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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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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

taking stock

Due to having the kitchen replaced and completing redecoration of, I have had little time to do any modelling this last week or two. The time I have spent has been in teasing my two tender engines into traversing all the track on the layout ( well, I use the word "all" quite loosely, as there's only 4 turnouts and about 2 metres of easitrac in total!   Things I'm happy with so far:   The general flow of the scenery; the buildings; the fact that the electrics work and now trucks can be shunt
Chrislock

Chrislock

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Trefallion - P4 GWR Branch Terminus c.1905

Trefallion - Point Control 2

Well today I made up a little circuit board to mount the relay and resistors onto. Pictures of it can be seen below with the MUTR Servo Control unit double sided servo taped to the relay. In the end, I used a 2.6K resistor on one leg of the circuit, and a 6.7K resistor on the other.   Once I was happy with the functioning of the unit on the test bench, I then proceeded to install the servo and controller under the baseboard to control one of the engine release points.   Video links :
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Stuffed!

Hi all.   Just another quick experiment in producing trees, this time using poly fibres intended for use in re-stuffing teddy bears in place of the wire wool. This tree is yet to have any foliage added, which will be a trial using Woodland Scenics fine turf in place of the Noch leaves. It does make quite a nice winter tree as it is though!     This tree is 5" tall and uses very slightly thinner wire than the first attempt which I think gives it a finer appearance. I have some even thinner
TomE

TomE

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Spoonerisms

Emmet at Hayling Seaside Railway

At the end of last summer we went to Hayling Seaside Railway for one of their steam weekends. Emmet was the visiting locomotive. The railway is just over a mile long according to Wikipedia and the scenery isn't that varied, but I've always had a soft spot for railways on beaches, and despite some very heavy rain we had a great afternoon out.   There's more of my photos on Flickr, and a slightly longer post on my blog.
zabdiel

zabdiel

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Brew-up at BQ!

nevard_110821_BQ_IMG_0878, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   The Bull: It's brew up time at Brewhouse Quay for Sentinel 'Mendip', ex-L&YR 'Pug' 51202, Planet 4WD 'Fleur' and 'Radstock' an Austerity tank recently purchased from the National Coal Board. The Ford Popular wasn't parked that well from a photographic point of view, but now 55 years on it adds to the scene.   The Model: The Sentinel is a Model Rail/Dapol Sentinel which has had a change of identity, having been detailed up a
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Fen End Pit's Blog

D16/3 Putting the brakes on

Last night, while out of our little group, I fitted the brakes to the locomotive chassis . The etchings were fairly basic so I added a representation of the bolt holding the brake block on by drilling each brake block and soldering a length of .45 wire through the hole. Also, while the kit included a etching for the rigging which joined the brake hangers together, it didn't include anything to represent the pull rods from under the cab. I ended up using some scrap etch from the chassis to at lea
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 2FS

A Case for DCC

In my last blog entry, I showed my recently completed Merg CAN-CMD CBus controlled DCC Command Station. The Merg kit includes the PCB and all the components to populate the PCB. For future layouts I will probably just mount the PCB directly to a baseboard and hard wire it in. However, this first one I wanted to keep as a portable and flexible unit.This meant fitting it into a case with suitable sockets, switches and Led indicators.   I found a suitable case on Ebay made from black plas
Ian Morgan

Ian Morgan in Electronics

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jonas' N gauge Blog

Don't have a (sea)cow, man.

My latest weathering escapade, one of the brilliant Farish Seacows. The enlargement of the photo is a bit cruel - but after all, this model is only about 3 inches long! I need to touch up the wheels for a start. A very enjoyable evenings work though.
jonas

jonas

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Dad-1's Blog

I did say I'd add the layout I made earlier this year

After I'd completed my diorama Carsons Quay I thought I'd get back to my small roundy-roundy layout, but stupidly I said I'd build a suitable Thomas layout by the Silverfox DCC clubs exhibition tomorrow. We wanted something cheap, simple, easy to transport, you know all the impossible combinations !! I insisted that it had to be fully scenic, with little direct 'Thomas' influence so it could look good with anything running on it. The design was for a fully folding double oval with small opera
Dad-1

Dad-1

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Pugsley's Workbench

Insert string of expletives here....

As you may have gathered from the title, things aren't going quite according to plan with the 37 bogies, I've discovered a problem with the design of the plate that links the 4 secondary suspension points and the central bearing. If I mount it in the way I'd planned, the travel of the bogie rests on the top of the middle traction motor when the axle is at its highest travel. Seeing as the normal planned position for the central axle is towards the top of its travel, this causes a bit of a probl
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Mucking up a Mucky Duck!

As well as modifying my spikey thinhs (as my partner calls them!)   I had a crack at modifying my first locomotive!   Ivatt 4MT which, when finished shall be 43073 a local (Teesside) Clodhopper which has spurred an interesting debate about it's allocation some say it was Thornby I say it was Stockton for three months. Anyway using a modellers worst ally (assuption) I am going to base it on it's 51E allocation prior to it's transfer to the Midland region.   Here's the inital results.  
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Further Street Light Nerdism

nevard_110819_BQ_IMG_0868_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr   I'm really getting into building streetlights; with this 'Lucy Large Swan Neck Bracket taking about an hour from start to finish and was scratch-built from bits of wire, brass tube and plastic rod as with my Mk1 version here http://nevardmedia.b...reet-light.html   It depicts one of the later electric designs with a less ornate swan neck from the 1950's with a rotary timer from a design dating back to the 1920's. To get reall
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

A1 Models Hunslet - Interior detailing.

I've knocked up a basic interior for the loco from odds and ends. I used some photos that I took of the cab of the Heritage Shunters Trust's 05 for reference. I'm not modelling a BR loco but I think that the basic cab layout was the same for industrial versions.It has been simplified, I feel that adding every detail would result in the control desk looking too cluttered. Most of the interior has been made from plasticard offcuts apart from the seats, which are plastic 'L' section suitably cut d
halfwit

halfwit

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Dad-1's Blog

Wow, no postings since March !

Well although I've not been posting it dosen't mean I've not been working on anything.   I started a small diorama in January that was finished by the Spring Equinox. The idea was similar to Andy Y's 2011 competition in as much it was in limited space. In the end I settled on 9.1/2 inches wide by 15 inches long and made to represent a corner of a small town quay. By trying to be non-specific it allowed me to 'set the stage' with anything I fancied. These small dioramas allow experimentin
Dad-1

Dad-1

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Harpers Road

Coming along nicely

Really enjoying getting back into modelling and making good progress on Harpers Road. I thought I'd just post an overview photo showing the layout standing on it's relatively new mini-legs. These are made from eased-edge construction timber (100mm x 47mm I think) and are attached with a 10mm carriage bolt. The idea is that different size legs for different uses: shorties whilst modelling at home, long ones if I ever get to a club or exhibition.     Because my house is a tiddly little Victor
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon board 1

Amazing what a week off work can do. I have time for modelling and another layout update. The first board has been fettled, wired and the first train successfully run. The Caboose Industries ground throw incorporates a SPST switch for frog polarity and whilst a little chunky, seems to work ok. Having put the second board up, it's obvious that I won't be able to use them on all the turnouts. Having the boards in the relative comfort of the tinking room helps too. The second board beckons. With q
ullypug

ullypug

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Layout - Fisherton Sarum

Post war – pre nationalisation, why do I model it?

When one looks at the majority of steam era model layouts of the big four railway companies, or the subsequent British Railways regions, the majority tend to be set in either the 1930s or the 1950/60s this also tends to be reflected by the choice of models and liveries from the major ready-to-run manufacturers. Leaving aside the arguments of the least modelled and supported of the big four or BR regions the period that seems to most get overlooked in model form is the immediate post war to natio
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Trefallion - P4 GWR Branch Terminus c.1905

Trefallion : Point Control

I am hoping to use Radio Control Servos to move the points and signals, so decided to part with a bit of cash and obtain a Servo Control unit and Servo from MUTR (Middlesex University Training Resources - Mindsets Online) and a couple of relays and DPDT switches.   Now that I have taken delivery of said electronic items I am actively trying to decide how best to make everything work. Hopefully the diagram below shows my first thoughts on how to connect everything up. The 2 resistors will hop
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Tim V's Workbench Blog

Paint those people

Just been having fun painting some of the people and animals, I'm inspired by the article in the August 10 Toddler by Rachel Drummond. Quite easy - when you know how! When you look at it real close, I haven't got anywhere near what Rachel did! Yes - three foxes in a row......
Tim V

Tim V

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Art Deco Electric Street Light

nevard_110817_BQ_IMG_0835_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. A spare hour yesterday afternoon produced this scratch-built art deco era electric street light based on ones seen in Weybridge Surrey. The underside of reflector on the real lamp would have a mosaic of mirror glass like on a glitter ball - obviously too small to model.   Looking at old photographs in the Weybridge and Walton on Thames, area they appear all over the place in 1955 Francis Frith photographs, and I remember seeing
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Matloughe's Modelling Miscellany

First Tentative O Gauge Steps

O Gauge is indeed seductive, I have been patient. I ordered a Wagon the end of last month and it arrived yesterday. So today; I have spent some time putting it together. A Must enjoyable experience - especially looking back at the empty sprues and realising that you have put it together. It's a GWR 4-Plank wagon kit by Peco. So far today I have managed to build the sides, and the chassis which is more free running then I imagined it would be.   Here is a photo of how the wagon stands currentl
Matloughe

Matloughe

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Jon020's Prototypes Blog

A few photographs of some SNCF types that I managed to grab in Paris last week

A slightly different posting for a change... back along the lines of my earlier prototype blog entries that I went and stuck in my Workbench blog entries (sorry)... this time of some variable quality pictures I was able to grab with my 9 year old Cannon Powershot G2 whilst on Holiday in Paris with the family. My previous (business) trips have always involved use of the metro only, so this time, being further out necessitated use of the RER... which brought us into contact with more rail traffic.
Jon020

Jon020

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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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