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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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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Fish Plates and Fences.

Just a quick photo update to catch up on a few of the smaller jobs that are on going around the layout; First up is the fitting of chair plates, 2mm Scale Association part 1-092, to fix them I dipped the whole fish plate in thin super glue and held then in position with the tip of a pin until the glue set.   Here we have one of 5 etched buffer stops, designed by our very own Chris Higgs. Once this has be primed and fixed in place cosmetic sleepers will be added to fill the gaps, these wil
Bryn

Bryn

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The British Railway Stories

"Looking past the Stereotype"

The above is an image of a GWR 47xx class, with a face, surrounded by Pannier Tanks with similar faces, which C. Hamilton Ellis penned in 1939 for The Railway Gazette, five years before the first publication by The Reverend W. Awdry in 1944, The Three Railway Engines. The Pannier Tank engines with faces predate the character "Duck" by nearly twenty years!   This image is not as significant as it may first appear. Trains with faces have appeared in English literature and satire since 1829.  
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Redgate's Modelling

ABS 5 Plank Wagon - Done

Pretty pleased with this wagon now it's painted and got it's numbers etc. A couple of coats of PP satin varnish have been airbrushed on and it's ready for service on the yet to be completed Fourgig East.     I think some coal will be added and maybe a quick waft over the underframe with some sleeper grime to give it that used in preservation look. I'll do this when the airbrush is out to tone down the track, so this will be a bit of a wait!   Now to find a box big enough to store it in ..
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

The Spottings of Spring

Morning all!   Only just had the time to prepare the following handful of images for posting, even though I took them around noon on Wednesday. They were all made at Frankfurt's Southern Station.         The first snapshot of the day was 294 872 running light, most likely being headed for the intermodal yard at Eastern Station.         A short time later, 185 266 came along with a mixed assortment of wagons up back...         ...followed by this motor draisine with one fla
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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The Sumtown Tramway Locomotive Workshops

AT&SF Class SW1 No.2325 - A Profile

One of the American diesel locomotives obtained during April 2012, this locomotive is an example of the venerable SW1 diesel switchers built by EMD in the 1930s and 1940s. This example was obtained cheaply as a working locomotive, and has proven to be a very interesting-looking locomotive, with several comparisons being drawn between it and No.7401. With a bell, a fully-functional headlamp, and a somewhat substantial weight, this locomotive is of a lesser quality but does have some decent featur
Trainmaster64

Trainmaster64

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Southern steam

Another T1 update

The T1 can move under it's own power. After the problems with the chassis on the J, it was something of a relief that it needed very little adjustment to run smoothly. Just some tweaking of the bogie pivots and some slight enlarging of the cutouts for the bogie wheels. The pickups are a bit non-standard due to the odd design of the chassis - a piece of PCB was bolted to the top of full length frame spacer between the frames. The do work.   The main castings have now been added. I'm battling
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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The Sumtown Tramway Locomotive Workshops

NWR Class G 'Stirling Single' 'Emily' - A Profile

One of the new locomotives to be obtained in April 2012, 'Emily' was brought in primarily as an exhibition locomotive. With single wheelers being a part of the STC's past, the practicality and use of a locomotive like this in modern times is considered quite laughable. However, the locomotive was not intended for heavy hauling of goods - this locomotive was intended for use on light excursion services to the lake and back, and to be used as a means of attracting more visitors and investment towa
Trainmaster64

Trainmaster64

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ess1uk's Workbench Blog

HST power cars

You have probably already seen my Hornby HST power car that has had an indentity change. it's not the best job in the world, in fact it looks battered, but it is carrying a cast name plate Top of the Pops and is numbered 43002. I have several 43010s so decided to change it, but as the InterWeb was not around when I did it and I didn't have a picture to work from i guessed about the nameplate and have since found out I guessed wrong . Any ideas how it can get the metal name plate off without d
ess1uk

ess1uk

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Moving to P4 (Post 9)

If you thought, 'at last he's made a post' then I appologise for the slight excitment that may have erupted inside you. This isn't mega interesting, but good news.     Point blade finally here!. Len, one of the guys who runs the company is seriously ill, thus the delay. Just hope he is ok. Expect some updates in the near future regarding points.
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Track and Ballast Experiments

After following TomE's approach I've been playing with some test ballast examples. Above shows what I have finally decided on using on Colwyn, it's a 50/50 mix of Treemedus Earth power and Carrs fine ash ballast, all fixed with (still wet and slightly glossy) Kleer. I will do a more indpeth write up when it gets applied to the layout. Thanks again to Tom for the advice   Another experiment was to prepare the plastic Easitrac sleepers to take paint more readily, this was done by brushing on a
Bryn

Bryn

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Change of Project

Hello, sorry for the break, been having a bit of a rest.   Much less modelling than usual but the J10 now has its full complement of splashers and the body has been put on one side while further work has been carried out on the chassis.   Before the body was started the chassis had reached running stage but without the CSBs in place. I wanted the wheels to be in their highest possible position in the chassis so that when the body was fitted, clearance could be maintained within the splashers
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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halfwit's Wondrous Wagons!

Roxey Summers Iron Ore Hopper part 12.

The vacuum pipes are now fitted in place, sitting on little stanchions made from scrap etch, along with the end bracing struts. The end struts are made up from 2 pieces soldered together in a 'T' shape. A couple of pics;       Stanchion positions were found by studying photos of the prototype. End struts soldered together using 188 then tinned with 145 and attached using my RSU.   The brake wheels are also fitted now. To make them up I drilled some holes in a piece of MDF for the handl
halfwit

halfwit

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - 21st Century Modelling

It's modelling Jim.......   Hi all.   Spurred on by WillJ's fantastic work in Google Sketchup with his various projects, but notably his PPM Class 139 & City of Truro boiler (Check out his blog here if you haven't already), I downloaded the program in order to get to grips with the program and allow me to make a start on the support for the ex Kings Cross footbridge currently being installed at Ropley.   Why do this in 3D? Well, the supports are actually quite complex for a simple
TomE

TomE

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Snitzl's Main Blog

Windows

Making windows for Snitzl Town.   Here are some of the methods I use to model window surrounds and window frames.  Rather than make individual windows, I build an array of windows that become part of the structure which adds strength to the building. I align the window frets with two steel blocks, left and top and these become datums for gluing and if required also aid accurately cut windows with a vernier.  
snitzl

snitzl in Buildings

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Mark II Printed Class 139... and thoughts on smaller scales...

Evening All...   This blog post appears after a long line of evenings trying to work out why my 3D designs were not being accepted to print on Shapeways.. The answer it turns out was simple, and familiar to anybody cursed with a bucket with a hole in it. In short, you need to ensure that the 3D model is 'manifold', in other words, does not contain the kind of tiny holes which are easy to miss when you have a model with several hundred, or thousands of tiny lines and surfaces combining to make
Will J

Will J

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Adam's part-time modelling

Back to the big Bagnall - paint and detail

It's a long road, coming towards an end. That end, of course, being a completed, working, and now painted, locomotive. After the application of a coat of LMS Crimson Lake:     Following detail painting and reassembly, it looks more like this and it's still not quite finished:       By way of a summary, more details can be found in the UK Standard Gauge Industrial part of the forum, or in this earlier blog.The deviations from the kit as designed were: New bunker back (the original
Adam

Adam

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wootang's Blog - my stock

GWR CASTLE

i have recently started to bebuild a GWR castle locomotive i changed the livery from Great Western livery to early BR with 'BRITISH RAILWAYS' across the tender   the only thing i cant think of is a name and number for the locomotive
wootang

wootang

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AJ427s - Great Hotton

Goodbye Heathley Kirkgate. Hello Heathley Kirkgate Mk2

It's been some time since my last blog and here's why: I'd been getting nowhere fast with this project and the usual sense of despondency and disillusionment had set in. The problem was that the scope was too large, the learning curve too steep and my free time (not to mention budget) too short. So last month I decided upon a change of direction to something smaller and more manageable that hopefully I can get some real progress with. So goodbye Heathley Kirkgate, hello Heathley Kirkgate Mk2 (I'
AJ427

AJ427

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Llanfyllin - Great Western Branch Line Terminus

An Update

I have put a lot of photos in my layout entry and have only just discovered I had a Blog.   I am currently finishing converting a Ratio Toad to P4 and finishing a "Pocket Money" Etched Brass Toad.   I have to start building the Goods Shed which I have said I would enter in the 2012 challenge and I want to start work on the scenery on the second board.   Photos to follow
Castle Bolton, a oo gauge continuous run layout

station boards

Over the last couple of weeks we have been building up some scalescene low relief arches. We had to make them a little taller by adding a wall along bottom, to accommodate hiding the return loop at back of board. It took us a little longer than anticipated ,glad had the wife aboard to help,i did the cutting she did most of the covering.I printed the textured sheets onto A4 seld adhesive lables.   The tunnel that goes through one of them will be for a road which will be dead ended with a suitab
Tel2010

Tel2010

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Buckjumper's Blog

Great Eastern Railway Wagons. Part 1: Round-Ended Opens.

Until the mid-1880s, the general merchandise wagons of the Great Eastern Railway had high rounded ends (‘half-moons’ in GE parlance) intended to help support sheets to protect goods in transit from inclement weather. Several thousand examples were built fr0m the 1850s (under the antecedent Eastern Counties Railways) onwards , and by 1878 accounted for 58% of stock owned by the GER.   Over the years new batches were given progressively modern features which then cascaded down to earlier bui
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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

2mmFS 3D Printing - GWR Outside Framed Cattle Wagon (Diag W2)

Following on from the successful drawing of a GWR Outside Framed Goods Van (awaiting production and receipt of printed models from Shapeways), I decided to try to capture another of my favourite wagons in Google SketchUp.   This time I've drawn up a GWR Outside Framed Cattle Wagon (which became daigram W2). A SketchUp screen shot of the wagon can be seen below. I do wonder if this may be pushing the current limits of 3D printing as I've made the side planking only 0.6mm thick (although with
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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