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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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clarkea1's Blog

Industrial 3F in EM from the Bachmann model

My interest in creating this model was first sparked by an entry in the "From Mainline to Industry" book (Published by Lightmoor Press) which mentioned that one BR 3F (Jinty) had been sold into industrial service in the coal industry. I thought nothing futher of it, until the release of the Bachmann model made modelling a 3F a significantly easier option! Although my industrial models usually centre around the steel industry, I really wanted to model this loco, so I set about finding prototype
clarkea1

clarkea1

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Redgate's Modelling

Golden Arrow Crosti - Loco More Pipework

More pipework and handrails today. I'm still waiting for some guitar strings to do the main boiler feed pipes. These need to be done before handrails and the smoke deflector can't be fitted before the handrail ....     Fitted the blastpipe etc to the underside of the side chimney though - starting to look like a Crosti now
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

The trackplan

Hopefully I'll get the copyright issues sorted out soon then I can publish a couple of photo's to show what I'm trying to capture.   In the meantime I have the OS maps and the beginnings of a templot plan.   On this map the goods yard, mainline and station are off to the right. The shed is to the left of the malthouse on Station street. It was called station street as the old Birmingham and Gloucester Railway used to have a branch terminus here, it's the covered bit by Sun street. The line
Adrian

Adrian

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Grahame's dining room table

Tall buildings

I??™ve been contemplating the building of the two skyscrapers (Southwark Towers and New London Bridge House) required for the new layout. Although they are described as ???mid rise??™ blocks, they still scale out in British N gauge (1:148) at 26.5 inches and 25??? tall respectively. Not only is that a lot of building, it??™s a lot modelling and probably a lot of cost.   As the layout is not intended to be an accurate scale representation and the design is compressed and compromised in a number
grahame

grahame

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Weathering - Attempt number 2......

I touched on this slightly in last nights blog, but I think its probably more deserving to have a post in its own right.   Having picked up a couple of packets of Tamyier weathering 'makeup' type powders yesterday I set about having a play with them on 47768. The idea was to try out 4 different styles which together make up the majority of the weathering I am planning for the moment.   The first was the dark streaks coming down from the roof joints, these took a lot of attempts to get someth
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

The things we do, can it really be counted as railway modeling?

When someone asks me about hobbies, I always say I am a railway modeller, but actually, in casting around for anything to put in my blog I begin to wonder what I have done in the past few weeks that could be counted as "modelling railways". Apart from layout operating at Wycrail and Warley the closest I have got to anything that might be seen as a modelling task is painting some figures and turning a piece of plasticard into an uncoupling ramp, scoring planks and rivets and painting it. The rest
GWMark

GWMark

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Grahame's dining room table

That DMS again

Back to finishing off that DMS bus. Bernie Taylor (TPM) is hopefully going to produce etched window sliding vents and replacement doors (two part glider doors as well as the original four part folding ones). They will certainly help Anglicise it and make it look a lot better. And as I've got more of the KMB busses on order to convert they will certainly aid the production line. Fingers crossed they get produced, and soon.   I've had to make up fictitious side and front adverts for this sample
grahame

grahame

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Cherry's Corner.

Tewkesbury MPD challenge launch

Yes my 2010 effort has been launched with a separate blog and so the pictures posted yesterday are of the quay side at Tewkesbury. It's an area I'd like to model eventually but for the challenge I need to restrict it to the MPD which is just up the line. More info to follow later.   So having planned this over a number of years I thought it was about time that I actually did something. So really it's a big thanks to the support from this community and the challenge set by Andy Y, otherwise it
Adrian

Adrian

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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

Project Plan.

Well this it, in with both feet for the 2010 challenge!   As indicated by the title, the intention is to have reasonable stab at modelling Tewkesbury MPD in Scale7.   The background   It all started with picking up the Wild Swan book LMS Engine Sheds - Midland Division. There buried towards the rear were a couple of photo's of a small single road engine shed with five loco's stabled around it and one where an 8F was parked by the old station due to overcrowding. On top of this a line throu
Adrian

Adrian

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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

N Gauge Ivatt progress: Test runs around Kinlet Town

Tracing work on Victoria Bridge continues, slowly, for now, more along the lines of 'playing with trains!'   I had worried that by putting the smaller, scale, smokebox (of Dapol origins) on the front of the already featherweight Minitrix Ivatt, I might turn its adhesive properties from hopeless to somewhat worse. To keep the weight up, I retained as much of the original metal in the boiler casing as I could, and kept the weight from inside the Dapol smokebox. I think this smaller weight was ma
Will J

Will J

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Owen's Layout & Workbench - ECML in the 1960s

Weathering Workshop

I've been muckying up a few locos recently as a break from work on the layout and my other modelling hobby of building plastic kits to rebrand & renumber and mucky up a few locos that were in LNER liveries. I've been working on a Bachmann J39, and Hornby J94, J83 and J52 - along with a few diesels not shown (Bachmann Cl.25, 44 & 55)   The four steam locos lined up:   All have been sprayed up in relatively the same fashion and I wanted all of them to be pretty heavily weathered. I m
Owen

Owen

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

a 47 Respray - 47709 in Fraggonset

This morning was spent working on 47709, which has now been sprayed up in Fraggonset black. other than a few of the usual areas which could do with some minor touching up its gone on pretty well. Once again the masking tape has failed to do its job so the cantrail stripe is going to need to be repainted (along with touching up the paint on one corner of the cab roof).   Now that the paint has dried the next job is going to be preparing the ends to be resprayed. Most annoyingly will have to pr
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Track South Exit

Here is the Templot for the South Exit to the shed which consists of a B6 turnout and a Single Slip onto the mainline.     The full size template attached to 6mm ply ready for fixing the ply sleepers.     That's enough for now - back to the workbench.
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - construction equipment

So the postman delivered a package from Osborns today that contained a bulldozer and an exteneded crane. They are both very convincing models , though the crane is much taller than i thought it would be. Anyway they have been weathered and added to the housing site, I think they finish off the scene nicely. Any thoughts?   Had to add muddy tracks for the heavy equipment   Here is a picture of the bulldozer with driver   The workers getting to it   Two views of the work site  
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Tim V's Workbench Blog

RTR

With all the new additions by Bachman and Hornby etc, I'd better get on and finish some of my projects!   Already a ex GW ROD is nearly available, my near scratchbuilt one has been taking me far too long.
Tim V

Tim V

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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

15. Kitbashing An Engine Shed

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee.   Lets see if we can turn two Dapol single engine sheds into a two road roundhouse shape shed for the area by the turntable. I managed to make the two sheds form a triangular shape by adding an extra window section at the back and using a piece of plasticard to fill the gap between the roofs.       I lined the inside walls plastic stone sheet and added gutters and down pipes to the outside. I also added some beam structures to the inside roof. The
John Geeee

John Geeee

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lancer1027's Blog

O gauge Workbench

OK, Since i seemed to have deleted my blog for some unknown reason (havent got a clue how i managed that ) i will start again.   Firstly i know i'm going to repeat myself for a short while but it's just to get back on the same thread, so please bear with me.   This is a picture of D1018 Western Buccaneer with engine and boiler (theatres) fitted.   Here is a close up of the engine/boiler theatres before i fitted them to the other side. As you can see these were made with various pieces
lancer1027

lancer1027

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43179's workbench

More hoovers (i did warn you)

Every time I make a class 50 , i swear it'll be my last, because the job of reprofiling the nose and making new windscreens is such a pain - i hate it! At warley i got some new shawplan class 50 windscreen frames, , and was lucky enough to find a cheap Hornby 50 to stick them on aswell . These new frames make life so much easier - they fit over the existing Hornby windscreens - after the moulded beading has been smoothed down. The top of the nose still needs building up with a little fille
43179

43179

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mozzers 4mm workbench

GWR TPO L23 finished apart from No's

well one of the items i have been working on today was fitiing the glazing & chassie to the GWR L23 TPO this is now finished apert from fitting the No's but i need some more 1's to number this TPO I have also been priming the body & chassie of the Midland TPO             the next coach i am building is a 5577 kit of a Midland Dia D572 a 12 wheel 3rd class Dining car
mozzer models

mozzer models

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43179's workbench

Class 50s

Goodafternoon- time to try out this blog thing, as i havent really posted anything since the previous version or RMweb (when i was scheihallion). Im working on the last few locos for my collection of stock for laira , based around early 1990s when the class 50s were on thier last legs - shiny new 158s and 153s were arriving, and HSTs were all smartly turned out in Swallow livery - and new livery for Mail trains was about to appear, which would divide opinions...   Anyhow - weeks ago i b
43179

43179

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Crewe North's Blog

WORLD'S END QUAY....Another loco

Attached are some shots of the third Manning Wardle loco for the layout. It was started as a demonstration piece on my table at the recent Warley show.....some small details and the brakes are still to be fitted as are the Slaters wheels (as shown) and motor etc. , once this has been done then it's off to the paint shop . As can be seen it's the open cab version of the loco popular with the Victorian contractors .....a tough lot !
Crewe North

Crewe North

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Redgate's Modelling

Golden Arrow Crosti - Loco Pipework 1

On a roll today, got busy with some copper wire (reclaimed from some figure of eight "bell wire") and started the pipework on the left firebox side.     For those not familiar with the Crosti variant the two pipes running to the footplate from the valve on the side of the firebox run down to the "blower" that is mounted on the preheater boiler below the footplate.   Must find some thick wire to do the reverser shaft ......
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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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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