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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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Calle de la Coronacion

Glazing the rovers & roys plus a new 3rd building

well with under 2 weeks till this & Forks Trestle are at the C.R.M show 24th jan crewe heritage center well with the kid again at home as the schools closed I have glaxed the building & put in the doors as you can see inside i have put some paper planking on the walls       & heres the 3rd building Ropa Interior del Mundo Terrenal can any one tell me which business this is from the street
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Bachmann Chassis Mods

The following image shows the plastic chassis frame from the Donor Bachmann deltic following an attack with razor saw, large file and 120 grit wet or dry     I started by razor sawing off a section from the ends of each tank end to reduce the overall length of the tanks so that they fit within the "lip" on the inside of the Dapol sides. The tank side faces were then sawn off as close to flush with the frame sides as I dared. These sides were then filed flush and the bottom edges of the ta
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

PTAs - the finished wagon

I've now added most of the transfers to one side of the first wagon. (just needs tops code and number)   The Fox sheet is intended for the 2nd version of the livery carried by these wagons, this has a slightly wider blue band than the 3rd version of the livery that I am doing. If the transfers were straight it would be a simple case of cutting them down to size, but of course they aren't.....  
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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St. Simon's Workbench

St. Simon's Workbench - GWR Horse Box

Hi Guys,   Here's the picture of the Horse box as promised. These were taken before primer was sprayed. The red masking tape is protecting the glazing (hopefully!):     Now the roof is masked off, so I need to get some GWR Chocolate colour and some transers now!   Comments welcome   Simon
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Rubbers and photos!

Hi Guys,   Just abit of a progress update. Last night we were able to fix the point th motor that was giving us grief, by jaming a rubber between it and the edge of the baseboard! (Not very techincal I know, but it works! ).   Schools closed again today (and before you say that I'm not doing work I'm meant to be doing, I should have ICT first! ), so I took the oppotunity to take a couple of preview photos for those going to the Newbury Show, Risex or Churchrail this year:     Plus h
St. Simon

St. Simon

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My inept fumblings in N gauge and other associated stories

And the most expensive bit of the hobby is.......

Forget your City of Truro, or that DCC controller, how much do we spend on all the stuff that we never see on the layout?   I ran out of blades again this weekend whilst attempting yet another go at the shops for the market square on my layout. I couldn't make it out to get some proper blades but did pick up a cheap craft knife which has one of those blades that you snap off the end of the blade and use the next bit as the point with the theory that its sharp, because surely a blade is a blade
pirouets

pirouets

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - quick update

As the title says, a quick update on this weekend's progress. Chassis has been modified so it sits inside the Dapol body. I intend to keep as much of the original fuel tanks and weight as possible so more shaping etc is required to get the body sides fitting correctly.     Once the chassis frames are done I'll sort out some fixing lugs inside the body so that the original screw fixings can be used. After that I need to find some way of holding the body sides to the chassis as they tend to b
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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barrowroad's Blog

Office, Mess & Stores Block

After having a few problems with postings I will take this opportunity to add a few photos of progress on the Office, Mess & Stores building at the front right of the shed.   This shows the parts of the kit with the roof sections at the top, the carcase to the left and the front and side elevation to the right, complete with the box at the top. This shows, from the top of the building downwards, the corbelling, the single string of bricks around the windows and the plinth. More to fo
barrowroad

barrowroad

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South Hall Yard

South Hall Yard - the Saga begins....

Little modelling content at the mo' Im afraid - having been trapped in London for the last four days, all I could do was dream about the layout! At least in dreams the locos run smoothly, the point motors operate & the wiring works!   Anyway, I now start 3 days off (the beauty of 12-hour shifts!). Plans include ordering a 'High Level' kit for a Bachmann Pannier, finishing off baseboard construction (need to link the two boards with pattern-makers dowels & 'removable pin' hinges), t
scanman

scanman

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Cherry's Corner.

Jinty - cab roof

Well I've switched back to the body work. I needed some 12BA bolts to finish the brakes. I was going to pick some up from the Preston show this weekend but it's been cancelled, so the bolts are in the post somewhere.   I covered a little bit on the cab platework in the previous RMweb thread, basically the cab roof supplied in the kit is a white metal casting which although there is nothing wrong with it per se, I felt that I'd struggle to get the characteristic roll on the cab side sheets usin
Adrian

Adrian

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4mm rolling stock

LNER wagons

Slow progress over Christmas, due to other distractions (food, beer etc) but I've managed to get some LER wagons completed. I bought some old 3H LNER 6 plank wagon kits off Ebay as these seem to be well regarded. In the end they turned out to be pigs to build - the quality of the detail is first rate, but assembling them was a nightmare as the corner joins didn't mate properly and endless filing and filling was needed!   The one on the right was built as per the kit as a Darlington built examp
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Wheel cleaning

As the next outing for Wheal Elizabeth beckons (Weston-super-Mare 17 Jan), it's time to start wheel cleaning. A necessary evil but something that has to be done. Slaters track cleaner and cotton buds is all it takes.Thankfully rewheeled rtr is a lot easier to do than the kitbuilt stuff. Mind you, when the list is a long one (Well tank, 1366, 57xx, 42xx, Cl 03, 08 X 2, 22, 25/1, 25/3, 35, 37/2, 37/6, 42, 45, 47, 50, & 52), it still takes a while. Maybe it's time to start cutting down what I
ullypug

ullypug

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Yeoman PTAs

My first PTA is now finished, awaiting transfers (which will hopefully arrive tomorrow)   The rest still need a 2nd coat of grey paint, the conditions at the moment were very awkward so I only bothered putting the effort in spraying the wagon that I have finished bogies for (the rest can wait to be painted once I have a better conditions!)   Transfers are by Fox, using the sheet intended for PTAs, a sheet of CAIB logos and a sheet of big Y logos intended for POAs. The large Yeoman logo wil
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Woodmere OO from scratch

Somewhere for the locos to live at last

Progress on the loco shed at last. I decided to use the Hornby diesel depot as a base. The side windows have been covered with Wills corrugated metal sheets and a coat of Halfords Grey over the top. The roof has had a coat of Halfords Matt Black and I still need to do some dirtying up of the walls and some painting of the interior fittings. The shed floor is from the Scalescenes kit (which was my first attempt at a depot). I'm not sure how long the card approach will last ... hopefully long enou
pauln

pauln

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Hopwood Parkway

Card trains now !

I could not afford to buy a sub-surface train, so considered my options.   The Street Level Designs card kits give a reasonable rendition of the model, especially after a bit of work.   This is the MK1 creation. The basic kit has had the windows cut out and replaced with plastic, the doors cut out and recessed and the whole shell thickened up with 3 layers of 450 GSM card.   The chassis will either be a scratch built brass creation or for the time being, an old coach chassis and bogies. A
noiseboy72

noiseboy72

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

Progress on locomotives, and some snow!

The Return of 'Superpannier' aka 1501   The shortened Graham Farish 94XX bodyshell is now happily sat on top of the butchered Dapol chassis (from the Ivatt 2-6-2). Brass fittings, from N Brass, set the whole thing off nicely. I now need to sort out some piping to the cylinders, as well as the distinctive mesh 'foot boards' that sit on top of them. I have succesfully suggested the distinctively shaped superstructure behind the buffers, from scraps of plasticard.   You will have to pardon
Will J

Will J

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Mark's Blog

AJ Couplings

For the stock I have built for Foundry Lane I used three link couplings (eventually standardising on the Smiths products after a bit of initial experimentation/trying to do it on the cheap). However the standard coupling adopted for use on New Haden is the Alex Jackson (AJ) coupling. For anyone unfamiliar with these the Manchester Model Railway Society website has a useful page describing them.   When I started to assemble a coal train for the layout I bought a set of jigs for forming the cou
Mark Forrest

Mark Forrest

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Mark's Blog

Removing factory weathering

A couple of years ago I happened upon a Hornby Class 31 at a reasonable price. I just can't get excited about 31's but as I was planning to (eventually) build up a set of stock to run Foundry Lane in a mid 1980s time frame a 31 seemed appropriate. The model in question was 31174 with factory weathered finish. Having got it home and acquired a set on EM gauge wheels (Gibson, from EMGS) the loco then sat on the shelf until recently. On digging it out (to check the chassis hadn't warped!) I dec
Mark Forrest

Mark Forrest

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Pugsley's Workbench

Giving my Chopper a good workout...

No not class 20's, (or that, you smutty individuals ), but one of these:   Which has proved invaluable this weekend, as I've started adding detail to the cab of 415. It's great for cutting multiple, identical, pieces of styrene, with the supplied adjustable fences - angles are included too. It's very easy to set to the size you want too:   Various people have said to me that the problem with going up in scale is that you end up adding smaller and smaller details, because you can. Th
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Cassettes and point motors!

Hi Guys,   Well a lot has been done since my last entry. The closure of my school due to the snow has helped us in getting the cassettes ready for Hythe's appearance at the Newbury show!   We have three done and ready to go, but have run out of aluminmum angle!   Also we have Hythe in the kitchen and have been spending the last couple of hours sorting out a couple of point motors. We've fixed two, but one is being a real pain to do and we still haven't fixed it   Please remember that Hyt
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Keyhaven

Reach for the ferry

It's high time I got round to putting together some of the more appropriate stock to run on Keyhaven.   First off the ramp is this M.A.R.C. Models reach wagon, some enterprising soul down Dorzet way seems to have purloined one of the matching pair that fell out of use at Dover in the 1950s. The originals were paired together for loading train ferries offering the bare basics of accommodation for riders.       Although the kit has been sat around the workbench for the last 7 months it w
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Red Baron's Blog

Ribble Bank Main Line Blogtastic

Ribble Bank Main Line is a fictional layout in OO with a modern image theme spanning mid 80's through to now. I am sure I will upset the purists but I am more interested in enjoying the models in my fictional world than I am hung up about prototypical operation. I will build a much smaller "correct" layout one day but for now this is very much a playground.   The layout baseboards were built in my parents attic space in about 1990 (when I was still 16!) and are basically flat bar a 1:36 gradie
Red Baron

Red Baron

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Bulleid or is it T9-nutter...

Well after a brief check I have realised that my fleet of T9's is growing at an alarming rate, I'll be be turning into a T9-nutter before long....   My roster of T9's is as follows:   30120 a TMC renumbered edition, recrested by me to represent 30120 in it's twilight years in BR service, rather than preserved. Real coal in tender (R2712 was the donor loco).   30288 on the workbench currently awaiting transfers, lightly weathered and awaiting coal (R2830 is the donor loco).   30310 as acq
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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