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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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Millport Victoria LNWR 4mm

Track laying complete, next stop Wigan show

Well, I've not updated this for a few weeks now. All the track work which we had planned to relay or reposition has now been completed. However when looking more closely at the layout, we found a few more areas which needed to be lifted and re-laid which we initially tried to straighten/repair. These where tracks which had crossed base board joins and had been damaged at some time during storage/transportation.   Next stop now is the Wigan Finescale Model Railway exhibition on the 12th and 13
87023Velocity

87023Velocity

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Fasten your seatbelts, i'm on a roll !

Still waiting for the boiler suited man with spanners so in the meantime challenge work continues at a pace !   For 75p, a strip of balsa split in half gets you a chunky conveyor belt housing in 5 mins..................     Stuck together and cut to a length leaving a few mm either way ready for fitting a quick rummage through the off cuts from the building panels gets you enough to cover 3 sides.....................       Finished in 5 mins with the aid of super quick setting Red
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Redgate's Modelling

Golden Arrow Crosti - Loco Blastpipe Carving

progressing nicely with this build but thought a quick update would be in order to show you all the blastpipe/steam pipe casting that fits under the side exhaust pipe. here's a before photo just after cutting it from the sprue     and here's another after 15 mins carving with a sharp knife with a good photo of the real thing to compare with     Probably the part that needed the most work, maybe would be better in whitemetal. Note a small amount of filler where there were air bubbles.
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Give us a (scenic) break, i'm having a day off !

Talk about being stuck between a rock & a hard place. Usually work my booked days off for extra pocket money but with the plumber booked to come and sort our heating problems and SWMBO being full time Mon-Fri its down to me to be 'stay at home dad' for the day and await the potentially expensive visit from the boiler man ! Ironic really when I should be working to earn the pennies to pay for the repairs !!   Anyway, the plus side is with not having to get up at stupid o clock I had a late
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Somewhere in Germany

Distractions

Bad Horn is only meant to be a time killing project, to be worked upon while I'm waiting for materials for my larger H0 layout, Steinrücken. I'm too stingy to pay for express delivery from Europe, so I never quite know when things are going to show up. As such, having multiple projects makes me feel able to better use my free time- I'm bound to have something I can work on. Yet somehow, when a parcel containing points for Steinrücken was delivered earlier this week, I felt as if I was being di
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Cherry's Corner.

2010 Challenge - I must be mad!

So having decided that I've very limited spare time, limited spare room, limited skills and limited funds I going to throw my hat in the ring for 2010 challenge. Hopefully it'll give me the impetus to just get on and do something rather than just planning it. I'm just preparing a few notes to launch a new blog on the build.   It will be in S7 with no compression of the prototype, all in 2010", in the meantime here's a small clue or taster for the project location. In researching the chosen pro
Adrian

Adrian

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MRDBLUE17's Blog

Rannoch with Windows

Hi Everyone,   Here are a couple of shots that show the finished etches done for me by Pete Harvey of PH Designs. They are very fine etches and way above anything I could have scraped together by any other methods and really help to capture the character of the real thing so I am really pleased with how they have turned out. I used Games workshop white primer followed by a couple of light coats of Humbrol gloss white. They were a snug fit into the painted frames and using a paperclip I then ra
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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buffalo's workbench

Goods stock

Like everything else I have shown here, most of my goods stock is in varying stages of completion, though none are actually complete...   To kick off this section, here are a couple of early GWR brake vans built from variations of the ABS (formerly D&S, I believe) kits. I am starting with these because they have been mentioned in a couple of threads in recent weeks (hereand here), so some people may be interested in seeing them close up. The kit is available in two forms. The first represe
buffalo

buffalo

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mozzers 4mm workbench

M&NEJPS TPO ready for painting

Today i have been working on the Midland TPO again i have been fitting the roof vents & built up the chassie as this is going to be finished in LMS livery i have fitted it with a battery box & dynamo plus not fitted lanp tops to the roof as pre the photos of the M&NEJPS ones in the 50's then there was the bogies to build again these as well as the underframe parts are from 247 Developments  
mozzer models

mozzer models

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

47768 yet again...

Sorry if your getting bored with this one.... ...But its yet more work on 47768   Transfer work this time, replacing the OHLE flashes with the post 98 type and correcting the blue flashes on the RES logo with the correct colour.   With the OHLE flashes unfortunatly I wasn't able to use my normal method where I remove the red part of the flashes with microsol before adding the new transfers, because the Vi printing just wont shift. Thankfully the printed ones were a bit of the thin side col
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Stibbington

Steam shed plan version 2

You are right, the two things that were bugging me with the plan were lack of headshunt and the turntable only access to the shed. I will have to move the turntable I think.   What do you think of this plan instead?    
Phil-Essex

Phil-Essex

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

47768 - Continued......

I have attached a photo showing 47768 so far, now fitted with most of the details. The plan is to use a different ETH socket as the Vi one isnt great, I have a couple of Bachmann ones at home which I want to have a look at, else there's a bunch of Heljan parts somewhere. Pipework will be added once I've painted the ends (again of course I've forgotten to bring the paints with me.) The tail light surrounds need painting white (again with the paints....) finally I have some Hurst jumper cables t
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Stibbington

Steam shed track plan help required

This blog will follow the progress made on my 00 Guage shed layout. It's current name is Stibbington and the layout is 10 x 8 foot in size and consists of three tail chasing mainlines and a steam shed. The era is late steam early diesel and situated somewhere between the LNER/LMS routes.   The baseboards are complete and the track for the mainlines and fiddle yard have been laid and tested.   I am currently trying to decide on a good track plan for the steam shed. I have purchased and insta
Phil-Essex

Phil-Essex

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Eridge Mk 2 - rebuild of a P4 layout

Shock Horror! A green Loco!

Well, another new item of stock appeared last week, a very nice J Class tank. I suspect Mike was very disappointed it was withdrawn before MT black livery was introduced though...     Track laying is also preceding apace, the second board is mostly finished, and the third board well underway. Here, you can see Richard, (the new boy), Mike, Simon, and Mark hard at work. In the foreground you can see the TTU, (Tethered Testing Unit), Mike's re-wheeled Jinty chassis hard wired to a controller
Pinkmouse

Pinkmouse

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Somercombe

Close coupling experiments.

Everybody wants close coupling and in recent years the main players in the trade have made improvements with this on coaches and some bogie wagons. Yet the humble 4-wheel wagon seems to have been left far behind. All my kit-built wagons are fitted with 3-link, but the rest mostly have the old tension-lock type. Now fitting 3-link to these is not always an easy job, due to the way they are moulded. So what can be done to make these close coupled, yet still go around my tightest radius, which happ
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

It's wet, it's cold and nothing's happening

Since my last entry nothing has happened on Somercombe. Although time has been available in the evenings, torrential rain has put me off going out to the shed. My eight straight days at work has now turned into nine and sthough I have quite a late start tomorrow, car problems mean I have to go to the garage instead of working in the shed. Never mind. I have thursday off and hopefully saturday I will get annual leave granted and then I am not available this Sunday. However, I have not been totall
JZ

JZ

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MRDBLUE17's Blog

Trains at Rannoch

Hi everyone,   Having now fitted all the window frames on my station building in place - I decided that it was time to run a few trains at Rannoch. I have added more to my layout topic in layouts and have also altered my settings on there as it will now be quicker to go straight to the new content currently on page 5 as having transferred all the original thread over it took a little while to load with all the photos on 1 page so reduced the number of entries per page to make it easier for any
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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coombe junction - moorswater

Boxfile Kyle - 37420...

Update - Only a little modelling undertaken this evening as after preparing the new rails for soldering the common crossing I found that my soldering iron has packed up...will check again tomorrow, but it's frustrating after waiting a week to get back to the turnout.   So, a little further work on 37420, being converted from a Bachfar 37/0. Thanks to Bernard of TPM for letting me test some new etches, I have filed smooth the grill adjacent to either opposing end and fitted the correct grills,
bcnPete

bcnPete

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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

14. The Industrial Warehouse

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee   I needed a space filler for the top left of the layout to add a bit more interest but there was not much ground surface available because of the way I had fitted the backboards. Therefore I decided to go for a warehouse unit that I could fit over the backboards without actually taking them off. I went for the Scalescenes model because it could easily be configured to fit any space. It was something different to build and because of the size I was building
John Geeee

John Geeee

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Shed Track

Further progress today with all the rail now laid on the three point 'zig zag'. The new gauge really helped with the fine tuning - I will now revisit all the other completed turn-outs to fine tune using this jig.   Just a single slip and turnout to make now and I can start some track laying on the boards.  
barrowroad

barrowroad

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

More Vi 47s : 47768

Pretty much what it says on the tin...   My third Vi Trians class 47 arrived in the post this morning, 47768 in RES.   So far I have removed all of the glazing, and then masked off and sprayed the cab windows & doors with some satin black paint. the roof grills have been removed prior to fitting Shawplans grills. As previosuly mentioned I will also be adding the roof pipe that crosses the roof grills (as can be seen in this photo on the left hand side.)   Will edit this to add a photo
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Keeping up With the Pacer

I promised someone I'd post a few notes over the weekend on some of the bits I'd been doing to the Pacer ; it's Monday, I haven't, so here we go.   I've assembled and fixed in place the rear trailing wheel assembly. Unfortunately its not absolutely spot on: I reckon the hole is about 0.35mm out to one side. I've made one attempt to drift the hole sidewards with a file , and stuck in a scrap of 40 thou plasticard into the recess above to take the thread , and drilled it out. However this doesn'
Ravenser

Ravenser

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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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