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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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Will's workbench

Painting blockwork

Step 1 by Will Vale, on Flickr   I thought I'd try and put a step-by-step up for this, because when I went back to the earlier entry on this tunnel portal to try and duplicate the painting onto the second wall, I found I hadn't listed the paint colours. So this is partly for my benefit. But maybe it'll be useful. It's always tricky to remember to put the brushes down and take pictures between steps. Usual disclaimer - I don't think this is an exemplary result - it looks good from six inches aw
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - Musing about using Easitrack.

Hi All   The trackbase for 2FS Easitrack is moulded in scale 60 panels. Once the code 40 rail is inserted, whether you have chosen the wooded or concrete sleepers it looks the part. But for beginners it is difficult to lay sweeping curves, without kinks occurring at the join between the trackbase sections. This was first pointed out to me by Noel Leaver at a 2mm event some years ago. This blog entry is the result of my musings on the problem!     My considered solution, this may to some a
Lisa

Lisa

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St Ruth

Geology

This photo was taken at our most recent meeting. The idea was to provide a progress update... the snag is that none of the completed buildings were in place when it was taken, so much of the progress isn't visible. Oh well... maybe the idea was more of an 'action shot' to show work going on painting the rocky beach in the foreground. There is further geological work happening out of sight at the far end plus some work on boundary walls along the road side.   One group member seems to be more a
D869

D869

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Scalelinkbob's Blog

Scale Link appointed an MTH dealer

Following discussions with MTH in the USA, Scale Link have been appointed importers of MTH O-scale trains. We are currently listing BR Carmine & Cream Stanier coach sets, indivdual coaches and parcels vans on our site www.scalelink.co.uk A delivery of "Blue" era Wagons-lits are expected soon - watch the website.... "Brown" era Wagons-lits are coming later this month.
Scalelinkbob

Scalelinkbob

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Fen End Pit's Blog

D16/3 painted!

I think the colour is best described as 'Stratford unloved black'. I still need to sort of the driving wheels and then get some transfers on it. I did wonder about the colour of the guard irons, would they have been black below buffer beam level?   Paint was Precision paints etch primer followed by matt 33 followed by satin 85.   I'm quite pleased with the way it looks...   (and no I'm not going to line it out!)   David Barham  
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Loco weighbridge

This will probably appaul the continuous springy beam folks but when you have individual springs on a chassis it is important to be able to adjust them so that the effective weight on each wheel is similar. I had some problems with my J39 which would hold the track then 'turning right' but not 'turning left'. It was suggested that perhaps the springing on the front axle was uneven so I decided to build a rig to try and check this out.   An £7 set of electronic scales was purchased off ebay (I'
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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kyle of lochalsh

an upgrade...from boxfile to shelf....

Good morning,   Since its first (and probably will be its last) exhibition, the layout has been avoiding the dust for approximately 16 months now back in its boxfile(s), but was set up again briefly the other week when the Dapol 26 arrived.   I had always promised myself that I would finish off this layout and bring it up to scratch. Rather than piggyback its revamp on my coombe junction - moorswater blog, I thought perhaps it might be better having its own separate one.   Here is a quick
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Will's workbench

Light at the end of the...? No, let's not go there.

Bricks scribed by Will Vale, on Flickr   Yet another tunnel portal post I'm afraid, but this is nearly the last one! I've carved the retaining wall and attached portal, as seen above. It wasn't entirely straightforward owing to the shape, so I thought given that and the different course heights on the different sections of stonework I'd better draw some guides before starting. I used a propelling pencil and a small styrene square as a ruler, tipping it carefully over the angle between the wall
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

An Ode to an Ivatt

This cast aside mistress An anarchic frame marvel The Flying Pig Galloping along   Her whimsical body abused A humble pride neglected This Doodlebug Scribbled bare   An unwiped grimy face Those work blighted nooks A Clodhopper Collecting stains   The prestige aloof manner Swan dreams concede illusions An Ugly Duckling She remains   You carried yourself silent Whilst other held appeal My Mucky Duck Always adored
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Adventures in N-gauge

What lies beneath: taking the brakes off the Farish BYA

This is quick job that I've been meaning to do for a while. The Farish BYA is a really nice model, which has grown on me quite a lot since it was released. It has a couple of faults: the unpainted red plastic used for some of the end details isn't very beautiful; and Farish's take on EWS red is too muddy for my tastes. On the whole, though, it's an excellent effort. As a piece of rolling stock, however, it suffers from the fact that it runs like a dog. I have nine of them and every one of them i
Jim Martin

Jim Martin

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lyneux's Workbench

ARC Hanson JHA Part 3: Test prints painted and paired with scratch built body

More progress on the LTF-25 bogie and the JHA this month.     Back in August, I was offered the chance to acquire 5 scratch-built JHA bodies. This seemed like a good solution in order to get a mini rake of 5 wagons up and running quickly. Colin Craig kindly supplied me with a few more wheelsets at Scaleforum so I've now been able to put the first wagon together with the better pair of my test print bogies.   Although the wagon bodies could do with a bit more detailing, rather than go to t
lyneux

lyneux

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Great Dexter on the KESR

Great Dexter - My first blog entry

Hi   This is a blog which follows the development of my first attempt to build a N gauge layout. I am a very non computer person, so I have asked trainmadlisa to assist me do the blog thing.   Below are some photographs of the of the track from an N gauge starter set with an extra point and some extra short straight and some extra short radius 1 curves too. The track was set up on my kitchen table, to get an idea of the space required.       The photograph below was added to the ent
TrainMadDavid

TrainMadDavid

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Andy's Blog

Nellie's shed is finished, and some new rolling stock arrives.

Another update for anyone who may be looking at this...   Well Nellie's shed is now finished with a few more details added and given a name. Once installed on the future layout I plan to add some lighting and a smoke generator in the floor so when the loco is parked inside, steam can ooze around it. Photo attached.           Two more items of rolling stock have also arrived. The first is a standard open wagon, fitted with a temp barrell load. The second is a flatbed waggon, converted by
ahardy

ahardy

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Micro progress

111002_cornish_int_IMG_1427_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   The little GWR/LSWR-Cornish-esque 2'10" x 12" micro continues to take shape. Not bad I guess seeing it was only a twinkle Sunday before last - but it is only dinky winky so no great challenge.   Yesterday you saw the GWR 'pagoda' and platform manifest, and the afternoon before saw a little track construction using C+L components. Note the lower level siding and catchpoint, something that's nearly always missed from sidings
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Dukedog's Jottings

Ghost Train?

HI All, Just been sorting through a load of pictures for filing away after editing and cropping in Photoshop.   That was when I noticed this     I know Haloween comes soon but......?????     Creepy or what?   Cheers Frank
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Will's workbench

Why was the tunnel in mid-air?

Retaining wall and tunnel by Will Vale, on Flickr   For the Flying Kipper, obviously   Not much to report last week - I slowly layered up some more foam for carving the Hirschsprung itself, but didn't get much more done than that until Sunday, when i had a blitz on the remaining structural engineering works. I built the retaining wall and east tunnel portal for the Unterer Hirschsprung Tunnel, as seen above. Then I knocked together some 2mm section to make the rock shed which was added rath
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - The Difference between Railway and Tramway Operation

Hi All   Railways have station and halts, whereas tramways have depots and wayside stopping places. Tramways generally have very rudimentary signalling if any at all and where they do it is often not interlocked with the points. It was the drivers responsibility to check that the points were correctly set.   On rural tramways, the points were indeed often operated by the tram crew, usually on steam operated tramways, by the fireman. Points were often operated by lineside weighted levers, ph
Lisa

Lisa

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Andy's Blog

Wylam's Wonkey Waggon Works and a water column for Nellie

Hi all,   Another update with some bits and pieces I have been working on. As part of my propsed Emett style layout I fancied a wagon works. This would not be moddeled as a full building, but just part, allowing vehicles to be shunted into the building and fiddle yard ready for repairs etc etc.   Anyway, off I went thinking about its construction. Looking at Emetts drawings I realised that mixing components from different scales may work, along with steep pitched roofs etc. Anyway I trundele
ahardy

ahardy

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Dukedog's Jottings

Pen Y Bont at Telford exhibition

I took my layout Pen Y Bont to the Telford Railway Modellers Group exhibition today.   The venue was only a small hall but there was a good atmosphere about the place, the Telford Group are a great friendly bunch of guys and we ( Son in law and myself) enjoyed our day out.     This was only the third outing for Pen Y Bont and again every thing worked and was mostly trouble free. I have a couple of wagons that need some adjustment and a few 3 link coupling were found to be broken but nothin
Dukedog

Dukedog

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Something for the Weekend

111002_cornish_int_IMG_1420_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   Cornish Interlude (working title) update   What better that to move the workbench outside when the weather is as good as it has been! No need to hoover up after either!   This weekend saw the repaint and weather of a Bachmann Scenecraft GWR 'Pagoda'. The weekend also saw the construction of a short platform from foam board, embossed plastic card and Das modelling clay. Note the faded BR Southern Region colours, this to di
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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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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