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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

A1 Models Hunslet - Roof.

I've finally got round to making the roof for this loco, a job that I've been putting off for a while. The roof is etched oversize, you're advised to 'trim cab roof as shown on drawing'. There is no drawing. Why was it not etched to size in the first place I wonder? So I went down to Rowsley to have a look at the preserved 05, only to find that it had been moved to Manchester for the winter... Anyway I rolled the roof, placed it on the loco then trimmed it until it looked about right compared t
halfwit

halfwit

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Freight for Cheddar: GWR 5 plank

A start on the first common user wagon for the layout, a Ratio kit for a 1930s GWR 5 plank.   I am building this with Bill Bedford sprung wirons, as such some modification was needed on the chassis. This followed the process used on my Parkside Fruit D, cutting off the w irons then thinning down the chassis solebars next to where the etch will sit. The floor supports were then cut off to provide clearance for the w iron (learning from the Fruit D in that this time the 3mm length next to the
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Purest Green?

"Can it be true, that I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green?"   Well, yes, but not the right green!   A rather failed attempt to paint the Carriage and Boiler shop has occured today! After browsing the array of greens on sale in the local Halfords, I picked one that I thought was the closest match to the building, as seen in exhibit 'A' below:   Exhibit 'A'   Now a small disclaimer, the lighting conditions are not ideal for photography in the room, espec
TomE

TomE

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

Bits and pieces - Deltic motor fixed; P4 Turnout construction and Sons' trainset

I recently posted an entry on the class 47 P4 conversion and detailing project that I’ve started; this will cover some other tasks tackled in the last month or so.   First of all there was a problem with my Nimbus. I only discovered this when my DCC Concepts rolling road arrived, just before Christmas. Despite attempts at lubricating the gears and bearings that were accessible, I finally came to the conclusion that the problem was with the motor... quite what the problem was, I’m still not
Jon020

Jon020

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Thornycroft PB

While searching in a stock box at the weekend trying to find a couple more old private owner wagons I came across a Peco kit for a 1926 Thornycroft PB GW covered lorry.   Now even with any restrictions on replacing during the war, clearly a 20 year life is not going to happen in GW service. As such I've been thinking about an alternative use. After thinking about which sort of operators typically use old life expired equipment, and narrowed it down to either farm use or a coal merchant, the
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Beardybloke's 009 Bodging Bench

NWNGR Single Fairlie - a question of detail

Now, a chimneyless, domeless loco isn’t really going to cut the mustard – I don’t think that even the Ffestiniog cut down the ex-NWNGR stock to quite that extent, and I certainly wasn’t the man to go down in history as having mutilated a Vulcan Fairlie to an even worse degree.   Job one, fitting the dome and chimney actually went far more smoothly than I expected based on my previous experiences attempting to fit the chimney to Taliesin. It seems that the mouldings on the Chivers kit a
Beardybloke

Beardybloke

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Farish Class 37207 William Cookworthy

Good evening,   I thought i would post a few pictures of my re-numbered Farish class 37, 37207 "William Cookworthy"   I have also lowered this loco closer to the bogies using the techniques in bcnpete's blog which gives a more prototypical appearance. The decals are from precision decals and the nameplates from Shawplan. I still have a bit of work to do as i need to add the numbers and spray on a coat of varnish to seal the decals.   This is my first time re-numbering a loco and I feel it
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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standardblue's Blog

A first post...

My first foray into blogging on RMWeb, mainly as a way to track the progress of my as-yet unnamed boxfile layout. Progress is likely to be slow, so don't hold your breath!   As a teaser, I've added a few photos of progress to date.
standardblue

standardblue

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Paternosterrow

Barrow Hill Mark II - The Roof - stage 1

Stage 1 of the roof covering. Scale scenes corrugated roof texture has been photocopied on to 160 gsm light card and window openings cut out. I thought I might get away with just one layer with the texture on both sides, but it leaks too much light. Another layer will be applied - another lot of windows to cut!! The openings have been covered over with a transparency which has had the same texture copied onto it - this nicely emulates dirt that has collected in the corrugations as on a real
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Fen End Pit's Blog

F5 - another chassis rebuilt + thoughts on fiddleyards

Now this locomotive has been very long in the making. Originally constructed from an Alan Gibson kit while I was at university 25 years ago this has always been a bit of a 'problem child'. The 2-4-2 wheel arrangement makes it virtually impossible to get around any kind of curve without resorting to some way of getting the leading and trailing axles to turn into the curve. Obviously the prototypical way of dealing with this would have been radial axle boxes but these are fiendishly difficult to m
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Fiddling around

A possible fiddle yard plan?   Hi all!   Not a lot of modelling to report on at the moment. I find myself on Monday - Friday 9-6 shifts for a few weeks whilst training a new chap at work, and I'm missing my usual 4on-4off pattern. I don't know how people who work a normal week ever get anything done!   Anyway, following a very enjoyable weekend in the company of WillJ operating Queensquare's Highburry Colliery, I've found myself thinking about the more mundane area of the fiddle yards
TomE

TomE

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Dukedog's Blog

Morfa Bach (My new Cambrian layout) Update Jan 31 2012

Time for the weekly update...   Mud,Mud glorious Mud! Nothing quite like it for.... Making basic scenery!   Using a recipe found on another forum I mixed a dollop of "Gloop"   That's Water, PVA, Polyfilla and cheap household emulsion in this case Wickes "Grizzly" a dark matt brown colour, It was a bit light when mixed up so I darkened it down with some matt black (Wickes Liquorice") to end up with something near what I wanted.     This "Gloop" was then applied by brush to the river b
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Arrivals, Departures and Cancellations

A Test Track in N - 3: Preparation & Track

So now we have a wooden box which needs to be turned into a model railway.   It's very tempting to start laying track at this stage. But some things need to be done now to properly prepare: apply 'knotting' to prevent knots in the wood from oozing and/or weeping resin later (but omit on parts that will be varnished) paint inside while it's still clean and bare two coats of varnish outside to help protect from inevitable knocks and scrapes (and to "bring out the natural beauty of your
Platform 1

Platform 1

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Steve Redford's Blog

Moved a coaling Tower

Its amazing how the simplist of adjustment can re-invigorate a bit of enthusiasm for the layout. Moved a coaling tower today into a new position and it looks so much better!   Often wonder if other railway modellers work in uncomfortable environments - I had a wasp yesterday in the attic - ( no longer flying about)
Steve Redford

Steve Redford

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Getting ready for the charge of the Bulleid Light Pacific's......

A brief update first A4 60001 Sir Ronald Matthews is nearly completed, just coaling and oil required, here's a quick snap I took prior to the hand weathering being done and the head lamps being fitted.     T9 30718 is progressing smoothly, though she is just a rework thankfully.   On to the subject at hand Bulleid Light Pacific's, I suddenly had a brainwave - I've got a number of perfectly good donors up in the loft doing nothing so why not re-purpose them It's going to be 2009 again for
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Copley Hill Works

"Thompson A2/2 build - 60503 Lord President"

Whilst I wait for the transfers for 62678 The Morpeth to arrive, I have been working on another conversion, this time using a set of Graeme King's superb A2/3 resin castings - you can inquire about their availability here - to create a Thompson A2/2 using the Bachmann Peppercorn A2 as a basis.   So the current progress is as follows, after a day's work:   The original Bachmann valve gear has been carefully remove, and the chassis filed down in the necessary locations to fit the conve
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Legomanbiffo's sound Blog

All dressed up and nowhere to go...

My Bachmann 20 is largely finished and I had hoped to make a couple of videos over the weekend but unfortunately real life intervened and no progress was made. You wouldn't believe how challenging it is to find 'quiet' time in an urban & family environment - there is always something 'noisy' going on. Not noisy so you would notice necessarily but the mic picks everything up so I like to film in an empty house where possible, and it hasn't been lately. The time hasn't been wasted though, as m
legomanbiffo

legomanbiffo

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Marsh Green Road TMD

Wiring Started

With the track almost finshed (ran out of lenghts) i have now started the wiring for the layout with the link wires for each track and the points be addresed first as the final isolating sections have yet to be decided.         Over the next 2 weeks i plan to finish the track and progress with the wiring and add lights to the shed area.
Gilly

Gilly

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Six Wheel Bogies

There was some discussion this week on one of the forums relating to the ex Dapol / Hornby twelve wheel restaurant cars. I have lowered the ride height of mine to run with Bachmann stock:     In order to get the buffers of the Hornby Restaurant Car to match the height of my adjacent Bachmann Mk1s it was necessary to lower the underframe on the bogies.   First it is best to take the whole coach apart. This can be done by sliding ones finger nail between the coach side and the underframe an
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Chris Nevard's Blog

It's not the 1st of April, but.....

nevard_120130_combwich_IMG_2324, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Photo: 30587 departs Combwich with the 2pm service to Stogursey.   ...but in the ethos of populist journalism for the masses, today I'm not going to let historical accuracy get in the way of a good yarn!   Until 1955, a light railway served the small town of Stogursey up in the Quantocks. This railway was part of a grand scheme to link the port town of Combwich with Watchet, but sadly the railway company owned by Sir Henry
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Four exhibitions in five weekends with four different layouts…

A busy few weeks ahead beckons on the exhibition front, with the main highlight for me being the appearance of Fisherton Sarum at the BRM Festival of British Railway Modelling at Doncaster Racecourse, in 12 days time (11/12thFebruary).   If that event wasn’t enough I shall be operating three other layouts at three other shows between now and the first weekend in March!   This coming weekend (3rd/4thFebruary) sees the Hornby Magazine layout Berrybridge making an appearance
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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The Gingerbread Line

Saddle tank (Part 1)

A little more progress on providing some motive power. Some time ago I bought the Dean Sidings resin body for a 1701 saddle tank, which is intended to fit on the Farish 57xx pannier chassis. There was already a kit available from the 2mm Association to convert that chassis to 2mm standards, but it had a poor reputation. There was an etched chassis replacement intended for release "sometime soon", so I decided to build the body and procrastinate until the chassis kit arrived.     The 1702 bo
Gingerbread

Gingerbread

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

Out with the airbrush - how brave do I feel?

After a small interlude to try my hand at building pointwork it is back to the long term project of the 72xx. More track work will follow, but that will have to wait until after Doncaster now - I'll pick up some more C&L components there.   My PDK 72xx has moved on a bit, the lamp refuge and the lance cock have been added, it was given two coats of etch primer, from a spray can and the footplate and smokebox have been spray with Halfords matt black. So the project for Sunday was to spray t
GWMark

GWMark

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    • john new
      Painting some Dapol/Kitmaster workmen.

      By john new · Posted

      Next step completed after the six needed for a track gang have been painted and their foot pedestals clipped off. They will be fitted to the club layout (Axford) as a spot sleepering gang.   First lesson learnt by the experience - it will be easier in future to trim the foot block and drill for the pins before doing the painting.   The reason for the track gang is the l/hand divergent track on this board no longer goes anywhere as it now feeds a single entry sector plate. The
    • bcnPete
      Making Mountains

      By bcnPete · Posted

      This is fabulous Mike.   Thanks for sharing your techniques and it looks stunning in the setting - as Mikkel says, my kinda place!   A nice story and I do hope that they have success.   Love it in BR blue mode too 😀
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      Thankyou for the info.I want a British car but French or American would be OK. My "Dr" from Motley End could do with one of those modern contraptions! Railway modelling causes us all to be very aware of every aspect of life in our chosen era. Its part of the attraction. I could give your Postman a lesson or two in handling parcels also!
    • Mikkel
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By Mikkel · Posted

      Thank you Chris and Mike for the input on wording, "motor cars" it is then.   Douglas those 1960s car rallys sound good. There's an annual vintage fair here in Denmark that we sometimes go to. Here's a 1926 Ford T from a couple of years ago.       Returning to the DAPR 3D prints, I have been in touch with Ben of DAPR. He says that they are still available if you enquire. He also has them with the roof drawn up, and in pickup versions.   He says he co
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      No but a modeller freind has owned and restored 3 early T models. Also I was draged to many Veteran car rallys in the 1960's. My dad being a fan.I have owned 50 cars and 24 m/cycles but only one car and one m/cycle were vintage, a1925 Bullnose Morris and a 1926 AJS bike. I have riden a few veteran bikes in rallys though., great fun.

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