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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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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

...I have returned... to trains!

So I'm back onto trains with my latest project, an updated J39 from Bachmann.   I'm also doing one of my many unfortunatly ventures into soldering...   I have a Dave Alexander 3,500 gallon tender kit.     I accidently put it together a little wrong which ended up having the superstructure being a bit twisted which required a resoldering and alot of "Malcolm Tucker dialogue" until I was relatively happy with the outcome.   The othe rissue was with the locomtive not helping matters by b
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Hydraulic Heaven

Last of the First - Part 3

This is a catch up installment on D604... and quite a long one. I was quite keen to get it into a presentable state so that I could use it at TINGS, so that meant no mucking about on RMWeb for a little while.   In the last installment the basic shape of the bodyshell was completed but the detail was yet to go on. There is a lot less to add to the class 41 than the class 22, but there was still some work to do.   The roof has most of the right things in the right places. Unlike the 22 there i
D869

D869

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

4FO+1UFO

If you were hoping for Southern MUs then you might want to leave now ;-)   I've been trying very hard to finish some of what I have started. The amount of visible desk (zero) had become an impossible situation, especially considering that our spare bedroom has three lengths of worktop in it and SWMBO only has a small portion of that. In attempting to paint more of the items I had built but not painted I had a growing pile of stock that was 'finished' awaiting couplings. Progress was being made
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Fourgig East

Fiddle Yard Wiring

After a very pleasant afternoon at the Huddersfield Railway Modellers Open Day I got home and started wiring up!     I've gone for simple and chained the tracks on the surface - well it is all going to be painted black.....   Just got the deck to wire up then connect all the bits underneath
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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SNCF stephen's Blog

German Railway Society - Sutton 2012 Expo pics

This morning I attended one of my favourite model railway shows. The German Railway Society annual Expo at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall. The hall is a good size with 3 large rooms all nicely decorated. There is a variety of trade and society stands as well as some outstanding continental layouts. Here are some pictures from the day.
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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BurtonWetmore's OMWB

37035 Weathering

I've started a seperate blog to document things on my workbench that are not to do with The Building of Burton Wetmore (my layout project), which can be found here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1182-building-burton-wetmore/   So here's the first entry, 37035 a Cardiff based machine in the early 90's suitably airbrush weathered. A 'fresh out the box' version sits along side for comparison, which will later be renumbered as 37092, another Cardiff Tractor.  
BurtonWetmore

BurtonWetmore

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squeaky's Blog

Going to europe

I've been modelling US HO for a couple of years now and I have started to get interested in the Continental stuff. My interest was sparked by seeing a Piko electric in arriva trains livery, this led me to looking at other continental locos and being impressed by the various models diesel and electric and the amount of different types available.   Having done lots of research i'm starting to learn the differences of the available manufacturers with regard to quality and amount of detail. The o
squeaky

squeaky

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LC's 5 inch gauge blog

Gilling August 2012

I really am getting worse at this! If anyone is looking for an excuse for my lateness, just started my A-levels!   But anyway. The bank holiday weekend of august sees the annual second mainline rally at gilling rilway. The weather looked iffy but still we persevered! Due to previous other reasons for which i shall leave space here to insert excuses [ ] , we didnt get our names in the running roster for the weekend. So, we would turn up to gilling with no guarentee of even a run, but no matt
London cambrian

London cambrian

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Building Burton Wetmore

Burton Wetmore - Planning Stage

Right, so here's my current N Gauge layout plan for y'all to get excited about. I am currently having my baseboards professionally built (the benefits of employing a carpenter). The layout is going to be a scale 1 mile section from Burton on Trent station to Wetmore and will have a scenic section of 36ft. Obviously, this is not going to be a quick build but it's long been my dream to build this section of line (I grew up on the Midland Mainline). The first 16ft will be constructed first so it ca
BurtonWetmore

BurtonWetmore

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brightspark's Blog

What I did in July and August

Well...it seems not very much. The fine weather and the Olympics kind of distracted me. Plus hearing the news that I "shall soon have the oppurtunity to be working somewhere else" (another way of saying you are being made redundant) has rather surprisingly improved my health! My work colleagues and i have been given some training on job hunting and dealing with the closure of the site. One of the charts showed the various stages of depression that you go through. You know denial, rebellion all
brightspark

brightspark

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Clevedon WC&PR

Shed Complex

Have rediscovered the modelling mojo and engaged on Clevedon.   Firstly, the water tank panels have been soldered together resulting in a pretty good representation of the WC&PR tanks. Does anybody know whether Braithwaite tanks were open topped or did they have a lid? My guess is the latter. Having spent a considerable time trying to work out how the various shed buildings and water tank interact, I came to the conclusion (surprisingly) that as the engine and original carriage shed wer
ullypug

ullypug

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 14/09/2012

Hi,   Our group managed to arrange some mid-week working sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, so it gave us the opportunity to have all of the layout Modules in one place and to attempt to put them together for the first time   Wednesday   Our End Loops had been painted, but as yet we hadn't joined the pairs together. So the first job was to clamp each of the halves together and drill the holes for the fixings and the pattern makers dowels to aid alignment. As with the other boards, we hav
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Fjordsbanen

Christmas is 3 months early!

My first three Norwegian locos arrived courtesy of DHL this morning. I chose to model Norway as there's not that many different locomotive types in use there be it diesel or electric and the two types of classes in my purchase are very similar looking in design.   I will go into great detail with better photographs in a later blog but for reference we have from left to right -   NMJ - Class EL17 (2221) in standard NSB red and black. Roco - Class EL16 (2211) in CargoNet early livery if bla
mp55aec

mp55aec

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The Farthing layouts

All in a day's work - part 4 (1914)

The men stood in silence and stared at the broken crate. It had fallen on its side and the contents had spilled out. There was no mistaking it: There in the middle....         .... was a human skull.         Station Master A. Woodcourt was the first to speak: "Well it may be a murder, but it's hardly a recent one!"           At this point the director of the travelling theater company launched into
Mikkel

Mikkel

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reemgee's Blog

Still trying

Hi all,   It's September already and not a dish washed so to speak! I keep trying to start but something always gets in the way of time! Reading the blogs, it would seem that I am not alone, some of you guys seem to push on in all areas and some like me are restricted in time and end up taking two steps forward and three back. I have managed to build a couple of bridge kits to my credit and a crossings house/cottage,not very well I hasten to add, as it has been along time since I built kits!
reemgee

reemgee

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Hang on, this is not a train!

Okay... so it isn't, what you gonna do?   Recently, I've been a bit inundated with railway modelling which is good, but I felt the need to do something else. Hence I remember as a student I bought a shed load of kits which I had left in the loft! Unfortunatly some of them (although unbuilt) and lost some parts which is a shame as I'd really like to do them. You never know... one day I might get the bits to finish a few off.   Anyway back in the saddle I felt I should have a crack at one of m
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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paddock wood bay (in a boxfile)

oooh-bay...

Update   Good afternoon - Various bits of progress this week on the layout, and with 'The Outlaws' just arrived back in town for another week, things may move a little slower during this period.   First up, trackwork. The first track laid was to the 'mainline' which is the one that folds up/down to increase/minimise the width of the layout. The sleepers that had been pre-painted in the last entry were laid with easitrac white adhesive (it sets pretty rapidly) and a few brass lost wax sleeper
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Fourgig East

Fiddle Tracks Made

The fiddle yard board is coming along nicely after a few dry Friday afternoons. Last night I soldered up approx 3 yards of track and tonight I hope to get the remaining little bits made and get it all fixed down. The photo below gives you the idea though     Once laid and wired up the lot will get a coat of black paint then it's onto the shed scene at the front - the inspection pit is already fitted
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Summat Colliery

New Conveyor

Been a while since I did anything on Summat but after Wigan I left the long conveyor on the parcel shelf in the Scooby and the sun got to it. Half of the plastic deformed like a banana   These sections of the Walthers kit were kindly donated to me by a couple of RMwebbers as I'd already used the large conveyor from my kit to run to the road hopper. Little chance of anyone else having a spare set so I contacted Walthers about the possibility of some spares. Despite an initial favourable respon
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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St Johns End's Blog

Where have I been?!

Sorry that I have been gone a while. Starting college has held me back and the construction of the baseboards doesn't start for another few months! However I have started making some small pieces to keep busy.
St Johns End

St Johns End

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The Grime Street Blog

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...............

Hot on the heels of the Pilcher CAD comes the latest one, I can't see me painting one purple and Ivory and numbering in Leeds 603, and I very much doubt it would clear the corners on Grime Street being a massive beast of a tram (50ftx8ft), but it should appeal to those who like to model a certain costal tramway in the county palatine, very much work in progress. but most varients are/will be covered (different fronts/roof windows/beadings etc).   Interior is to be altered but might well do som
Red Devil

Red Devil

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