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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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RJRs Branch Lines

Track Repairs in the garden

It could have been me or one of my helpers but during the installation of the 10' trampoline a foot must ahve been a but heavy on the track. Trains still ran but I wanted the camber a little better. Plus pointing man was not impressed !                             First step was to dig out under the track, step 2 alter camber in this case a stone was wedged in. Step 3 back fill with some fresh "postcrete"         Easy when you have a mini digger to hand !          
johnteal

johnteal

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noctilux2's Blog

New N Gauge Layout Web Site

Members may be interested to view a new web site detailing my micro N Gauge layouts, ie layouts of less than four square feet. Site is www.kidmorengauge.weebly.com.   All comments valued.   I am a member of the N Gauge Society & sit on the committee of that Society's Berkshire Area Group.
noctilux2

noctilux2

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Turin 60's Blog

06 Progress

Hello all, I do hope no one's been holding their breath since my last/first/initial blog entry as I'd hate to be responsible someone asphixiating themselves!   Attached should be an image of the bulk of my 06 rebuild in grey primer before going into the paintshop (read garage) to be dressed in British Railways green courtesy of those nice people at Railmatch. The cab is awaiting priming and I am currently building a control panel for the aforementioned cab, completely forgot about that until
Turin 60

Turin 60

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Laser Waiting Shelter

Hello   I know I have posted something like this back in the old thread but I thought it was worth posting something similar again on this blog..   Highclere Waiting Shelter in 4 simple steps....   1. I draw the waiting shelter in autocad then convert it into coreldraw as the laser software uses coreldraw. The red lines are for full cut and the black lines are for 'half etch'. The laser does use more colours but these are the two I use the most.     2. The file is then uploaded to th
-missy-

-missy-

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road - Rear Elevation

Having made about half of the total requirement of inspection and preparation pits for the shed I decided to have a break and try something different - after all you can have too much of a good thing!   I have managed to find the whereabouts of a drawing of the hydraulic wheel drop at Rose Grove Shed - I can recommend the National Archives website for those of you looking for original research material -   http://www.nationala...ew.asp?ID=B6200   as I found the set of drawings at Mancheste
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Highworth

Recycled platform materials

Hiring a skip seemed to make sense for this year's clearout of our sideway. It was that or 20 round trips in the Rover to the local tip. It was during the "topping our" ceremony, where in a Pythonesque moment I was trying to cram one last item on to the teetering pile inside the skip that I saw this shelving unit through new eyes.   http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/Payless/Payless-5-Tier-Shelving-Unit/invt/252707   Disassembling it to see if it would fit into ths skip, the shelves looked as if, wi
AndyB

AndyB

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The Abercorn Branch

The Reason for a railway layout

The last entry here prompted some comment that made me go back and examine what brought me to the layout that we have. (trackplan in previous entry) After all, a railway is a serious thing, and no-one builds one without good reason, surely?...   As a father to 3 interested, but small, daughters, and a novice modeller, I thought we needed to come up with something to act as: a medium-term training exercise for me, to cover as many modelling aspects as possible - track/scenics/electronics/k
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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mozzers 7mm workbench

Baby Deltic body work

One of todays jobs is building up the radiaters for the 23 & them fitting them Well i got them built & fitted there when together better than i had expected       next is to get the body to fit the skeleton then its down to fitting the white metal nose, bonit, windows & cab roof       This is the last post here for more updates look here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/14655-7mm-baby-deltic/    
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon - track building 2

It's coming along OK. The last three turnouts are being prepped on the workbench. I couldn't resist putting the boards up and seeing how the track looks. I haven't actually measured where the various sub-assemblies are supposed to go, but you get the general idea. Once I've finished the turnouts, I'll overlay the trackplan on the boards and once happy, will make up the remaining sections. I haven't gapped all the copperclad yet (still have that joy to come) so no electrical test as yet. Wagon ru
ullypug

ullypug

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Pugsley's Workbench

Heavyweight Champion

With the oil terminal on the forthcoming layout, I decided it would be a good idea to have a Railfreight Petroleum 37 or two on the roster for bringing the oil trains in. A search of fotopic found this photo of 37890 at Guildford in 1991: http://crumb.fotopic.net/p49489748.html   Given that it's not a million miles from where the layout is set and the year is spot on, 37890 was decided upon. Research indicated that the Bachmann model of 37672, one of the first releases of the all-new refurb
Pugsley

Pugsley

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leopard1299's Blog

9f update!

well as I said earlier we had a tender drive issue but had it to bits this afternoon and replaced the main cog with a brass one and cleaned it all put a spot of oil on and its as good as ever!   also put the cab numbers on and did a small amount of weathering to the cab so ive took a couple of pics so here you go   sadly though this ones now up for sale so hopefully it will pay for some bills!   more new stuff to come soon!
leopard1299

leopard1299

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Ben Alder's Blog

Not so much a Mound, more a slope.

A small bit of scenic work has been going on at The Mound, to provide a bit more scope for photography. There was little landscaping in front of the branch line, which limited what I could do with the camera, so an extension was knocked up to hopefully remedy this. In common with other recent work it overhangs the baseboard structures , so is made of Fomeboard for lightness. Once built and braced this is surprisingly robust, and to date has stood up to the usual knocks and bumps with no real dam
Ben Alder

Ben Alder

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The Abercorn Branch

Trackplan

So, here's an attempt to show the trackplan that resulted from a good few months of deliberation and discussion, and finally, agreement on location.   Its a 1500x600 thing made simply from sundeala board on 3 thin bits of wood saved from an abondoned futon. Its almost exactly everything that is advised against in board construction, as the supports are used on their weak axis and warp and twist a little in the sun and varying temperatures of the bedroom. BUT it was constructed to accommodate a
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

Time for a drink!

Now that the warm weather is approaching, apparently, the modelling 'season' should be coming to an end. Hmmm, not likely! I've been tinkering with details for Scrayingham, my 009 layout, and decied it was about time to weather the buildings a bit.   First up is the water tower.   This is the standard Wills SS34 Stone Based Water Tower kit, built by Bexx, my better half! It has stood, unpainted for around a ear now, so I thought 'why not?'. With my layou being set just North of York, it
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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Keyhaven

The shape of things to come

Whilst grazing over a cuppa  carrying out vital research for the Keyhaven extension I came across the following Pathe clip that fills in a few gaps for me on one of the components of the extension.                       Ain't the 'net great?
Andy Y

Andy Y

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ewsjo's Blog

59004 - ready to move the Mendips

Well, 59004 is just about done. There are one or two tidying up jobs, and the skywards pointing buffer needs attention, but apart from that it is there. The Yeoman logos are printed from my artwork by Kelvin at Red Firecracker, and are white on a clear backing to allow the blue to show through. The same effect is used on my upcoming PGA rake, to avoid trying to colour match the blue on the computer with the paint Here are some general shots of the finished model   And a couple of shots
Steadfast

Steadfast

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Barton Ings Pipe & Tile Works

bricks..bricks...millions? of em.......

the buildings you see are really quick/cheap to make, simply being 3mm ply then hot glue-gun to join them. on the prototype everything is made from bricks particularily bad workmanship and kaka quality of bricks too, i suppose they sold the good ones and used the pooh for their own stuff, makes sense i suppose.   Anyways the brickwork is all made in the same way..a bit time consuming but a cheap and effective method i think. I cover the ply in a thin layer of ready-mixed lightweight filler pl
DriffCharlie

DriffCharlie

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Copley Hill Works

"Return to Service Immenent"

With two weeks left of my degree, and a full list of modelling to finish after that, I may be a much happier bunny sooner rather than later. At the moment all my time has been taken up tying up the loose ends at Loughborough University, but soon I will have some updates, I promise!   I have done one thing in the past few months - I have given the D11 a fresh coat of paint, while it's awaiting its new chassis - I'll post a pic later on if the laptop lets me!   Until next time.
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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leopard1299's Blog

9f bashing rebuilt crosti! getting there!

well had a very good weathering session in the painting shed this afternoon! so thought all was going well and said right i`ll put the 9f to ones side and go and paint some toysoldiers for an order ive got to do then I will put me numbers on the 9f! well got it all ready and decided to do a test run after weathering! and yes it ran sort of! so sorted the bent valve gear thought great then the tender drive exploeded gears off etc! so went back to triang tender drive MK1 version runs ok with this
leopard1299

leopard1299

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

An expensive mess

I've lost count of how much I've spent on wire, and yes it looks almost exactly like last time you saw it. It is however fully wired up. Unanswered questions still include: Why does it all take so long; and is it possible to make it neat? Here's a gratuitous picture from the other end of the layout.     I have used 3PDT switches (a 4PDT in one case) to allow the track to be double isolated unless the correct route is set. This should, in theory anyway, work just like insulated turnouts - on
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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The Abercorn Branch

Experiment, Experiment, EXPERRRIIIMMMEEENNNTTTT!

hmmm   too many Dr Who moments of late.   Time to see if i can get a photo up here...   .   ooh - look! it might be here. If this works, I'm impressed by the not-needing-to faff-about-with-uploading elsewhere first bit.   Anyhhoo, this image dates from January of this year, and marked the first connections between two bits of streamline track, with extra faffing to ensure continued use of the majorly set track resource base, as we started to commit to a layout that wouldn't be pulled a
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Donkey visits Anglesey

Not much progress with the layout - although I have now fixed the coal drop retaining walls and deck support pillars to the base-board.   Last Saturday I helped (?) friend Dave Clarke and the regular team (Simon & Jim) with his Amlwch branch layout at the Derby show - as fiddle yard operator - I didn't trust myself to operate out front! The normal green/blue era diesel service was was disrupted from time to time by a typical Delph Donkey formation, consisting of Fowler 2-6-2 class 3 tank
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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