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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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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

GWR HALL (6)

This is about as far as I can go with this until my new castings arrive. It has been fun doing it so far, the kit would be good to do from new.   I have now got the running plate finished etch wise, the overlay for the top had to have 3 bits removed and new made. It turned out very well. As Eric used to say to Ernie "you can't see the join" Well I hope you can't anyway. I made the joins where they were on the prototype. I missed spaced a couple of rivets, but I put it down to the fitte
N15class

N15class in GWR St Peters Hall.

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Ouse Viaduct/Balcombe/Lewes project

A start on Balcombe station

This is the first actual part of Balcombe station. One of its features from the period we are modelling is a cast iron footbridge - not the one there now, which is an Exmouth Junction concrete product. It is shown here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balcombe_railway_station_1745357_cc3c259a.jpg . Of note is that at one end there is a conventional landing and staircase, but at the other the bridge connects with a covered staircase coming from the road above. The main bridge deck is also quite
10800

10800

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Moving to P4 (Post 39 (Loco Building))

This post won't amaze you, neither is there any pictures so I'll be supprised to see any comments as it's more an announcement than anything, anyway, my next post will likely be the building of a locomotive kit (or 2) straight into P4   I'm finally going to have a crack at Thomas MK 1& MKII. Finally I got a reply from Blue Pioneer who has built one of these E2's, he says the chassis is indeed etched and he has showed me a photograph and the horn guides are cut too. Thus, I have ordered t
Knuckles

Knuckles

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The sleepers workspace

Hornby Connie to Double Fairlie [Merddin Emrys] - part 2

As I said before I had shelved this project with no great desire to carry it on, however after a couple of months I was able to look at it in a different light. The bogies I'd tried to use were completely wrong, the scale was all wrong too. In height it was ok but in length it was way too long, something like 8 scale feet too long. This was largely due to my trying to use the RTR bogies, something had to be done. With nothing to lose I proceeded to hack the thing to bits. I had to lose somethi
sleeper

sleeper

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - On the edge

Ropley overview. Visible progress is being made with the embankment to the left now in place.   Happy New Year all!   Well, the first blog post of 2013 and I finally have some visible progress with the layout to show! Over the New Year period, a few days off work have seen several major steps forward made which have totally transformed the look of the model. Firstly though we'll briefly go back to signals.   The last blog entry showed the first stages of the Up Starter signal, and thi
TomE

TomE

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The sleepers workspace

From Hornby's Connie to Double Fairlie [Merddin Emrys] part 1

As I was browsing the internet one day I came across an article written by someone on the subject of locomotive wheel configurations which featured a photo of a Double Fairlie and I was quite taken by it as I'd never seen or heard of one before. I decided I'd like to try to make a model that represented the prototype in the article. Here is one of the many pictures I subsequently found on researching the project, it's very atmospheric I think. It shows a Double Fairlie back in the days when the
sleeper

sleeper

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Redgate's Modelling

O Gauge Pug - Chassis up and running

I managed a few hours over Christmas to get the chassis painted and over the last two evenings I've got it running again!     Pretty pleased with the neat phosphor bronze pickups which should blend in pretty well with some black paint later. The rods are VERY sloppy and there is a bit of a stick due to this. To get an idea of the problem the crankpins (threaded screws) have an outside diameter of 1.6mm. The holes in the rods are 2.2mm! I've found some 1.6mm i/d tube with an o/d of 2.4mm so
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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SRman's Workbench Blog

The G16: a quick coat of paint

After three days of ice packs on my face and pain killers I have had to have a root canal job on a tooth. Now that I'm recovering and feeling human again, I have pushed the G16 project a little further.   I have put a temporary wheelset on the bogie and given the body a preliminary coat of black.   On reading the potted history of the class in the instructions, I have realised that I need to remove the capuchon from the chimney - a few strokes of a file will fix this. I am almost ready to fi
SRman

SRman

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

So – How much weight have you added? – Full Brakes mainly of the Hornby variety

In an earlier Post I detailed the construction of some corridor connectors for my Bachmann Collett coaches. I have now added a Hornby Hawksworth Full Brake coach.     I like the look of the Hornby Hawksworth coaches, perhaps with the exception of the corridor connectors, which could well be the subject of a separate Post. I bought my first Hornby Hawksworth Full Brake coach back in October 2010 for use with a rake of ‘express coaches’. Most recently I have added a Full Brake to the local ‘s
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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The sleepers workspace

0-6-0T USA class shunter

I bought 3 damaged body shells on Ebay one was a dock authority shunter, one a Hornby detailed Castle [Neath Abbey] which I repaired and fitted with minimal alteration on to a 4-6-0 Hornby chassis. The third one was a cheapo Lima 0-4-0 'international' loco, they come in a train set. So this is how it started out :-     This is what I was aiming to represent :-     These USA class engines were ordered through the US Army Transport Corps during the 2nd World War from the Vulcan Ironworks
sleeper

sleeper

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The sleepers workspace

My introduction

Hi everyone, I've been registered on RMWeb for quite a while but haven't done anything about adding any content, other than the odd comment here and there. I've only been modeling railway stuff for just over a year and my knowledge of railways doesn't add up to much but I'm learning all the time and find the subject very interesting. Of course I went through the usual phase of 'train spotting' when I was a kid and lived right near Hither Green sidings outh East London where you could hear the
sleeper

sleeper

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cornish trains jez's Blog

First attempt at 2mmFS - A swiss themed project

Good afternoon all,   First of all, a happy new year to you all.   I made my annual visit to the Warley exhibition in Birmingham last November and decided to join the 2mmFS association having been inspired by the 2mmFS layouts and boxfile 2mmFS layouts on this website. My thoughts were to attempt a small project involving the easitrac system.   Having previously built a swiss layout in N scale, I decided to model a swiss themed 2mmFS layout as the sleeper spacings seem fairly similar (plea
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Engine Wood

Callow Lane - back to the cobbling - tarmac encroaches

OK, so it's back to the cobble scribing, and now I have to scribe the area on the opposite side of the siding. This is the main area where road vehicles arrive, having come down the approach road to the goods yard, and is a pretty large space, if considered purely in cobble-scribing terms...   So, I was always going to depict the majority of the area has having been (rather crudely) tarmacked over, with just a small(ish) are of cobbles remaining immediately next to the track (the reasoning bei
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - The Goods Shed has Landed

Like some sort of UFO, the goods shed has descended from space (the spare bedroom, actually) and landed in the prepared cut-out in the cork surface of the base-board. It's been there before, but I thought I'd re-fit it, just to complete the station scene.         Dave.
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Dave Holt's Blog

Caprotti valve gear

In a recent blog, Tim has shown his developing model of an LMS Caprotti Class 5, and very good it looks too. Here are some photos of the gear I made for the similar BR Standard version. Also a sketch of how I represented the universal joints in the shafts. THe shafts and joints were made for various diameters of brass tube and rod and the return crank gear boxes were from the DJH cast brass gear I was replacing. For ease of assembly, painting, etc., I made the gear as a set of sub-assemblies he
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #19 The quiet but powerful Maunsell Z class tanks.

Firstly a quick Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog as this is the first post of 2013, I wish you all a peaceful and prosperous year ahead with hopefully plenty of time of modelling all things Southern!   One of the regular sights on Fisherton Sarum is my Z class pushing loaded loco coal wagons up the incline to the coal stage. Maunsell Z Class 0-8-0T number 957 was allocated to Salisbury primarily for shunting the East yard, this was due in part to the fact that the yard was shunte
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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The Farthing layouts

Low-tech coach restoration (2)

As mentioned in the previous blog entry, I've been restoring a small collection of secondhand scratchbuilt 4- and 6-wheelers. I should point out that I'm cutting some corners here: The premise for this project has been to see what I could do with the coaches with simple means and materials, and without breaking them down into their constituent parts and starting over.       First job was to remove the rooves and discard the glazing and droplights, which were beyond savi
Mikkel

Mikkel

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Ben Alder's Blog

Some scattered postings

An exercise in housekeeping here- a gathering of various topics I've posted, to help track them down as required.   Thurso rail traffic in the 1970's- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/61664-thurso-rail-traffic-in-the-early-70s/-   Fort William rail traffic in 1972- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/61633-fort-william-in-1972/   A wagon miscellany at Ferryhill in the early 70's- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/61890-a-wagon-miscellany-at-ab
Ben Alder

Ben Alder

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

Dusting off GT3 for Christmas

I wanted a little project to do during that time between Christmas and the New Year, it had to be a small project as time would be an issue - it isn't fair to lock yourself away from the family for too long at this time of the year after all! But I wanted something I could look back on in these depressing first days back at work and think - 'I actually did achieve something during the holidays'.   I decided my long mothballed GT3 project would fit the bill, no major jobs, just lots of finishin
GWMark

GWMark

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Clevedon WC&PR

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to one and all. Hope Santa brought you what you wanted. In between the usual festivities, I've managed to make a bit of progress with Clevedon. The Christmas and New Year possession has seen an awful lot of fencing laid; MSE etched 5 rail local authority style and Ratio spear fencing. I've also finished the point rodding, such as it was. The Flockit grass fibre machine has finally made an appearance and I've been having a play with it. I think I'm going to need to paint
ullypug

ullypug

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Tim's Blog

Caprotti 'Black Five' 44687, part 1

Love them or hate them, the Ivatt-built Caprotti 'Black Fives' aren't exactly the most attractive of machines. Nonetheless, I cannot get away without modelling a few of them for my chosen line, thanks to nine of them being allocated to Llandudno Junction (6G) and being used on a lot of the main passenger work for that shed. They were especially common on the 'Club Trains' to and from Liverpool/Manchester.   I've had this model on the "ongoing" list for a while now, but it's never got very fa
Timara

Timara

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Derby Lightweight for Christmas - converted to P4 by New Year

Santa, assisted by the elves at Kernow Models, brought me a Derby Lightweight for Christmas. (My family are good an knowing just what I want). Also delivered came a set of conversation wheels from Branchlines.   So last Friday night the two presents were put together and by the end of the evening the unit was making jaunts up and down a Midland branch in South Cambridgeshire (thanks Brian!). More suited perhaps to East Anglian branchlines that Empire Basin's north London but that is the way my
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Grasslands Workbench

The Master and the Slave: Creating a BR Class 13 (Pt3 - Pick-ups and DCC)

Today I ignored the dark and wet weather outside and focussed on making sure my Class 13 would be a strong runner on digital control.   As discussed in part 2, I will be installing two DCC decoders (one in each unit) and setting them to the same address.         I first modified the chassis casting of the slave and master units. Cutting away the lugs that formerly supported a small circuit board (now surplus to requirements). This modification allows just enough space for a Bachmann 3-fun
Grasslands

Grasslands

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