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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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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Talking Stock #1 Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific’s

This is the first in hopefully a series of posts looking at the various items of rolling stock that have and operate on Fisherton Sarum. Over time the intent is that the series will include locomotives, coaching stock and wagons. First up are Bulleid’s masterpieces the Merchant Navy class in original ‘Air Smoothed’ condition. I am not going to get into discussion about the success or otherwise of the design as plenty has been published elsewhere, but to cover some of the models that I have buil
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Oh hell Toboldlygo's gone Loco....

... mad that is   My workbench has been a flurry of activity, lots of locos have passed over it in the last month.   First up here's another shot of Schools 30920 Rugby, basking in the sun:     Then there's T9 30117:     Next a reworked WC 34023 Blackmore Vale, complete with 71A (Eastleigh) shedcode, grime and coal:     And finally my first tank engine renumbering M7 30049:     All of which will be finding themselves on a certain auction site over the coming months  
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

Goods Shed

Progress at last, Having been suitably inspired visiting Clutton last night, I have spent an hour this morning at the airport awaiting a flight up to Broughton on CAD working on a set of drawings of Cheddar's goods shed.   So far this is only based on photos from one book, (given that was the only one I had scanned photos of) As such there are a couple of areas that require further attention. the village side has two arches based on the end arches as the only photo I have of this side is in
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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backofanenvelope's blog

Day out in Warwickshire Part 2

Ok so dug a few more out for people to have a look at.. Hope there not too much of the same. I always go with the best intentions of trying to take interesting pics but end up taking 30 of the same scene to get what I think is right!   Batty Moor     Hedges Hill Cutting                 Parnhams         Rosneath    
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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halfwit's Wondrous Wagons!

Airfix Mineral Wagons - part 2

I've now fitted the solebars and added some hinge detail and body support brackets either side of the doors. The support brackets were made from .015" x .080" styrene strip, radiused on one corner. The strip under the side door is a length of .030" square styrene (as per Geoff Kent's book) and the hinges themselves are cut from .010" x .080" styrene for the baseplate and .030" rod, 1mm long, with a flat filed on the back for the hinge itself. They're not particularly neat but they are a lot be
halfwit

halfwit

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Redgate's Modelling

Focus Deflected Back to the Duke

Following a brief interlude with my thoughts on a 77xxx I returned to the Duke yeterday whilst recovering from a nasty bout of Bejing Belly (don't ask)   So deflectors are now modified to the single continuous handrail which involved unsoldering the small lower handrail and the handrail knob from the end of the top handrail. This was re-sited higher up in a new hole, two holes were filled with solder and then a new section of handrail soldered in with the join within the old knob.   Pic belo
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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backofanenvelope's blog

Day out in Warwickshire

Having gone through the 50 million shots that are no good I dug out a few of my day out at TINGS in Warwickshire. Bit of a trek back due to fender bender(s) but saw some really nice layouts and got some useful tips and info. Many pics have been taken on some of the layouts before and my skills behind the camera vary from ground shaking blurriness to bleached out flash infested snaps, some times I wish I know what I was doing and could get a half decent pic.. anyway here are my selections..   1
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Hydraulic Heaven

Class 22 - Part 11 (The End)

D6309 is pretty much finished now and is ready to earn its keep on South Yard and St Ruth. It even went on holiday (with South Yard) to its native Cornwall a couple of weeks ago.     The trip through the paint shop was fairly long and painful, the lowest point being when I sprayed it with Humbrol matt varnish to protect the transfers only to find that this left a horrid translucent effect over the whole loco. I rescued this with an wash of thinned Precison green applied by brush. Thankfully
D869

D869

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Adam's part-time modelling

Something fishy or refitting an old favourite

Plastic wagons can be remarkably durable beasts and only rarely can one be said to be beyond repair. My first attempt at one, an original Parkside Grampus, was not an ideal choice, in part because of the nature of the prototype with its intricate baskets to hold the removable end planks when not required on the wagon and the design of the ends in three, prototypical bits located on poorly mould pins and holes. This may be why the body still isn't entirely square. Not entirely Parkside's fault, i
Adam

Adam

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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

two chains...

Greetings.   While helping at the MRS open day at Derby Silk Mill on Saturday, Dave Harris kindly dug out their archived plans of the West Bridge branch during a quiet moment. At last I could try to resolve some of the mysteries about this little elusive Leicestershire station! The plans were every bit as detailed as I'd hoped, and answered most of my questions. It shows there were 2 lever frames and a signal frame, having one home signal to protect the crossing facing the up ( Leicester) d
Chrislock

Chrislock

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jonas' N gauge Blog

Sharking

I spent an enjoyable afternoon at the International N Gauge Show on Saturday, and this Shark kit was one of the items I picked up. I decided to go with an olive green example as a bit of variety in my mostly dutch engineers fleet. Its missing transfers and the plough shields seen on the prototype but I am happy with progress so far. The picture is cruel - at least 4 times the size of the real thing!   I also picked up a sample pack from the 2mm association, with the short length of track seen
jonas

jonas

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General - Muz's modelling mastications

Railway modelling consistency and accuracy

In a recent blog post I mentioned that I would be exhibiting last weekend at the Railway Enthusiasts Club – Farnborough exhibition at Woking with Hinton Parva, one of the layouts from the High Wycombe and District Model Railway Society. Wondering around the show got me thinking about the topic of consistency on layouts and their approach to historical accuracy. I like to see layouts where a consistent level of approach is maintained across all aspects, from scenery, track work, buildings and ro
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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AJ427s - Great Hotton

Weathering Addiction

Weathering is just too additictive. A large chunk of last weekend was spent renumbering and weathering my Jinty. A project started to kill time whilst some glue was drying quickly got out of hand and took over proceedings. Other, arguably more important jobs, such as further tracklaying and wiring have been largely sidelined. As a result progress on the layout side of things has been slow but steady with just the track laid for most of the station area and the headshunt. The Jinty has been renum
AJ427

AJ427

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Will's workbench

Warming up cold ballast

Tinted ballast comparison by Will Vale, on Flickr   Cold as in colour temperature. The finer ballast I'm using (as seen on the right in the above picture) is a bit too blue-grey and not buff enough, so it needs to be coloured.   I poured some onto a bit of MDF and set it as I had on the layout, using alcohol and Klear (stay off the floor polish!) Once that was dry I tried various colouring options:       From left to right, MIG Ashes White, lightly then heavily applied. MIG Beach Sand,
Will Vale

Will Vale

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NickL2008's Blog

Western Detailer Part III

Hi,   Progress has been slow on the Western this week, owing to night shifts - and long ones at that! However, Ive managed to add the grills into the Western and get some Primer onto one side to check for lumps and bumps. The holes for the grills were awkward to drill because of the grills being offset and not centrally mounted as the Lima mouldings are, but however the walkways are correct being centrally positioned. Speaking of grills it is a shame that nobody does the bodyside grills for th
NickL2008

NickL2008

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Paternosterrow

80 years on the GWR

Another mess about with video. This is much inspired by Mikkel's Farthing Layouts although it's nowhere near his modeling standards. I'm also sure that many GWR fans will know that inappropriate stock has been used, but it is my first attempt. I hope you like the concept.       I don't think the attachment has uploaded properly so take a look at this link instead:    
PaternosterRow

PaternosterRow

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Cutting Down to Size

Good progress and the 'ballast' has crossed the viaduct and arrived at the junction:     The 'branch' is ex GWR but the 'junction' provides a connection to the the old LMR. The foot bridge is the ubiquitous Hornby model cut down for platform use:     A view from the main line, the engine shed will have wait for another day!  
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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backofanenvelope's blog

Drop-ins

Finally done something productive after weeks of inactivity. I collected the last two remaining sets of drop-in wheels for my DBS Class 66 from the 2mill stand at the TINGS show after the appropriate interrogation. Bumped into fellow 2millers who were impulse buying Wandered around for the day looking at some really nice layouts, I seem to be gravitating to the smaller almost micro layouts. In fact the three best in show in my humble opinion were Hedges Hill Cutting, Rosneath, Wulstanton Road,
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Diamond Crossing or Single Slip

Another wet week so the potatoes are still in the ground! However good progress with the ballast on the mainline:     As originally constructed the exit from the goods yard / station was a simple diamond crossing with dead frogs:     This was then changed for a single slip. There is more metal rail on the single slip which gives superior running. However the rather abrupt 'turn left' is too tight for some engine / tender combinations and is in restricted use.     The change from '
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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The 891mm Project

Exhibition Preparation

Spurred on by the image shown in the previous post of the signal located at Osterport, the small signal cabin adjacent to the signal was too good an opportunity to miss. With its typical Scandinavian details and (compared with other buildings of the era) unusually large overhangs on the roof and use of concrete, a couple of evenings work with Plasticard and Slaters planked sheets suitably scribed with grain detail; the building is complete.     whilst more shots were being prepared, a 'bee
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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ess1uk's Layout Ruby Road and other waffle Blog

Impulse buy. Do your homework next time!

yes i know i should have done my homework a bit better....... today i bought a Hornby R9664 signal box and now kind of wish i'd bought a R8005. when i opened the box was a little suprised to see there was no floor in the signal box. OK it's something that can be sorted but would have thought it would have one. now i'll have to mess about and figure out how to add one myself and try to find a something for the levers. any bright ideas out there? apart from scratch building which is not my t
ess1uk

ess1uk

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Engine Wood

Balcombe and the Ouse Valley Viaduct project - a small contribution

I've started work on scratchbuilding a model of a small brick farm access underbridge, which is located on the north (London) side of the Ouse Valley Viaduct. I will be assisting Rod (10800), John (Re6/6) and a couple of Rod's colleagues from the Eridge project at Scaleforum in a couple of weeks time, demonstrating on the theme of B.R. Southern Region. My contribution to all of this, besides helping run trains up and down the viaduct, (no doubt), will be to continue construction of this farm bri
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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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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