplings at the same time - never a good idea. After the session I picked up the 37 and found a dirty great superglue blemish and a bit of finger tip hanging off the bodywork. This was quite a shock and I di
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Jack00's Blog

my new 2mm mainline layout set in Cornwall around late 2000's.

As seen in layout tpoics. i've been working on converting a Farish 150/1 from Northern Rail livery into First Great Western purple/pink.   by scrubbing away the 'northern stars' and smoothing with fine sand paper, i then painted the passenger doors pink, and allowed to dry, after this the foot steps were painted a dark yellow, headlight clusters painted into black. then weathered using humbrol liquid poly and a mix of brown weathering powders, the battery boxes were given a wet-look by using
Jack00

Jack00

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The Farthing layouts

Low-tech coach restoration (3)

A couple of the coaches I’m restoring had buckled or sagging rooves, so I’ve been rolling and detailing some new ones from Plastikard. It’s one of those pleasing tasks where you get the satisfaction of making something from scratch without things getting too stressful - although with brass rooves it can of course be a bit more tricky. Here's a brief illustration of what I've been doing.     “So tell me dear, should I be worried?“ In retrospect, I can see why my wife was slig
Mikkel

Mikkel

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Moving to P4 (Post 40 (Need help - Dingham's))

Need a bit of help guys. My Dingham auto couplers arrived today, I've took photographs and will make a mini write up in due time but I'm stuck.   Instructions say (in my own words) "If at all possible make sure the coupling protrudes at least 6mm's from the headstock outwards in line with the buffer heads. The coupler end must be inline with the buffer heads."   Problem is, even with the tabs removed and the coupler sunk as far back as it will go, and even after pulling the buffers out a lit
Knuckles

Knuckles

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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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