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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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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

Personal Stupidity!

Despite several warnings from my better half about the dangers of superglue (not to me of course but to her suffering the indignity of a second visit to casualty with a...well.... daft partner!) I had a superglue disaster. Not to myself fortunately but to one of my points. I stuck a junction box beside it with superglue and the excess ran through the ballast and stuck the point..FAST! All well that ends well I suppose and after donating another £10 to my local model shop (Gus at Invergowrie-
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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RJRs Branch Lines

Class 20 in G last coat of Primer

I haven't made many posts of late. I decided it wasn't that interesting to show the results of rubbing, priming, rubbing priming !!! As I have been trying to get a surface finish I was happy with. I think the other reason for all the rubbing and priming was to put off doing the next bit. I wouldn't say I had lost my modelling Mojo, more I had come to a point of the build that I couldn't work out the best way forward. The circular fan grill on the top !   The 25 I di has quite a chunky grill, t
johnteal

johnteal

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SNCF stephen's Blog

X (5800) Rated!

With the Draisine largely completed I have been thinking about my next project. I am looking to convert a Del Prado X3800 into an X5800 unit with a bit of chopping and slicing (or cutting and shutting as I believe it is called.     The X 5800 is shorter than the Picasso X3800 units. They have a number of different features but the non driving end is very similar and the main dimensions are enough alike to consider the conversion feasible. I will have to construct some of the details out of
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale

Coal Piles, Potato Pies

Further progress today, with second track now in place. Transoms (?) are being added between the timbers and then painting will take place. There probably ought to be some transom bolts too; these will be bits of steel wire, to be added after painting:           Meanwhile, attention turns to the contents of the drops; coal. I've been making some formers out of modelling clay to represent some of the larger piles of coal. These will be painted and covered in real coal and coal dust.  
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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eetype3's Traction Blog

OMWB 7th Sep 2010 - plenty going on...

Mornin'   Finding myself with an unplanned day off due to problems with a pool-car tyre and a large crosshead screw (sigh...), I decided to update my blog. Here's my workbench as it stands today:     Visible are:   55 002 KOYLI, Bachmann 4-axle drive version, now fitted with phosphor-bronze pickups on all wheels and an Olivias Trains LokSound decoder and DCC Supplies bass-reflex speaker. Now capable of the tear-jerking yowl of twin Napiers in full flight B) and awaiting full buffer bea
eetype3

eetype3

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road - More Inspection Pits

After the interlude with my diesel conversions I have returned to work on the baseboards to fabricate some more inspection pits. The first selected are the four inspection/preparation pits alongside the shed, one for each siding. Two of these pits were rebuilt in around 1956 [the two nearest the shed], while the other two were new. Unlike the pits inside the shed, photos show these pits were made using concrete not brick.   This view was taken in Oct 1965 & shows locos over the two new
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Isle Ornsay

Trackplan time again

Here's a roughly sketched conceptual layout plan, not to scale and some elements are slightly incorrect but it shows the idea. I'll test out these ideas when I produce a full size plan with track templates. I've drawn the surrounding coastline, road and major topographical elements on to the plan to see how they fit in and it's looking pretty good. The plan is recycled from a previous layout idea.     If you click on the image it will take you to a flickr page with notes on it so that yo
invercloy

invercloy

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Landford Show report & future plans...

Thanks to John (Davies) for a great show at Landford, nr Salisbury on 4th September. With a 16 minute drive Dad and I arrived at the venue as the last ones there half an hour (or less!) to opening time. Layout took about 15 minutes to set up (which also meant we were first away!). This is exactly why big isn't always necessarily better (although I would love a roundy-roundy).   The show seemed very friendly and the exhibits were arranged so that there was plenty of space between them so peopl
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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grandborough

the base boards

well two of the boards are about done just need the top deck adding to give a nice flat base the final track plan is sorted the rails and sleepers are here as is the guages
nigelb

nigelb

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Narrowman's Blog

Caia Road Goods progress

In between the motorsport on ITV4 and Dave, I managed to complete the frame for the first of the two baseboards for Caia Road Goods. I'm not sure when I'll have time to complete the secound though! At least I have purchased the wood for it!
narrowman

narrowman

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Best of British Haymarket Diesels

Who's that girl? - trying to i.d the blue Type 3 on the 0658 Hawick - Waverley

As David Cross says in the caption in Last Years of the Waverley Route, pictures of EE Type 3s on the WR are extremely rare. Since Stuart's post above on Waverley Route new image links I've still only come up with these four:   i. the latest published one - unidentified early BFYE at Stow on the 0658 Hawick - Edinburgh ii. D6838 - GSYP at Whitrope (on Railscot and featured on the WR picture links thread) iii. unidentified FYE body colour not known on up class 4 at Steele Road (published, ca
'CHARD

'CHARD

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The Grime Street Blog

Tower Car 2 plus bits and pieces.

A nearly finished tower car 2 took to the rails at the Model show in the Tram Shed at Heaton Park, this was quite an effort, as I only started building it on Tuesday evening. It's shown here only part glazed, missing transfers and minus the inner tower, but hopefully you can see the overall effect.     It ran like a bag of spanners at first, gradually running in and performing better, it does need more weight so both cabs will be stuffed with lead.   Inner tower will hopefully be moveabl
Red Devil

Red Devil

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Redgate's Modelling

A Sound Investment

To say the least, the cost of the 2-8-2 has just jumped up with the addition of a Loksound 3.5 with my own customised sound scheme     It all fits in the firebox area behind the motor, all I needed to do to get the standard speaker in was to cut one of the mounting lugs off, file a couple of flats on the outside of the case an fix the other lug to the frame with a 12ba Triang valve gear screw B)     I've not cut off the spare function wires yet as I've not decided on lights etc yet..
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale

Dropping Coal; Make Way!

Moving straight on from the last post, or maybe at a bit of a curve anyway (!), the longitudinal timbers were inserted. These are Association point sleepers, copperclad PCB, trimmed to the appropriate lengths:         As these timbers are straight and the rail will be curved, the rail will deviate from the centreline of the timbers. But it is not as bad as it first appears. The rail is tacked, using etched chairplates, at every other pier to gain the smooth curve required on the rail. The
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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Market Sianborough

Plan of Layout

This is the plan of Market Sianborough constructed to date   Lower Level     Middle Level     One of the Stations 'Lewis End' Appears on both parts of the plan for ease of operating
apj64

apj64

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Market Sianborough

Introduction

This section briefly describes the layout and our goals each area will be described in its own sections eventually   This is a large layout under construction in 'N Gauge' in our loft the layout is approximatley 11' X 10' and being built on 3 levels. The Layout is being constructed by Myself (Andy) and my son Cieran (10)   Market Sianborough is one of 4 Stations proposed on our Layout and is a temporary name until we get the terminus constructed.   Control Control is by DCC using a digi
apj64

apj64

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Yamanouchi Oshika: More video and an unusual assistant!

Another video..this time really short. A class 923 'Dr Yellow' Shinkansen takes a trip well off its usual route...and track gauge...to pay a vistit to Yamanouchi Oshika...     Progress has been steady this week, with the site of the fuelling tanks being levelled off and having some new surface added. We have also started work on the back scene...more of that next week.   In other news. Mr Spider has very kindly started to help with the overhead wiring!
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - ....3...2...1...Brassed off!...

Update - The countdown refers to the 3 boards as earlier today I managed to erect the layout in its entire length on the dining room table and 'brassed off' refers to my wifes reaction as the layout momentarily took over our apartment   In order to break myself back into modelling since vacation I decided to prepare the backscenes, which need to be detachable if I am to be able to transport the layout back to the UK one day. The height had been determined as 300mm above track level from previ
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Hindsight and progress - taking things apart and getting them back together

Hmmm, over a month since the last blog entry. Well it is the holiday season.   Progress on the P4 layout continues. To be honest I'd hit a bit of a wall in that I didn't want to get things much further along scenically because I was terrified I would have to take everything apart if I needed to fix anything below the baseboard. I needed to take some time to sort out how to make the gubbins more accessible before I ran too far ahead.   This is where the hindsight comes in and possibly a good
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Highworth

Rain dance seemed to work...

The early morning rain dance seemed to work, delaying painting the house's window fames. Which frees me up to do some ballasting on Highworth station.   Somehow I always end up with excess ballast sitting on top of the sleepers. The end result has the air of a ramshackle set of tracks leading down a disused mine shaft.   Interested in the new Metcalfe warehouse kit as a half-relief along the back of the station. However at £12 per foot of coverage this seems quite a lot when you conside
AndyB

AndyB

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