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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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87 101's Blog

At a modelling crossroads

Yesterday I was at a crossroads with my railway modelling as the Heatherburn had dissapeared under 3 foot high weeds again and the N gauge empire realy needs scrapping and starting again. After spending yesterday afternoon mulling things over I have come up with a plan that will hopefully give me what im looking for. I had considered ripping out the contents of the garage and building a new indoor layout but the lack of money and the fact that most of the track including some expensive pointwork
87 101

87 101

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The Saltney Railway

Looks like the snow’s melted…

Steve’s now done the scenic trimmings on the top of the cutting (still waiting for the sea-moss) and has decided to use the converted low relief cottages. They will get a re-paint and re-weather and be bedded in shortly. I then painted the retaining walls a stone colour in readiness for the dark browny gunge colour to go on top.     The re-cess in the wall for the surface mounted point solenoid was going to get the ubiquitous PW hut in it to cover it up, but I’m trying to persuade Steve
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

A very late July update....

An update of sorts, it's been a month of hell for me, so I'll be brief.   First up N15 30805 Sir Constantine has left the nest, here's another shot of her (the other picture is in my gallery)     West Country 34002 Salisbury was up next, now complete and in storage till I resume sales in late September. Another picture of her is in the gallery.     Currently in the paintshop awaiting weathering is West Country 34103 Calshot and on the workbench is a narrow cab T9, destined to become
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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halfwit's Wondrous Wagons!

Skinningrove Steelworks Wagons - part 2.

These three are now finished. Here's a pic of the two mill roll wagons;     I first gave all the wagons a coat of red oxide primer from a car aerosol. Then I mixed up some Humbrol Leather and Precision Dirty Black (I used acrylics throughout) to spray them a dark rust colour. The next stage was to give them a light coat of Leather on its own. After leaving the wagons to dry I varnished them, using Precision matt airbrush varnish with a little matt grey mixed in to give a dusty feel. Unfort
halfwit

halfwit

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Ropley - Trackwork progress

Hi all.   A little progress has been made on track laying the last few days, although not as much as planned due to a shortage of rail. However, the point which controls entry to the yard has been motorised and the point controlling entry to the wheel drop shed is now complete. This was an interesting one, as the real version is best described as 'kinked' so I've tried to recreate this. Not sure if it's been successful or not but it's different anyway   Anyway, pictures!       And
TomE

TomE

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Dukedog's Jottings

Wood butchering day!

Spent a few enjoyable hours outside yesterday butchering some timber for the new extension board for Pen Y Bont.   Now, wood working was never my best subject at school, so, wood butchering is the appropriate title for today's entry. Yesterday's little exercise was quite successful by my standards, No cuts to fingers and thumbs from using the hand saw, No bruises or injuries through use of the Brummie screwdriver (Hammer) so I was most pleased, until this morning.   I have just discovered
Dukedog

Dukedog

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The Saltney Railway

Looks like snow…

The cutting sides by the new bridge have had the basic scenery work built now and resemble a snow scene. Steve has decided a couple of railwaymans cottages would look nice there, with a pathway and steps down to them. There may even be an allotment or 2 as well. The cottages in the pics may or not be used eventually as they are an old low relief building from the bits box with a temporary “back half†added on!   Railings along the top of the retaining wall will keep the people where they s
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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46444's Blog

Time for a short brake or three!

Evening,   Here's a few bits I've been up of late-namely a brake van marathon!   Here's the first one-a Parkside LMS brake finished with Valejo acrylics. I tried the pre-shading effect on this model as well as the Stanier Reverse Brake and the Cambrian SR Brake shown below following on techniques aquired from my aircraft modelling days. This technique has recently appeared in the latest version of Model Rail. Next to it is a Cooper Craft GWR cattle wagon finished in BR colours that app
46444

46444

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - It's a grey day.........

Not much actual modelling progress to report, but it's been a while since the last layout update, so here's the latest.   After spending what felt like weeks on my hands and knees - the major drawback with having the base-boards on the lounge floor! - grinding off rivet heads and applying cosmetic chairs to the ply sleepers at the base-board joint, I have painted the whole lot with grey primer, prior to applying the actual sleeper and rail colours. I got this idea from Iain Rice's book on fin
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Well OK Then, Five Brakes!

My mentors taught me to build locos with split axle current collection and to spring those axles downwards. Its simple model engineering and is, in my view at least, easier than beams all over the place. So perhaps I can be said to be totally in favour of springing, certainly for locos.       Building locos is where I get the most pleasure and rolling stock tends to be “one of those things you need but……†      None the less, as now, I occasionally go off into a rolling stock buil
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Chain Link Fencing

Today I received a sheet of etches from PPD, from my recent doodlings.         Seen here in its raw form. I created the posts from 3 layers of 0.25mm nickle silver and the stainless steel mesh was brought from BLMA (an American import). I have also etched some small slots on the heads of the posts to allow barbwire to be wrapped around them at even spacings. I will just use a single strand of wire for this,2mm barbs arn't worth considering with IMHO.   I am quite happy with how these
Bryn

Bryn

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Measure for measure

Afternoon all!   Without much preamble, here's a set of a few snaps I made earlier this afternoon upon having an unexpected encounter at Frankfurt Southern Station...   With a set of two measuring coaches – the far one being a driving trailer converted from a Bimdzf type InterRegio driving trailer – , DB Systemtechnik's 120 502 – formerly known as 120 160, which number but remains written out on the body sides – is having a layover on an inspection run, while two of the train crew
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Construction Stages - NWR # 5 James

Like on my other blog entries the majority is just selected pastes from other forums so please forgive the second hand feel of it all.     Construction starts:   Gearbox & Motor. The chassis frame had the cut out on the left, my new hole is in the middle   Hole seen clearer here, also the running plate has its inside edges butchered. You will also notice the brake block brackets are away from the propper hole, they were there, but again cus wheels have had to move them.   Lo
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Completed - NWR # 5 James

More pastes! This is my first working brass model and a kit bash to boot. It does work but I have a new cahassis ready becasue I want to make it run better.   Tender doors? Not many pics with it on James, plus in real live they were not always on.   Paint messy in places, had a drama with it because it is a gloss, I hate gloss paint as a base, but it is good enough for me for now, maybie with varnidshes and washes I can fix it later. I haven't weathered James yet, brake dust and running
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Construction Stages - NWR #4 Gordon (MK 1 / A0)

Whilst Simon and Sean were doing there brilliant research found: http://www.pegnsean....-a0-Pacific.htm and: http://pegnsean.net/...no4-rebuild.htm   I have been revising my model of Gordon MK1 to fit. Truth be told Gordon MK 1 (A) was just a paint test for me to test my air brush and blue colours in preparation for Gordon MK II, it was simply a repainted Gresley A1, the 1st built called Great Northern.   I want to give a heartfull thankyou to Simon and Sean for putting up with my consta
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Completed - NWR # 4 Gordon (MK II / 1939 Crewe Rebuild)

Like the first A0 Gordon, this one is also my second version of Gordon MK II.   Pastes:   -   Gordon 1939 Crewe Rebuild - MK II   Based and modelled from Simon and Sean's research as close as I could. I just hope it doesn't disapoint after all this time, I have tried hard on it as I always do. I can never help but pick myself up though. :   From an older picture you may have seen I have revised those cylinder drain cocks as to my mind they were too high, so now they are squashed t
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

Completed - NWR #4 Gordon (MK 1 / A0)

The below is again another paste from other forums, construction phase blog might be included sometime after like on Fury but unsure yet, anyway. This is my 2nd attempt at Gordons first version how he was likelt to be seen in 1923 upon arival to Sodor. I did a version before which was just a repainted Hornby Great Northern and nothing more but due to more information and more plausable research mainly conducted by S.A.C Martin and Sean O'Connor the version below is the result. The center of t
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

Glenfield Chronicle

I came across an interesting photograph of Glenfield last week. It shows it as a working station pre-1928 - I am thinking probably around 1910ish.     The little goods shed is clearly in use, loading to and from the platform for particular goods. The implication is that the loop was mainly used for coal. However, I still haven't managed to find out whether the curved siding was for any purpose, or just an over-run for the loop. This is holding me up on the scenery, and if I can't resolve
Chrislock

Chrislock

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The San Miguel Central RR

Part 25: The history behind the RR.

I've had some thoughts about the freelance prototype when building a freelance layout as I´m doing .... When I started the construction of my layout, I envisioned it located in Maine somewhere (a bit vague ...) The name of the company came after the initials of me and my wife ;-) "M-K & E RR" = Michael & Kerstins Enskilda Järnvägar (Michael & Kerstins Private RR) Something has to give when you get to build the layout in the living room ... The "real" readout of the name
M Graff

M Graff

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Barry Ten's S&D blog

Shillingstone - winter scene

Although I was fairly happy with the colour and painted landscape on the original winter backscene, as shown here, I eventually decided that I couldn't live with those prominent joins in the sky. Not only that, but I couldn't see an effective means of disguising them that wouldn't draw attention to itself. So - after much procrastination - I decided to redo the whole backscene before proceeding further. This wasn't as simple as it looked, as I had already begun to build up foreground and backgro
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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Narrowman's Blog

Wetlands Light Railway On16.5

For its exhibition appearance at Apedale on 10th/11th September, it will become Staffordshire Wetlands Light Railway and will be some 24 foot (or so) in length. I'm currently finishing off the scenics on some boards and I have now incorporated the fiddle yard and station from "Tramway de Gare Tigre" into it. The station has now become a through station and leads past the engine shed/works to the mill (which is currently just a baseboard) and riverside sections. The fiddle yard at the far end i
narrowman

narrowman

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87 101's Blog

Another project nears completion - Kyle station in 00

Latest pics of Kyle station buildings...     For the chimneys I have learnt a new skill of over laying air dry clay onto a foam core and then scribing in the stonework. I will be doing similar on the viaducts on Manchester Piccadilly.     I have added a couple of boxes on the outside walls matching the prototype pics           For the guttering I ended up carving them from 3mm foamex     The only job left is the front edge of the canopy that I want to complete today
87 101

87 101

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Macs Building Blog

A new house for Mac

After lots of procrastination I finally bit the bullet and started to scratch build a farm house. The interior     the exterior     The fire place     The building is made from 2mm framing card. ( I found it surprisingly easy to cut ) Some of the glueing has been done with PVA and some with hot glue for speed. I probably would not use the hot glue as much again. Chimney was constructed from card with air dry modelling clay smothered on it and carved with a knife. If i was t
rcmacchipilot

rcmacchipilot

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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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