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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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Hydraulic Heaven

Progress and Holidays

A few words on recent progress hereabouts...   The second bogie for D604 is now complete and looks much like the first one, so no need for any photos there. There are a couple of small jobs remaining before the new underframe bits get painted and then it should be 'job done'.   We've been away in Wales for the past week sampling the Garretts on the Welsh Highland. Definitely a good way to see Snowdonia but take a coat because this narrow gauge stuff has no heating... especially if you want t
D869

D869

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backofanenvelope's blog

In a galaxy far far away

Coming back to my blog and seeing that it is nearly a year since my last entry, which is quite shocking, I want to kickstart activities in my little corner of the world. Work and life events have gotten in the way this year and coming out of the fog has encouraged me to put glue to foamboard and ink to templot plans in an attempt to get restarted. The theme is still 2mmFS and a micro layout so nothing really has changed in the intervening months apart from the increasing mountain of foam board o
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Halstead Sidings' Blog

It's been a while!

Well as the title says it has been a while since my last blog. I would like to say that I have done lots to the layout but alas I haven't.out The layout has been set up in the garage along with my workbench, which has made my sisters all very happy, as I have moved all my modelling gear off the dining room table!   The biggest job that I was putting off for ages was to use hanging basket liner. This represents wild grass on the hillside on the approach to the station.     I started to tr
Flyingscotsmanfan

Flyingscotsmanfan

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Stringfingerling's Blog

More visualising

Here's a further drawing I'm working on to get a feel for what the layout will eventually look like. It's a drawing done in gel pen, scanned and then coloured in Photoshop.   I'm hoping to get the next board built this week - that'll be the bit where the station throat goes. The wiggle in the line of the front of the boards is where the lower edge rises from right to left by six inches, and then the front edge of the boards support the station comes out by a further nine inches.   The stat
Stringfingerling

Stringfingerling

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Legomanbiffo's sound Blog

Do the European

No doubt someone can tell me what these locos are. Each one had three more pantographs than most electrics in the UK, presumably for multi-voltage operation. We waited 20 minutes to get a better picture without the catenary masts in the way, only to get 'bowled' by a poxy two-storey Dutch bogcart!   Yes, after talking about it for several years my pal and I finally got round to visiting the Eurospoor show in Utrecht, courtesy of Stena Line from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. I was well impres
legomanbiffo

legomanbiffo

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Dukedog's Blog

A "Tail" of two "Dogs" Part 2

Here we go! Work is now under way here on Duke's kitchen table!   Day one of operations took me thus far....       I have started with the tender as i "Thought" this would be the easy bit! Not bloody likely! The castings although reasonable in terms of moulding flash, (although there is a fair bit of fettling) were slightly distorted and took a while to get reasonably straight. There is still loads to do on the tender but you can see the basic body shell coming together. I need asbe
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Matthew Cousins' Blog

Vinyl solution 2

Having the sun out today meant that I could get a better pic of the vinyls, so here we are. With a bit of varnish and weathering this could be a reasonable solution for me, as I'm not that picky about uber details. This solution is not for he purist, but I really don't have the time for learning tedious lining techniques - too busy.
Matthew Cousins

Matthew Cousins

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mithun pant's

project on tram tracks.

GREETINGS, I am working on a project related to tram tracks .Trying to find cheaper and efficient TRACKS. I read about LR55 tracks but require a brief explaination including cost and availability in India. PLEASE HELP ME WITH IT........
mithun pant

mithun pant

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Chrislock's 4mm Blog

Two coach Train

Greetings.   I have now completed the Ratio clerestory coach, bar some more screw links which I am waiting for from Smith's.   I looked at the transfers available from Fox, and concluded that I was happy to paint the lining on by hand once again, in the spirit of keeping costs down for this project.     I think the result is ok - maybe i should have bought some numbers - but in the end both coaches create the right impression when attached behind the engine. I hadn't ctually realised th
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Matthew Cousins' Blog

The Vinyl solution

I bought a 7mm G5 that had no lining and poor transfers, so using my loco profiles computer images I thought that I would create a set of vinyls for it, as my local printer can now print sticky backed vinyls that will be able to take spray varnish. They will need to be fudged in a bit and the loco weatherd to disguise the printed matter, but thought it hadn't turned out too badly. I have also done a set for my Stroudley liveried Terrier, but not stuck them on yet as that will take a lot more
Matthew Cousins

Matthew Cousins

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Copley Hill Works

"Thompson A2/1 from a V2?"

An alternative title for this blog suggested was "Simon is mental Part 508".   So, what do we have here?   I have a boatload of older Bachmann V2 bodyshells. I bought up a job lot some years back to nab spare parts from. This particular one has sat on one of my shelves for about six years now. I decided to have a go at cutting the smokebox off, with the original intention of adding a Hornby A3 smokebox and boiler later on. However, curiosity got the better of me.   The resin components you
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Box in a box

Box in a Box - and a Prawn Tea to follow....

Since the last entry on this blog in March, I've not been too idle! Two entries in the 2012 Challenge, 'Weavers Yard' in the Upton Dene blog and a pacemaker fitted have effectively taken care of the (?)summer... Retirement's wonderful! However its time to get down to some modelling where there is a danger that something might actually RUN soon!   The first issue was finding a way to connect the boxfiles together. Their lightweight construction rules out my usual method of 'engineers dowels
scanman

scanman

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Chrislock's 4mm Blog

Coincidence...

Last night I stumbled across this thread: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/63247-shock-horror-wf-does-midland/   which was an interesting read, being able to compare my experience of the Ratio 2-4-0 with someone who appears to be a more experienced kit builder in 4mm. I think the biggest difference is the quality of finish on his wheels, which has made me wonder - should I paint mine, or daub on blacking solution?   On another tack, the clerestory lavatory third is coming
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Wenlock's Blog

Horse box finally finished!

I've finally got round to finishing my D & S etched brass horsebox. Its been on the list of "things to do" since I last published pictures of the finished build back in June. It was primed using an aerosol can of Clostermann acid etch primer, before using an airbrush to spray the enamel top coat. Lettering and numbering were applied using HMRS transfers and the wagon was glazed using off cuts from a box of chocolates ("you spoil us ambassador!")       All in all, I'm pleased with
wenlock

wenlock

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Snitzl's Main Blog

Trestle Bridge.

Trestle Bridge.   Based on Wickham Bishops trestle bridge over the river Blackwater with slight variations,  this is a step by step guide to modelling the main components of this bridge in  styrene sheet. The stone supports at either end of the bridge are briefly covered  and further details of their construction can be found in Random Stone Walls. The bridge itself, is a fairly straight forward bit of model making ideal for the beginner.  Most of the trestle bridge is constructed from
snitzl

snitzl in Stonework and Structures

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Westfall

Electra Graphics RTC Structure Gauging Train MK1s - N Gauge

So after my effort with the Electra Railway Graphic overlays on my Track Cleaner (see external blog http://railblue.blogspot.co.uk/ ) I thought I'd try something more substantial.   So to start off I purchased a set of Vinyl overlays from Electra and a couple of 374-180 Graham Farish Regional Railway Mk 1 BSK coaches. I chose these as they were the cheapest I could find I suppose any MK 1 coaches would do as long as they are scale length for the graphics as you strip the paint away. To Strip t
Steve-e

Steve-e

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Engine Wood

Callow Lane - cobbling a la Harrap - Part 1

Glaciers may have moved faster than my modelling efforts over the last few weeks, but this is what I've been doing. It's all a load of old cobbles, or that's the plan, at any rate.   Inspired by the output from Brian Harrap, I bought a tub of this:   Brian actually uses Tetrion tile grout, as it's harder than most other types and, therefore, ideal for individually scribing the cobbles on with a steel pin in a pin vice, but I couldn't find any locally, so settled for Tetrion filler instead.
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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4mm rolling stock

Recent carriage and wagon progress

I've not done much modelling over the summer, mainly due to being busy at work. But recently I'd finished off a few projects, and attacked my pile of unbuilt kits   This plywood shockvan is a Red Panda kit bought off eBay, although they now seem to be back in to production again. It's been painted but unlettered for a while, so a burst of activity saw it finished. The later shock wagon square markings were done using the white lines that come on the HMRS wagon transfer sheet. These were use
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Southern steam

E2 and M7 - some not very clean pre-Group Southern steam from around 1960

Progress slowed over the Summer and Autumn, mainly due to me being busy at work. But I have managed to finish the E2, which has been lurking part finished in my box of abandoned projects since the late 1990s. To recap, this is a stretched and lowered Hornby body on a scratchbuilt chassis. It runs very well, which isn't bad for my first scratchbuilt chassis. As you'd expect for a model that's been worked on for years, it's not quite up to my current standards in places, but I'm very pleased wi
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Southern Electric workbench

Detailed Bachmann 04 - now finished

This was going to be a quickie - back in March. Now 8 months later one of the shunters is finished. It wasn't even repainted - just some touching up, followed by new numbers (of the 'wrong' type for this livery as per the prototype) and a spot of weathering. The glazing was cut by hand from plastic sheet, and looks very good, but was a real pain. I ended up doing one window an evening over about two weeks.   It looks pretty good in my opinion. The 03 is still not ready for painting.....
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Chrislock's 4mm Blog

Transfers

This afternoon my LMS transfers arrived from Fox, so I decided to continue my research for a suitable prototype 2-4-0 in my books. I came across a photograph of an identical locomotive, photographed at Peterborough Kettering in 1933 and chalked "condemned". Perfect. I can now pretend that it was saved and reassigned for use on a local branch line somewhere in the Midlands area. And so my model has become LMS No137. I found some old 2mm scale LMS numbers for the smokebox door - a good job as
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

WEST COUNTRY (10)

Here we are back with the loco.   I have made the cylinders nand motion bracket. These are both detachable. I did try just having the motion bracket so, bit it needed the cylinder to come off to. I jst need to fit the coupling rods properly now, it is going to be very tight between the front pin and the connecting rod. Hopefully there will be room. I have also started the ash pan assembly. I am having to add details here as the kit was very basic. I am totally unsure about what I
N15class

N15class in W/c class watersmeet

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Redgate's Modelling

Golden Arrow Crosti - Loco Drive

So,   I've started making my second Golden Arrow Crosti 9F, this time this one's for me - a loco drive version using the latest Hornby Railroad 9F chassis. The intention is to sell off my existing tender drive version that although having given stirling service on Summat Colliery since day one, is, after all, tender drive.   To complicate matters the Railroad tender chassis will not do as it's too long at the front and lacking in the details that the current Britannia tender has. Although I
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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    • 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,
    • longchap
      Autocoach upgrade

      By longchap · Posted

      A great start to a worthwhile project Neal and your photos, particularly of the Didcot original make excellent references for, like kingmemder, my own two Dart projects.   I never realised that IPA effectively had a use by date, interesting.   Keep up the good work,   Bill
    • Harlequin
      Autocoach upgrade

      By Harlequin · Posted

      Old tech vs. New tech. Things have moved on!   Phil  
    • Neal Ball
      Autocoach upgrade

      By Neal Ball · Posted

      Good luck with that.   If I was to do the kit again, I would see if someone could 3D print the steps for me. I am sure they dont need to be as fiddly as they are!   Regards, Neal.
    • kingmender
      Autocoach upgrade

      By kingmender · Posted

      Great effort Neal. I have 2 Dart Castings kits sitting in the stash. When I finish the Centenary set (ready for the paint shop), and the O11 Siphon I may make a start. Just a few signals to make in the meantime.

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