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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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Pugsley's Workbench

More virtual shenanigans

Having had the house to myself most of the weekend, I've used it wisely to get quite a lot of modelling done, both in real world and virtual. I've now created the axlebox for the Nitric tank project, and I'll probably do the Timken version at some point in the future.   Behold the mysterious floating axlebox:     The SKF logo is a little more prominent than it should be, but that's unavoidable due to the resolution required for printing. I understand that the minimum feature size for FU
Pugsley

Pugsley

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The Saltney Railway

Stone me…

After a pleasant couple of hours at the Gresford gauge 0 get-together, (where I met fellow RM Webbers Dikitriki and Dibateg, nice to meet you fellas!), I returned home to daub a bit of paint on ET’s replacement, the stone bridge.   The results can be seen below and I’ve left it with Steve to install and bed-in.   Once it’s in, I’ll blend in the surrounding stone-work and I’ll then be ready to re- install the signal gantry.   This will be moved so it’s on the “approach†sid
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Good things come to those who have extreme patience

It's been six months again. Much to deal with in the real world has meant not much time for modelling, coupled with the fact that this project has really done my swede in. This weekend my mojo must have connected with my body because I've finished off adding the 400+ individually cut 1mm wide timbers to create the load. I shall not be doing a load like this again for a little while. The time investment to add each piece individually cannot be underestimated!   This Macaw B is of Graham Farish
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

73129 chassis, 33116 and Royal Mail TPOs

Finally got back home to Bristol for the weekend, and for a change actually managed to find some modelling time.   I ended up working on 3 main projects,   73129   I have finally got on and rebuilt the chassis, I have so far only used the Lima components, wire, plastic rod and lots of plasticard. though 3 air tanks still need to be added for which I haven't decided on a source yet. I have also fitted the new Gibson 13mm wheels which have also made a large impact. Buffer beams have also
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Hopwood Parkway

It may have been a year since the last entry, but things have progressed (Honest)

Has it really been a year ? Blimey !   Things have moved on a bit. More stock has arrived. A Calder Valley 110 3 car DMU. These never made it out of T'Valley (Those Northern folk knew when they were on to a good thing!), but they would have been a fantastic suburban DMU as well. More powerful than most of its peers and according to those that drove it, fantastic brakes. This one has been DCC'd and has had the wheels adjusted to actually run through pointwork - they were nearly 3mm too narrow.
noiseboy72

noiseboy72

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The 891mm Project

Shed Doors

The 'Lokstal' build continues at a slow pace. Work started on this during the Christmas break and I don't think much else has been done to it since.     The biggest problem I encountered is a considerable amount of time was spent constructing the shed doors, scribing planks and scratch building detail. Unfortunately as I had decided to scribe plank detail over the length of the doors created in short a short time a rather creative curve to the doors over their length .   Following t
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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Chris's Blog [ oldtrent ]

Clay Works

Greetings.   I have been able to fit some modelling on Glen"Miller"field in between f*rting about ( excuse French) with that 1F chassis and sorting out the usual weekend stuff like seeing my grandsons and getting some exercise.   Since sculptamolding the scenery, I have been itching to lay the yards and level crossing/ roads. I used good old air drying modelling clay, as I found this looked good on the abandoned Barnswell board. Rolled out with the best rolling pin, hopefully a good clean up
Chrislock

Chrislock

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work bench

A quick summary of the past 2 weeks

It seems like I have had nothing but turnouts on my work benck for the past 2 months, thought I would share what has been on the bench over the past 2 weeks     Earlier this week I finished a set of 4 EM turnouts using ply sleepers and C&L rail and chairs.     Today I have completed a pair of EM copperclad turnouts again using C&L parts   Both sets of turnouts were a pleasure to make, the copperclad one made a change as they were quite quick to build and see working, where as
hayfield

hayfield

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THOMAS & FRIENDS

Change of DCC controller

Where to begin?   Thomas& Friends has been running for a while now using the EZ-command and two command companions at the front of the layout, which has proved very good, a few problems arise, when lots of button presses at once corrupt things, nothing a power cycle can't solve!   I have bought tried and tested and sold on many DCC controllers for use on the layout but nothing really seemed as simple and straight forward as the EZ-command. As the layout has expanded and I have a few mor
traction

traction

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Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in 2FS

A Bus for Freshwater

Not that sort of of bus - a layout control bus. DCC is really good for controlling trains, but is less suited for controlling points and signals and the like. A separate bus for operating accessories means that a short circuit on the track does not cause points and signals to change at random. The separate bus can also use systems that are more suited to train detection and route selection.   I initially joined Merg (Model Electronic Railway Group) in order to access their servo contro
Ian Morgan

Ian Morgan in Electronics

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Trefallion - P4 GWR Branch Terminus c.1905

Progress this week (09-Jul-2011)

This week has been pretty good modelling wise, I have completed 2 further stop blocks, a timber one identical to the first, and one that will eventually have a ballast infill. Work has also progressed with the retaining wall that will eventually curve around from the platform road round to in front of the cattle dock siding. This is being constructed from Wills Coarse stone sheets, a pedestrian entrance onto the platform can be seen stepping down from between the piers.     I have also be
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Fete Fantastic!

Well today as some of you will know was the layouts first outing since early May. I hadn't touched the layout since then and so I had no idea whether it would work or not! However, luckily it did and so I set about making the hangar. Unfortunately I ran out of time and so the back of the hangar was roofless and the front had just a simple bit of textured paper led across it. It didn't look great! However, I have noticed something - from up high the layout doesn't look particularly specia
Pugsley's Workbench

Doing a jig

No, I've not taken up Irish dancing, but have had a bit of an issue with the traction motors. I've made a bit of an error when calculating the relative position of the gears, meaning that the teeth mesh too tightly, leading to tight spots if anything is even slightly out of position. Sadly, the 42 tooth gears that mount on the axle were slightly out, mostly due to the way that I'd held them in the chuck when drilling them out to fit the axle.   I then tried mounting them in the chuck by the
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Will's workbench

Kitchen table baseboard

I went and dug a sheet and a bit of 10mm foam card out of the garage last night, so I could mark up and cut out the main bits of the Höllentalbahn board.     I added 5cm in each direction to the width and height of the plan in the previous entry - I may regret this, but it seemed like it wouldn't make that much difference to getting it though doorways, and it relaxes some tight areas on the plan. That gives a board size of 1900x500mm, or 6'2" by a bit over 19".   Cutting the thick board
Will Vale

Will Vale

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The Saltney Railway

SALTNEY, E.T.* has gone home…

Yes, I know I said that the last entry was going to be the last but I couldn’t face starting a thread from scratch…   We reached at that time, what Steve called “the crest of a slumpâ€.   Astley Bridge station was all but complete, and everything else was just ticking over. There were a few bits of the layout that all of us liked and a similar few that most of us didn’t, there was too much stock, not enough operational flexibility and too many other distractions. It seemed we had lo
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

A quick T gauge diversion

Evening All...   not sure what is best to do here, as it feels odd to post things in three parts of RMWeb, so I have decided to keep my T gauge stuff in the T Gauge group forum, leaving the blog primarily for my N/2mm ponderings and occasional modellings.   I will put the odd update on the really small stuff in the blog, but the main content can be found here:   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/38664-t-gauge-class-37-on-short-19m-chassis/page__gopid__437716#entry437716  
Will J

Will J

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AJ427s - Great Hotton

Off to Hartlepool

Not much modelling for a while now due SWMBO allotment clearance and a subsequent elbow injury. A lot of stock has been purchased recently so hopefully I might get the chance of a bit more weathering next week. Off to Hartlepool this weekend to visit the folks and take my dad to Hornby Magazine Live. Hopefully it will provide a pleasant distraction.
AJ427

AJ427

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Not much EM Progress, so a visit to 'Bowton's Yard'

Last week I did not report how I was converting the Bachy Crab, because I had done no trial running. I'm afraid that is still the case! I've just left the workshop in frustration after dropping so many clangers that todays progress has been negligible.       So this week's input to the blog that started so as to report progress on a new EM layout, will be a series of photos of 'Bowtons Yard'. This is a freelance S4 layout which is based on distorting the history of John Summers & Sons, t
Granddad gnome's Blog

method

My method for covering the bits that I don't like is to cover them up with concrete. To do this I make sure my track bed is supported at the right levels ext and then cover this with old bits of chicken wire. This is then covered with sacking cut into strips. I bought a roll of Brick layers Hessian, the sort they use to cover brick work in the winter. When these strips are soaked in a very runny mix of soft sand and cement they are laid over the wire and moulded to a shape that suites and left
Granddad gnome

Granddad gnome

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