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The New Forest has a really beautiful stretch of coastline with a lot of history; yet at its east end, it's a mere stones throw from serious industrial sites like Fawley Oil Refinery and the huge power station (now undergoing demolition)! Despite featuring recognisable prototypical locations, this will be an entirely fictional account of the area, with a focus on local freight, and featuring a real ragtag collection of stock. Simply put, I've picked my favourite aspects of the area, and combined them all together in a small OO gauge layout set during preparations for the D-Day landings.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

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Bramble's Boatyard - Refining layout plans

Last blog entry, I showed a few of my latest designs - all drawn to scale; including one (BB12) which looked set to be, more or less, the final design. Throughout the comments on that post on RMweb, useful changes were suggested, and some implemented to form BB13. However, I'm going to skip straight to the later version (BB14), posting sketches and 3D designs, explaining what's good and what's bad, and explore ideas for further improvements, which will result in plans BB15 and BB15b Edit: And BB
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Bramble's Boatyard - From 'flights of fancy' to actual scaled plans!

In recent months, whatever free time I can scrape together (which isn't much!) has been spent on continuing to draw plans for Bramble's Boatyard. As usual, I got carried away...   ...but believe it or not, I have finally forced myself to draw some plans... wait for it... to scale!     Yes, crazy isn't it - from what has been, by this point, years of 'flights of fancy', to actual workable plans! I've always known almost all of my previous plans would be optimistic
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Bramble's Boatyard - It's D-Day! (Was "Coastguard Creek")

This entry was supposed to deal with an alternate history of the line/area (which had already been delayed for probably over a year - I had multiple directions I could take, and I wasn't sure which alternate timeline would tie in best with the layout because I hadn't got a firm layout design!)...   ...however, this past week, I'm happy to say that things have started to fall into place; thanks mostly to a request by BRM (British Railway Modelling) to photograph a particular layout at a
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Coastguard Creek - A practical reapproach!

Last blog entry, I shared a generous serving of the hundreds of sketches that I've drawn for Coastguard Creek. There will be a few more here, but this time I'd like to focus on how important it can be when layout planning to stop sketching and think logically for a moment! Let me explain...   ...after months of relatively fruitless sketching, on New Years Eve I took a step back and remembered my mantra (which came about after numerous failed projects) of 'design for the space y
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Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

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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Taking on your feedback!

A huge thanks to those who have given me ideas; including users from Twitter, RMweb, and Blogger. I've been quite surprised by the positive feedback, and the suggestions made have all been taken on board and implemented into the next version. A special mention to those on RMweb for their photos in the previous entry of ship breaking and repair yards. @petethemole's selection of photos in particular have been incredibly helpful getting a taste for what such a site looked like, and how it function
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