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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

CREWE EXHIBITION LINE UP

A week tomorrow the Crewe exhibition will see the first assembly of the CRMs On30 modular layout. As each individual section is connected with 4" long lengths of track using fishplates, its a bit like building a train set with set track, "plug and play" for model railways.   "The On30 layout, 'Ferrocarril Internacional', will be made up from a selection of the following modules plus a pair of fiddleyards."   RJR SHED     FIDDLE YARD - no picture required   ORANGE GROWERS  
johnteal

johnteal

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Raffles' Ramblings

I Have A Bad Case Of Diorama..

Poor weather and the onset of cabin fever have led me to this, God help us all.   In case of a sudden attack of Diorama, take one scrap piece of MDF, 18inches by 10 inches and then spend an evening scouring fotopic for inspiration. Once inspired you can press on with step two.     Scrawl a rough plan onto your scrap MDF   Add some track...   ...and instantly become dissatisfied with the look of it so add another piece with adjusted sleeper spacing.   More later, as they say.
Raffles

Raffles

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RJRs Branch Lines

Wagon load re-secured

Always keen to improve, a couple of keen observers spotted that the way I had secured the old truck onto the flatbed was not very good, and gave suggestion of how it would be done in reality. So a small amount of rework later ........       The tie downs that were threaded through the spokes of the wheels are now placed at 45 degrees to the front and rear and secured to the truck chassis.       John
johnteal

johnteal

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The Saltney Railway

From the ashes

When the old Talacre gauge 0 garden railway had to come down in October 2009, we were feeling a bit down. We had amassed quite a bit of stock and a lot of scenic work had been done in the sheds. We were left with a lot of very second hand track, a mixed bag of locos and stock,quite a few working signals and all the elctrics. We even salvaged most of the buildings. What we didn't have was somewhere to build a new layout. Steve found the answer on his doorstep. A secure lockup, 27 X 17. A bit tig
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - NSE 159007

Feeling fairly pleased with myself tonight. My Farish (not Bachman) 159 has been in bad shape for some time, poor running and noisy with lots of cliking sounds. I have suspected split gears, as Farish was (?) prone too. Tonight I took the wheel sets off and took apart the gear stacks and to my surprise found not one but two split gears; one on each gear stack. So off to the parts bin (you never know what will come in handy) found two wheels sets with correct gears on them. Reasembled the ge
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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The Grime Street Blog

Still more Easy Street.

Ok, that's going to be the last easy street pun for a while, it's grating even on me! Much more scribing and sore fingers later, I've done all the sets in between the tracks and the crossover looks like this now     I've had a Halling power truck running quite happily on it, overall very happy with it. Rest of road surface is underway, I haven't made my mind up yet if it will be srcibed as setts as it was tarmaced over in various pictures of the area that I'm going to base the model on.
Red Devil

Red Devil

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Wiring day

Another 4 long days has given me Friday off, so I'm spending the day wiring. Started by attaching the point controllers to the board, then spent the entire morning session of the cricket connecting everything up. Did briefly consider trying to work out how to connect the frog wiring so it would work first time, but came to the conclusion that I could spend 5 minutes confusing myself and getting it wrong 80% of the time, or just put it together and get 50% wrong. Added to that is the excitemen
MichaelW

MichaelW

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clarkea1's Blog

Steelworks wagons

Recently I've been working on building a rake of wagons based on internal users found at Workington steelworks. They were re-bodies from ex-Caledonian ore wagons bought by the works. One of the prototypes can be seen here:   Workington No 977 @ Paul Bartlett's fotopic site   Realising that I wanted to build a few, I designed a batch of etchings for this wagon back in the early 2000's, using a drawing and batch of photos kindly supplied by Phil Baggley of Workington (although I believe the
clarkea1

clarkea1

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

Crew done...

I have pretty much finished painting the crew for the Fairlie. They were undercoated with a flat black spray, then brush painted with Games Workshop acrylic paints. Now they need something to stand in, so I'd best build it!     J
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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Whitemarsh Yard

Couplings and magnets

I'm afraid things have been a bit stagnant on Whitemarsh, although I did build an unusual micro layout for exhibition at the end of last year so I haven't been completely idle. The problem which is stalling progress on the UK stuff is that I need to decide on a coupling system, or more crucially an uncoupling system, before I ballast the track. I think what I want is the Kirby coupling, but I have track laid on cork already and don't want to dig it out. I'm thinking about getting some Neodymium
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Will's workbench

And now for something completely different

I've been thinking about making something in 1:35 for a while, since like Tanis's 1:48 this allows a wide range of good quality cheap figures, vehicles etc. from the military modelling community. A representation of 60cm gauge using OO/HO track and mechanisms isn't that far out of scale so it's relatively practical from the railway side too. So I went looking for modern narrow gauge industrial stock to build and found Schoema, a German manufacturer. I knew about their Feldbahn locos, but didn't
Will Vale

Will Vale

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barrowroad's Blog

Office, Mess, Stores - progress

I have been unable to post anything since Monday so I'll do this post while I have access.   Here is a good photo of the Office block; the section at the front with the lower hipped roof; whilst the Mess and Stores are at the rear, the stores being nearest to the shed building. The model is sectioned along the centre line of the Stores/Mess part of the building in line with the sectioned roundhouse.     I have made some progress with the two elevations which make up the model, namely the
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Somewhere in Germany

Background work

Well, I've had the background printed, and have fixed it onto one board. It went on OK, but I will try and get a rubber roller before doing the next one as there are a few creases.     Now the work is blending background and model, and avoiding having the backdrop image meeting the bottom layer of scenics at any point.
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Cherry's Corner.

Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in Canberra!

Whilst waiting for a few bits for the Jinty I've switched to another piece of the jigsaw for the 2010 challenge - the control system. For a long time I've had ideas for a control system on a layout to avoid the miles and miles of wiring the usually entails. Several years ago MERG started developing a layout control bus, called CBUS. This is a system of plugin modules that communicate over a signal data bus, this bus consists of just two wires, the modules themselves need to be powered so that's
Adrian

Adrian

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Cheddar

I'm still thinking about Cheddar and have come up with a track plan using Templot which scales out at the right length, but bends the layout into a 180 degree curve. The reason for the plan is to fit into a 15ft x 13ft space which I could theoretically use in the garage. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to put the layout up at home, which is something I'm keen to avoid. The prototype was on a curve, but nowhere near as severe. I think it works and has potential but I do wonder if going to the troubl
ullypug

ullypug

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The Farthing layouts

Soft body, hard shell

No, this is not a description of the average RMwebber, but a reference to the baseboards for my 2010 challenge layout "The depot". As Kenton keeps reminding us, the clock is ticking so I thought I'd best move ahead with this. The scenic section of this GWR micro- layout is to be housed within an Ikea "Snackbox". This plywood shell now houses a "soft" self-contained baseboard, made from 10mm foamboard and measuring 35.2 x 54.1 cms (13.9 x 21.3 in). This serves to raise the scenic section, and pro
Mikkel

Mikkel in Layout construction

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G-BOAF's Blog

Mainline Charter set

Well, the 21st Century Mainline charter set had its first outing earlier this week behind Tornado As posted in the 'Tornado' (Bachmann) thread, here's a video of the entire 13-coach rake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTBEKXQChTA   Rolling stock highlights included: the SRPS Mk2a TSO     the WCRC Maroon Mk1 Pullman 99348   Hornby Pullman Ibis as preserved by VSOE. Spare Hornby Gresley bogies were obtained from East Kent Models (the 'heavy' type with two rivet rows above the axle b
G-BOAF

G-BOAF

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coombe junction - moorswater

Kyle - Back on track...

Good afternoon - Following the package of tools and materials arriving from the UK around Christmas time I am now able to develop the layout further...in fact it will be shown at the Burgess Hill Model Railway Club annual small exhibition on 15 May 2010...which is in 121 days :icon_eek:   The previous two evenings has seen work continue with the EASITRAC components and now the main rails are in place, I hope to complete the switch blades and frogs during the next modelling sessions. The jigs
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - New Year

Happy New Year to all. A big thanks to Andy and his efforts to get (and keep) rmweb up and running.   Progress on Gloucester Road has been slow over the Holidays, but as things start to settle back down into routine work is picking up. Have done some more work on the backscene behind Brimsley and purchaed the Station Structures from Scalscenes. YGA and YGH wagons arrived for Christmas; these are great wagons and I have started to add all of the details. Also 47474 arrived, this is a vast i
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Calle de la Coronacion

palm treesto fill a gap

Having look at the last lot of photos i have put some palm trees between the truck & church to fill the gap till i get time ti build the wall as the next jobs i have to do is wire this up & put the track links on the other ends of the fiddleyards        
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Lima Bodyshell Started

Quick before and after, I've started removing the detail from the nose ends of a much played with (by me!) Lima Deltic ready for application of the Craftsman DP1 conversion kit. Note poorly applied white window surrounds that will have to be stripped back before painting and holes drilled in the headcode boxes for some long since gone home made directional lighting ....   Before     After     Anyone want a spare "Meld" nameplate, only got the one, send an SAE and I'll pop it in the p
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The Grime Street Blog

More 'Easy Street'

Very quick update, track all soldered and checked, so thought I'd start on the road surface, which is Wickes ready to use plaster plus pva on base board. With the track being thin it dried in no time, so armed with a steel rule and one of Mrs Red Devils' darning needles (inherited...never used!!!) We have this     Pretty tedious, but once you get going, and it was considerably more interesting than watching Liverpool v Reading on the box last night, well up to the 90th minute!   Try t
Red Devil

Red Devil

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

Judith Edge Steelman Royale cab + fuel tank.

On to the cab. The sides overlap the front and rear which locate in a half etched area. The sides also need bending to match the profile of the ends. The cab/fuel tank base is first bolted to the footplate, greased underneath to prevent it being soldered in position. This is what the bodywork is built up on as the body is seperate to the footplate which allows access to the Black Beetle securing screw. It'll all make sense later... The rear is tacked in place first followed by one side. The
halfwit

halfwit

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