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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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Marsh Green Road TMD

Baseboards now built

Update the baseboards are now built. They have had cork applied to the top of 3 of the boards as the 4th board will be used as the fiddle yard using a casset system.   Once the PVA glue has dried i will paint the top of the cork grey and then i will drill the boards so they can be bolted together and drill holes to carry the wires. Once painted i will start laying the track in place lightly pinned untill it is balisted.    
Gilly

Gilly

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halfwit's Wondrous Wagons!

RT Models Chaldron wagons - part 2 couplings.

Chaldron wagon couplings usually consisted of a forked ended bar fitted with a pin and a chain. The chain was often permamently attached to one end of a wagon only to keep all of the wagons the same way round, so the brakes were always on the same side. There were, of course, exceptions, some were fitted with a crude hook. This of course makes life difficult if you use 3 links and still want an authentic looking useable coupling. The kit comes with cast scale size bars, which gave me an idea...
halfwit

halfwit

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General - Muz's modelling mastications

Bolsover and Seven Pit Lane at the Leamington Show this weekend 21st/22nd January

Regular readers will by now know that I can often be found behind one of the many layouts built and exhibited by Mike Wild, Editor of Hornby Magazine as part of their stand at shows. This weekend sees Bolsover and Seven Pit lane making an appearance, along with 22 other layouts, at the Leamington and Warwick Model Railway Society’s 37th annual exhibition, being held at the Stoneleigh Park Exhibition Centre nr. Warwick. I will therefore be playing with mainly Eastern Region stock rather
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Dukedog's Jottings

A Day at the seaside in January! (Weston super mare MRE)

Sunday 15th January 2012.   Had to force my self out of my pit at 05:00 on a freezing cold Sunday morning to get myself, son in law and layout to Weston super mare, get set up and running before the show opened to the public at 10:00. Being early on a Sunday morning the M5 was very quiet and the trip from my home in Stourbridge took just over and hour and a half. No need for the sat-nav either as the venue was only half a mile from the motorway.   Working between us the layout was up and
Dukedog

Dukedog

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wiggoforgold's Diddington blog

The Farm

As the railway line enters Diddington station, it passes behind a cluster of farm buildings. I put a photograph of the barns in my gallery a little while ago, and was asked if I had some more pictures. I took a few, and have added a few notes about the models themselves. The buidings are situated at the front of the layout to act as a view block, and to balance the river scene, with the boathouse at the other end. Here's an aerial view od the group: The buildings are made from card. The weat
wiggoforgold

wiggoforgold

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Churchill8F's Blog

Bachmann Devious Diesel - Rework begins

So whilst it's one of the better models Bachmann have made, I'm still not too keen on their model of Diesel. Don't get me wrong, everything appears to be accurate on it, the problem lies with the glossy finish on the loco itself. Whilst a coat of matt or satin varnish could solve such a problem, I'm going down a different route to do mine.             I've yet to decide what paint to put him into. Part of me is thinking a matt charcoal black, so I can retain
Churchill8F

Churchill8F

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OO Roundy Layout

Trying to Hide a circle of track, behind an Aqueduct?

I might remember to put photos on this time   After wiping everything out and getting back to the bare minimum I really needed to disguise the fact this is just a round circle of track.   So I came up with this:-         John Wiffen (Scalescenes) came up with a quick aqueduct kit, no instructions and I did a lot of playing about with it, but I think it's come out rather well. The railings are a ratio kit. Now do I leave the backscene that high or do I cut it down so it sits jus
traction

traction

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OO Roundy Layout

A start at long last!

Well, after much messing about and numerous redesigns, I've actually got something to show!   I did the usual thing of trying to cram too much into too small a space, then sat down and actually thought about what I actually wanted. This layout was supposed to be small and simple purely to run my OO locos on, it didn't need anything else.   So I removed all the sidings apart from one which will be hidden behind the back scene, as this was only put on so I could have a straight piece of track
traction

traction

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Engine Wood

Callow Lane - cottage progress

A bit more progress has been made on the latest row of Howard Scenics cottages. The brick paper has been applied, the main walls glued together and a start made on the chimneys and window frames.   'Bagnall' 47276 poses in front of the new row (it's evidently been borrowed from Radstock shed for a jaunt up to Westerleigh Yard):      
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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class321lover's Blog

Hornby DVT

Hi   I'm getting a new Hornby one anglia DVT and I would like to hear from anyone whos had one for info on the probelms and faults and performance thanks   class321lover!   [Admin edit] As this is really a question rather than a blog post it would be more suitable in modelling questions. It would also be worth reading Andy's recent thread here about blog content quality here.
class321lover

class321lover

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SNCF stephen's Blog

A list of UFO sightings

So my old layout has gone to the train room in the sky (actually it went to the tip!). My new layout will be modular and I will dedicate a thread in the main forum to the development of the layout itself. However this blog will remain as my workbench blog.   So with this in mind I thought I would do a post about the various projects I aim to progress this year. These are all UFO's from the past few years and regular blog readers will no doubt recognise some of the models.   1 - X3900. This m
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Bath Spa in N (was Burwood)

Branch Terminus Shunting

Thanks to the very helpful comments Mike the Stationmaster (in this related thread:http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/50382-gwr-branch-terminus-signals-and-services/page__fromsearch__1), I have now arrived at a suitably prototypical signalling and track layout for the Burwood terminus. Now, to plan my uncoupler and sensor locations I need to work out how operations will be done. My guesses below are just that, pure guesses from someone who knows nothing about real railway operat
Rabs

Rabs

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Holiday Excursion (work in progress)

Gosh, nearly 6 months since the last entry! Not a great deal of progress with the layout - although I have applied a base coat of colour to the trackwork on two of the boards and started to contemplate wiring up on the third board, That's the one with the main station throat pointwork, so represents more of a challenge than the two dealt with so far. There's nothing like thinking about a job to avoid actually having to do it!!! Anyway, I have been doing some modelling over the intervening peri
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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John's Blog

Under Control

In an attempt to tidy the appearance a bit I added a fascia, colored grey of course. The picture also shows that I added a control panel.   The controller is a Digitrax Zephyr unit. I added a switch panel to control the turnouts, even though they are under DCC control.     The switch panel is an aluminium panel with a paper trackplan on it, all covered by that material known to people my age as "sticky back plastic". The switches are momentary SPDT minature toggles. The exception is the D
Grimly Feendish

Grimly Feendish

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Bill's Blog

'O' Gauge - A Proposed Layout

After much thought and 'Outlay' and a happy accident a proposal for a 'Layout' appeared...     Not being versed in the black arts of Templot and its kin, this is a rough sketch.   The happy accident referred to above, occurred when the mails managed to mangle a left hand point being sent over from Kernow. Believing Kernow had no more in stock, I ordered two more from Hatton’s, and informed Kernow about the tragedy. Now before you could say 'refund' Kernow had mailed out a replacement -
Bill

Bill

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Paternosterrow

Barrow Hill Mark II

Progress so far. Walls are up - some Scalescenes papers and a few spare Brassmasters windows later and the roof still fits fine. Smoke Hoods, detailing and roof covering still to complete.     Another pic from a different angle.     It isn't an exact copy of Barrow Hill, rather a mish mash of what a Round House would look like although the roof profile is the same. I've used a pictures from Both Barrow Hill and some old photos of Saltley as a reference.
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Fen End Pit's Blog

N7 rebuild - first attempt with 'continuous springy beams'

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I built a Wills N7 kit. The chassis was built using the etches for the kit, now sold by South East Finecast. The original chassis had the 'posh' hornblocks from Gibson (I think) which were the lost wax casting with a tiny springs pushing down on the bearing with a bolt through the top of the hornblock to locate the spring and set the ride height.   All of this worked fine until you took into account the sheer weight of the white metal body. The body c
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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4mm scale agonies

A bit of a paradigm shift

I love that word. Paradigm. Makes me sound so intellectual. Yes, so a bit of a change of tack in the construction phase. Nothing too serious, nothing that will radically alter the project. But the way things have been developing made the change happen. As you will have seen in the previous days I've been posting pictures of the buildings around my place of work. All with a regard to actually copying them and placing them on the model. The way things started to develop in my head it became ap
Ian Holmes

Ian Holmes

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Bachmann Royal Scots - taking the rough with the smooth

I have long admired the ex LMS rebuilt Royal Scots. This little note details some improvements that I have found necessary for some of my Bachmann models.     First a couple of views of the prototype from the 1960s, 46132 at Carlisle Citadel (04/08/62) and 46154 at Lime Street maybe in 1962.   No surprise then that when I returned to the hobby that my first purchase was a Mainline Royal Scot. This came from the Morpeth Model Shop in August 1980 and cost £19.00. This was followed in Nov
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

The Whole Hog?

Hi all.   The last few weeks I've been giving some thought to making the final jump and building a 2mm finescale layout. Ropley was always intended to be a learning process, a method of proving to myself that I could work with easitrac and produce hand built track that would actually work. Now I've somehow managed to achieve that, I have been giving some thought to what a first 2mm layout might look like.   Due to space limitations at home, any layout would have to be fairly small. Having se
TomE

TomE

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

2FS 3 Way Test Run

Video Link Broken   Just to prove I have got something running and an excuse to play with my new camera. Sorry about the quality, but good lighting has always been an issue. I am currently playing around with methods to treat Easitrac ready for painting, more on that next time.   EDIT: By clicking the video you have the option to select full screen in HD, well worth the effort.
Bryn

Bryn

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Maidenhead Show Report

Hi,   Firstly, I'm sorry for such a long delay in writing this report, I have been concentrating to my A-level exams, which took place Thursday and Friday and I haven't really had time to write an entry for last weekend!   Anyway, to the show, luckily due a conbination of having a free lesson last thing on the Friday and being able to get the van home and ready to load earlier meant that Dad and I could get on with loading Hythe up so that we could make the hall opening at 16:00. I still ha
St. Simon

St. Simon

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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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