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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

Reducing Gloatage

I thought it was time for a few words and pictures to update folks about the latest happenings chez moi. Things have settled down to a more err... leisurely... pace since Nottingham and I've been trying to get some of those half finished projects completed and reduce the level of overcrowding in the gloat box (this never works, I know).   One item that didn't quite make Nottingham was one of two Association CCT kits. I've now finished painting it. Fetching it out for a photo reminds me that I
D869

D869

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Paternosterrow

Cheslyn - walls and bridges

A few update photos. The bridge (scenic break), platform, walls and fences are now in.     The walls are made from DAS clay and match the small Skaledale section at the rear - these were quick to make. I used the ends of paint brushes with the hairs removed and just kept stabbing at the clay to get the stone effect. They were then primed with grey and given a couple of black washes to complete. I wanted to achieve that broken down and badly repaired dry stone wall effect you often see i
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Skaleby

Playing in the back seat!

It has been quite a few months since I posted anything on my Skaleby blog. With my attention firmly focused on the organising of the school's model railway show, and on the building of my show layout "Skaleby West", the larger layout has had to take a back seat modelling wise. There has been no progress on the scenics whatsoever, and even the tidying up of the board has not happened. That does not mean that the layout has been ignored however.   Sharing the spare room with the pet house rabbi
andyram

andyram

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Dukedog's Blog

Penmaenpool MPD Progress (odds&ends)

All the track is now laid, and power feed droppers connected.   I haven't taken any pictures yet because no doubt you have seen 00 gauge track and turnouts before.   The points are home made copper clad sleepers and bullhead rail, so need some thing a bit less stressful than solenoid point motors to operate them.   I have chosen to use Fulgarex slow action motorised switch machines, unlike the Tortoise type motor the action is a linear movement rather than a fulcrum wire used on the Tortoi
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

One Day in May on the Railway

Afternoon all!   This ever-changing weather this week affected me rather a lot, so I chose to take a break on Wednesday and get some fresh air during a round of spotting. For this, I rode to Riedstadt-Goddelau on the southwestern end of the S7 line on the suburban railway network around Frankfurt.       This was actually the suburban set I rode myself, seen here having returned from the stabling area which is located roughly behind the rear end of this train. The 420 unit in the lead on
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Tim's Blog

Smoke deflectors fit for a Duchess

I felt it worthwhile to "break cover", as it were, with one of my current projects. Seeing as the forthcoming article on repainting a Hornby 'Duchess' doesn't require me to go into much detail on the deflectors, I thought I might as well make mention of it here.   I'm not a fan of the plastic ones as supplied by any means. The only options open to the modeller these days are either from Comet or Jackson Evans. I've chosen to use the former here, but with a bit of a modification to produce t
Timara

Timara

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The Sumtown Tramway Locomotive Workshops

Updates: 05/10/12

Just a few updates in regards to the locomotive fleet as of May 10, 2012:   -No.16367 has been added to the operational fleet, along with the Mastodon-Type No.3. -No.5705 and No.383 have been withdrawn for scrapping - No.5705 quite literally fell to pieces during an attempted overhaul, and No.383 was scrapped given its condition, value, and cost of maintenance. -The American-Type miniature locomotive has been downgraded to limited workings as it is in need of a mechanical overhaul soon - the
Trainmaster64

Trainmaster64

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

2mmFS 3D Modelling - Ready to place order at last

After the reasonable success of the GWR Outside Framed Van that I received from Shapeways, I am now ready to place another order. The images below (from the Shapeways site) show all of the components that I have put up there. What I intend to do now is compile a single .STL file containing all of the various wagons that I want in a single file to minimise the FUD surcharge of 5 Euros per file.   GWR Outside Framed Van with Steel Solebars   GWR Outside Framed Van with Wooden Solebars  
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Rammstein2609's 2fs Project

2fs TTA walkways

I have a habit of playing around with ideas I have in Autocad. The result of recent tinkering is my third etch with various parts needed for several projects. Among those projects is to upgrade a rake of Graham Farish TTA's to run on my next 2fs layout.   The plan is to replace the moulded plastic walkways and ladders with my own etches, fit my own custom W irons with cast suspension units and axle boxes. Tonight I have quickly folded up and positioned a walkway and ladders on a wagon to se
Rammstein2609

Rammstein2609

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #9 Around the table of the N15 King Arthurs

Although not iconically named after Arthurian legends until (Sir) John Elliot joined the Southern Railway in 1925, and set up what is reputedly the UKs first Public Relations Department, the N15 ‘King Arthur’ class of 4-6-0 locomotives were first designed by Urie of the London and South Western Railway in 1918. The design was adopted and modified by Maunsell as the newly appointed CME of the Southern Railway and this along with differing build batches, including some contracted to North Brit
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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The Sumtown Tramway Locomotive Workshops

SBB Ee 3/3 No.16367 - A Profile

The SBB Class Ee 3/3 locomotive, as photographed in May 2012 shortly after arriving on the railway. A Swiss electric locomotive, this engine was obtained primarily as an experiment in many ways - this is the first locomotive from renowned builder Trix to be added to the fleet, as well as the first European-style locomotive to arrive onto the Standard-Gauge network (the British-outline locomotives do not count as the railway is technically based in Northwest England). In addition to this, this lo
Trainmaster64

Trainmaster64

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Redgate's Modelling

O Gauge Sentinel - Details, Details .....

It had to happen, didn't it? It always is the way with my projects, start out with a quick and dirty build and end up counting rivets (more of that to come!)   So thanks (I think) to Robert Thompson of RT Models for supplying lots of detailed photos of Isebrook, I have started getting far too detailed for my own good!     What I assume are linkages to the sanders (?) have been added from scraps of etch and 1mm 10 thou brass strip     The roof has received it's rainstrips and I have s
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Bedazzled buffers!

nevard_110921_leamington_DSC_3796_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   Posted in my external BLOG, hence slightly generic non-rail-nutter angle.   The real world is full of things that don't quite conform to preconception, with us model makers often being the worst offenders (I'm really bad at this and have to kick myself from time to time), for this reason it’s so important to look at the real world. Luckily railways have always been well explored by camera lenses, so often research i
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Engine Wood

Dapol Class 22 - conversion to P4 - further photos

I've completed most of the 'structural' work on the blue Dapol Class 22 now, with the exception of glueing the lifting rings on the bogies. Having run it this evening with some wagons, I think that I'm going to have to replace the Dapol coupling hook with a Smiths one, to standardise it with the rest of my rolling stock.   After having done the basic chassis conversion using the Ultrascale wheels, as described in the earlier blog entry, I decided to put a driver in each cab and do something ab
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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Legomanbiffo's sound Blog

...and then two come along at once

It's not very often I finish two projects at once but that's what has happened this time. I have a policy of continuous improvement so I don't really consider any project as truly 'finished' but the Class 50 & 303 are both at the stage where I'm happy to release them into the wild. It will be a while before I do videos of either though.   As mentioned before the 50 comes with multistart which in this case means user-controlled priming and both cold and warm starts. It has two different set
legomanbiffo

legomanbiffo

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Arrivals, Departures and Cancellations

Make a DC Controller: Part 2

The amended objective was to produce a simpler, no-frills DC controller that would meet the original 'anytime anywhere' requirement, working with either a battery, AC or DC power.   Circuit Design Starting with the emf-sensing feedback circuit used in Part 1, I removed the integrator and schmitt trigger U1 leaving just U1b as a simple non-inverting amplifier. The output driver Q1 - a cheaper and more easily obtainable BD243C - is included in the gain loop to ensure good output vol
Platform 1

Platform 1 in Electrics

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Barry Ten's S&D blog

Shillingstone - more pics

Being a lazy sort I've generally got by with taking photos the easy way - whack the camera on aperture priority and hope for the best, basically. However tonight I decided it was time to bite the bullet and have a fiddle with some different metering modes and manual white balance. I don't know but to my eye these photos get a lot closer to what the layout looks like in the flesh, to to speak - there's none of the pink cast present in the other pics, even though I fiddled around with the colour b
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

for people that like that kind of thing

As I was in the shed this evening tidying round I thought I would take a few shots of the fiddleyard baseboards. These are made of 12mm ply with 3inch wide strips of 12 mm ply for the edges and strapping. I've used this method before (although in that case it was 9mm ply) and found it generally quite sturdy as long as the boards are adequately braced underneath. I'm particularly pleased with the hatch (I know sad isn't it). I added the diagonal brace as it was flexing too much when opened
rovex

rovex

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Jon020's Layout Blog

P4 - (Another) diesel servicing point diorama - Not completion... but it'll have to do for now

This will be a brief(ish) update as I’ve been trying to spend what little time I’ve had available in actually modelling rather than reading or writing about it... and with a deadline this week time was rather short. However, I’ve drawn a halt now... for the time being and this will have to do. There’s lots and lots to do, but this was never intended to be at a final exhibitable stage, it was actually intended as a work in progress for our local show this Saturday... and that’s what it
Jon020

Jon020

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Controlling Interests #2 Turning Tables

In my controlling interest #1 post I mentioned the change of turntable control system to the Model Railway Electronic Group (MERG) turntable control unit.Since I first built Fisherton Sarum the turntable was powered via a Frixinghall motor and gearbox that did not have any form of automatic indexing. This meant that the rotational speed of the table was not easy to control and track alignment had to be done by eye (sometimes hitting the mark easier than at othertimes) via a toggle switch. Frien
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Let there be light

Not much to report on the modelling front, but over the weekend I finally got power supplied to the shed. A heavily armoured cable has been laid down the garden from the mains fuse box to a separate fuse box in the shed, this has then been wired into the wiring I had already put in the shed for the security lightin, the ordinary lighting and a small ring mains with more sockets then I am ever going to need. Both the main fuse box and the shed box are protected with RCD breakers. I have also take
rovex

rovex

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GWMark's Little Puzzle (Layout)

Wet Bank Holiday Monday -> first track laid

Following on from the progress on Sunday, I now had a baseboard with the foam underlay glued down, a cess painted in textured 'Light earth" and a ballast shoulder rather crudely cut into the foam - not the best cutting job in the world, but then this is not a mainline layout so I wouldn't expect a perfect ballast shoulder. This mornings job was to attach the electro-magnets for the Dingham uncouplers, these are the ones supplied by Dingham and have a coil with an M5 bolt through the middle. I wo
GWMark

GWMark

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