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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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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Clan Line

Rear truck mk2   Thanks to Dave Holt for sending me some photos showing the rear truck & cab area, I've set about trying to correct the position of the rear truck. In my last post on this it looked much too low, partly this was as a result of me fitting the spacer washer on the wrong side of the mounting arm (meaning that it wasnt lowering the truck). I also remounted the sideframes a little higher, so that they were better located.   Looking at the attached photos it still looks like
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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RJRs Branch Lines

Weathered and glazed shovel

Glazing fitted, I assume the windows down the back end are onto a corridor down the engine compartment ? I have painted them black on the inside so you cant see through to the motor anyway, It makes it look more solid not being able to see through it. I have tried to restrain the weathering, no rust just some general and exhaust type grime.         John
johnteal

johnteal

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2mm layout based in South Wales The Blog

Trackwork and Tortoises

Just to update the progress on the layout.   All the pointwork is now in, just needing the odd cosmetic chair and sliding chairs to be fitted, which I'll leave for a few days until it's all settled down, the mainline and crossover is also completed and has worked well with it's sweeping curve. I stiil need to lay the plain track for the five sidings but I want to work out the building sizes first so I can work around them.   And for those not familiar with 2mm, a few tools available from t
Trevor H

Trevor H

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Control & Electronics

Track is appearing, so I should start thinking about how I'm going to control the layout. I will admit that this is the part that I really like - electrics / electronics hold no fears for me, so I can enjoy creating a control system that does what I want it to. Thinking about control leaves a number of questions to ponder...   What do I want to do with the layout? Well, as I've said before, the intention is for it to become an exhibition layout, so the most important requirement of the cont
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Raffles' Ramblings

Parkside Progress

I seem to have missed what would be a crucial element of the blog idea and that is to update as you progress.   The VEA is moving along in fits and starts but most of it happened in a big rush one morning. I'll pop a picture up later...   P.S. The other reason I have managed an update is to test the Firefox workaround for the year/date problem. Looks like it works.
Raffles

Raffles

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Beardybloke's 009 Bodging Bench

Cylinders, Crossheads and Connecting Rods

Progress has finally been forthcoming on the Blanche kit! The last progress that I made before Christmas was way back in October, when the bosses were laminated onto the rods and the cranks were soldered onto the axles. The latter was an interesting exercise as to prevent the plastic wheel centres melting as rather a lot of heat was applied to the axle, the locomotive had to be about 95% submerged in water to dissipate the heat, like so:   The paper bush that can be seen is there to prevent
Beardybloke

Beardybloke

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Winding down...

Well - suitcases are mostly packed, and at noon today we'll be boarding our train back home. This holiday did pass quicker than I would have liked...   But anyway - a last small trip around the city was on the agenda yesterday .           I first headed up to the Trade Fair Centre Railway Station, but found it to be only moderately suitable for photography due to the placement of signals and OHLE masts as well as soundproof walls. The only locations where you can reasonably take any
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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An N-Gauge shelf...

More Tracklaying

Following the trials and tribulations with the first sector plate, I was pleased to see the second one hadn't reshaped itself after gluing on the cork. I fitted it (having first worked out which way round took best advantage of the warp for a level joint), and with the aid of a folded piece of card, it seems to sit fairly level. Having already prepared the track, all I had to do was glue it down this morning. It wasn't as easy as last time, mainly due to the curves in the branch line, not hel
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Adam's part-time modelling

Slag (n.) A piece of refuse matter...

And now back to wagons. I've managed to acquire a couple of these whitemetal kits for slag ladles, used to dipose of the by-products of the blast furnace. Rather specific as rolling stock goes, and surprisingly small, but dad and I have a couple of suitable locos, and they're a little bit different (to say the least!). For those interested, there are a few shots of the process here, together with the drawing and photo's of the wagon that the kit (from Clarke Kits - it is no longer available), is
Adam

Adam

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RJRs Branch Lines

New loco for a friend

ENTRY EDITED to include link to a prototype picture HERE   With the now fast approaching deadline of January 24th for the Crewe Exhibition, it suddenly struck me that I had offered to build a "shovel nosed" inspired diesel loco for it principal organiser, CRMs very own "Blackcloud" or as he was on earlier RMwebs "Yorkshire Pullman"   It was a while ago Bob asked if I would have a go at making an On30 Shovel Nose diesel for him, so I accepted the donor engine and promptly put it somewhere saf
johnteal

johnteal

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Wednesday Afternoon in Leipzig

...was when I took the following three images:       First, NGT8 car 1150 "Carl Gustav Carus" was travelling up Lützowstraße on its way to Gohlis-Nord. In the background the Church of Peace can be seen.         I then proceeded to the reversing loop of the 8 line at Paunsdorf-Nord - however, I found it to be not very well suited for taking photos as the overhead masts were in the way. But this Tatra "Großzug" on the 3 line with car 2186 at the head was still worth a picture.  
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Playing with control panels Part II

Hello   As the weather yesterday looked like this...   I had the day off work and carried on with the control panel for Highclere...     I have also made a start on the power supply for the layout, is there any reason why I cannot use one of these?     Missy
-missy-

-missy-

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Improving the Backscene

Tonight I managed to find time to attack the backscene again. I cut out the slots for the framing from the bottom of the left board's backscene, and glued it in place with the aid of several wedges to hold it against the back of the front top. Whilst that was setting, I started painting the right board backscenes. I picked up a tester pot of sky blue paint last time I was in Homebase, and used this as a base coat. By painting one end to the the other, I managed to get two coats on most of t
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Dapol Bogies

Roof is now done and glued in place so now my attention has turned to the next challenge - the bogies. I'd decided to use the Dapol bogie sides as the original Bachmann ones on the donor chassis were the wrong type. So armed with my mighty Swann Morton #10 the BM bogies were reduced to this     the brake gear etc actually just pops out being secured to the frame by pins etc. Then these bits were removed from the DP1 bogie sides     and the bogie cemented up using the correct ends. The
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Harpers Road

Banana Terror Strikes Baseboard!

Oh, dear! The best-laid plans of mice and men, and all that...   My spanking new baseboard has suffered a terrible setback due to a terrible shortfall in planning on my part. The problem? Acclimatisation.   Basically, the wood (MDF sheet and spruce) has been sat in my unheated workshop all winter. I made the baseboard out in the workshop in the cold - it only took and hour or two, so no need to put the heater on. After spending a few days tucked up all cosy and warm in my understairs cupboar
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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My inept fumblings in N gauge and other associated stories

The Captains Windows

After seeing the Captains work on the new houses for Callow Lane it got me thinking about how to create windows. Up till now I have used black frames by printing out on OHP. Whilst it works, its not perfect AND its always black as I can't print in white.   So along comes the Captain with his window method and it got me thinking how else can I do this, especially if the 2010 callange layout starts. Can I improve on what I have done, so using a few off cuts of pasticard I knocked this up.   Th
pirouets

pirouets

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Pugsley's Workbench

What do you do in the bath?

Erm, rinse my kits after washing with soapy water - isn't that what everyone does?   It doesn't seem right that a 7mm kit bodyshell can be built out of this few parts, but here are all of the main structural components. These are now drying off before work commences on the cab bulkheads and sanding down the filler on the bodysides.   I've also discovered a few more parts I need that aren't included in the kit. The ETH gear is missing, despite stating that it was for a /4 at the time of
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Mark's Blog

13T Sand Tipplers

Some time ago, back on my RMweb3 workbench topic, I was working on a batch of sand tipplers which were destined for Stafford Railway Circle's New Haden Colliery layout, which is set in North Staffordshire in the late 1950s. The plan was to build about a dozen wagons; using the excellent Red Panda body only packs - at the time Mainly Trains were selling off their remaining stock of these at a discounted rate. With these I've used Parkside 9' wheelbase underframes to represent diagram 1/071 or 1
Mark Forrest

Mark Forrest

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Quintland

Traverser Table FY

In response to Mikkel who has followed the diary thread so closely, the following gives more detail of the traverser FY - the board had not been bolted on in the photo on the previous page.   Just as a reminder, I used drawer runners - the ball bearing type - available from most DIY chains.   The traverser board is in two parts - it has its own baseboard and a running board joined by the drawer runners. It is critical to keep the runners parallel or it will just jam. The running board is
Kenton

Kenton

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Someone told me / It's all happening at the zoo.

...as per Simon and Garfunkel's song .   Well, we paid a visit to Leipzig's zoo today - so only one rail-related photo for today:       NGT8 car 1152 "Dr. Tröndlin" - named after Dr Carl Bruno Tröndlin, a 19th century Lord Mayor of Leipzig - with full body advertisement for "Röstfein" coffee stopping in front of the zoo on Pfaffendorfer Straße while working the 12 line to Johannisplatz. The zoo is located to the left, and the steeple of St. Michael's Church, which is located at Nor
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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RJRs Branch Lines

Building new Rollingstock

By the trickery of technology (the firbug addon to Firefox) I have mastered the art of entering a 2010 blog post !!!   Whilst not being able to post work has continued at the Orange growers... I was short of some rolling stock, so two OO coaches were stripped for their chassis and a boxcar and flat car built.   The boxcar was built as a plastic shell, covered with Balsa wood strips....       Then painted     Identified and weathered       The flat car was easier, same cha
johnteal

johnteal

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Harpers Road

Baseboard Construction

The baseboard is born!   We have finally overcome the first, and I'm sure many would agree, hardest hurdle when building a model railway: actually doing something in the real world instead of pouring over magazines, catalogues, the internet or endlessly designing your layout on paper.   As Harpers Road is only 48" wide and 9" deep it was never going to take long to do baseboard, around about an hour or two (in-between Seth's constant stream of questions about the tools in my workshop). The t
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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