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UPDATE 20TH JULY 2020: Old AGWI Rd is no more! Sadly, I decided to abandon the project due to a myriad of reasons. However it may live on in another guise...


A layout based on the Fawley Oil Refinery narrow gauge railway - Anglo Gulf West Indies (AGWI)/ESSO Petroleum

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A Huge Amount of Progress!

Sorry, no pun-ny title as I've lost my lengthy lengthy post (it's just one of those days already, and it's not even 7am). Here goes:   So, first things first, progress on the 3D printed refinery wagons has been amazing, and the wonderful Mark Greenwood has already completed the wagons! Not only that, but the test prints came out brilliantly, and as a direct result I have already ordered 12 of his wagons which are due to be shipped out today:   Please visit his website where you can now bu
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Suddenly The Plan Falls Into Place!

A lot of progress has been made since the last update. Daily updates take place on my external blog, and on NGRM (you have to be a member to view). Sadly the amount of traffic on the blogs here on RMweb doesn't justify daily updates, I may swap over to a layout topic, but only if there is deemed enough interest, as two places to post is already a lot of work!   So anyway, let me quickly round up the progress from this week.   The main progress has been on the Ashlett Creek board, with a vie
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I'm Board Stiff!

And yet the horrific (un)witty blog entry names keep on coming... *sigh*   Dad and I have been busy building the baseboards and legs for the layout this weekend. I did my best to cut the ply sides straight, but let's just say cutting wood straight is not my strong point! Regardless, we made a lot of progress, and as dad is in his area of expertise, he thinks of stuff I wouldn't.   So the first photo shows the first steps of the baseboard construction...     This is of course the centre
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Making a Mockery - Why Mock-ups Are So Useful!

Making a Mockery!     I've been busy the last two days making some cardboard mock ups of the buildings and track to try and get a feel for what might need changing. I'll warn you now, I only had bright coloured cardboard so it does look like something out of a primary school class (or maybe Blue Peter!). So in that style, here's one I made earlier...or rather, several!                     In my opinion, mock-ups ar
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Wibble wobble, jetty on my plate?

I would say I'm sorry for that blog entry title, but I'm not - this jetty has proven to be a real pain in the proverbial because of the lack of photos for me to work from.   This drawing took me 2 days, and it still isn't correct (especially after I gave up trying to draw the ropeway section on the far left). Also perspective and drawing things large are not my strong points! Still, I hope this goes someway to showing you all how the ropeway station will hopefully look when I've made it. It's
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Honey, it's snowing! - Part 2

Dad kindly agreed to help make a start on the woodwork aspect of the baseboards today. Only one photo for today as it was dark by the time we stopped for the day. As said in a previous post, the polystyrene will sit upon 35mm battens, and then faced with whatever thin ply we have to hand. We didn't get around to putting the ply on, but most of the battens have been done. The battens were attached by a mixture of screws and some special strong expanding glue. It gives you a couple minutes to put
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A Bridge Too Far? | The Jetty | Part 1

After having visited the model shop on Saturday I came back with a small fortune's worth of Plastruct, I decided to start work on the aerial ropeway. But no matter how much you spend on Plastruct, you never seem to have enough!   Anyway so I set about constructing the second aerial ropeway pylon. The first one will be reused from the diorama I built 3 years ago. It could do with a bit more bracing, but it'll do for now! In reality the pylons would be spaced a lot further apart (probably in the
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Honey, it's snowing! (Or how I build boards!) - Part 1

After having played around with bits of old N gauge track, I came up with a vague idea of the space needed to fit in all the track work and buildings. I decided the best way to set up the boards would be to have a central triangular board, with 3 separate boards for each of the 'blades' of the 'propeller'. I mean it's not exactly the right shape for a propeller, but it's as close as I can get!   I settled on an equilateral triangle with sides of 1m for the centre board, which left me to work o
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A (n Oil) Slick Plan!

I'm really sorry for the title... OK, maybe not that sorry!   Welcome to the blog outlining my plans for a new layout based off of the old AGWI refinery railway(s) of Fawley. If you are a member of NGRM-online, there is also a thread for this layout there, or alternatively I have my external blog here if you so fancy!   Hello! You may or may not have seen my old layout "Calshot". Well this project is the follow up to Calshot, and I hope it will give me my much needed modelling mojo back! I
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