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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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Penrhos1920's Blog

The multi layout fiddle yard boards are up

Today Dave and I have made a massive leap forward. Over the last few months I have first cleared loads of rubbish out of the garage and have then been making five fiddle yard boards with help form Dave and Rob. Today Fiona has helped Dave and myself completely clean the garage of 100 years of spiders, cobwebs and general dirt. We virtually emptied the last remaining items and have put up the new multi-purpose fiddle yard that will serve 3 layouts:   26'6 long for Awrhyllgwami Quarry and Pe
Penrhos1920

Penrhos1920

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Pipework

nevard_110817_BQ_IMG_0830_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr. Brewhouse Quay Update 17 Aug 2011   A new building has finally appeared at the rear just in front of the backscene on Brewhouse Quay. It is half low-relief and is constructed with a foam board inner clad is various textured plastics for Evergreen and Slaters. Breweries are all about turning water, hops and malt into alcoholic liquor, and to achieve this much is the way of water is pumped all around the place courtesy of a Pike S
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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Harpers Road

Track work nearly completed

It's been so long since my last post. All hope of entering, let alone winning, the Challenge 2010 competition has been lost! Still, I've managed to get back into modelling again now that family life has settled down a bit. By leaving my layout and tools neatly to the side of the dining room I've been able to do the odd hour or two most evenings recently.   I'm really pleased with the trackwork so far. Taking my time to get it neat and doing it properly, such as modify points with frog-switchin
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - Building Homes for the Workers Revisited

Hi All   When I wrote the the blog entry 'Chagford - Building Homes for the Workers 2' entry I assumed that the acrylic, water based, paint I assumed that the paint would dry within hours. I have been surprised that weeks later the non diluted paint, which I used to paint the brick colour onto the base coat coloured the mortar colour, has not dyed.     My previous experience with acrylic paint has been on paper, card or foam-core card base. All of the above are water permeable, whereas hi
Lisa

Lisa

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The San Miguel Central RR

Part 26: Loksound in the Boxcab

I just installed a ESU Loksound V4 micro in my Boxcab (see part 19 & 20), I used the OEM-speaker and I think it is just wonderful! There is noticeable improvement with this decoder compared with the 3.5. I bought the "empty" decoder and used my Lokprogrammer to install the sound. There is no soundfiles for a 1925 AGEIR Boxcab though.... But until I can find some nice sounds to make a soundproject of my own for it,I will use the sound that I installed as a "good enough" sound. The sound
M Graff

M Graff

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Spoonerisms

Scotland to get a new steam railway?

Spoonerisms, rather neglected... Must try harder...   Anyway, I've just read news of the potential relocation of the Mull & West Highland Railway to Balloch near Loch Lomond when it's closed down and removed from its Hebridean location within the next couple of years.   More information here: http://hlrco.wordpress.com/blog/   I look forward to seeing L.O.T.I. and Victoria running at their new home
invercloy

invercloy

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Stock for Brent 1947 GWR

E140 B Set (part 1)

Yesterday saw a start at last to the modelling of the first B set for Cheddar, Working with an Airfix b set and the notes on Tim Venton's website http://www.tventon.freeserve.co.uk/bset2.htm I am working on the following improvements:   Removing the fictional inner end detail Replacing outer end detail with separate fittings Adding missing handrails Filling in extra guard window Chassis improvements new headstocks, laserglaze (if it becomes available) I am still unsure as to whether
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Killybegs' Blog

CDR Class 5A up and running

After a break building CDR wagons and refurbishing the ex Andy Cundick Letterkenny and Donegal Town layouts, I finally got back to the Class 5A which has been waiting for the electrical pick-ups to be fitted. These were installed and tested this morning and this afternoon I have been doing a spot of fine tuning as it was running beautifully going forwards but rubbish in reverse. I think I may have built in too much play in the rear axle (to cope with tight curves on the layout on which it is to
Killybegs

Killybegs

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leopard1299's Blog

lots of new stuff in the works! been pugging!more photo`s added

just a quick note to say lots of new builds on the go some pics will follow soon b17 another 9f and a few others. has anyone got photo`s of the dean sidings sterling singles kit? has anyone built it yet? if so could or would you be sokind as to pm me details or post up a pic and let me know. thanks again. regards ian.   just a quick update been pugging around! pun intended its just some fun not going to scale chassis either so here`s the pics! still a little more to do but working on other
leopard1299

leopard1299

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Testing Trees

Hi All!   Back to experimenting with scenic techniques ready for when the time comes to start this stage on Ropley.   A little while ago somebody posted a link to a thread on a different forum showing some of the most impressive tree construction I've ever seen. Following the methods used in that thread I've spent the morning constructing a test tree, and here are the results:       The basic tree was used by twisting gardeners wire around a central wire 'trunk'. After about 4-5 twis
TomE

TomE

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buffalo's workbench

58047 painted and weathered

I had been expecting the next post here to be about the chassis of my 1P, but since my last post way back in January, very little has happened on that front other than a minor disaster when I needed to take some pieces off the bogie and managed to melt more solder than was intended. Since then, the number of different unfinished projects on my bench has multiplied. 58047's body received its first coat of Halford's satin black a couple of months ago but since then I've been distracted by other pr
buffalo

buffalo

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LNWR / L&Y

Proposed Layout

I managed to get approval for my seven-year old to be given a trainset for Christmas, so we now have a simple board in the spare bedroom and I have big plans.   Layout 1 Location: Spare bedroom Room 4m x 3.6m Size: 3m x 2.5m rectangle Scale: OO Setting: variable. S&D to BR Blue   Layout 2 Location: Cellar room. Dry, no windows Room 5m x 3.6m Size: 4.5m x 3.6m U Scale: N Setting: 1930s   For the setting I am thinking of mid 30s where there was no grouping but a competition r
Thos

Thos

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justin1985's Blog

Dapol 153 Detailing Finished

First update in a long while - I've hardly had any modelling time at all ...   However, I got the Dapol 153 detailing project I started a while back finished off. In the end I didn't manage to remove the glazing, so left the incorrectly placed silver framing for now. The rainstrip was removed from over the cabs, and the snowploughs scaled down considerably, as well as painting over the very silver exhaust with some Phoenix "Frame Dirt". I also fitted a Bachmann cheapo 6-pin DCC chip, which wor
justin1985

justin1985

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Quick picture

Just a quick picture to show the progress I have made since last week in the small wooded area:     The forest has been made out of cheaper trees because this section of the board is removable and therefore these needed to be easily replacable. There is a small pond (that has yet to have water put into it...) which has a deciduous tree hanging over it with a tyre swing. Towards the lense is the start of a field which will extend over the entire elgnth of this removable baseboard with the oc
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Bogie Bolster C

Now this wagon has to be a personal record for the longest work bench tenant. At about 4 years from the start of the build and one of my first etched kits, I built the major body bits and left it be. This weekend I decided to finally get on with it, only to discover half the chassis trussing was on backwards! Much fudging ensued....   Please excuse some of the wonky details, most of it predates my ability to use a RSU properly   The kit is from Stephen Harris and is built as a vacuum fitte
Bryn

Bryn

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jonas' N gauge Blog

Dogfish days

Well, I haven't posted much on this blog really. Mainly because I haven't had a lot to post! But having cleared out a few surplus 00 models as I continue to switch to N, I treated myself to another Dapol Dogfish ballast wagon, leaving me with a little rake of 3. No progress on any layout so once again they sit on my garden table!
jonas

jonas

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Isle Ornsay

Servo'd up part 2

All the servos are now fitted to the layout, I've used some brackets made by Motrak Models to hold them against the underside of the baseboard. A piece of piano wire is then looped and threaded through the servo horn, and passed through the baseboard and the tiebar of the point.   Only one point was too close to a baseboard member to be mounted like this, so I had to resort to using wire in tube and operating it from an offset position. It took me 3 attempts to get it right, but I wasn't go
invercloy

invercloy

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon turnout no 1

Have been playing with the mechanism for the first loop turnout on the Clevedon station throat. The other end of the loop will have something similar as these are going to get the most use. The others will be surface mounted throws similar to those used by Chris Nevard on his Brewery Quay. Also took the opportunity to adjust some of the trackwork.
ullypug

ullypug

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Dukedog's Blog

An engine shed for Pen Y Bont (Sub shed of 89C)

One or two of you have asked for more details of the engine shed I built last year ready for the new extension to my layout Pen Y Bont.   Rather than include the details in my layout thread I'll post the construction details here.   The design of the shed is based on the one that once stood at Aberaeron. I have had to shorten the building quite considerably though due to limited space of the layout.   Here's the construction stages. The building was built entirely of Pasticard with the
Dukedog

Dukedog

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Oil store update

Hi all!   Just a brief update on the oil store building as modelling time has been in short supply the last couple of weeks! This has really been a trial of a few different methods, some of which will be used for all the buildings and some which won't!   The version photographed below has doors and wooden panel made using photos from the full size version however I’m not overly happy with the flat appearance for these so for the final version I'll be reverting to plastic. I also tried the
TomE

TomE

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - Avoiding Coupling Lock

Hi All I've been experimenting with DG couplings to check if they will work around the 75mm radius curves into my fiddleyard on my layout. I found that with the wagons round one way the back wagon de-railed and with them around the other way not!   Closer inspection of the wagon chassis proved instructive as the chassis was not square, and in fact one end was 0.5 mm wider than the other and what was happening was one wheelsets was sloppy and once this was corrected the problem with the
Lisa

Lisa

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Ouse Viaduct/Balcombe/Lewes project

Latest test assemblies

Six weeks to Scaleforum, and the London end is really starting to take final shape. The corbels (brackets) for the refuges are preliminary versions, more detailed ones are on the way.   We also now have the stripwood for making the copings for the balustrades. In due course the levels of the pavilions and balustrades will be adjusted to get the relative levels of pavilion and train absolutely right (something also affected by the track and ballasting configuration).          
10800

10800

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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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