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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

PTAs Part 3

And now it hits a problem.....   Last night I finished the first wagon, adding the 10thou strip to the bottom of the chassis ribs that brings them to their full width. At the same time I also posted on DEMU asking for PTA underframe photos. Phil came to the rescue in the linked topic, however the photos sadly show that I have got things rather wrong.   The prototype should have 2 beams running the length of the wagon, then a gentle angle before the sharp angled pieces at the ends of the rib
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Redgate's Modelling

Project 2010 - the Mikado

OK, new year's eve and a package arrived from Mainly Trains today, complete with these beauties     21mm drivers, 13mm tender and rear pony wheelsets and a 12mm wheelset for the front bogie. I have just about all the components to hand now to start the chassis construction. Ramrig is lending me a tender drive brit so I can trace the chassis - I need to make sure my scratchbuilt one will fit the bodyshell   Took a few moments whilst waiting for our chinese meal to arrivew to fit the whee
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

The OO Sound Plank

I've come up with 2 versions of a small 6ft by 1ft shunting plank (with a 3ft run off board), just so I'll have somewhere to run what will be a very small range of OO stock. At the moment, from what is available or has been announced, the stock line up will eventually become thus:   Class 37 Railfreight - Sound Class 08 EWS - Sound MPV Class 31 Sound   I may possibly add something like a 121 bubble car or a 108 on NSE livery.   Rolling stock will be a couple Autoballasters, some Seacows
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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The Loop Line 4mm BR Steam

Last pics of the year!

Here are a few more shots of the layout to close-out the year:   Bursley station by night   Loop Line Steam line-up (4F from Santa on the right)   The pot-bank is taking shape   Overall view   I'm happy with the progress we've made in 12 months, plans are afoot to finish the layout quickly in the new year, we will then start thinking about our next project. Cheers for all the support, help and advice.   Happy New Year to all!
Steve with the Hat

Steve with the Hat

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Tracklaying

I started this morning by removing the weights from the cork (a wide selection of old Railway Modellers does come in handy at times), and started marking out the track plan. Had to move the point for the rear platforms a bit to clear the baseboard framing (One thing I hadn't considered when planning - these boards have 1 3/4" thick frames, compared to the usual 1" softwood). I then started cutting the track to loose lay to check for look and fit.   This is my first foray into using fines
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Musings and wonderings (for now...)

Following on...

I created a thread recently about whether I was cut out for modelling. After some very valuable responses, I think I know what my problem is. And that is that everything is a mess, from my plans to my modelling room. I am quite lucky that I have a spare room I can use for my modelling. However, it is a tip. I keep meaning to sort it out but there never seems to be the time or money. And I've had various ideas about how to tidy it up and how to sort out some baseboards. At first, I thought abou
Del

Del

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St. Simon's Workbench

St. Simon's Workbench - GWR Horsebox

Hi,   Recently all has gone quite on the workbench front, but there has been doing things on the Horsebox.   The Horsebox has now been built and I've just been out to the painting booth (aka cardboard box in the garage!) to prime it.   I'll post pictures later, when I can be bothered to hook up the camera!   Simon
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Hopwood Parkway

Modern Shops & a Metcalfe Semi

As my layout is set in the suburbs, lots of shops and houses are a must. I wanted a modern shopping parade, the sort of thing that was thrown up in the 60s and 70s with no thought to architecture, just practical design.   I designed these on PowerPoint 2010. This is not a full blown illustrator type product, but allows some fairly powerful basic design to be carried out. If you would like to use the design, feel free. The link is here: http://www.mattjarvisassociates.co.uk/page5.html   Ther
noiseboy72

noiseboy72

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Snowed under at the workbench

Not feeling very inspired with scenics and what to do next on the board so settled down infront of the fire & tv with a mug of tea and got cracking on the next 6 PGA's.   ECC variants this time so that 2 different rakes of stock can pass through the loading hopper on the top level.   Spent alot of time working these exmples in and out of Croft so I knew exactly how I wanted them. A bit haphazard in method but after 5 hours work I have come up with the finish I wanted. Usual coa
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Resistance was futile !

Only went for a bottle of glue & a tin of matt varnish..........honest !   I tried so, so, so hard.   I knew I would have to walk past the Hornby cabinet to get to the counter but still I went like a lamb to the slaughter.   It was like my eyes had a mind of their own. I couldnt stop them from gazing left as I walked past.   ......and there it was, all vac like, dutchy and gorgeous !!   By this time I was on my knees, dribbling down the glass in a trance like state with the voices
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

A new year & lots to do.

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone. I don??™t really do New Year. I see it as a bit of an anti climax after Christmas and since becoming a dad I don??™t think I have actually been up at midnight for the last 6 years !!   Never the less, I trust everybody had a great time the other night and I hope this year will see RMweb go from strength to strength with its new format, hopefully a Member??™s Day to rival last year (hint, hint Andy !) and lots of interesting new creations built for the
Sandhills

Sandhills

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Unfinished Business

There will no doubt be a proper way to do this, but I can't find a facility that allows me to store snippets of info... I don't know when Andy will be locking down RMWeb3 and whether I will still be able to gain access to old PMs, so to save embarrassment, - dimensions of a batch of PNAs , as kindly supplied by the Fatadder in May (scratchbuilt bodies, for the use of...) . I haven't actually got round to using them, mind, but perhaps this year.(It's the time of year for reviewing outstanding opr
Ravenser

Ravenser

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Adam's part-time modelling

Big Red Mammoth

The big AEC shown earlier in the blog is now all but finished, though it needs a dose of weathering. Painting road vehicles is a slow job,even when the end result is a simple, one colour livery such as that used by BRS. Partly it's the different sorts of detail (particularly chrome) which isn't normally associated with railway vehicles and partly because they're usually a bit cleaner - for a road haulier, their vehicles are as much bill-boards as hardware - not sparkling necessarily, but probabl
Adam

Adam

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Edinburgh Junction's Blog

Let there be light

Right, as I try to get my blog on the new RMweb together (doing it the old way, like I did on RMweb3) I might as well make a start.   One of the most important things about layouts, it the lights. Not the lights that light up the room where the railway is, but the lights on the platforms, car park, street, trains etc. So, over the next few weeks, I intend to purchase some Platform lights, and some building lights so I can light up the station part of the layout.   All of the lights will be p
Edinburgh Junction

Edinburgh Junction

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Somewhere in Germany

Steinrücken station building

I spent a pleasant hour or so putting together the Auhagen Bahnhof Krakow kit for Steinrücken's station building. The instructions were clear, and the kit didn't have to go together exactly the way it was shown on the box, which means I could leave off the odd bit and move door positions to make it a little individual. There are a couple of "lean to" parts I've omitted, but there will probably be my own additions to really personalise it. At this stage I haven't glazed it, as I want to do some
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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On the Intercity Workbench

7mm Barclay Class 06 - Body Assembly

Now that the control panel is completed, it's back to the assembly of the bodywork   I've screwed the footplate to a lump of 4 x 1 in the bench vice to hold it steady and located the cab end in place. A square was used to judge that this was roughly vertical, but at this stage I was most concerned with getting the bottom edge aligned with the edge of the buffer beam.     A few tacks of solder hold the plate in place. I had previously scribed a couple of lines in place to make sure I
IC126

IC126

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Red Baron's Blog

Todays Pratting about...

Thinks I might have to actually stop playing trains and try and get some more of the layout built...   Backscenes need to go on tomorrow - if only to make the pictures look better - though you might catch a few pics in my gallery with todays "plonk".       Have done a little more ballasting but for some reason todays doesnt seem to be sticking like the last attempts - which is odd as am using exactly the same pva/water mix. Really should tray some of that Klear stuff.     A new arriv
Red Baron

Red Baron

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

A1 Models Hunslet cab.

Soldered up the cab next. All fairly straightforward, although care is needed with the sides which needed bending to match the ends and are quite flimsy until the doors are fitted. The doors are inset with 2 frame sides which I soldered in place before fitting the doors. Oddly only 2 frames are supplied, enough for one door, so I had to file up 2 out of scrap fret. Not difficult but unnecessary... Putting the cab and bonnet together on the footplate I noticed that the bonnet top angle and th
halfwit

halfwit

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barrowroad's Blog

Sand Dryer progress

Further progress on the Sand Dryer walls over the past few days with all four walls now ready for assembly.                 The detail on the wall adjacent to the shed building has been omitted because it needs to be a flush fit.   I need to find a way of making the ventilation slats in the clerestory roof of the sand dryer and have decided to make a seperate unit out of brass.... further posting to follow.
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Chris's Blog - 4mm Weathering & Detailing.

60011

(60011 has since been sold on to Mason of Deeping Lane 04/01/12)   This is one of those projects which seems to have languished on the workbench and in desperate need of completing. With a dedicated modelling space now in place outside in the shed I spent a couple of hours rounding this one up ready for its entry to service.   To break down the key steps I took in the weathering and modification of the model; I considered each of the parts which I wanted to achieve and then consolidate thi
Chris56057

Chris56057

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Northpoint's Blog

Lochnagar

Lochnagar   by northpoint   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:52 am   This was posted by Shortliner some time ago (before I became a member). Here it is again for those that missed it with a couple more photos.             BTW - except for earthquake, major flood or pestilence, it will be at the Cheshire Modellers bash at crewe in January. __________________________________________ Comment poste
Northpoint

Northpoint

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