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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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eetype3's Traction Blog

Back again, and still a Luddite

Hello again   Just to prove that I am still alive, here's my first post to my new blog - here's hoping that it's all working as it should. I have to confess a certain aura of the Luddite when learning how to conform to the new order; I find it quite complex compared to the previous RMWeb but I'm sure that I'll get used to it in time.   I've decided to blog my "locomotives" thread and "layout" thread separately; "Southwich" is still very much alive but somewhat denuded since I decided that
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Cornish_Rail's Blog

Hayle Wharf and projects

Hello i thought i would finally Start one of these blogs i've been trying to decide on where to base my new exibithion layout after the learning curve of my last layout brook road. I was toying wiv a few ideas but wanted a layout with local history i was talking to a fellow member of hayle who had buillt many moons ago a layout based on newham quay that after getting over apost crimbo flu it cam to me nobody had modeled hayle wharfs so i set about planing away i hope to include a working sa
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GWMark's Workbench Blog

Back to GT3

Well, the New Year period has enabled me some time to get back to doing a bit of loco building. The project, a resin GT3 from Golden Arrow with the detailing etches from Bill Bedford and Ian (macgeordie) of RMWeb. Progress has been slow until now, as with most of my builds, being interrupted by other projects, electronics modules for club layouts and the general things in life that take away our time. However since getting home from a Christmas visiting my mother I have built the buffer beam, ca
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lancer1027's Blog

PZ Signal Box up-date

These are the next few pics of progress. They show the first stages of painting the brickwork. I have given the mortar its first coat and the bricks have had the first stage. Next will be a slightly different shade of brick colour. This will be done several times to create the different colour/texture of the bricks. Once this has been done then i will give the mortar a slightly different texture at various places , so that it is not a uniform colour. Then i will paint the concrete lintels. Once
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lancer1027's Blog

PZ Signal Box up-date

These are a few of the first stages of painting the brick work. I have done the mortar and the first covering of brick. This will be repeated several times to (hopefully) create to right look for the different colours of brick. Once i have done this i will then add a different colour/texture to the mortar in various places. Then i will paint the concrete lintels.   Rob
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Markmiller2008's Blog

Further Progress to Resolve and 73204

Hi All   47769 "Resolve" has had further work done , now that i purchased some Matt Black paint to finish the other headcode box and the Black patches over the VT logo.     73204 " Janice" has had a Craftsman Detailing Kit fitted and yellow ends repainted to the right shade of Warning Yellow. (If anyone has a spare one of the curved jumper cable for a 73 please PM me its shed one on the other end)     Anyone wishing to see any of my locos or Millbenton Lane , the next outing for th
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Will J's Random Adventures in N Gauge

The Return of 'Superpannier'.... almost

Well, it is a year since I picked up a rather unloved 'Grafar' Pannier, and set about chopping up a Dapol Ivatt chassis to convert it into the charming, if rather brutal looking, 1500 class pannier.   Alongside the facelifted Minitrix Ivatt 2-6-0 (which uses buffer beams and smokebox from the donor Dapol tank engine) I seem to be running 'rehab' for old N gauge models that have been overshadowed by the recent rapid improvement in the scale!   The thread began, back in the day, with http://w
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CHRIS WORKBENCH.

Changes

Hello Folks, I have started a Layout thread in the normal place, so this will just be my thoughts and some of the goings on at the NYMR, such as I am very pleased to say that the Black 5, 45428 Eric treacy has passed her steam test with flying colours. many regards Chris
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RJRs Branch Lines

New Video, from RJR (Happy New Year)

Happy New Year to all !!!   Our house full of party guests have now left and we are still wide awake. So here is the video I compiled this afternoon from a running session this morning.   My Lap top didn't like processing the 6min film in HD so the quality is not as good as I would like but it gives a good idea of the two On30 modules in action (more or less ready for the Crewe Exhibition this month0   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYBNyUDJnY   I also managed to meet my goal of getti
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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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