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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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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #18 Drummond’s T14 Class 4-6-0 he had to get one almost right…

I mentioned in my Talking Stock # 17 Drummond’s 4-4-0s more than just T9s! that whilst Drummond had managed some successful 4-4-0 designs his various 4-6-0’s for the London South Western Railway (LSWR) were somewhat more variable in performance. This was quite worrying as increased passenger loading, the requirement for faster schedules and in general heavier rolling stock increased the demands of the locomotive fleet. His previously introduced 4-6-0 class such as F13, E14, G14 and P14 classes
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Buckingham West

Progress

Below are some early photos of the storage loops.       The storage loops with the main line circuits in the foreground. Taken sometime in the summer 2012. Newton Purcell station will be over the loops on a higher level with the mainline visible to the front on the lower level.       The dumbell at the end of the storage loops, feeding back onto the main line circuits around the loft.       An early photo of the exit from the storage loops, leading into the dumbell. Elements of
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale

Why don't you just Drop In?

New to the roster at Brafferton are two DMUs a Metro Cammell class 101 in green and a Derby Lightweight class 108 in blue (yes I know; blame my lad for the increasing "modernisation"!).   Both require chipping and attention to the wheels to make them suitable for use on Brafferton; 2FS and all that. Previously I have used the wheel turning service for diesels and DMUs and very good it is. However on this occasion I thought I'd give the Association drop in wheelsets a spin. Here is the bit cove
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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Buckingham West

Lights, Camera, Action

Google provided me with details of the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society and I made contact with one of the guys there. He invited me along as there is a large test track (incidently for O, OO and N gauge, DC or DCC!), many people to speak to about DC or DCC and he himself is a serial loco builder.   For a bottle of Port and a small amount of cash for materials, I became the proud owner of a well finished off Bulldog in 1936 shirtbutton livery. I have bought plates to name it "Pe
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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46444's Blog

Motive Power for Juniper Hill-A micro layout based around a Northamptonshire ironstone quarry line

Evening,   After my 009 diversional therapy (see previous entry) I thought I better get back to the micro-layout I'm building called Juniper Hill (JH) which is based on the ironstone quarry lines of Northamptonshire around Kettering/Corby.   I really need to get in the garage and start the track laying and wiring. Once this is done I can at least start playing trains   However, there were a few bits on the workbench to finish including these two locos that will form part of the motive pow
46444

46444

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Clevedon WC&PR

Filth

Progress continues. Well it wouldn't be progress otherwise would it? I've been experimenting with weathering using baby powder mixed with Carrs powders. As you can see I couldn't resist putting a few models out to take a few photos. After trying a number of different colours and paints, I settled on a grey/brown mix sprinkled onto wet Humbrol acylic (roof grey). I've made three batches up varying the blend of Carrs to give a mottled effect. I'm quite pleased with it. More clay has been laid.
ullypug

ullypug

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Copley Hill Works

"Thompson A2/1 from a Bachmann V2 & Graeme King Parts - Part 4"

A bit of finishing off prior to weathering. Firstly, the front steps on the running plate have been removed. 60508 didn't have these steps, and it was a timely post from one Tony Wright on another thread which spurred me into removing them (particularly as 60508 is photographed in this livery quite clearly without them). Lining out was also added to the bufferbeam, along with gluing down the buffers, hook and coupling and vacuum pipe.   EDIT: I should point out that 60508 is the only A2/1 whic
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Killybegs' Blog

Fabricating rooflights (or Thank heavens for RSU's)

I spent quite a while ruminating about how best to deal with the glazing on the train shed roof for Killybegs. The original plan was to use sheets of clear acrylic with glazing bars represented with plastic microstrip. I wasn't really happy that this would look right, so looked to the real thing (metaphorically speaking as Killybegs station building is long gone) for inspiration and eventually opted for a brass frame into which individual sheets of glazing could be fitted. For ease of fabricatio
Killybegs

Killybegs

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Buckingham West

Pre-requisites

The layout has to tick various boxes for me. The first and foremost is operational interest. All my layouts as a teenager were tail-chasing train sets with some scenery apart from one which was a fiddleyard to small branch terminus, but they were boring to operate. What really got me about Peter Denny's Buckingham was the operational interest.   No matter how I redesigned the concept over the 30 years away from modelling, I kept coming back to Denny's three stations and fiddleyard.   I have
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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Kelly's Wordpress Blog

Been a while since last post…

Unfortunately my health has been poor in the last 6 months or so. I did manage to go to a few exhibitions when health allowed. These included Alexandra palace and rmweb members day. I’ll be at the Warley show on the Sunday this year hopefully too. Sadly I missed this years Model Rail Live, after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=d827.wordpress.com&blog=24582877&post=303&subd=d827&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />   Source
Kelly

Kelly

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Buckingham West

Why do it? Do what?

Thank you for reading my blog.   So why do it? And do what?   Well starting with the "what?", my project is a loft layout. And "why?"...well about 30 years ago, I stopped railway modelling, went to Uni, started a career, got married, had kids, furthered my career etc etc. Now one daughter is 20 and the other nearly 18 and I have a little time on my hands and a little space in the house (albeit in the loft).   Over the last 30 years I have mused on different layouts, read books and magazine
Richard Mawer

Richard Mawer

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Pugsley's Workbench

The Current State of Play

This is how things are at the moment: I hate electrical fault finding, but with much reluctance I have broken out the multimeter to try and find out why my 37 disgraced itself a few weekends ago, where it made all the right noises, but didn't actually do anything. I've put the first bogie on its 'custom stand' for easier access   Fault number one was found quite quickly - one of the connections to the centre motor on the No 1 bogie is a bit dodgy, so that will have to be remade. Solderin
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Dukedog's Blog

A "Tail" of two "Dogs" Part 4

It's a case of one step forwards and two steps backwards this week!   I've started building the chassis for both locomotives. While I was waiting for the motor and gears for my clients Bulldog to arrive I pressed on with the chassis for the Dukedog. Both locos chassis are identical so I had to make sure I didn't get all the bits mixed up!   Anyway, after assembling the frames for the Dukedog on a piece of plate glass to ensure all is square and flat.   The frames come pre drilled for th
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Chrislock's 4mm Blog

Sojourn in Switzerland...

Greetings. Since a memorable holiday in Switzerland a few years ago I have been intrigued by the narrow gauge railways of the WAB and SPB. Alas the available RTR such as hrf are astronomically priced, though superb model. I have been discussing various possibilities with a friend Paul, who is a big fan of the WAB in particular and one way of creating a rack system for a reasonable figure is to adapt the Fleishmann N gauge system to HOe. The subject of how to recreate a little He2/2 has
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Bachmann Collett Coaches – bringing them closer?

There has not been a lot of progress with the layout so instead some ideas on close coupling and corridor connectors for Bachmann Collett coaches.   Coach Couplings as bought   As with so many Ready to Run models there can be quite a gap between coaches. Can the gap be closed up? Is it cheap to do and will it significantly reduce the value of the original coach?   Coach Couplings as modified   I can remember the introduction of the first Collett coaches by Mainline (Bachmann). At
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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QRModeller's Workbench

And they're off!

G'day, welcome to my blog!   Here you can find what's been happening on my workbench. Basically, this workbench blog will contain any modelling project that I'm currently undertaking so you can expect to see a general mash-up of kitbuilds and scratchbuilds, conversions and painting, weathering and detailing projects in OO, N, HO and HOn3 1/2. This will include locos, rollingstock and various scenic items (i.e. mostly buildings).   So, sit down (or stand if you prefer) and hold on tight bec
QRModeller

QRModeller

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What have I let myself in for??

The Longest Day

According to my diary the “longest day” is the summer solstice in June when we have more daylight than on any other day. For me the longest day was, without doubt, Saturday 10th November, the date of the Weston-on-Trent model railway show. The show has been nine months in the planning, and the subject of many a blog entry here on RMWeb. Now the day has been and gone. And what a day it proved to be!   It all started the night before as I began to pack up Skaleby West for transportation. The
andyram

andyram

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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

ch ch ch changes....

Update   It's been a while...and there's a few things to share.   Firstly, my circumstances are changing, namely that after 5+ great years here in Barcelona we have decided to relocate back to the UK next year...at the end of the boys School year. It's proving too difficult for us to work in Spain and it hasn't been helped by us arriving 3 months before the economic crisis hit...which as you are aware is hitting Spain very hard.   Following a trip to London 10 days ago, I had an interview
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Wenlock's Blog

Station Building Progress 3

Considering the diminutive size of William Clarke's station buildings, they have one heck of a lot of windows and doors! I've been busy with the micro strip and plastikard and the results are below. I'm going to try using slide glass in the windows of my next loco, but for this building I've used a clear plastic sheet for the glazing. The glazing bars are held in place with a tiny drop of liquid poly, applied with a 00 brush. I find capiliary action, rapidly bonds the bars to the glazing m
wenlock

wenlock

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Par Station in N Gauge - Bridging the gap (2)

Good evening all,   I have been making some progress over the last week or so with the footbridge for Par station. I have still to find a suitable mesh to complete the side railings on the steps up to the bridge and I am hoping that I will find something that will work well when I visit the Warley show at the NEC in Birmingham in a couple of weeks.   The footbridge ends are now complete, the second end being a complete nightmare to build as the structure somehow would not glue together strai
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Argos' Blog

Carts and horses....or an outbreak of modelling

Today I really should have been finishing the carpentry for the boards and starting to laminate the sides together.   That was before I discovered my box of rail components from shop 1 .   I decided to try a combination of the easitrac construction and copperclad sleepers. I figured the copperclad would make the construction more robust.   The layout of the sleepers can be seen below:-         This time around I found the Easitrac chairs much easier to thread, the Slide chairs were
Argos

Argos

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backofanenvelope's blog

Permanent Way

After a couple of days of plans not going to plan, I managed to get the soldering iron out and start building the points for Oakworth. I have found enough sleepers now to complete all three on the main board. I need to work out the tie bar issue and where they sit between bracing bars on the underside. I have made sure there is plenty of space for point monitors.   The first one is pretty easy as it is straight however always slow to get the brain cells working about the process Might get it
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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