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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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'CHARD's Low Benchmarks

Tackling the W/B b(ack)log - i) D5233 to D7603 tweak

This blog is to act as a conscience and reminder to crack on with the Sulzers now crowding onto the workbench, a return to working on locos in earnest after a few years' gap, and the first time I've had the nerve to open up new generation diesels.   First up are a quartet of Bachmann Brush Type 4s and a BR/Sulzer Type 2, which despite only coming onto the bench last night progressed rapidly today.   D5233 - D7603 tweak.   The output: 64B non-boilered 25/3 D7603 Waverley machine, from Bachm
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Adventures in N-gauge

Planning my coil steel fleet

Okay, here we go...   At one time or another, I've been into N-gauge modern (when "modern" meant "1982"), 3mm finescale Great Central Railway and N-gauge Union Pacific. Through much of that time I didn't pay much attention to what was happening on Britain's railways. Back in 2002, though, I travelled down to London for work and returned to Liverpool in the evening. I was quite surprised by the number of freight trains that I saw; and particularly impressed when my train stopped at Stafford alo
Jim Martin

Jim Martin

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Snow Stops Play

Thanks to Matt for those pictures...   Annoyingly there was no club on Friday thanks to the weather, our club room is situated in a little village only accessable by single track backroads. As next Friday is Christmas Day and the following is New Years Day, we will reconvene on the 8th January; weather of course permitting.   This only leaves 4 club nights until the next show!   So for 2009 all that is left is to wish all a peaceful Christmas and a happy new year...
Claude_Dreyfus

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

New Years Modelling Resoloutions

I've posted most of this else where on the forum, but figured it deserved padding out into a full blog post, will be interesting to come back to this in 6 months time and see how much is actually done...   My main modelling objective for the new year is to continue to thin down my fleet removing those items which are not fitting in with my plans. This list should hopefully only take me the first half of the year to get through (put unemployment to good use!) though I suspect if I get lucky and
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Grahame's dining room table

Photing models

As an early Christmas present to myself, and to enable me to take better model snaps, I've purchased a couple of photo lights complete with flourescent daylight bulbs (technically they're 5400K Ra >90 which apparently means they're better than many others although I'm not sure I understand). Here's the portable set up;         Hopefully, I'll be able to take improved studio type snaps although I probably also need a decent new camera and a bit of tuition. I'll need to do a little bit o
grahame

grahame

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modfather's Blog

Experimenting with weathering

Having recently aquired a few weathering powders, I have set off on two projects to use them, firstly, a hymek weathered mostly with powders, and secondly a 47 weathered with a mixed media approach, using washes, dry brushing and powders.   First completed is the hymek (there are a still a few bits left, like the staining on the bufferbeam cowling and add wire water fuel and coolant fillers. When I get round to it the pipework on the bufferbeam will be replaced, since IMHO the square main res
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43179's workbench

50007 SIr Edward Elgar

Goodevening - ive just finished 50007 this eveing - the final hurdle was glazing the new windscreens which is a job i hate doing - i think i managed to put it off for about a year. Along with the new windscreens this loco also had new bodyside louvres, has been lowered and converted to P4 to join its classmates. Hornbys first release of 50007 was finished as preserved but for my collection I need it in early 90s condition - so no snowploughs unfortunately - to backdate the model the
43179

43179

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RJRs Branch Lines

Roof top Water tower

With work and play halted outside, some work could get dome on the Orange Growers module. Of course it needs some work with an exhibition date at the end of January !!   Tonights materials.     A spray can lid, some sheet balsa cut into strips and a couple of plasticard off cuts.     The plan... To start making some roof top details, tonght a stair top roof door opening and a roof top water tank.... The ide is to pad out the detail without being to in your face. They can be seen at the
johnteal

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RJRs Branch Lines

Too much snow is not good for train running !

Some where under here is a railway !!!     This next picture was after explorations yesterday, late evening prior to todays snow     We had a further 4" of snow today so outdoor running was totally out of the question !!!   I exposed some with a spade and as can be seen its getting on for 8 " walls either side of the track ...     So the only thing for it was to clear a path to the shed for some smaller scale modelling INDOORS     John            
johnteal

johnteal

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

Nice pants (pantiles that is)

If you remember a few weeks ago I was moaning about the Slaters pantile embossed plasticard and it's lack of relief. I wanted something that had more relief and I could get the 3D effect on the ends of the roof showing overlapping tiles as well...   Well the answer I came up with was perhaps a little different from the norm but before I tell you how I did it, here is a photo which shows the end result. I'm really pleased, it looks just right to me and hopefully the idea will help other modelle
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Great Tunsley Dale

Porth Eithin Railway (China Clay) Page 1

Porth Eithin Railway (China Clay)   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:04 pm   This is a new thread from me. It is my China Clay line called Porth Eithin. Some of you will no doubt have seen or heard of it. It has over the last five years been to a number of shows around North Wales and the North West of England. It also has appeared in Model Rail and on the Model Rail C/Ds. Any way it is based on th
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Great Tunsley Dale

Waterley Cross 7mm Layout Page 1

Waterley Cross 7mm Layout   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:53 pm   Hi All This is a layout that four of us have re made from three baseboards which have been loane to use. When they were obtained they had some track and some very dubious electrics. The four of us Paul Harrison, Gerry Partridge, Brian Carpenter and myself stripped the whole down and rebuilt the whole other than some of the original
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 14

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by david_ford_85 on Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:12 am   Superb!! I love how small that Class 66 looks in the second to last shot.   David __________________________________________   ??? posted on Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:02 pm   Hi All Have a few major problems on these dam points and a further short in one of the sections. Any one local to us at Nantlle that can help. I
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 13

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by Grimleygrid on Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:18 am   Great photos.   The buildings look very much at home on the layout, superb modelling. Really like the NR 37s passing by! __________________________________________   ??? posted on Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:59 pm   18B wrote: great_rocks_sbd.jpg cropped.jpghopefully.jpg   hi,   here's the box in 2002 more how y
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 12

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by branchie on Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:04 pm   Fantastic Peter - truely awesome modelling! I'm looking forward to seeing it finished.   Might see you in September at Tal y Sarn if I can arrange a few spare hours.   Christian. __________________________________________ Comment posted by MartinWales on Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:08 pm   branchie wrote: Might see you in
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 11

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by ChrisB on Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:21 pm   Fantastic! It's great to see such an ambitious version of something we all tend to compress and water down..... out of necessity in most cases. The structures are extremely impressive.   Well done guys __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:28 pm   pharrc20 wrote: :thup Thats l
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 10

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by James95 on Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:24 pm   Cheers Peter , Extremly Interesting   James __________________________________________ Comment posted by Botface on Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:55 pm   Found this very interesting and inspiring, great work, keep going __________________________________________ Comment posted by 7APT7 on Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:42 pm   Hi Pet
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 9

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by MartinWales on Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:37 am   Shame you can't be there Dave But see you around! __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:15 pm   Hi All Just a few shots taken today at the show. Peter         __________________________________________ Comment posted by Trainsrgr8 on Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:27 pm  
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 8

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by BlazeyBridge2 on Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:29 pm   Ben A wrote: However, one observation I would make is this: your posting suggests to me that the comments from your visitors struck a little bit of a nerve. Is this because, having put in all that work, deep down you yourself are not totally convinced by the rockfaces? I suspect that Ben may have been close here? I
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 7

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by pilotfriend on Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:52 pm   This is exceptional industrial modelling. Well done...so impressive best wishes and keep up the good work John __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:43 am   hi all Just a couple of shots of the small diesel engine that I started last week. Much of the inspiration for this mu
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 6

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:05 am   Phil wrote: trains12 wrote: Hi all, Just a quick update as to what has gone on this last week. I have not been able to complete all the connections on the electrics due to a few problems at home ( leaking roof after the heavy rains) and having the new roof windows done at last at the unit which curtailed me working there for two day
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Great Tunsley Dale

Great Tunsley Dale Page 5

Great Tunsley Dale   by trains12   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:13 am   Hi Gareth, Thanks for the comments No we have no small plan of the layout but it is 28ft long by 10 ft 6" wide. The main plan is 28ft long for the track layout but a small plan is something that we most do so that it can be posted. Diesels will be run on the layout, the running period is from steam days to present day. Class 20's, 31's
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