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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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Southeast Steam Railway

Southeast Steam Railway - 'Concreting' Finished

Hi Guys,   After a lot of hard work at Wycrail09 on Saturday, I settled down to do the rest of the 'concreting' around the Carriage & Wagon restoration centre on Bigporth. This is now finished and waiting for buildings!. The only thing I have to do is hide the gap between the concrete and the retaining wall using vegetation. Typical we haven't got any and forget to get some at Wycrail!   On another note, the SESR has 5 more wagons, these are:   An Bachmann Collectors Club 7 plank
St. Simon

St. Simon

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deloo's Blog

Gotta start somewhere

Getting back into the hobby? Not really, my first attempts as a spotty teen were pretty rubbish, this is more of a diversion from the daily grind. Its also a trial to see what I can and cannot do. With SWMBO??™s permission of course. Ps this has totally dominated the spare room to the point that it is unusable, I love my wife. The baseboard is over engineered at 8 X 4 X 12mm chipboard, strengthened and supported to the extent that the original plan of suspending this from the ceiling is
del00

del00

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Scale7JB's Blog

...and now for something I am particularly proud of...

Even more enthusiasm to do the difficult yesterday..   The K2 has an oil pot on the top slide bar which is quiet predominant in the pictures. I was tempted to only solder on a piece of brass rod, but then I thought I would have a go at making it look better with a flange and some of the simulated bold heads that I got from SH.   The pictures are a bit ropey I know..       I also decided to bite the bullet and while the cylinder assembly was off the chassis, chemical black all of tha
Scale7JB

Scale7JB

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F-Unit's Comedy Soldering Show

New Thread for my Class 14 build...

To be honest I'm still not keen on the "blog" idea; yes it keeps the writer's own words to the fore, but I for one found all the postings by you chaps on my 22 thread really encouraging, especially when as you may recall, things didn't go too well at times... Seeing as there's a Sub-forum for Kitbuilding and Scratchbuilding, that is where I'm going to document the building of my Class 14 kit. The link is here:-   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/2687-o-scale-class-14-kit/
F-UnitMad

F-UnitMad

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On30runner's Blog

getting things moving

of course at this point I only had the one locomotive. Add the fact that it only had a rear coupling on the tender and operation became a bit limited. It could only face and travel in one direction if it were to be able to do any shunting. I therefore had to get another loco to address these problems. As I was still fairly new to On30 I decided to get the ubiquitous Bachmann Porter 0-4-0 as the next loco. This was mainly because it was small, allegedly ran well, and was also very cheap (a cr
On30runner

On30runner

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My inept fumblings in N gauge and other associated stories

Time travel in a shed

Does anyone else experience the issue that you "pop" out to the shed for a quick 5 to 10 mins, and by the time you get back 45 mins has gone by in real time?   Is my shed some how travelling some where near the speed of light, or was it just the battery in the clock running out, so the clock was very slow?   Amyway, this did lead to one of those moments where I returned to be faced by with my wife and the jobs I should have been doing. Its a scene you never see in Doctor Who!! I some how do
pirouets

pirouets

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Grimleygrid's Blog

Latest update

As the weather on Saturday was dry and sunny I took full advantage of this and gave 60081 a coat of varnish. Thanks to excellent service from Brian at Shawplan, the name plates arrived on Friday and these will be added later this week. Hopefully I will be able to take some photos of 081 at Grimley later in the week.             Another train that I have wanted to model for a while, is the Scunthorpe to Lakenby slab workings.                         A couple of weeks
Grimleygrid

Grimleygrid

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Trevor H's Blog

Bachmann Class 24

4mm Bits from Old RMweb Bachmann Class 24   by d7093   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:48 pm   Over the past couple of weeks i've been working on some class 24s, hopefully for my layout Morfa Mawr.   Basically these are something i started work on quite a few years ago for other projects but never got completed, so i had acouple of Hornby shells and two Silver Fox resin bodies, one which i picked up recently fr
Trevor H

Trevor H

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Trevor H's Blog

Judith Edge Class 17 Clayton

4mm Bits from Old RMweb Judith Edge Class 17 Clayton   by d7093   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:04 pm   After Mr Rushby putting me in the direction of these been used on the York - Aber mail trains and more seriously the soon to be released version from Heljan, i decided Sunday evening it was about time i should dig my kit out of the back of the modelling cupboard and make a start.     As ever the etche
Trevor H

Trevor H

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

- The narrow gauge is completed - General matters -

Right folks, here's the latest happenings on Calshot. The rest of the narrow gauge line has been layed and infilled.   Now here is the state of play at the moment. Instead of the line going into the castle, I felt that there wasn't enough rom there so I decided to split the NG line round each side of the castle as you can see. Tomorrow I will be sanding it down and then scribing it to represent concrete slabs. Then I might try the plastikote spray (as you can see by the goods platform and han
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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The Farthing layouts

Low-tech pre-grouping stock

My ability to build brass kits is limited, but I've decided that I won't let it keep me from modelling the pre-grouping world that I find so fascinating. Instead I try to make the best of whatever skills and means I have available. Here's a few examples of what I like to call "calculated bodging"!       1. Simple kits. Above is a Toplight Composite Slip to diagram F15, built from an ex-PC Wheeltappers kit. These feature pre-printed sides, which gives a quickly finished c
Mikkel

Mikkel in Coaches & Browns

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The Grime Street Blog

First outing.

Back from Grime Streets first outing, pretty happy overall, everything ran reasonably well, the major problem being it's operator-yours truly!   Trying to operate and answer questions was not that easy, the planned use of cars went out of the window, less being used but swapped over more frequently, I think I may alter the hidden storage at some stage to ease this. Other lessons learned, Halling mechanisms are superb in operation and the Grime Street fleet may shrink in number for a while as a
Red Devil

Red Devil

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mason's Blog

NEW LAYOUT, TRACK DOWN

Well after the success that iv had with Pilot Road ( which is available for shows and exhibitions) i thought its about time i started a new project, i decided to go a little bigger than the box file and went for a 4ft x 1ft plank which i had laying around.   the basis is really just something to shunt a little and hopefully develop my scratchbuilding skills and start making a move into dcc and eventually explore a little sound.   ok the plan, sorry its a kinda mess but its all i could forge
mason

mason

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - 2mmFS

Good evening - finally I have time to migrate from the old to the new forum so I will give a 10 slide refresher on my Coombe Junction 2mmFS project.   Originally, the idea to build this layout had been floating around in my head for 20 years or so but 18 months ago, it was time to stop being a 'paper modeller' and start it. Upon commencement, shortly after the 2mm Scale Association announced the Golden Jubilee Layout Competition scheduled for the July 2010 Expo and I realised that my three boa
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

A Cornish diversion

Since I'm out of "W"s I decided to finish off the Cornish Riviera kitchen car that I'd been renovating. This was originally bought off ebay some years ago, together with a brass toplight composite and a Centenary brake third. I stripped it and the toplight down using Nitromors which proved highly effective, so much so that anything that had been superglued on fell off (the kitchen car disintegrated into its constituent parts).   I had to take the soldering iron to the toplight to remove exces
rovex

rovex

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SNCF stephen's Blog

First go at Scratchbuilding and the new tree's

In the past few weeks I have been adding in a few smaller pieces of details as well as construcing different types of trees. I did have a go at making my own armatures and although it was relatively successful I think my technique could do with being refined (don't panic I did not use any of those trees covered with sea moss...). However I was very pleased with the Woodland Scenics range of tree kits that are available. I purchased a pack of the smaller sized trees and found it to be relatively
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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On30runner's Blog

tracks fixed down and ballasted

well at this point I finally figured out what I wanted to do with the track layout. Once again the list of parameters came into effect:   1) It had to have a means of running locos round. 2) It had to have sidings to do some shunting. 3) It had to have at least a loco siding. Narrow gauge US tends to have uncovered loco yards on logging lines, and I wanted somewhere to display locos not running. 4) I had to be able to store more than one complete train on the layout at one time. 5) NO Ho
On30runner

On30runner

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RJRs Branch Lines

Orange Juice Factory Starting to take shape

Over the past couple of days I have made a concerted effort to make a start on the second On30 module that needs to be ready for the January 2010 CRM Exhibition in Crewe. The first step was to dig the 2 modules out from under the workbench and store the 45mm stuff out of the way for a while.   The turntable module is a at a detailing stage and has taken up its place on the left bench of the garden shed. The Orange Growers module is somewhat further behind and has taken up reidence on the right
johnteal

johnteal

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Drewry Lane

Ballasting!

Never my favourite job, a bit like patio laying I never seem to get it quite right. Tried a method new to me which was to put the glue down then add the the ballast. Used a small syringe with some thinned PVA and it seemed to work quite well. Ballast is fine Woodland scenics and looks OK. On the sidings tried the method the Chris Nevard used and filled in the gaps with modelling clay. It does seem to be a lot less messy than plaster though my application was considerably more heavy handed than
lapford34102

lapford34102

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Missys Q1 Chop Shop Part III

Hello   My attention has now turned to the tender. There are 2 things that I want to do with it which are 1. Change the motor to something better, and 2. Change the wheels to 2mm standards.   As nothing really exists for the tender wheels I thought that this was an ideal oppertunity to have a go at machining some N Gauge wheels to 2mm SA standards so armed with a drawing of the wheels and my little lathe I managed the following..   BEFORE...   AFTER...   Its kinda cool that they s
-missy-

-missy-

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