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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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Lincoln Cental Station

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Lincoln central   by arff999   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by railwaymouse on Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:29 pm   si_berian_tiger wrote: That looks brilliant. What is length of the plan? The platforms dont look long enough to me..... I've been toying with a model of Lincoln as well. The whole site is surprising short - hence the attraction. Trackplans vol2 mentioned above by Beast66606 suggests that the three through platforms hold o
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Lincoln Cental Station

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Lincoln central   by arff999   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:47 pm   Hi any one out there got any plans of the above im planning to model this in HO but struggling to get any plans JOHN. __________________________________________ Comment posted by si_berian_tiger on Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:50 pm   Look on google maps for a pre-remodelling layout, although it hasnt changed too much to be honest. There are plen
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Adam's part-time modelling

Southall's Finest

In other news, another long standing project nears completion. Those of you who remember issues 40 and 41 of MRJ (Hursley and Winchester Chesil), might not recall the real inspiration to my ten year old self, Geoff Kent's two-parter on scratchbuilding commercial vehicles.   This AEC mk V 8 wheeler based around a Road Transport Images cab and wheels (scratchbuilt chassis and flatbed) will be finished in the bright red of BRS and lettered for its Cardiff depot, reflecting the large number of suc
Adam

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Adam's part-time modelling

Austerity Progress

A few shots of the loco as it now stands - on its wheels. The trials of running in are still to come and having no powered track at the moment this won't be until Christmas. Anyhow, this is as it stood a month or so ago before a coat of primer.       Note that the chassis wasn't complete there. A couple of evening's work has now seen back-scratcher pick-ups fitted and the motor installed along with a trial fit of the rods and brakegear (rods removed for the moment now that the bushes are
Adam

Adam

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

Jaymz' Blog - What's he up to?

Well it's been a while since I built any stock for Scrayingham (see the layout topic), and after sorting out some un-needed 'N' gauge stock to sell on, I decided to have a play with a Peco van chassis and some plasticard.   The waggon I've started is a box van which will fit in as part of my p-way train, for stores and tools etc. Below are a couple of photos from the construction thus far (about 24 hours so far, including a shift at work and some sleep!) The main body is made from 1mm plastica
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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

18. First Time Wagon Weathering.

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee   I purchased the new Right Track 11 Weathering Techniques with Tim Shackleton from the Warley 2009 show. He makes it look so easy so it inspired me to "Attack, Attack, Attack" I already have a "cheap" dual action airbrush and compressor which I have used for colouring the track. Time to put it to better use. Following Mr Shackletons recommendations I use Humbrol 62 Leather and Matt Black mixtures diluted with white spirit to give a nice sprayable consis
John Geeee

John Geeee

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Somewhere in Germany

Temporary wiring

I went to a gig last night at Wellington Town Hall. There were three stage invasions, a high-octane cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid as an encore, and the ending was a crescendo of feedback. Yes, this is what you get from a Jarvis Cocker concert. Absolutely the best gig I've been to in years, the man is an total pro and gave it everything in spite of jetlag. And he's such a star, women will even jump on stage to kiss his arse. Some of the men in the audience were even desperate to touch him:bli
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

17. Coal Loading Building

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee I decided to add a small representation of a coal pit so that there was somewhere to load coal into the wagons for delivery around the layout. At the time I was not up to scratch building standards (and still not ) so I searched but could not find exactly what I wanted. In a desperate move I went for a Faller kit to use as loading screens over a track. It was fun to build but to be honest it does not work for me because it is not "British" enough in my opin
John Geeee

John Geeee

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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

Bibliography

Over the years I've slowly collected bits of information about the Tewkesbury Quay Branch. Various articles and photo's from several sources. As part of the project I thought a bibliography might be of interest for the scholars amongst us. So with out further adieu and in no particular order: LMS Engine Sheds - Volume 2 The Midland Railway, Chris Hawkins and George Reeve, Wild Swan Publications, ISBN: 0 906867 05 03 Three pages of photos and plans to the usual WSP quality that sparked off t
Adrian

Adrian

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BrianH's Blog

Building a first etched brass loco

I have created this Blog to describe the creation of a first loco. I know that the end result is a bit rough, but I am pleased with my little engine for a first attempt.   The engine has been created from the excellent little starter loco kit from Connoisseur Models, go to http://www.jimmcgeown.com/ for an excellent entry kit to this hobby.   I wouldn??™t want this kit to be criticised because of my poor technical skills, we all have to learn some where and many mistakes have to be made to r
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BrianH

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Clan Line pt 3

That's quite enough work on Class 47s for one week......   So now back to Clan Line.   I've spent the evening working on the rear trailing truck, I started off trying to build it with bearings and pinpoint axles. Unfortunately there didn't appear to be enough space between the frames as they splayed out when the wheelset was fitted. Rather than mess about trying to reduce the axle size I took the alternative option with inside bearings instead which seems to have worked ok. Hopefully it wont
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Return of the J15

Last Friday I had a particularly productive evening rewheeling my old Alan Gibson J15. The kit was built about 25 years ago (gulp) but had languished on the works sidings for a couple of years following the wheel quartering slipping and the wheels being so old that they were loose on the axles and no amount of locktite would hold them in place.   So, finally I bit the bullet and ordered some new wheels from new Mr Gibson. The biggest problem with some of the wheels available from Colin at the
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Further diversions - centenary brake compo

Having sanded and filled the sides for the centenary brake third and being quite please with the result I thought I'd have a go at the brake composite using the same cut and shunt methods of which more in a mo.   The brake third has now had its grey undercoat, this highlighted those areas which needed some more filling and I think it now looks quite smooth. I tried taking a few close up shots but there are so blurred I couldn't tell whether it was smooth or not from the photos, so I've not bot
rovex

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Barry Ten's Blog

City of Truro

In light of recent developments, I thought it was about time I got my act together and actually did something with my own City of Truro. I finished painting it earlier this year, but (as is typical of me) it's sat on the workbench waiting for the last few bits to be done while I got sidetracked with other projects. I had never attached a coupling to the tender, and the model still lacks crew, lamp irons and brake handles on the tender, as well as a touch of weathering. I wasn't in any great hurr
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Barry Ten

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Grahame's dining room table

Tall building comparison

Here's a full size mock up of my suggested compromised height for 'New London Bridge House' along with the large signalling centre and a train for comparison. It's five inches shorter than true scale but roughly nearly scale width. I'm pretty happy with that compromise. Any taller and it really would be up with the fairies and probably over-dominate the scene.       G.
grahame

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ewsjo's Blog

Working over a tractor in a week pt3

Ok, so the model in a week concept didn't work, by the end of the week I couldn't be bothered and lost the excitement with the model. Here is how the loco looked at my attempted finish date. Please excuse the fluff and bits on the model - only just noticed that while I was resizing the fots. It looks ok in the flesh, a little less sure now I've looked back over the piccys. I'm pretty happy with the roof, but the noses and sides still need work. Talk about unsure! Next stage, is to airbrush the u
Steadfast

Steadfast

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

The first milestone is reached (one Pacer car detailed)...

It might not look like much but I feel I've reached a milestone this evening...   At this rate it's a good thing I'm building just a single line terminus! Nevertheless the first car of my Pacer is at a point where it can be painted. Full side on view showing overall progress to date!   Work has been quite extensive - perhaps not as far as some have gone, but I've chosen to work on the things that will make the largest visual difference. On the front ends I've replaced the handrails, adde
James Hilton

James Hilton

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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

16. The Coal Merchant

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee   Here are some pictures of the next build, a Coal Merchants Ratio kit. For the wood construction I paint the wood a cream "pine" colour and then "stain" it with burnt Umber washes until I think it looks right.               A stone wall will be added later to seperate the coal merchants from the rest of the yard area.   Next Up - Coal Loading Building.
John Geeee

John Geeee

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buffalo's workbench

Testing the Buffalo chassis

The Buffalo body has been resting in a box protected from dust and handling while I decide whether to start painting it with what I have now, or to buy a new airbrush. Of course, the weather and the temperature in the garage have meant that any such decision has not been high on my agenda.   In the meantime, work has continued on the chassis. The frames have been painted and plunger pickups fitted. Those who read earlier parts of this story on the old RMweb may remember that I had problems wit
buffalo

buffalo

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Captain Electra's Blog

Class 201 gets off the starting blocks

I've finally been able to progress with Valve Design's superb little class 201 bodyshell. it has had considerable smoothing off done, along with a couple of coats of silver and recycled Dapol 66 bufferbeams.   Starting to look the part - the fun part will be the IR Intcity livery - expect some vinyl cheating to follow!
Adam1701D

Adam1701D

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The Farthing layouts

Six Lessons Learnt

Well they say we have to learn as we go along, so here are six "lessons learnt" that I'll be taking with me from the scenic work on "The bay". Some of it is basic stuff I suppose, but perhaps there are one or two things of interest to others.     Wiltshire or Arizona?   1. Kill your darlings I tend to have these little pet features on the layout that I really like when viewed on their own, but which somehow don't fit into the bigger picture. After much agonizin
Mikkel

Mikkel in Musings

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Dave Holt's Blog

Station track complete (except coal drops)

I'm getting there! All the track in the station area except that across the coal drops is now in place. Still to do is application of cosmetic chairs on the pointwork, but I'll leave that till after wiring and trial running - so some time off, yet. On the coal drops, the track support beams are made and I've mounted the functional supports at the cell devider pillars. These will be clad in brickwork and the three sides of the whole arrangement in coarse stone, prior to fixing the track structur
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

The return of 47709

Lots of work on this loco today!   Prototype Photo:     Starting off this morning with priming the yellow ends, followed by 2 coats of Warning yellow. Annoyingly there are still a few areas on the ends that need the yellow touching up (mostly those areas that its difficult to get paint onto), so that will get done tomorrow.   Once the final coat was dry, I then got on with the transfers for the sides. Working with an old set of Fox transfers (picked up in a bargain bucket at the Falmout
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    • MAP66
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By MAP66 · Posted

      Hi Keith,   Well done for persevering over the past few years with your ideas and above all keeping your dreams alive and I’m glad that my thread has kept you entertained along the way. The very best of luck with your upcoming house move and hopefully once settled in, the creative thinking processes will kick in, swiftly followed by some modelling magnificence.   Best regards, Mark
    • LMSfan72
      Class 73/9 - development of a body shell or kit......

      By LMSfan72 · Posted

      Taken a while to get here with this one as I decided to go full function lighting which meant a complete rewire of the chassis and the body. This has day, night, tails on both ends which can be also switched on and off on end at a time. I also added an EOT lamp.   Ready for decals and bogie paint:  
    • ian
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By ian · Posted

      Small has a number of advantages when you are plagued by the usual problems of space, time, funds, deciding on a prototype/layout style/theme.   You can build and get to a 'sufficiently complete' stage to scratch that particular itch fairly quickly and if you decide it isn't what you want - or you have taken it as far as you want to go - you can move on to something else.   I look forward to seeing what develops.
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Bourneville MRC Industrial & Narrow Gauge Exhibition - TODAY!

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Hope it goes well: definitely an exhibition I’d be interested in if I was still in the area.  Many, many years ago now I did my School work experience placement at the Longbridge works - it was a very different world in those days, Keith.
    • Dave John
      A North Staffordshire Railway D9 van.

      By Dave John · Posted

      I have tried to discover why the later vans may have had black solebars.   Looking carefully at the 51 L model I note that the W irons do not have crown plates or side washers on the legs. The excellent model by Airnimal of an earlier version does have them.    Perhaps I am totally wrong but a theory. If the later D9 lacked crown plates that would suggest a wagon with flitched frames.  If so it would be metalwork not woodwork and painted black.    My researches have

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