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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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Mallard126's Blog

Signaling Plans Compleated.

Hi Everyone, I have decided to stop doing monthly updates and just update my blog when things have been going on. Firstly, I have managed to get some of my signaling planed and it will Fianly mean a project which should not cost too much! I have also got a new loco, It's a Hornby R3023 J94 Tank. When I went to my local model shop to buy it they asked if I would like it DCC Chipping. I said yes as I would have no chance doing it at home!   Jacob
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Mallard126's Blog

August 2011: What's gone on my layout during August 2011!

Hi Everyone, It's took me alot shorter time than I have expected to get back up to date with my Layout but this layout update are what the plans are and what the Layout looks like at this moment in time (August 2011) August was due to be a very busy month with the scenery on my Layout with alot of Metcalfe kits to be bought!   Early August 2011: Not much has changed to do with the layout from Late July but their have been a few changes. I have cut out templates of all the Metcalfe Buildings
Mallard126

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Mallard126's Blog

July 2011: What's been going on My Layout during July 2011!

Hi Everyone, Here is the July Update for my layout. July was set to be quite a busy month on My Layout with the arrival of the Hornby Special Edition of Tornado and plans for a postal branch line.   Early July 2011: Not much change to do with track work but their was two new arrivals to do with locomotives. The Biggest Arrival was the Hornby Special Edition of newly Built A1 'Tornado' I thought Hornby had produced a great model Evan though alot of people seemed a bit disappointed with the mo
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Mallard126's Blog

June 2011: What has been going on My Layout during June 2011!

Hi Everyone, Just going to tell you what has being going on with my Layout During June 2011,   Early-Middle June 2011: So I have been to my Local Model Shop (Millemium Models) to buy all the track, I have put it all on the layout and it looks great, most of my locomotives now have sidings! We Finished Track pinning in the Middle of June and it is all firmly in place, the plans for a terminus station have been scraped due to plans to build the station out of a Metcalfe kits, not Hornby Skale
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Mallard126's Blog

May 2011: What has gone on my Layout during May 2011

Hi Everyone, As Everyone will know this blog is a bit behind as the Layout construction started in May 2011 and it is now August 2011. Anyway here is what happen with my layout during May 2011!   Early May 2011: The Board has finally been finished, after four years planning and about three months constructing we have finally got it at my house. It measures 8ft by 4ft 6 inches with a small 2ft 8 inches by 1ft 6 inches bit control and turntable area. It has taken about 3 hours to fit to the wa
Mallard126

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Mallard126's Blog

Start of My Blog

Hi Everyone, I have decided to start a blog so you can track progress on My Layout! I will post regularly and every time something changes on my layout. Since I have already started building my layout things might be a bit not up to date for a while but things should be up to date within a few weeks. So that's the introduction to my Blog! More things to come soon!   Jacob
Mallard126

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Redgate's Modelling

The Duke Ready for Lining

Well, the Duke is ready for lining. All the detail painting is done including some picked out pipework and the cab has a few touches of paint around steam pipes and the gauges are picked out in white with black pointers.     Tender is also ready, so there's really no excuse not to get the pressfix out is there?
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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SPT's Blog

Back to the Drawing Board -T gaugeglasgow central update 2

I have had to start all over again! The gruelling task of getting started on my Glasgow Central layout has gotton more tedious as I have had to have a re-think of my plans, owing to the fact that the 422mmx345mm baseboard was just too small to accommodate 13 platforms. I am planning to include the bridge that spans the Clyde until the tracks separate, so, I think the baseboard will have to be triple the size of the original, at least 1200mmx900mm.
SPT

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Wayne 37901's modelling blog

Roadbridge dilema

Good evening,   Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this. Where does the time go? Anyway...   This is the roadbridge at the end of the layout and the area I'm currently working on. The more I look at it the more I wonder what I can do. Do I just have the bank sloping down or could I build a shallow retaining wall around the headshunt stop block?...   Here's the area in question. A little ponder is needed over this I think.  
Wayne 37901

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Chris Nevard's Blog

3 hours work with glue, hammer, saw, blood, less fingers etc....

110927_cornish-interlude_IMG_1336_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   3 hours work with glue, hammer, saw, blood, less fingers, and we have a baseboard in a box.   This is probably the average time most armchair modellers sit online before lunch pontificating about flanges, why they've lost interest in the hobby, why they don't have enough time to actually do anything, why 66134 has not been released in S gauge, why aren't model railway magazines free and how much Photoshop does that Mr
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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leopard1299's Blog

9f building again!

well started doing another 9f upgrade/conversion on a Hornby railroad 9f turning this into another tyne dock loco its a slow project so far but getting there just need a few more bits to upgrade certain parts so just took a photo of the work done at the mo.  
leopard1299

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

The Superquick Engine Shed

This week there have been conflicting interests, so not so much ballast and instead a bit of history:     My old Superquick engine shed in its latest postion - a rare picture with no engines.   The shed dates back to the early 1980s and my Bracken Ridge Layout. It was part of a pair of sheds which were customised to fit my track spacing. The sheds were made narrower. This was achieved by separating the gable ends from the walls. If you look carefully you can see where the brick arch f
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Having a little doodle

cornish interlude 01_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   I like doodling and thinking of ideas for small layouts, small layouts appealing to me because they can cater for all the different type of railways I like. I don't think I could ever commit to just one big project, I'd probably get bored halfway through.   Here we have a back of an envelope plan for a 3x1 foot (excluding fiddle yards) micro depicting a fictitious halt and crossing on the Wenford Bridge branch line. The forthcomin
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Sidcup

"4VEP - Modifications & Weathering, Part 1"

Furthering the debate on the Hornby 4VEP thread elsewhere, another problem found was that the trailing bogies at each end had been designed incorrectly. The damper should face inwards, towards the centre of the train, and the guard irons were also on the wrong end, as shown below:     This had another affect, as moving turning the bogie around and putting the guard irons on the opposite end would mean that both the steps and the 3rd rail shoes would be in the wrong position - in the f
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #2 The 1948 Locomotive exchange trials

The 1948 locomotive exchange trials took place from April though to September 1948 with Waterloo to Plymouth being one of the chosen routes and utilised during may and June 1948. I was keen to introduce some of the locos that ran on the Southern during the trials into the locomotive fleet on my Fisherton Sarum layout as it is based on Salisbury and as such was a stopping off point for the trials.   This is an extract of the latest entry on my modelling blog click here to read the full entry
Graham_Muz

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Will's workbench

Nicht nur für E-loks!

Br. 85 zwischen Falkensteig und Hirschprung by Will Vale, on Flickr   Br.85 no. 85005 brings a short train down towards Freiburg some time in the early '50s. It's nice to see a bit of steam power on the line, especially when it's such an attractive loco.   This weekend I managed to spend a fair bit of time working on the layout. The landscape around the left-hand end has been built up to about the right height, and I've been carving away at the rock faces. This is an interesting pass-time -
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Jessy1692's modelling bits and pieces

Deltic progress, about time too!

After a hellish couple of weeks wthone thing or another, i decided it was time i got stuck in had a good old moddeling weekend. Someh iv managed to build a vickers valiant in just 2 days and what a good looking plane it is too! but also iv cracked on with my super detailed (Jon 200 inspired) deltic thats been on the go for a while now. Progress kind of ground to a halt trying to get the weather to finish off the painting but now all has come good, iv muckied up the roof a bit and tidied up the n
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Chris Nevard's Blog

Sunday Night Snaps

With work looming for many tomorrow, here's a little cheer up snapped earlier today in the car park at Scaleforum! Brewhouse Quay, not you you can tell was balanced on the roof of my car, it not being officially part of the show. The lovely little loco, an Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 is owned by Captain Kernow - oh lucky chap! Click on the photos below to enlarge.....  
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Progress

Baseboard building continues a pace and these are few shots of progress. Holes have been cut for the streets and canal to pass under the station, although having checked google I'm going to have a cut a few more. Track laying on the Southern end of the station has also started. Cork underlay is used and this is glued down with contact adhesive, Which has also been used to secure the trackwork. I lay no claim to having built any of this. It was all made for me by "Hayfield" of this site, and a
rovex

rovex

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Paul's GWR Blog

More Rolling Stock

Next step towards getting the stock ready for the new layout means I have been working on a few wagons.     First up are a couple of open wagons built from Cooper Craft kits, one of which has a sheet fitted.     Covered vans are again from Cooper Craft kits, slightly weathered.     Private owners are Slaters kits, loaded will real Welsh Steam Coal (as used in my 7 1/4" gauge loco). The Wilmer Swindon wagon has been hand painted.     The cattle wagon is another Cooper Craft k
PUASHP

PUASHP

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Paul's GWR Blog

More Rolling Stock

Next step towards getting the stock ready for the new layout means I have been working on a few wagons.     First up are a couple of open wagons built from Cooper Craft kits, one of which has a sheet fitted.     Covered vans are again from Cooper Craft kits, slightly weathered.     Private owners are Slaters kits, loaded will real Welsh Steam Coal (as used in my 7 1/4" gauge loco). The Wilmer Swindon wagon has been hand painted.     The cattle wagon is another Cooper Craft k
PUASHP

PUASHP

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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale

Summer's Almost Gone

Some of us might say it's been long gone. Meanwhile I notice that I haven't posted here for over three months. Dead? Lunatic asylum? Not just yet...   A few bits and bobs have been progressed over summer. Most recently I've turned my attention to the lighting and initially the gantry:     The gantry is in five pieces to mirror the baseboards and is made in a similar manner. Two laths of 9mm ply are cut to the required diameter; the upper piece is around 4" deep, the lower one just 1". The
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Module Planning

Although there are going to be some VERY exciting posts about rolling stock soon, in terms of the layout it has gone a bit quiet for me recently. The reality is that I have become increasingly fed up with my layout taking over half my hobby room which leaves me very little space to actually do anything. This means that I have had to compromise my work areas when building stock and it also means I tend to leave things on the layout for storage because there are simply no other storage solutions.
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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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