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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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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Container Trains

Hi,   I bit of an update on the Roling Stock front. I brought a pair of Dapol Containers for my Freightliner FEA-B spine wagons at Wigan yesterday.   I'll put some pictures up tonight when I have added the bits on!   I have one problem about the train, I have no Motive Power in Freightliner livery!! But do not fear, I have plan (It must be serious if I have a plan! ). I have an old LIMA Class 47 in Virgin livery. 'm going it number it as 47848 'Newton Abbot Festival of Transport' in Virgi
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

Sore fingers and strained eyes...

Sometime it's hard to sit down and work on a layout until you've got a baseboard built so how do you fill the odd hour here or there?   Well this week I've been assembling all my Easytrack (half as OO, the other half is for Rose Hill so is P4). It's quite straightforward but leads to sore fingers sliding the rail through the moulded sleeper bases. The effect is worth it though, it looks superb. Even the OO is fantastic and I've got myself down for point construction in 2010! So what next? Ove
James Hilton

James Hilton

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43179's workbench

Starting the layout -

I'm asked alot if I have a layout to show my 4mm stock on - but I don't - mainly becase I spend too much time doing the stock However - finally today I got stuck in and made a start on trackwork , having built some baseboards last year.. The 'layout' im going to build , is not so much a layout , but a thing to display my stock on, in an appropriate setting. It will be a very simple handfull of sidings based on Lipson Vale sidings at Laira . I want to have as little scenery as possible
43179

43179

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Playing with control panels Part I

Hello   Just time to squeeze another post in before I call it a night tonight...   Today I have mostly been trying out an idea I have for my control panel. I drew the track plan with corel draw which was then given to my local friendly engraver who engraved it onto some clear acrylic. When I got it back I sprayed the back of it black and then stuck blue LEDs along the top and bottom edges of the panel. Here are the results....   Panel in daylight   Panel at night   The idea is to
-missy-

-missy-

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RJRs Branch Lines

Mossley Terrace

Just to show not everything is the shed is make believe and without a prototype, here is the OO Module !!   It got quite a lot of exposure in the old RMweb here but for a potted history....   Like the On30 modules, Mossley was built to be part of a Chesire Railway Modellers line up, and has appeared at several shows, both as part of the modular line up and on its own with its fiddle yards at either end.                   Seen here at the Crewe exhibition with some other C
johnteal

johnteal

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RJRs Branch Lines

The "On Shed" Module

Having spent time this afternoon organising the blogs indexing, I realised I should probably document some of the other layouts.   So here is some more information about the other On30 Module. Both modules have been built as part of the Cheshire Railway Modellers On30 layout. They dont come together often, in fact they will make there debute together at our show in January. Based on our OO modules that have had several outings. The principal is simple, individual club members make their own mo
johnteal

johnteal

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ben racey's Blog

Great Northern Railway Of Ireland U Class 4-4-0

Hello All, Still getting to grips with the new RMweb, thought I'd add a blog on an Irish project I'm working on.   First up are a couple of Photos of a Worsley Works U class 4-4-0 'scratch aid' kit that I've been working on. It's approaching completion, just needs a bit more lining and transfers on it and it's there... for now. It's built to 16.5 mm gauge, though having seen the difference that 21mm can deliver, I'm going to convert it to 'proper' 5 ft 3 inch gauge.   My longer term plan
ben racey

ben racey

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Eddystone's been on the 'Dirty' Cycle...

Finally finished 34028 Eddystone for a client whose exact words were 'just like I remember her in the 60's'     Bet you didn't realise that washing machines have a Dirty Cycle   Currently in the paint shop is LN 30865 Sir John Hawkins having a coat or two of varnish applied. Just coaling to do on her and she'll be finished.   On the workbench as I type this is another T9, a non-running 30724 brought off ebay that took less than 15 minutes to fix. Basically the screw that holds the moto
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot - Recent Update & Photos

Today saw three stone walls built plus the layout was covered in Plastikote Tan spray. The overall effect is pretty good but it certainly makes the hangar doors looks very white! I think that it will need going over with a light white spray just to take the edge off it...             Comments welcome...
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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RJRs Branch Lines

Customising the blog

I have quite liked the new format of the blog feature here. Although I have been a blogger before, the idea of replacing a forum topic with a blog did seem a bit strange at first.   As a "mixed up modeller" when I have had several layouts, hence topics on the go, I have confused myself let alone others, with cross posts. Now with a single blog it is all in one place, its more a journal of my modelling than individual projects.   After reading some posts and blogs I have now takien on board
johnteal

johnteal

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Quintland

Starter for 10

Ok a decision has been made     Scale: 4mm Gauge OO Peco (modified) Code 75 ... so nothing too surprising there.   Plans still being formulated but as it stands sector plate driven and containing 5 points   The board is 20 inches deep at its widest and 10 ft long along its viewing side. - 2010 It is 5 inches deep at its narrowest. It folds up into a box 5 ft x 25 inches (that's 5 times 5 in case you missed it)   ... and I haven't stopped yet   Inspired around a Scalescenes Facto
Kenton

Kenton

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'Heyside', 7mm Scale Layout, BR Late 50s/Early 60s

First Run

Hi   It's been a hectic few months, seemingly a huge amount of work for little progress, as the trackwork and wiring have slowly taken shape.   1 year ago to the day, I went to the Wigan show to collect Heyside. Fast-forward to this morning, and at 10.00am the very first loco, symbolically, the Aspinall saddle tank I have been working on, went gingerly round the full circuit. Since it didn't come off, excitement got the better of me, and I thought I would test the Brit.   So, I am proud to
dikitriki

dikitriki

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4mm rolling stock

Finished the BR banana van, and some wagon progress

This evening I fitted couplings to the Dapol ex-Wrenn, ex-Hornby-Dublo banana van. Looks good for a 50 year old toy! Also finished tonight is another of the Parkside BD containers, in Crimson with lettering from an ancient Modelmasters sheet. This is the latest state of play with the Shock open. It's now on it's wheels, using the solebars supplied with the kit. These were glued to the underside of the plasticard floor and carefully lined up (since there are no moulded lugs to position them
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Doveston Works

Blog Update

Evening Everyone:   After looking at this thread (Here: Customising the Blog), I decided to have a go at it myself at adding a custom menu. Don't think its looks very good but it appears to be working correctly anyway. What do you guys think?   Jon
trainfan

trainfan

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BrianH's Blog

Boiler and coal rails

This is the most critical phase of the build, soldering the boiler and ensuring everything is square.   Having soldered the overlap joint of the boiler I had to add the half circle the firebox end and the half etched ring the cab end. These went remarkably cleanly and now with the boiler soldered up, you must offer it up to the inner tank sides.   This went fine until I tried to solder the boiler to the tabs on the inner tanks. Strangly the whole boiler decided to sit up 1mm on one side addi
BrianH

BrianH

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RJRs Branch Lines

Some colour and details, my favourite part !

Im getting to my favourite part of model making, the colours, detais and bringing it to life !   Another batch of pictures today, the lights in the canopy now have power to them and it has been painted a suitably gaudy mix of orange and yellow, cant have british greens or blues on their own in South America !?!                         Comments and suggestions as always, welcome
johnteal

johnteal

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DRAG TT2 progress

Curves, superelevation and red oxide

You may be forgiven for thinking we had taken our foot off the pedal recently. Far from it, as work has been proceeding steadily both at DRAG meetings and especially at John's (Re6/6) premises, as these photos will show.   Here you see the full collection of five tracks on some of the curve boards, with 00 on the inside and then four P4 tracks. The middle two (fast) P4 tracks have been superelevated using Tillig 'styrene wedges', the whole track bed has been sprayed a red-oxide colour for un
10800

10800

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Copley Hill Works

A few old photographs I found in a drawer...

I found this amongst a few other tatty photographs in a drawer at my grandmother's house. It shows some photographs of Leeds, Copley Hill as my grandfather knew it in the late 1940s and possibly early 1950s. Is that him standing on 60119's front, cleaning its smokebox door?         Of course, this is just the layout with the smoke machine in use and the camera set to sepia and grayscale modes. But there has been some modelling - more grime, the lintels are done on the shed as well as
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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CHRIS WORKBENCH.

CHRIS WORKBENCH

Hello Chaps, I hope you are all well, Im very pleased to say that Eric treacy has passed her hydraulic test last week, with flying colour so we are very happy. we hope to have it in steam within a fortnight, hopefully. now with regards the layout Ive layed the track and ballasted one siding, Im using ash out of a wood burning stove, which is as it turn to powder I will get some photos later if I can find the camera. with many regards Chris
CHRIS LNER

CHRIS LNER

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ewsjo's Blog

Slow progress with Paul A Hammond

Some of you may remember the 3D printed class 59 bodyshell I was fiddling with on old RMweb http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10057&start=234 Here is the current progress, once it's done, I'll do a proper step by step blog entry covering the shell, and also the underframe work
Steadfast

Steadfast

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ewsjo's Blog

Working over a tractor in a week, or maybe a bit more pt5

Well some more progress has been made on the grotty Dutch tractor. Inbetween scratching the weathering and throwing my paintbrushes out of the pram, I've attacked the underframe with some powders. They still need some work, but the variation in tone is getting there - in fact it looks a lot more varied, yet subtle to the naked eye than in the photos. Somehow I'm going to add some satin bits to the black on the underframe to give that greasy look, probably a powder and varnish mix. I'll probably
Steadfast

Steadfast

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