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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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Chris Nevard's Blog

Combwich, 30 years ago!

8104_stogursey_003_01, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Combwich is a lot older than most people think, the baseboards and track dating back to 1980. It was originally called Churchstanton, then Stogursey and finally the present Combwich when I rebuilt it in 2001-present.   The layout is still very active, in fact it's better now than it's ever been:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/nevardmedia/sets/72157630183211760/with/7397034112/   Most of the stock seen here is still in regular use t
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

The Point Rodding Saga Continues...

Hello.   One of the 'smart' ideas I had for Highclere was to add point rodding to the layout. Its something that you dont see that often on layouts, especially in 2mm Scale. Little did I know how much of a pain it would turn out to be!   Now for a little background info for those who dont know what I am on about...   The point rodding for the layout is based around two parts. The first is some 0.4mm square Nickel-Silver wire which I buy from Model Signal Engineering, it comes in a pack of
-missy-

-missy-

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What have I let myself in for??

Setting the scene

I had expected that the return to work would bring the progress on Skaleby West to a grinding halt. Not so! This week has seen more work, and the layout is now really beginning to take shape.   Of course, my first job of the week has been to tackle the jammed points. Using a combination of cocktail sticks and a small screwdriver, I worked through the inside of each point, removing all stray ballast which I thought may have caused them to jam. This did at least start to loosen them a little an
andyram

andyram

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Legomanbiffo's sound Blog

Land of my fathers

Saint Collen's coracle would have come in handy over the weekend when the Chetter & Bishop 'dream team' paid a two-day recording visit to the Llangollen Railway at the kind invitation of the Llangollen Railcars Group. The weather was not kind, the wettest since Temple Mills in my case, but didn't hinder proceedings unduly. Four mics were pointed at the 108, Wickham (109) and 141 on several runs each up and down the full length of the line, producing some excellent under-load engine sounds. A
legomanbiffo

legomanbiffo

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LC's 5 inch gauge blog

Panniers, AGM, Echills wood and More, part 1

Hi all,   Fun packed weekend this weekend, despite inclement weather, the GL5 AGM was held at brent house in cambridgeshire, Echills Wood railway held their Standard Gauge gala, which i wandered along to, and today has been busy.   Right, deep in darkest cambridgeshire lies the Brent House Railway, a 5 inch gauge railway, double track mainline with branchline, 3 yards and a 50 lever signal box!   The Yard throat and station approach with the smaller yard cabin   The main Motive power
London cambrian

London cambrian

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Weathered

A quite moment at Ropley between services.   Hi all!   I spent a couple of hours this morning toning down the watertower a little and adding a spot of extra weathering. It's now getting close to how I want it to look and the only addition to the tank itself is a few streaks of light green paint present on the real thing. The first stage was to give the whole thing a wash of very thinned black, which helped take the edge off the light grey. Even in daylight it was much to light, and dried
TomE

TomE

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AJ427s - Great Hotton

Heathley Kirkgate Mk2 - Main Lines

Work this weekend started with the laying of the interface track from the fiddle yard to the goods loop/yard. This short section is parallel to the main running lines and whilst it aligns perfectly with the fiddle yard tracks it can only be used when the mainlines are out of alignment.   With this completed, focus now shifted to the main running lines across board 2. Firstly another layer of caulk was added to the ballast shoulder area before the Templot track layout was glued in place. The tr
AJ427

AJ427

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

West Country Conversion to P4 part 1

Just like buses eh?   The Van B Link here needs something to pull it and rather than start on the Finney T9, I've gone for the quicker option. I want to have something ready for Manchester in October. So this is a (hopefully) straightforward conversion of the Hornby West Country pacific, using 605 Squadron as the donor engine and following the EM Gauge Society manual sheet as the basis of conversion.   First step is to take everything apart. It's quite scary when you get to this stage: N
ullypug

ullypug

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Van B

Evening all.   I've decided to break with tradition and build a kit after the corresponding RTR model appears. Usually it's the other way round The subject matter was a Ratio Van B kit that I've had in the cupboard for years. Well actually I had two but the other one's going to be sold to make way for the new Hornby one, but I digress... This will be for the Wheal Elizabeth passenger line to go behind a West Country or T9. It was built pretty much as the instructions but used Bill Bedfor
ullypug

ullypug

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SpaldingModelRail's Blog

Adding the little details and possibly a new coupling system...

Last night I sat down and opened my two Hornby class 60's only to find the snowplows had fallen off of one of them and I still hadn't fitted any pipes to the front of the other so after discovering I would have to be attaching plastic dtailing to a metal chassis so out came the two part epoxy and these are the results.   After applying the details to the fronts of the locomotives I had to remove the couplings on the other end to add the snowploughs that had openings for the couplings. When i
SpaldingModelRail

SpaldingModelRail

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Morgan's Workbench Blog

An alternative to filing

Over the last few months I've had a couple of DJH Gresley A3s on the workbench. In itself there is nothing special about the two builds. However every now and then a small construction problem requires an unconventional approach. Having said that it is only unconventional if one is not familiar with using machine tools in their modelling. I certainly don't want this to be seen as an attempt to sneer at those that do not have machining facilities but rather I hope it will show people that do
45609

45609

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Heworth Sidings

Heworth Sidings - Update - 16/06/2012

Hi,   Just a quick update with progress on the Fiddle Yard.   Since the last post, we have been spending our time laying track on one of the Fiddle Yard end modules. As these boards are not intended to be scenic, then we are using a slightly different approach. The track is being pinned down and the droppers we are using are 16/0.2 Equipment Wire. We are still not intending to rely on fishplates for electrical connection so each section of track has droppers placed on it every 30cm.   We a
Vonzack

Vonzack

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Chris' Minor Blog

Baseboards and Planning

As suggested in the last entry, Congdon's Shop's home will be in boxfiles that were picked up cheaply from a supermarket. I am still not entirely sure what the future holds with my job, but conceivably I could be flying once a week to a mine site in the middle of nowhere. I'm not saying that the layout would be taken, but it would be nice to have the option.   The baseboards themselves have been constructed from plywood and fit into the boxfiles. This gives the baseboards the slightly unusual
MinerChris

MinerChris

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Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

2mmFS - Couplings (of the 3-link variety)

In my 2mm scale stock box I now have almost 10 wagons. I had decided at an early stage to make use of the DG couplings to allow hands free shunting (my P4 stock makes use of 3-Link and screw couplings to hold everything together, being much heavier I don't tend to lift everything off the rails (too often) when shunting), however what I intend to do in 2mmFS is to have my models permanently joined in groups of 2 or 3 wagons with DG couplings at the outer ends of the groups.   To achieve this I
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Chris Nevard's Blog

5 years on, still going strong

   43216 shunts a grain wagon with a hot box into the siding at Catcott, September 1959.   When backing up files yesterday I picked out the photo of the culvert being tried out for size on the layout back in December 2007, it reminding me of many of the lightweight materials used for the scenic base with much of the cardboard here being from a huge flatscreen TV at the workplace. I remember at the time being far impressed by the cardboard than the TV because it was unusually stout, strong
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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coombe junction - moorswater

on the verge...

Update - Those familiar with my efforts know that my blog entries usually fall into two categories: or   Unfortunately...this one is the latter...   Following progress with the base layer of the scenics last reported, I felt it was really time to tackle what I had been avoiding...that being get some trains running again in the dries area on the infilled track. This had worked fine prior to the card and filler and paint applications, so after much scraping, sanding and swearing the tracks
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Modbury - 2mm Finescale (Brunel's Baulk Road)

2mmFS - 3D Printing (Vans & Cattle Wagons)

Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons I have not ordered the previously drawn models from Shapeways yet. One of the reasons for this is that I have decided that I don't need any more of the Outside Framed Vans that I were originally forming part of that order. I have however almost finished 2 of the Vans, attempting to complete them in GWR Red Livery with the 5" G.W.R lettering.   The one with the roughly printed side I have decided to finish off as a grounded body, the images below hopef
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

SLOW PROGRESS

Progress continues but perhaps rather more haphazardly than I would wish. The loco now has its handrails and its lamp brackets. I’ve made a start on detailing the tender and there are a couple of photos to show the progress there.   For 'Portchullin Tatty', and others like him who would like to see the brake daw-gear then I must relate that all my scratch-built locos follow a basic set of demands. I want to be able to drop any axle, be it driving wheels or carrying wheels. To meet that need
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Combwich 1960

Here we are back at Combwich looking south into the midday sun, it looking like a windy day judging by those clouds. A little flare from the sun has been captured unfortunately across the smokebox door of 44417, the result of not using a lens hood.   The loco has just arrived with the morning goods from Evercreech Junction, but because it's a couple of hours until the next passenger train and the shunter is having lunch, the engine will probably be taken along to the shed for a pit stop before
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Dukedog's Blog

Penmaenpool MPD Track is laid (at last!)

Just another update to say that all the track is now laid on Penmaenpool MPD. Well almost all, There is still about 75mm of track to be laid on the L/H exit-entry road.This will be laid once the West fiddle yard is started and aligned so as to ensure good track alignment across the baseboard joint.   All flexible track is C&L Finescale with hand built turnouts. The track is glued down direct to the baseboard with no cork or any other material between track and wood.   I don't subscribe
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Petes Model workshop (or ramblings from the balcony)

S&DJR FULL BRAKE (2)

Here is the state of play so far.   I have now got the main body made, complete with solebars but not the foot boards. The duckets where a bit a of a pain to do, but I am sure this was more about them being reformed.   I am still trying to find out about the lining in later days of the S&D. It has been interesting finding out about these vans,hopefully by that time I will have the answers. As you can see even after all the cleaning up I did there is still
N15class

N15class in S&DJR PBV

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Painted

The water tower now painted and with basic weathering. Hi all.   Again a short entry, just to show that the water tower is now painted and semi-weathered. The real thing is somewhat of a mix of colours, from the basic grey through various different shades of rust and (predictably) some green. I started with the green, using Maskol to cover the areas I wanted to show through. the second layer was a basic rust colour, before again Maskol was used to cover the large patch of rust on one side
TomE

TomE

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