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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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Redgate's Modelling

Steps to finish tender ....

Some of you may have seen my questions in the main forum about rear tender footsteps on this loco. Well, a couple of evening's fiddling with 3mm brass strip and a soldering iron has given me a fair representation of said steps.     Don't worry about the roughened area around the base of the step, it's where I've glassfibred away some cyano overspill   So all that's left to do is fabricate the tool tunnel and maybe open up the corresponding hole in the tender front bulkhead. Not sure ab
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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coombe junction - moorswater

8 - Kyle - A night off?...

Update - Good morning - I had hoped to have a long productive evening last night working on the layout with the TV tuned to the UK elections...but it was one of those evenings where everything I began, started going wrong   To begin, I painted the platforms a beige colour as from the photos there are two different types of platform surface, however it looked so awful, I ended up overpainting with grey about 3 hours later. Then turned my attention to the backscene, which has been produced usi
bcnPete

bcnPete

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The Abercorn Branch

Isn't technology wonderful?

Cripes   it's only taken me 3 weeks or so to find this chuffing thing again to add an entry - I'm not sure I'll be able to get back again either as i don't really know how I got here.   Bit like life, really.   Anyhoo, the branch is back out from hiding and is sitting comfortable on the new Ikea £49 table. My back and knees are sore from bending down.   Last bit of the first stage wiring is completed and all track sections work, including the reverse polarity bit. Isolating sections all
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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Bomp's Blog

Wiring done and tested

I've wired the layout now, and I'm quite proud of the result. It looks neat and tidy underneath, and there's a feed to all areas.   I've run my Bachmann 03 very slowly along all the routes, so that's good. I'll do a video in the daylight to show just how slowly it goes, and also show off my wiring and plug/socket.   I'm going to bed now, to dream of more things to do.
Bomp

Bomp

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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

Slowly tracking progress

As can be observed from the deafening silence, things haven't progressed as quickly as I'd hoped. I've done the usual trick of offering to help on numerous things, not thinking that all of them would be taken up. How wrong I was! Fortunately some of them are modelling related so I'll report back on those once I've sorted them out. Still I've been making some limited progress on the layout, so a quick update to show I'm still in the land of the living. I'm about half way through building the base
Adrian

Adrian

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Work Experience at Chiltern Railways

Work Experience with Chiltern Railways - Day 5 & 6

Hi,   Sorry I'm abit late with these entries, been behind on Blog entries lately! So:   Day 5:   On day 5, I worked on the north driving car of a Class 165, No. 165011, again we were working on the underframe and engine (aka downstairs). We started by checking the brakepad clearances, then changed 2 of the 16 brakepads that are on the car. The pads come in two parts and are changed by simply realising a single clip and sliding them out.   We then went onto take oil samples from the car'
St. Simon

St. Simon

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, It fits!(2) (And works)

Fitted the gantry at the LM Jc today, with it's associated servo gubbins. Wired up to 12vdc, lit up and operative via on/off switches it twitched and grumbled into life, settling down to relative silence about 15 seconds after each activation. As you can see there is still a little bit of "stand off" on the 2 miniature arms but this is mechanical rather than anything to do with the servo action. A little adjustment will be required. Still a bit buzzy sometimes but nothing serious. Very sa
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

My first etching

Hello   A while ago while at a show I spoke to a guy called Stephen Harris about the fact I really wanted to have a go at doing some etching. Stephen kindly let me use a small area from one of his test etches and with some help from him I managed to draw some bits to try out...     A small envelope turned up today and I was really pleased to see my etches have arrived. There is my station sign, three ground signal disks, and enough sides for two GWR benches which have all been repeated.
-missy-

-missy-

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ewsjo's Blog

59004 - Identity gained

At Bristol show last weekend I collected the plates for my 59, so the loco now is named and numbered 59004 'Paul A Hammond' This gave me the kick I needed to get on and do some work on the model, with weathering started, and it now just needing windows, Yeoman logos and the weathering finishing. Here's a couple of shots of the current state of play - will add some decent ones once the loco is finished, hopefully in the next week or two! The grills are 'homebrew' transfers drawn up in Phot
Steadfast

Steadfast

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Bomp's Blog

Modelling on Dr's orders!

The Doctor has told me to make my model for medical purposes!   So I'll have to finish it now. I'm making the exchange sidings at the moment - the box from my pressure cleaner is coming in very handy. This is far more fun than putting boxes in skips!   The first picture is my initial idea for an island exchange platform, but I decided it was too sharp, even allowing for that section being worked by muscle power. The second picture shows my second plan which is going to be permanent. The e
Bomp

Bomp

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coombe junction - moorswater

10 (9 as of this post) - Kyle - Ballast - Part II...and more progress...

Update - Last night I did the second application of the ballast, this time just filling in the centre of the sleepers between the rails. This was followed by another application tonight picking out holes and gaps. Also, the area in between the sidings has a slightly different colour, which will be toned down and a few tufts of grass will be sprouting through. Buffer heads picked out in red and platforms have had base colour grey applied to stone and they have been bedded onto the layout - now ne
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Southern Electric workbench

Quick update

Firstly, a look at the bits I didn't use for the Bil! Mostly underframe parts and interior partitions. It shows how "basic" this kit is when so much has to be replaced. And a quick update on the EPB. Now painted and having grab handles (etched from Southern Pride) stuck in place using Johnsons floor polish. This is a bit boring and so is progressing quite slowly.   The Modelmaster transfer pack for the 2-EPB is a bit odd, as it includes first class stripes and "1" characters for the doo
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Thereandbackagain

Thereandbackagain an OO Garden Railway

Thereandbackagain A OO Garden Railway   This is a description of my garden railway as it came about It all started when I bought a Hornby Royal Scotsman live steam Locomotive set at a bargain price for £300 but when it arrived and the thought of running it on the dining room table, water, steam and oil….. It was put back in the box.   The thought of a OO gauge running track in the garden blossomed (a pun there) and after a few discussions with my good lady I got the go ahead so in early
emac

emac

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4mm rolling stock

Finished the steel shock open

A trio of finished wagons, starting with the BR steel shock open, painted in typical early 1970s rust and grot. These wagons seem to have got in to a right state in their final years of revenue earning traffic. I'm quite pleased with how this conversion turned out - the dodgy join between the floor and the sides is prototypical and not my modelling. The joys of modelling poor workmanship! Parkside fruit van and Dapol/Parkside LMS designed van. The "ventilated" lettering on the fruit van was a
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Bomp's Blog

Look at my progress!

I've got running trains already! Space for four short vans/wagons, and a place for them to come from and go to. All I need now is to arrange the narrow gauge bit and I'll be ready to start ballast and inlaid bits.   Photographs show the final (for now) track plan. Any weaknesses or improvements people can think of would be kindest now rather than when I've started the scenic bits. I'm hoping to be able to add to each end if need be, but for now I'll be having like a boxed in yard with buil
Bomp

Bomp

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

OOn3 Ruston 48DS - bonnet strips and axleboxes.

Along the top of the bonnet theres a metal channel which the bottom edge of the bonnet doors slots into (the bonnet sides hinge upwards) to hold them in place when opened. I represented this on the models with a strip of .030" x .010" plastic with a slot cut down its length with an Olfa type cutter. A pic; Thanks to Ruston for info on this. Axleboxes were carved from 3 x 1.5mm plastic strip. On the OOn3 loco they could be fitted straight on but on the EM loco they had to be thinned due to th
halfwit

halfwit

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Tree!

Me Again   While I try to remember how I actually finished off the ballast on the first baseboard I have made a start finishing a couple of things that have been sitting on my table half finished. Today I have been playing around with the half finished tree to see if I could end up with something I was happy with.     I didnt really use the normal methods but ended up using a mixture of things until I was happy. The basic tree is a normal twisted wire one but then after that there is all
-missy-

-missy-

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Fourgig East

Fitting it all in

Had a play at lunchtime with Anyrail and one thing that is certain, standard Peco track will not do! I need much tighter rad pointwork for my little harbour     Thanks to help from Martin at Templot the Marcway 48" point kits might do the job but ideally I want pointwork down to 32" which gives me approximately setrack type curves which my little Pug should handle okay. Looks like Martin will be getting an order from me    
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Bomp's Blog

Yet another project - maybe I'll get somewhere with this one!

I think I stand a good chance of doing something with my next project. I've got an old wardrobe door and stripped it of hinges and stuff, put a frame round the bottom, and stuck a layer of cork/cardboard from an old notice board on top.   The plan is to make something small enough to keep and work on upstairs and, I hope, to finish. Inspired partly by the latest Model Rail I'm going for a small shunting industry type set up, and inspired by a recent Model Rail, I'm going to have narrow-gauge
Bomp

Bomp

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