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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

Flagstones

Home early today for child minding duties and have take delivery of some 3' x 2' flagstones       Now obviously B&Q dont sell scale flagstones, but they do sell sticky back vinyl tiles in stone colour ...     10 minutes of scoring and snapping and .. instant self adhesive flagstones.   I also have a new helper, found in a kit of Tamiya Mechanics I forgot I had...     He is a bit rude he keeps pointing but Im sure he will point out most new additions in future weeks.  
johnteal

johnteal

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Mattington - 4mm Scale Layout

General work on Mattington

The list of jobs to do seems to have grown longer. Luckily it is still the winter but as daylight creeps into the evening hours work on the railway will likely be reduced to rainy days and weekends. I have to work on the scratchbuilt station platform which has a slight clearance and warping problem. It is a mix of several different kits and building sheets and tieing it all together is proving to be a bit of an issue which isn't helped by a board join.   Other work includes scenery on the new
MattB

MattB

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney. A bit of an update

Ok here's a bit of an update. I can't currently include any pictures within the text due to what must be, to Andy and the dedicated admin team, frustating problems, but the link to the gallery should give you an idea of where we are now. Steve and Les are much faster and more regular workers on the layout and have for the most part, completed the major scenic work on the main lines and surrounding areas. I've plodded on with my little area by the LM station entrance when I can, but work and oth
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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steamrailuk's Blog

Freelance: Scottish heavy freight 0-6-4T

Here is pic of one of my previous locos, which im currently modifying. The theme is a Scottish style 0-6-4T built for heavy freight and banking duties.   The loco originally started life as the Hornby terrier. The body of the terrier was removed leaving the chassis which was great to work with as it has a level frame, so there was no need to mess around raising the chassis to the running plate level. The body was constructed from plasticard sheet of varying thicknesses on the frame, sides, smo
steamrailuk

steamrailuk

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Meadow Lane, MSC Railway in P4

A potted history...

The end of the line?     The Manchester Ship Canal needs no introduction – and to those interested in industrial railways neither does it’s significant sprawling web of rails – not only dock side but real lines linking places and businesses to both the canal and the wider rail network.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Ship_Canal   By the early 1980s the system and the canal were in serious decline, and the small fleet of diesel hydraulic Sentinels and diesel mechanical
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Adam's part-time modelling

Hop 21 - why does this always happen?

Look, no pictures! As ever, the really useful detail shot emerges after I've done all the hard work. This picture (albeit reversed) shows a fitted 21 tonner being tipped and, happily, the kind of end detail I had to guess at. Thankfully, I guessed more or less right...   Adam
Adam

Adam

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Calle de la Coronacion

Rolling stock (1st off Motive Power)

heres a line up off the Motive Power i have at the moment for running this layout & Forks Trestle   A Bachmann Railtruck i will be building a new back for the item of rolling stock       a Backwood Minatures Aerocar     a A1 models brass body on a underground Ernie chassie     a Branchline Models T Ford railcar     a Bachmann Shay   a 2-8-2 tank loco running on a Bachmann UK Austerty chassie I used the boiler from the loco but scratch built a body for this loco
mozzer models

mozzer models

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The 891mm Project

Sanity Check and the Blitz

(In)Sanity Check   So the bolt heads mentioned in the previous post arrived... and what great little things they are. A Stainless Steel etch of what looks like 1000's of tiny highly detail bolt heads of various sizes and types all ready and waiting to go on the Gp Van. I do beg the question however of the worth of etching such minute detail into the etch as with a couple coats of paint I am sure the detail is lost.   Having spent many hours messing about with the DC Kits door hinges on their
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road

It has been a while since I was able to post anything so here is an update of work done over the past week. I have managed to lay exactoscale 5mm foam on the three end boards, add the templot trackplan as an overlay and finally lay the track on the main line. This end of the layout is where the main line starts to rise to attack the 1 in 60 Fishponds bank and modelling this section of the incline has proved a challenge getting the gradient consistent over the length of the pair of boards. To ad
barrowroad

barrowroad

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10800

Dave Alexander 10800

I have recently completed a Dave Alexander 4mm. scale kit of 10800.   The kit is designed to take two Tenshedo SPUDS which have a slightly inaccurate wheelbase.   I elected to fit two powered Black Beetles with the correct wheelbase and wheeel diameter, though this required considerable modifications to the designed bogie mounts.   You will see that one BB is pivoted in a fabricated brass cab floor, which is only very slightly above scale level.   The other BB pivots in a brass strip can
cctransuk

cctransuk

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Lima Finished

Well havn't I been busy whilst the forum was down. The Lima/Crafstman DP1 is finished and ready to find a new home         To confirm the spec:   Lima Deltic Craftsman conversion kit (minus etched whiskers and side stripes) Fox waterslide whiskers and sidestripes (the ones with the black edging) SE Finecast flushglaze with cab door windows using Humbrol Clearfix Paint: Humbrol Deltic Blue and grey primer protected with Krylon Matte Coat   Pretty pleased with this one, if I can
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Making progress

Well, no RMweb left me with little choice but to do some actual modelling!   Work has now started on the top of embankment scenes, with the area surrounding the flat being first. The base for this is 5mm foam board which was sprayed with plasti-kote Tan Suede texture paint. Halfords grey primer was then misted over the top. The pavements were then added and curb stones individually added to the edges. Once dry, the roads were given a wash over with thinned black paint to give a weathered road
TomE

TomE

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Fen End Pit's Blog

A bouncing signal

As a break from the J39 I did a little project to build an advanced starter for the layout. I'd been playing about with a USB servo controller to make a bouncing mechanism.   Many thanks to Mick Nicholson for his Semaphore Signals book, an excellent step-by-step guide to their construction.     David
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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RJRs Branch Lines

PVA and ballast fun !

Before going to work this morning I applied PVA/Water to the ballast, the plan being it would be warmer during the day than night. The plan worked ! Then this evening I built the start of the platform area and added the ballast between it and the rear track. Also some stone on the front curved wall. Finally it has had a light spray with dirt brown.             John
johnteal

johnteal

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Pugsley's Workbench

Wax on. Wax off.

Well, more like slap on filler and sand off. It's coming on, with a little help from my new friends: The sanding sticks have proved to be a worthwhile investment for this project (I got mine from Netmerchants) not exactly cheap, but not ludicrously expensive either, in the grand scheme of things. More of this later though.   Riveting - Part 1 Through filling the second set of footsteps in the tumblehome of the loco, losing some of the moulded rivet detail around the area was inevitable.
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Shhhh

Don't tell anyone but the slow acquisition of materials for the 'real' new layout continues...   Code 55 FB rail from C&L, Modelfoam 1220x610mm boards from Trylon and 4mm & 9mm birch from Avon Plywood are all safely stored. All I have to do now is find an excuse to start to cut and stick it together. Not sure about a suitable DCC system yet but one will be required at some point. At the moment it's a toss-up between Lenz and NCE, with the latter edging it.   I'm hoping to have made p
ullypug

ullypug

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Bomp's Blog

Project

I've got a Fleischmann 0-4-0 electric loco which I'm never going to use unless I modify it in someway.   So I'm planning on fitting a chip (I can't quite see how to go about it, but I'll keep at it and publish my results if I manage it), fitting lights, amending the couplings from the continental ones it's got, adding larger sprung industrial type buffers, carving off the cast handrails and fitting wire ones with knobs, fitting proper grills instead of the cast plastic ones and repainting eith
Bomp

Bomp

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Knuckles' RWS, P4 & SCC Blog

My Entry / Introduction Page

Greetings to you all. My name is Gavin Rose, or on forums usually Knuckles or Sparkshot for various reasons.   I run a small railway modelling forum with S.A.C Martin and Sean O'connor called 'The Permanent Way', link: http://permanentway.proboards.com/ Please feel free to join.   I model primaraly Railway Series models with the intent of creating more true representations of what I believe the Reverend Wilbert Awdry originally wanted depicted in His books, and also how I believe He wou
Knuckles

Knuckles

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Diamond geezer... ...or should that be lathe abuse?

Quite a bit has happened in the last two weeks whilst rmweb has been on it's travels. The weather to go outside and finish the legs, extensions and bracing on the boards has still not been forthcoming. I booked a couple of days off work to get extra daylight and the heavens sent rain (and snow). So instead I've been building brake vans and getting a sore throat. More on them another time.   I figured that to make the short diamond a jig was in order so I figured out a way to make it on my lit
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Mattington - 4mm Scale Layout

Junk Yard Lane

Work halted on Mattington for a short while as I wanted to do some touching up on the Junk Yard boxfile layout mainly planting a few bits of vegetation, scattering some more grit and scenic powder and hunting in the bits box for a small door for the shed - (found one eventually! no scratch building required yay ! )Older photos of this layout are located in the gallery.   Why build a boxfile layout - Simple - for a laugh! and somewhere to run 009 stock on a portable layout (possibly even at wor
MattB

MattB

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Grahame's dining room table

Back to the back of the busses

Yesterday I scratchbuilt the angle truncated chimneys that go on the rear engine bustle under the upperdeck overhang of the DMS bus to convert it to a 1980s B20 variant with white upper deck window frames. Now that the TPM etches have arrived - very neat and fine they are too - I can get on and start to fnish some of them off.           G.
grahame

grahame

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