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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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Barry Ten's Blog

Siphon G and Blue Pullman

Here is a Lima siphon G on a pair of Blacksmith bogies. The bogies go together very nicely, and mine are running on the Bachmann coach wheels, via Gibson bearings.     I had a lot of hassle getting a satisfactory ride height. The Blacksmith bogies come with mounting plates but these only increase the gap between chassis and bogie. In the end the penny dropped and I realised I needed to cut rectangular slots in the floor of the Lima chassis, one per wheel, to allow for flange clearance. This
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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wiggoforgold's Diddington blog

Unfitted Wagons

46444 has been building some wagon kits. He brought some round last night, so we posed them in Diddington yard for photographs. I'll leave him to comment on how he made them.   Hes also made a horse box. Not an unfitted wagon, but a nice model. Here it is in a passenger train in Diddington station.
wiggoforgold

wiggoforgold

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wiggoforgold's Diddington blog

A 9f at Diddington

One of the feauture of the railways in the Fenland were the numerous timber bridges, built by the Great Eastern Railway. In reality they were fairly rickety affairs, often with severe weight restrictions, and caused the Railway Inspectorate to despair. We modellers run things over them that would probably have resulted in their immediate collapse in real life. Here is a case in point. 46444 brought his Bachmann 9f round last night, so we took a few pictures of it on the bridge at Diddington. He
wiggoforgold

wiggoforgold

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Scanman's Upton Dene Blog

Upton Dene Revised (Revived?)

Well, the last entry on this blog series was some seven months ago, and life since then has been a real roller-coaster. Since losing Zoe's dad, we have found out that, for tax purposes - and to protect her should he have had to enter full-time care - Jim had put the house in her name. Unfortunately this was only done some three years ago (when Zoe's mum passed away) so she was not going to be fully protected vis a vis inheritance tax. She had maintained all along that she did not wish to move
scanman

scanman

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Buckjumper's Blog

View of the Yard

A quick, and very rough sketch to show the levels. That it looks like part of Ricey's Cornfield Street is no accident - it fits the bill perfectly, so there's no need to reinvent the wheel.   We're looking south. In the foreground I've added the an impression of the far side of the brick lined cutting for the Metropolitan Lines (stage 3 of this segment) and the position of the future road bridge over it on the right hand side. On the viaduct at the back will be the quadruple tracks of the Gr
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

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greslet's Blog

Plans for Christmas on the Rede Valley

First day of my Christmas break and its snowing in deepest Northumberland.   Time to take stock and consider what's to be achieved over the next couple of weeks. The loft hatch has been firmly shut for the last 3 or 4 months because of other priorities, and its time to do something about it. Starting the blog properly is part of giving myself the motivation to get things moving again.   First job today was to start documenting the real locations that the rede valley line is based around, so
greslet

greslet

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sixteen 12by 10s' Blog

0-16.5 guess what it looked like loco

Hi all   Well were did this all start? As well as Glenuig, I have a little 0-16.5 slate quarry layout, while I have been exhibiting Glenuig, a few exhibition managers have asked me if I have anything else I could exhibit. So the slate quarry has a few invites to shows. The layout has little operating potential so I will leave a train circuiting for long time periods and only having two locos I could see a problem using this method, one boredom, and two, wearing the little things out. What I ne
sixteen 12by 10s

sixteen 12by 10s

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Arrivals, Departures and Cancellations

A Test Track in N - 2: Carpentry

Despite wanting this thing to 'be quick to make' I hit an early snag - all is revealed below...   One of the key features of this design is that the track will go inside the frame, rather than sitting on top of the frame per the conventional approach. This means: no underboard wiring, point motors etc (a false bottom could be added - but this is meant to be quick and simple) no track pins - unless it doubles as a bed of nails! Assembly tolerances must be quite tight, as even smal
Platform 1

Platform 1

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Black Hat and Jenny

Jenswell Part 2a

A very quick follow up to our last post   I started setting out track and points on a slab of pink foam to see what we could fit in. Extruded foam from B&Q packs of four sheets each 1200x500x50 mm. This will be the base board for our layout with a light-ply deck for the track.   I was rather pleased to find that the three sidings gave us a classic 5-3-3 Inglenook. This makes the layout more usable as a shunting puzzle.     We have photos too !
Chris_nicole

Chris_nicole

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The Gingerbread Line

Cattle Train - GWR (2mm FS)

Although it's not obvious from the product list, the 2mm Association kits provide a good start for building GWR cattle wagons - known as MEX (or should that be MEXes?) for identification purposes.   The Association body kit 2-561 is intended for a BR cattle wagon (Diag 1/353) which is very similar to the late GWR cattle wagons of diagram W12. By substituting the Association 2-363 underframe (11'6" DC) for the recommended 2-352 underframe, you can easily build the GWR W8 diagram of 1913 (the
Gingerbread

Gingerbread

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Bit Missing!

OK; so last night was not my last before 2012! I've just checked to see if any comments needed a rep;y and spotted on the 'Full Frontal' picture that one of the handles on the smoke box dart has gone missing. Who said Cyano-acralate was Super glue? Merry whatnot,
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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lyneux's Workbench

ARC Hanson JHA Part 5: Prints of the revised LTF-25 design

Unfortunately the latest prints of the revised design haven't come out too well: they exhibit the rippling effect that many people are seeing and Shapeways have now agreed to re-print these for me. This seems to be a common problem at the moment with frosted ultra detail from Shapeways and people are speculating that it is to do with the calibration of the machines. You can make your own mind up and read more about the problem on this thread on Shapeway's forum: http://www.shapeways.com/forum/in
lyneux

lyneux

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What's new at Furness Wagon Co

The latest from the work bench

In the last few months I have managed to finish off a number wagons that have been meening to finish for a while.   A Powsides coke wagon, a Slaters NER P7 hopper and a Slaters BR 20t brake van.   We have now been been invited to two exhibitions as a layout rather than a manufacturer so work has started on turning our basic stand into a layout fit for a show.   Also most of the Wagons for this year's production have been designed and the patterns have been made and its only February.
MarcD

MarcD

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Dukedog's Blog

Morfa Bach (My new Cambrian layout) Update Dec 15 2011

I haven't updated this blog for a couple of weeks because I didn't have much to show until now.   I've been doing some work on the small halt for the layout the result of which can be seen below.       The halt is based on the one that existed at Gogarth Halt, the first stop for a train heading north bound up the Cambrian coast line after leaving Dovey Junction.   The platform is just long enough to accommodate one coach as per the prototytpe. The shelter is also based on the same l
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

Populating the Old Midland

Greetings to anyone still out there.   I have to confess to being a tad lazy in moving the Glenfield model on. Thoughts of vegetation has not exactly filled me with excitement, and other mini projects, such as a signal, has been tried and consigned to the bin to be tacked again. So it's not that I've been doing nowt, its more that the bits of tweaking have not warranted an entry really. For example, I've rearranged the buildings in the goods yard slightly and added some fencing. Today I th
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Belpairs & Silicon

This will be my last posting until after the festivities, so Merry Christmas and a brilliant modelling New Year to all my readers.   This week the pics are mainly about how I achieve belpair firebox shapes for ex-GCR locos. As you may have picked-up from recent photographs I initially make a round top firebox. This is easier to roll as part of the boiler/firebox tube and GC locos did not have the protrubent belpair forms of most other railways; simply flat sides and top but with curved top cor
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Cruikglen - Fictional Waverley

Progress on board 4

Slow progress but I’m eating the elephant one bite at a time.   The branch   The first track work I’ve tackled is the section of the branch which dives down on board 4. In the last post I described how this was laid, on Woodland Scenics track bed. I’ve since bought an airbrush, so after practising on scrap lengths of track I sprayed the sleepers and rails with Lifecolour acrylic sleeper grime. After a couple of light coats I achieved the look I wanted, a dirty grey. I prefer this
DaveArkley

DaveArkley

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AJ427s - Great Hotton

Heathley Kirkgate - a touch of L&Y spice?

I thought I was pretty set in my fictional what-if but re-reading some of my research material got me thinking that it might be nice to add a little Lancashire & Yorkshire spice to the mix. In my original scenario the L&Y gained some running powers over the line through ficticious Heathley but it's not really clear how they would have used it. The answer was quite simple and staring me in the face. In reality L&Y Leeds/Bradford trains were joined or split at Low Moor with Leeds porti
AJ427

AJ427

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my stock

9F EVENING STAR

well its getting closer to completion the loco now has some of its lining complete i need to finish the lining on the tender and around one side of the number, i also need to add flashers and hopefully get the weathering on the wheels complete   all feedback on how it can be improved will be useful to make the locomotive better
wootang

wootang

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cornish trains jez's Blog

Detailing the Farish Class 50 - Update 2

Good afternoon all,   I have decided to try and get one cab end finished before moving on to spraying the rest of the locomotive just to get an idea of what the end result will be. I have resprayed one cab end in warning panel yellow from the Phoenix paints range, and started touching up the multiple train jumper sockets. I have also started to attach some of the pipework and although I still don't like the headlight, I feel it is looking more and more like a Hoover, and I can take the experi
cornish trains jez

cornish trains jez

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Killybegs' Blog

More Donegal Locos

While beavering away on the Castle in my spare time, I have continued building locos for the County Donegal Heritage Centre.   The latest project is a Lough Swilly 4-8-0. The upper works are now pretty well finished and await the loco chassis. I am waiting on wheels for this one and, as the chassis is of the fold up variety with external frames, it can't be assembled without them!   Back in August I posted an entry on the CDR Class 5A that I had been building but I forgot to attach a pic so
Killybegs

Killybegs

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

2mm Scale Iron Minks

Another entry from my Trefallion P4 blog moved to my 2mm Scale blog... 2mm Scale Iron Minks   07 December 2011 Posted by Ian Smith     After a bit of a ferret about in the loft, I found what I was looking for...   Many years ago I had a spell of modelling in 2mm Scale, the only wagons that were ever completed were a pair of GWR Iron Mink built from kits purchased from the 2mm Scale Association. The kit as produced was for a later type where the original iron doors were replaced with wo
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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

2mm Scale GWR 4 Plank Open

I am going to try to move my 2mm ramblings from my original Trefallion blog (which is my P4 layout) to this new blog, firstly with my entry on a GWR 4 Plank Open wagon :   2mm Scale GWR O5 4 Plank Open   Sunday afternoon, Wifey out, what to do?   Well having located some of my old 2mm scale bits and bobs I decided to have a crack at putting together the 9'0" rigid underframe chassis that I had in my box of bits. The chassis had been purchased to go under a 4 plank open wagon body that I ha
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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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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