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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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eetype3's Vehicle & Plant Blog

Corgi Bedford HA vans - the saga continues...

Ah yes, the HA vans... No 70s/80s layout is complete without at least one in the background.   I'd originally been looking on eBay for BR-liveried examples split from the Corgi BR vans set; no joy, although the rest of the set seems widely available... It's clear that there's a market for HAs in BR Road Vehicle Yellow. Given the rarity of Mk1 Escort vans in BR service, it's perhaps surprising that a Mk1 Esky was chosen for the volume-production "yellow BR van" rather than the HA.   Sooo...
eetype3

eetype3

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coombe junction - moorswater

cornered...again...

Update - Recent progress on my 2011 diorama entry can be found here...only 39 days left...   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/37906-moorswater-viaduct-2fs/page__pid__470113__st__175&do=findComment&comment=470113
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Will's workbench

Unterer Hirschsprung Tunnel

I laid the fine-ish track last week and did some minimal wiring, and have run some trains successfully. The code 40-code 60 joints were reasonably trouble free, the most I had to do was tweak the end of a rail with pliers to smooth a bend. I'll try and take some pictures of those since there are some details I wouldn't mind getting an opinion on.   I've been quietly wondering whether I'd get my modelling (as opposed to construction) mojo back, and it appears to have happened last night. Almost
Will Vale

Will Vale

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buffalo's layouts

At last, a plan for Camerton

Way back in February 2010 I posted an entry in this blog describing my thoughts on building several layouts. One of those layouts was based on Camerton in the Cam valley, North Somerset. It is area that I know well from my younger days and I've long been fascinated by the contrasts between its collieries and otherwise rural landscape. Since returning to modelling a little over four years ago, I've made several unsuccessful starts on a Camerton layout, each failing to satisfy because I was simply
buffalo

buffalo

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Sixties Snapshots - 00 scale

Ballasting

Longsheds layout started life around 2005. Base board construction and track laying is complete but as a number of observers have noted the track is unballasted and the scenery is lacking. This blog will detail progress with these tasks.   Last week saw completion of the ballasting to the mid level junction station:       This week has seen a start to ballasting at the branch terminus:     Ballast is blue poppy seed otherwise known as maw seed and it is mixed with wallpaper
Silver Sidelines

Silver Sidelines

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leopard1299's Blog

LNER B17! updated

just a quick photo of the B17 thats in build at the moment! its work in progress needs alot of finishing off yet!     another quick photo of work in progress although nearly superglued it to myself tonight! must be more carefull trying to do too much to quickly!     another quick photo update started hand rails!       more to follow later!
leopard1299

leopard1299

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Finally an Update!

It has been an astonishing four months since we last had an update on the exploits of a small model railway club on the Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey border... My excuse, partly not a lot of activity over the first couple of months, then no computer, and finally not having got round to it! Still, time for a quick recap.   When last we spoke, the club had undergone a number of major changes. Firstly we relocated from our home for six years - Tony's garage - to the committee room of the local vil
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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87 101's Blog

Time for change

OK are we all sitting down........ right....... Tanfield show ( sept 10-11) will be the last outing for AC lines so if you havn't seen it this will be the layouts last show appearence as I have big changes in the pipeline !!   Currently the situation is this...   I have an N gauge layout that is beyond repair. The framing for the baseboards has sagged in the middle and TBH the track isn't that great so this will be scrapped. It will be replaced by a new N gauge exhibition layout in the futur
87 101

87 101

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Chris Nevard's Blog

An angle of BQ you won't normally see

nevard_110821_BQ_IMG_0923_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   Here's an angle you won't normally be able to see unless you peer over the end of Brewhouse Quay behind the lighting rig. From this angle, the track layout can be observed to full effect including the wagon turntable which links to a siding that runs out right through the backscene to the other side to allow a little fun swapping wagons around.   Very shortly, the line in the centre foreground will be extended towards the pho
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

More trees!

There is something really therapeutic about making trees!   Here's the latest attempt, this time thinning out the poly fibres a little more and adding a couple of splits in the trunk to add variety:     And with the previous tree for comparison:     Cheers all,   Tom.
TomE

TomE

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

A view from the line #1. The little people

Any model railway layout needs the little people to complete the scene. I try where possible to position them in natural groupings. This post, the first in a series of ‘views from the line’, looks at the little people on Fisherton Sarum.   Alongside the typical Southern concrete platelayers hut next to the main line my grandfather can be seen taking a break. He is leaning on his ballast fork, with his co-gangers and linesmen, one of whom is sat reading the newspaper and another has a mug of te
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Adam's part-time modelling

Rod Coil Carriers - a exercise in batch building

These wagons, designated Coil S, were converted from pre-nationalisation and early BR built wooden-bodied Highs some time in the very late '60s or early '70s - I'm not sure precisely when - and are the kind of prototype I like: relatively obscure, but interesting conversions of 'ordinary' wagons that might be seen in pairs or threes without shouting 'oddity', or, moreover, stand much of a chance of turning up in kit form.   They also lend themselves to batch production, though the 'batch', in
Adam

Adam

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Macs Building Blog

A well required update

Its been ages since I have updated my progress. Sine my last post, There has been a massive change in the spatical geography of what I am leaning to call sandycock junction. ( Ironically its not going to be a sandy place... :/ )   Jobs that have been completed since I last posted   - The house now has been 90% completed, including lights, a fully furnished loungeroom and a fully furnished kitchen. The fire place has an red LED installed to give it a red glow. More pictures will be posted
rcmacchipilot

rcmacchipilot

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backofanenvelope's blog

Modelling of sorts

Ok so the weekend has rushed by and I had intentions of starting the J72 but the number of things needed in order to start gave me and opportunity to put off what I was going to do for another week! well I can get the bits, hopefully, at Railex NE next weekend and as its a bank holiday I can get a bit done maybe.....   Anyhoo on to the reason of this post and that is I have started using TurboCAD for try and make some RP models of some ideas that I have wanted to do for sometime. The learning
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - Getting into Focus

Hi All   One of the problems which I have had whilst writing this blog, is taking photographs of very small models. This problem is made worst because I have problems with hand shake, when trying to hold them camera still. The above problems are more sever if I use the optical zoom function on my camera.     What I have been trying to do is take hand-held shots of work in progress, because I feel that this gives a more spontaneous feel to the blog. In order to get better quality photogra
Lisa

Lisa

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MickeyMoggs' Blog

Progress at last

With the continuing problems with my Dynamis controller (See the entries on the DCC forum) I decided to spend the day working on some scenery. It's amazing just how much you can get done once the temptation to run a few shunting operations is removed. Using some Wills kits I've managed to build a bridge for the right hand end of the layout, connected to a series of arches. It really has brought that end of the layout to life. I've calculated that I've spent about £20 excluding glues and paints e
MickeyMoggs

MickeyMoggs

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jonas' N gauge Blog

GWR interlude

LMS Stanier 8F 8274 taking on water at the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Steam Railway, 21//8/11.   Not a lot of modelling done this weekend - however I did spend an enjoyable day at a very sunny GWR today. Highlight being a trip along the new extension in one of the DMUs being used in the Toddington portion - for those that aren't aware, the line was severed into two parts by a landslip last Christmas, which is the focus of a current appeal. The volunteers are doing a marvellous job of k
jonas

jonas

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Isle Ornsay

First running session

A momentous occasion at Isle Ornsay today, the first public operation of the under construction Hebridean Light Railway. The contractors had cleared their tools and equipment out of the way to allow the public a clear view of how the site would look when the line is completed.   All point operation was carried out from the central box and several locos and one railcar were in operation for display runs.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq4O55Zsx_s   However, now that this milestone has pa
invercloy

invercloy

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SNCF stephen's Blog

The field by the forest

To start with, here is a similar picture to the one that I posted last weekend. A few minor changes have taken place including the placing of reeds, spraying the trees with matt varnish and some minor tidying. Plus this is the best looking image I took today so it is always good to start with that! This next one is the field which I started last weekend but have now continued. The track has also been ballasted and the bushes alongside the line added. The camera was really not playing ball tho
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

August Update, another Bulleid Rolls off the Workbench....

.... Figuratively speaking of course !   West Country 34103 Calstock was completed last week and is ready to go (whenever that will be ) Here's a couple of shots of her.       Waiting to go back into the Paint-shop for it's final sealing coat of varnish, is a very decrepit looking T9 30117 , I had a lot of fun with this one, the weathering is a little bit of a departure from the norm for me   Also about to go into the Paint-shop for a liberal dose of dirt and grime is Schools Cla
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Dreaming of the Day

With the shed half lined out, and me awaiting more plywood to finish the job (hopefully this August bank holiday weekend), I 've printed off the track plan and laid it out in the shed to make sure it fits.   Bit put out when it didn't look like it did, until I realised that I had made too little allowance for the overlap between sheets. With the sheets stuck together all was well.   I've been inspired by the skill shown not only in track building but in baseboard ideas and construction on th
rovex

rovex

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eetype3's Vehicle & Plant Blog

Coles Argus 6-tonne crane, CD style

Road vehicles are my other modelling interest, so I've decided to separate them from my traction blog.   My first effort is a Coles Argus 6-tonne SWL mobile crane, based on the Corgi 1/76 diecast model but modified slightly and weathered. The cab guard was knocked-up from fusewire, fine metal mesh and Microstrip. Other tweaks include copying the wasp stripes from the rear of the example that appears in the background of so many Crewe Diesel Depot photos, plus adding OLE warning flashes and red
eetype3

eetype3

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Out of the cave

Well it looks like winter is about to come to an end, so its about time to come out of hibernation. I've got some Worsley Works MR Celestory coach kits a couple of years ago, but it wasn't until last week that I finally got the Chris Higgs roofs. Being a bit unsure on the how's of soldering with sides with tumblehome, I took one of the etches with me to the Caulfield model train show and got some hints, tips + advice from one of Ixion team. After a one hour lesson, I got stuck into 1 coach
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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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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