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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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marsa69's Blog

WB update

Hi all,   not an update as such but just a quickie to see if I've managed to actually transfer me WB thread from the old to new RMweb. Sorry if reads a bit disjointed but I was trying to get both pages in as one entry but it looks like I failed again   regards,   Mark
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marsa69's Blog

My workbench pg2

marsa69's 7mm WB   by marsa69   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by Mod5 on Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:23 am   Best regards and could somebody please remind me how to edit the title of this thread Mark just go to your first post and hit the 'Edit' button in the top right hand corner and then you can 'Edit' it. If you get stuck pm me and I will do it for you.   Regards Mod5 __________________________________________   ??? posted
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The West Midland Lines

Knit One, Purl One

Leaving point motors behind I have moved on to the colour light signalling.   The signals won't be installed just yet - I'll wait until the baseboards spend most of their life the right way up for that - but the clever bits are going in.     The up line (left-right) has a signal with a route indicator (feather) which is illuminated when the train is routed to the bay platform. The down line has a signal at the end of the platform with a second one on the bay. Ground signals are situated
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marsa69's Blog

My workbench

marsa69's 7mm WB   by marsa69   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:33 pm   Hi all   and welcome to my very small 7mm workbench. So small in fact that I sometimes lose it I'm an infrequent modeller at best, as my work and family commitments are very demanding (me and a million others I hear you cry). Therefore this thread will be a labour of love with postings probably on a monthly basis.   Having compl
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6 x 4 starter layout

story so far: part 2

Hi All,   Back again after the interlude with more of the potted history of my roundy roundy so far.   I've started to lay some plaster bandage:         I then painted the track with some railmatch sleeper grime:         Then on with the ballasting:         Very pleased with the results so far. I plan to start on the platform surfaces next - which leads me to a question: Can a concrete sided platfrom have a paved top? Or does paving normally go with red bric
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:42 am   Bob, The headlights are from 1:43 Cararama mini's. They are about ?‚??4 so cheap enough to nick the lights out of. Here are a couple of pics of them. I have also had the lettering for the fire pull done by John Pleck at Precision Labels, very nice they are to, as fitted to locos repaired at St Rollox.     IMG_1811
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:53 pm   Think you got the reason, 31 just not powerfull enough Looks like we will have to have a meaningfull discusion at Telford then __________________________________________ Comment posted by Ressaldar on Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:22 am   Hi Brian,   just been catching up with postings after a few days in Oxford.   G
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:15 pm   Thanks Mike, the air pipes on the bufferbeam are rubber ones supplied with the kit that just pull off to paint it. One thing you must do with these rubber pipes though is anchor the bottom to a piece of wire or something similar or the air pipe sticks out like it's on steroids The couplings are from CPL and are the b
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:28 pm   Which one is it going to be? Well it will be blue and a unique one at that. I will take a pic tomorrow which should help you guess it.   I will probably areldite the roof panels on as there is more of a chance that you are going to get gaps under the etches they should fill nicely with areldite. Super glue really
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by lancer1027 on Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:51 am   Ian G wrote: Link to the siphon photo's viewtopic.php?f=7&t=39401   ian G Ian, thanks very much . will be very helpful Rob. __________________________________________   ??? posted on Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:08 pm   Christian wrote: I have just invested in a new camera so to try it
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by Trainshed Terry on Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:00 am   hmrspaul wrote: Trainshed Terry wrote: hmrspaul wrote: Trainshed Terry wrote: I have looked high and low for a picture of these wagons running in the "Blue Circle" livery.   Is there anyone here could help please.   Terry. Which Blue circle livery?   I am scanning more Presflo's b
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by Trainshed Terry on Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:24 pm   Brian Daniels wrote: Finished building a very nice Presflow this week from JLTRT. Just ordered a couple more to keep it company. At around ??????‚??70, complete with wheels and couplings, I think it's very good value. I have done a couple of little mods on it though. The kit is built with "slop
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brian daniels' Blog

Brian Daniels 7mm Diesels

Brian's 7mm Workbench JLTRT Class 26   by brian daniels   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by PCM on Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:41 am   Brian Daniels wrote: Hi Pete, I just went on Model Express web site and you are right they don't mention the VAA. I had a look on the box and there are no numbers or anything on it just VAA in black marker. Looks like a phone job or email to clarify if they have them. I would strongly recomend a compensati
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backofanenvelope's blog

Grand Day Out

Well after typing in a lengthy post it all went wrong, so I am going to give the abreviated version.   Went to Festival of Railway Modelling, although there were a number of quality layouts there I came away feeling that it was a bit of a let down, I know times are hard at the moment, but I guess I was expecting a bit more. One the plus side I saw West Harptree, which has got the juices flowing, but adds another scale to the yo-yo! anyway more thoughts on that to follow.   Went to NVR as hav
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The Loop Line 4mm BR Steam

fence posts and a bottle kiln

A small entry today showing our latest projects,   Originally budget had meant as much of the layout as possible needed to be scratchbuilt from freely available materials. While progressing with my modelling I now realise this approach is part of the hobby I enjoy immensely and I will try to finish the whole thing without buying one sheet of embossed plasticard!   We are getting on towards adding small details and tidying everything up to a higher standard. With that in mind I decided to see
Steve with the Hat

Steve with the Hat

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Stubby47's Micro Layouts

Cement Shed in a boxfile - 4mm

This is a quick sketch of how I see the boxfile developing.   The scale will be 4mm, set probably current day.   The box will be vertical, landscape-wise, with the lid opening flat in front to give a partly extended baseboard and a place to add information. The inside of the box will be made to look like the inside of a large stone / cement processing shed - think the inside of one of Chris Nevard's buildings on Cement Quay. The track will enter stage left, about 1/3 of the way up the side,
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All things DaveC46026

HI Guys

Hi Guys   Great to be back on line.   So as I've re-registered and set up a blog I thought I'd write something and let you know what you may see over the coming months!   I've been on here on the previous forum as DaveC46026 so you may well have seen my various threads on there - Thorne Yard being my layout, more of which to come later, but also bits and bobs from my workbench and my local club Darlington MRC!   If you've not seen Thorne Yard or its thread - The layout is a 4mm 16.5mm g
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SNCF stephen's Blog

Picasso X3800 Motor

Its taken long enough but I finally got the motor in the post to convert my Del Prado static model of an X3800 Picasso Autorail into a motorised and working one. I had been toying with the idea for some time and I had seen pictures on the net of it done well: and not so well: Even the poorer attempts to motorise these Del Prado body shells go for almost a ??100 on French Ebay. No wonder that the body's go for silly money on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=38
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Bodmin Central - Closed

Bodmin Central: Templates

First off I needed to make some minor changes to the track plan, shifting point locations in order to clear cross members on the baseboards. Once this was sorted I then made a start on test fitting templates onto the two baseboards. This was made slightly more tricky by not having the station board built (with the end of the platform being the datum from which everything else needed to be aligned...) Thankfully a combination of the CAD drawing, and positioning the station boards templates on the
The Fatadder

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Aberdeen Kirkhill T&RSD

Improvements over the coming months

Jobs for the next 7 months are:   cladding the depot building, brickwork below the windows and general ventilation ducts etc (done) add windows to depot building and finish painting roof (done) depot lighting towers (ordered) small depot lights inside the shed and at the shed front (done) lighting gantries over the cleaning roads (done) add water stand pipes and hoses (done), shore supply points (done), battery chargers (done) overall ballast weathering and weathering the track by the fu
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SP&S Industrial Layout

quick update

Glad the sight is back up.   been working on my boat dock, got the wood cut though and created the boat area. Also been ballasting the track, it been frustrating, had some track come un glued, such a mess in that area, all my fixing solution not working, pertinence is the answer. Pic will follow.
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4mm scale agonies

Catching up

A week without RMWeb is a long time, we've all come to realise. What has gone on in the Ian Holmes Model Railway world in that time? Firstly on Friday there was the sad news of the demise of the Athearn Blue Box kit of Rolling stock. I started in HO Scale with them. in fact my fiorst ever layout 72nd Street yard was filled with athearn blue box kits. the term kit was a misnomer really as they were nothing but disassembled RTR models that you put together yourself. Didn't Corgi do something sim
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Rodents Vale and other stories

Stock Boxes

They say that necessity is the mother of invention and so it was with my stock boxes. As I mentioned earlier, a friend who has a large layout in his garage reintroduced me to model railways and it wasn't long before I was buying stock of my own to take with me. As that collection got bigger it became more of a pain taking them out of their boxes and packing them away again so something more efficient was in order.   My first stock box is based around a plastic organiser box that I bought from
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    • MikeOxon
      North Star - a GWR Icon

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      There were twelve 'Stars', with the final ones not delivered until after Gooch had introduced the first of his own 'Firefly' class.  I think I have captured all the main variants, except Shooting Star which has been described as having a lower 'Haycock' top with the manhole cover on top.  It sound like a half-way house between the round top and a full haycock but I've not found a drawing to copy.
    • melmerby
      North Star - a GWR Icon

      By melmerby · Posted

      And looked even more modern when it retired from service in 1871 with no boiler protuberances apart from a somewhat later style coffee pot on top of the firebox.
    • ChrisN
      North Star - a GWR Icon

      By ChrisN · Posted

      Again interesting Mike, to see the difference between the two.  You will have a complete fleet of these soon.  I am still amazed that the crew stood on the back of that as it hurtled along at 60 mph.
    • ikcdab
      Modelmaster - failure to deliver

      By ikcdab · Posted

      I'm afraid this is a very long standing issue. Loads of people have lost money, I placed an order that was never delivered.  You can contact trading standards  South Ayrshire Trading Standards (01292 61600) and add it to the list.
    • MikeOxon
      North Star - a GWR Icon

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      and yet North Star is the earlier of the two.  This engine was originally for an overseas order so perhaps a less 'decorative' style was applied   The haycock-style firebox was devised to provide a dry steam-collecting space and was adopted by Gooch for many of his early designs, including the Firefly class and his first of the series that became the famous 8 foot singles.  After the first of these, Gooch reverted to a round-top firebox

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