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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

Project 2010 - The Frames

Thanks to Ramrig for the loan of a tender drive brit (so the frames I make will fit the Hornby body) I now have a "comic" for the 2-8-2 frames.     It's a hybrid of 3 different sources, the Hornby Brit chassis, the original cox drawing of the 2-8-2 and Comet's Brit frames for the better front end and cylinder mountings.   Plan is to tidy it up and glue a copy to some PCB material and cut out 3 sets, drilling the pilot holes for the axles in one go to provide a jig (the 3rd copy) for the c
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Smallbridge

Tigh Charrann - I fell in Love.

Well if you haven't cottoned on by now, I have a new love in my life. I couldn't help myself.   This is the story anyway. I was helping out at Churchrail on Saturday, and after a really enjoyable stint operating Summat Colliery, and then relieving the gentleman of Highley Unlikely for a while, the guys at Castle Trains had bought with them a Shiny New Bachmann Blue Grey 4CEP. To say I was seduced is an understatement, before I knew I had whipped out the Debit Card, and purchased the unit. Aft
wollastonblue

wollastonblue

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Summat Colliery

Churchrail Report

Well, the first exhibition of the season went really well. Thanks to Mark and crew for an excellent show which raised a good sum for the school so I'm told.   Summat behaved itself really well considering it hadn't come out from under the desk since Wycrail last year. Had the odd electrical gremlin (interboard jumper wire loose in choclate block connector) and one point microswitch was a bit reluctant to throw fully resulting in a couple of shorts in running.   Harry and #49 performed really
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The British Railway Stories

Updates - Um...

Okay, so in essence I have planned a lot of updates (see last post) but very little has been done. In fact I am still making my way through fixing the posts in this blog which were damaged in the site move (typing has gone wacko in some posts). That said, I am hugely grateful the majority of it is still in one piece, so kudos to Andy and the Mods for a job well done - if the least I have to do is re-type a few words in each article, I am a happy bunny indeed!   I have a dissertation due at the
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, Walls,signals, and other bits.

In our banker siding, Steve has provided a little coaling facility to feed the bunkers and tenders of the busy bank engines. Another ex Talacre signal has been re-furbed and positioned at the LM jc; this is now the home signal coming off the incline from the GW station. More retaining wall has had its lumpy stone added ready for painting and the yard at the LM station now has a cobbled area. Steve has left a space that might as well have a big arrow with flashing lights that says "The good
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Copley Hill Works

Storm in a teacup!

The above model was my first airbrushing attempt, way back in the November of 2008, on the old RMweb. A few comments were made from an Equine member regarding the thickness and I made no attempt to disguise the fact it was a little...thick.   Okay, a LOT thick. However that being said, I had done a lot of modifications to the model, and mixed the paint colour myself. Transfers were applied, and I even detailed the cab interior and the tender. It was my first real conversion, first air brushing
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Meadow Lane, MSC Railway in P4

Exciting parcels and burnt fingers!

After placing an order about a month ago a lovely little white box was waiting for me when I got home today.   Yes at last my Judith Edge 230hp Sentinel kit has arrived. 4 weeks seems a long time, but not when you consider Charlie at DC Kits kindly ordered a P4 Black Beetle especially for me for this project.     So after pulling out the etches, the Black Beetle and the instructions I was itching to start - but reigned in my enthusiasm. First things first I checked the contents (good job
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

First signs of spring as progress thaws?

Progress may well have slowed, but it has not stopped.   With cold weather stopping me from working on the baseboard or spraying the Pacer work has dramatically slowed on my Rose Hill project. There are some signs of life though as the station building has begun to change from primer grey to weathered brick.     I'm pleased so far - and hope to be able to show you more in a few weeks. The plan is to finish the basic colouring before adding the building fine detail - that way the brick col
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Mattington - 4mm Scale Layout

Oh no not painting!

I think the worse job on a model railway is painting - I really do not like it as it can be quite tedious at times. I have been driven out of the Mattington room by the paint smell and as I have had to use a fair bit of paint thinners it absolutly reeks in there. Just finshed doing some rust on some of the shed roofs and for a first effort I think it has come out fairly well.   Some photos of the layout that I took earlier attached
MattB

MattB

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Toplights nearly there, and a thought on an LMS rake.

Confession time...   I'm finding working at such a small scale quite a steep learning curve, but hey, that all part of the fun!   The toplight carriages, since their last appearance, have been torn apart and reassembled, and I am much happier with the way they look now. I now just need to lasercut window frames for the saloon brake, and add details such as handrails, buffers etc..   And repaint the roof!   Another brief diversion into the full size Severn Valley Railway, this weekend
Will J

Will J

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Let there be light!

This is Missy's fault. I wasn't going to bother with working lights but after seeing what was achievable I decided to give it a go. A few of the rooms in the flats will also receive illumination once some white miniature surface mount LED's arrive.   Cheers!   Tom.
TomE

TomE

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Stuff wot I have been upto this weekend

Hello   Thought I should put a post together to show what I got upto this weekend just gone.   Firstly there was of course the Abingdon show organised by the Abingdon and District Model Railway Club which as I am a member I kinda went along with a few bits of mine from Highclere.           As it is the 50th Anniversary of the 2mm Scale Association we all made an extra special effort this year with lots of 2mm FS stuff going on. As I was taking the photos thankfully I am not in
-missy-

-missy-

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - House building

Have been building some more of the Scalescene low relief houses, ran out of glue so the roofs will have to wait. Also test fitted some above the retaining wall on New Street, I think they will look good here too, but maybe as store fronts at the end of a road. Might also put the new low relief flats here instead, havent made up my mind yet. With the new corner shop and shop fronts some of the old Farish store fronts on Gloucester Road will also be replaced   Ran out of glue   workers hav
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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North Marsh Road - Eastern Region - BR Blue - OO

North Marsh Road vs King Lynn - 1946

Having now got North Marsh Road under way I though I would post where the fictitious map came from. I used a copy of the 1946 OS map of Kings Lynn and after quite a bit of 'photoshopping', well Paint.neting I came up with the map for North Marsh Road.   Here are the two maps - First the original Kings Lynn one (flipped) and then the edited North Marsh Road.     I have to say I quite enjoyed trying to create a map that firstly matched the track layout of Wymondham and then one that was
Jaggzuk

Jaggzuk

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North Marsh Road - Eastern Region - BR Blue - OO

Baseboard Construction – Part 2

I've decided to beef up the scenic baseboard construction as I was not very happy with the flexibility of the 3mm MDF one. So I bought a 1200x600 sheet of 9mm exterior ply. This provided enough wood for 2 long sides, 2 ends and 2 stretchers bracings. Each 'girder' still measures 100m deep was built following the same method detailed for the MDF girder.   The build time was about 3 hours, which was a bit slow but it was after a full day of DIY on the house The result though is far better
Jaggzuk

Jaggzuk

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Fen End Pit's Blog

J39 - progress

One of the things about writing a blog, as opposed to an article for a magazine, is that you tend to write as you model and put up pictures of 'work in progress'. As such it is probably common to publish something, possibly making it sound like 'the solution' only to then change it a few days later!   It has been like this with the drive for this loco. The gearbox ran very smoothly, but my attempts to get a decent drive from the tender located motor caused no end of problems. I tried putting i
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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ewsjo's Blog

Skipping along - the models

Ok, so some shots of the starting points of this project. Overview and proof of the concept The detailing bits as supplied by Dapol. On what's a 95 quid model, I'm disappointed that details don't particularly match a 67 - there's no knuckle coupler or cut lever, and the air pipes don't match the prototype. I know it sounds like a tiny niggle, but surely on a model this expensive it should be right? So on the dummy on the rear, the knuckle coupler will be nicked from a Farish 66 and the cut
Steadfast

Steadfast

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Shopping and Van

Well I managed to save some money at the train show, so a new soldering iron was purchased. Temperature controlled and a ceramic heating element, hopefully this will help me to improve my skills with the hot wand. The wooden pegs as suggested in previous comments is a great tip, apart from the fact all the pegs in our peg bag are plastic! Looks like I'm off to the shops, again. Managed to do some more on the luggage van today. Both solebars are fitted now, even after I put the frame on up
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Last one of the year (we think!)

Hi Guys,   Right, the last exhibition of this year (unless we get the Reading invite for september), Churhrail, has just passed.   It was yet another good day, with more almost perfect running. To be honest I thought it might be a disaster because we have such good luck over the past 2 exhibtions! There were some minor troubles, the track aglinment on the cassettes wasn't good again (after I had got it perfect for Ris-ex! ). We found that none of our stock could exit platform 3 without der
St. Simon

St. Simon

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On the Intercity Workbench

7mm Barclay Class 06 - Chassis

I was initially planning on building the chassis rigid, but pickup from a short wheelbase 0-4-0 chassis will never be the best so I decided to fit Slaters sprung hornblocks.   I was just about to solder these to the frames when I saw the Chassis Alignment tool produced by Metalsmith on Christian's A3 thread. "Just the very thing!" I thought and the alignment axles arrived shortly afterwards.      
IC126

IC126

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - 2-6-2 tank trucks

Philbax was asking about the Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2 tanks which appeared in some recent photos.   The Ivatt is an as yet unmodified Bachman body on a chassis based on the Comet kit, with some additional detail and the valvegear modelled in forward rather than mid gear. The chassis is compensated as an 0-6-0 using twin beams on the rear two axles and a central rocking support on the front. Drive is a 1616 Portescap on the (floating) centre axle. The trucks are sprung. On this loco, the pony truck
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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