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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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Workbench - Graham_Muz

A change of eras for Beattie Well Tank

Being a Southern Railway modeller of the period 1946 to 1949 it is not unusual for me to need to re-livery Ready-to-Run models that come on the market as generally they cater for either pre-war or post Nationalisation eras. This is currently the case with the delightful Beattie Well Tanks that have been produced by Dapol for Kernow Models. I have therefore modeled one side as 3329 in its 1946 condition and the other side as 30586 in the early transition style with ‘British Railways’ and the num
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Fourgig East

A Growth Spurt

Following two consecutive weekends helping out on other's trainsets I have unashamedly nicked sought inspiration from Ian Morton's shake the box for track plan and Chris Nevard's Catcott Burtle for the water feature at the front and have come up with the new, bigger, improved 4gig     I've got to extend the depth of the current 4ft board by 6" and make another 4x2   I'm currently cobbling together a Scalescenes goods shed, again the OO kit enlarged on the printer to O scale to ensure it
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

Doing the Maths, Part I: Some Diesel stats for the Waverley Route

An update on my life mission, which is a work-in-progress, to grip the true flavour of the WR's diesel era.   Part One, the Last Summer and Twilight: May '68 - Jan '69.   CLASS 17. Roughly half the class worked over the WR, principally by virtue of 64B's substantial allocation, for some time the largest at a single shed. Although their WR heyday (1966-67) was behind them by this time, they were prolific performers and usually worked in pairs, and I'm judging their numerous trips to make
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Dukedog's Jottings

Is this the way forward?

Hello again and welcome to the world of Dukdog's mutterings.   just getting over the weekends outing with Pen-Y-Bont at the Wolverhampton MRC exhibition. I got back last night feeling pretty well tired and knackered after lugging the layout in and out of the car.   Why the negative attitude? Well to be quite honest I am starting to feel my age (or more like twice my age!) and my general health is going the wrong way.   I have been diagnosed with Ashemic Heart Disease, COPD and a partly f
Dukedog

Dukedog

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NickL2008's Blog

A Break from the Western; class 56, 47s and 31s currently working on

Hi,   Its been a while since ive updated again, mainly because ive been working on 5 locos at once! The Western has been put on hold for now as I decide as to which motor I wish t odrive the model with.   Over the past mont hive been working on Firstly a pair of Vi-trains 47s. 47805 "Pride of Toton" & 828 "The Severan Valley Railway" both in VT livery. To keep the modifications simple compared to previous models I have done these as quick models with minimal alterations compared to what
NickL2008

NickL2008

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Empire Basin - hindsight is a wonderful thing

One of the joys of this hobby is when you realize that you have done something which with hindsight was probably wrong! I had originally planned to make the fronts of the viaduct part of a jigsaw board which would contain the lower level yard. However this would have made if difficult to deal with the bridge section and was also causing problems with the way in which the baseboard sections of the main line were going together.   The viaduct sections were also not quite a multiple of the lengt
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Adam's part-time modelling

The grime of old industry.

It is always nice to actually finish something or, in this case, a couple of things which complement one another. In this instance, a long-term project and a quickie. The long-time workbench resident is this little Fowler diesel from the - long unavailable (move along, move along) - Impetus kit which, despite some idiosyncrasies of design which don't really wash these days - whitemetal flycranks anyone? - makes into a nice machine. The full-ish details of its progression to finished model can be
Adam

Adam

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Lifting the track, the trees and the boards!

When I was taking up the track this afternoon, I kept asking myself "are you sure you want to do this?" The answer was firmly yes! Besides the continued blight of operational reliability, I found myself staring at many many shortcuts that I had taken and thinking that I would probably never be satisfied if I put lots of time and funds into this layout. Before I ripped up the track and removed the recycleable bits of scenery I took a few pictures of the layout for one last time: Then the b
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Churchill8F's Blog

Tramways!

Well, everyone has at least several planned out in their heads, as I have. Whilst many are out of the question, some of them would certainly be well worth looking into to.     Idea One: Large Tramway Museum Preservation layouts. Something I love and hate with a passion. Whilst many are good and done well, I can't help but feel some just don't have the right stock to fit on the layout, ie having several big locomotives for a small station terminus isn't really that convincing. Throw a A
Churchill8F

Churchill8F

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Beer, Cake & Toy Trains

Operator's cake, this hospitality rapidly becoming the trademark of Wycrail, with the cakes becoming more luxurious year on year!  Wycrail is always a shining jewel in the toy chuff chuff calendar, it being a wray of virtual sunshine the weekend after the clocks change plunging us into dismal, miserable darkness for 5 months. I gather it's to do with farmers in the very north of the British Isles, though why they cannot just set their clocks an hour later than everybody else
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Churchill8F's Blog

Bachmann Devious Diesel - Chassis Pictures & Dimensions

Took these pictures, and measured the dimensions for the folks over on NGRM-Online and RMweb. If you're going to show these on other forums, please link back to this blog when doing so.   Total Length: 98mm (137 including couplings) Total Width: 34mm (39mm including cranks and rods) Total Height: 44mm End of wheel to end of wheel: 58mm Axle to axle: 44mm   Please note that they are approximate, although as accurate as I can get them.   Pictures of the chassis:        
Churchill8F

Churchill8F

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Churchill8F's Blog

Thomas The Tank Engine - Front Coupling

Well, the Bachmann Thomas range is certainly great, don't get me wrong on that. The biggest problem however lies with the earlier models featured, such as Thomas, Percy & James. Considering they were designed when the range was started, it's easy to forgive Bachmann on the minor errors that appear on them.     However, one thing does annoy me with them. The lack of a front coupling.   Every locomotive character since, starting from Gordon and Henry, has had one. It makes sense to
Churchill8F

Churchill8F

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Davyjcrow's "00" Blog

Refurb 4CEP part 2

Thanks for the feedback - here is the latest version of the artwork (note, the images are not in scale with each other):     The large hopper vent has now been changed to match the photo that Tom supplied more closely. Unfortunately the lines are too small to etch a very thin line to represent the join in the window segments, so I have left this as a half etch. Some other photos do show this as a slight indent, so this is a bit of a compromise.   However I could also see that there is a "
davyjcrow

davyjcrow

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Making a start in 2mm finescale.

Port Kirkaig

I've researched the Northwest Highlands fairly extensively with regards to the HR proposals, of the ones not built I think the Ullapool/Lochinver ones stood the best chance, both for fish traffic but also to serve the western isles and Stornoway.   The proposals were brought to serve existing ports, a line from Garve to Ullapool would have encountered serious difficulties with terrain - the pennines are often referred to as the 'roof of England' and to me the terrain crossed would similarly be
Russ (mines a pint)

Russ (mines a pint)

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

A very late October update....

Ok it's November and I've been busy with loco's amongst other things lol!   I've been adding pictures to my galleries as each loco's been done, but I thought I'd share a few different shots with you as a little treat   First up is West Country Class 34019 Bideford:     Then it's the turn of N15 30770 Sir Prianius (note the fireman's tools on the tender):     Up next is a diversion in Malachite Green (under all that dirt) in the form of West Country Class 34048 Crediton (yes I've d
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

P4 Class 55 "Deltic" Conversion - markings and details P4 Deltic Pt 19

My Nimbus, detailed by Nimbus20, on Flickr Well, it’s been a while since I last updated this blog and my last entry had my Deltic at a BR “blue” stage with a half-decent finish which I decided to stick with. Since then, I’ve made some headway... well, almost finished in fact, and sampled some proper Twin Napier haulage at the deltic 50 event at the East Lancs Railway... which was a weekend to remember and gave me some more inspiration to crack on and get this project finished... I’ve some photo
Jon020

Jon020

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

The J10 Progresses and the Crab gets photogenic

Some progress with the J10 has been made but first I’d like to show you a couple of posed shots of the EM gauge Crab. They are same pose but differing angles and the layout is ‘Bowtons Yard’ – so we have an EM loco standing on S4 track!     This shot shows the completed coupling rods of the J10, one set on ‘rod-axles’ in the chassis assembly jig, where both sets were assembled, and one on similar axle jigs in the chassis.           Here the right hand (colour coded red) rods are sho
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Damage!

nevard_090820_elford_4z05_66546_DSC_5501_web, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   Damaged cross members on the 4Z05 empty Drax - Daw Mill coal train captured at Elford Loop on Thursday 20 August 2009.   Right, now I have your attention; that cat hasn't had a rampage by the way, however here's something I've never seen modelled, probably because it would be quite tricky trying to get the effect with moulded plastic - more of that in a minute. I'm no expert on coal hoppers and loading, but thi
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Will's workbench

Setting-up time

Unteren Hirschsprung Tunnel by Will Vale, on Flickr   Well, it's showtime tomorrow! I've been finishing things off as best as possible this week - as ever there's an awful lot which could be done that hasn't been done, but I think the overall result has the right kind of consistency. The deciduous forest also failed to materialise - I made and planted a lot of trees, but they weren't really good enough to they ended up getting yanked out agian. The bog brush firs are a cliche but they're one I
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Making a start in 2mm finescale.

Point building, definitely a start! - the mojo returns-lol

Well I decided to give the point buidling another go today:   Changed a few things from the last attempts, the flux and the place I was working on the stuff!   Seems to have been a better experience altogether, now got the stock rails into this B8 loco release crossover, and although it is seen here in very raw form things do seem to be coming together.     I've yet to take the decision on whether to go the full 2mm hog or to put the crossing and checkrails to N standards.   At the
Russ (mines a pint)

Russ (mines a pint)

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Davyjcrow's "00" Blog

Refurbished 4Cep Conversion

Hi Everyone   This is a follow-on of the help and questions thread that I started to discuss converting the Bachmann CEP to refurbished condition.   Having explored a few options I have decided to explore an etch that would assist in the conversion of windows and a few other things.   I have done some more work on the etch and simplified the design a little. Here is how the windows look now:     And here is the "stepped" sheet. I have also included: - Headlight - "Cladding" for the
davyjcrow

davyjcrow

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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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