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Railway Series, P4, SCC and Pre-Grouping blog. Basically whatever I'm modelling at the time.

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Two 5700 Ducks Follow Up Video!

I made a blog here...   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/483/entry-21325-a-tale-of-two-ducks-5700-conversions-many-pics/   Well here is a video of it!  
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A Tale of Two Ducks! - 5700 Conversions (Many Pics!).

At last some actual modelling! Two Little Ducks; Twenty Two - Quack Quack! You remember my RWS Duck From 2007 right? Of course you do. It was kindly hosted on TRLOTTTE that I am relieved to finally realize has been saved by Ryan and his merry men! http://www.sodor-island.net/railwayseries/ http://www.sodor-island.net/railwayseries/modeller-gavin-duck.htm This was then rebuilt slightly when the chassis was modified and converted to P4 instead of 00. This is what it looked like All good
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Norramby Ballasting Success! (with pic's)

Track weathered with an almost black wash, was using my dirty enamel jar, then once dried a brown was dry brushed in between tracks and edges. It is a bit patchy and could do with more work here and there yet I don't want to over do things. Some areas need a bit extra ballast too.   Anyway, track cleaned and it still works!   This for me is a railway modelling mile stone.   No seriously, it is the first time (other than the P4 layout that used Normon Solomon ballasting method) I have eve
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Super Hyper Cheap RTR Coach Bargains - UNREAL!

Had a great day today with Steamer58 from SiF (I'm a member too) who is on his massive vacation from the USA.   Today we were at the GCR/Great Central Railway. Lovely day for it too.   Anyway, it's the first time we met up and the day was fun. Cheers mate.   Whilst we were there we ventured to the swapmeet. More like a car boot sale but I picked up some hyper bargains....and I mean hyper!   Ok, here are the two pictures. One as an overview and another close up.     The 3 N G
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RTR Locomotive Unboxing Video Whingy RANT!

This video is NOT intended to offend anyone despite me being a bit aggressive, just having a whine on what I'm am bored silly of seeing in nearly all unboxing videos....and having a bit of a playful poke at how the format is generally played out! The opinions in this video are my own and again the intent isn't to offend but rather express my preference on how I think it SHOULD be done.      
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Out N About Norramby Part 4 - Control Panel & Home Brew Switches!

You likely know SEEP solenoid point 'motors' can be tricky as the washer style switch can rub away and also in N gauge the alignment has to be extra critical to make the switch work.   Well, all WAS fine until they started to play up and no amount of re-adjusting would sort it...even though they were aligned correctly and WERE working.   So what was the solution?   Well, I didn't want to disturb the wiring and change anything and they would have to fit in the space available and also mecha
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Tidmouth-Vicarstown Hybrid Plan and Norramby Control Panel

If anyone can help with the above great, if not no worries. So what is this massive 00 gauge layout I am building in the loft? I haven't revealed much about how the plan looks, suffice to say I have been planning Knapford Junction and Tidmouth on and off with a thousand revisions since around 2010 due to the lack of space. It is also why I cannot do it in P4 but I can do it in 00, will be hand building some track to save money too and make it more realistic. P4 layout will go above as an end t
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Out N About...Once Again - Episode 1 - Norramby

New N Gauge Layout Series!   Last one was going great until i lost it due to the card warping. Anyway, loft progress is going good for the 00 and P4 layouts that will be going up there, for my room though it's back to N...  
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NWR #1 Thomas IMPROVED & Video!

Ok cushy update.   I sorted it, little birdy in the mind wouldn't shut up so I took the keeper plate off, removed the wheels, poked the 'compo' pin out, turned the bar around and then after a bit of trial and error bent it to where it worked properly. Result is great running again also slightly improved so I'm uber pleased.   When I glued the lead shot in the 'ballast bin' I forgot to not get the glue between the keeper. As a result ol' Bonehead had to rip it off and sort another out. So I w
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NWR #1 'Thomas' & SCC Chassis Developments & Experiments

Greetings.   If you followed this thread and the above post you may know that I eventually solved the issue of getting a LB&SCR E2 kit I was happy with...I made my own. So my first Sparkshot Custom Creations E2 was in Gunky rusted BR Black using the cheaper WSF material. Since then I have also been working on a new type of chassis and the prototype can be read about and viewed as a video regarding the Furness J1 in this thread:   https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&
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New layout Framework Progress - Hippo Proof.

Update on the layout. I will be making a Video Log series but at the moment it's just Blog style.   Been building the struts along the wall using roughly lengths cut to (mostly) 2 foot long. Some are a wee less but it doesn't matter that much if a few are a bit out as long as the surface is level. Me and Daddio been doing it and we've tried to get it as consistent as possible with the Spirit Level. I've had to wind him up a few times because we have a different idea on what is 'good enough' bu
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New Layout started - Details and pics in this blog!

The Knapford Junction plan is still a location I very much want to model but so is Tidmouth MPD and after literally over 5 years of constantly re-planning these two locations due to space restraints (planning started way before I joined Scale4) I feel strongly that my hand is forced to backslide a wee. Because my ambitions are big and I ultimately do know what I want for the 'proper' layouts I'm going to have to do them in 00. I didn't want to believe me, I mentally have been kicking and screa
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Micro Plank Designs?

As I'm now layoutless again I have decided to build a tiddler above my bed. Any input or ideas would be appreciated. So far thinking along these (railway) lines...   I'm now thinking of doing a series of micro layouts to iron out ballseybodgycockupadoodoowz could you please provide ideas on the following designs. I found I actually have just over 4' overall so that helps a little. If I decide to do this in 4mm rather than N then...     They are the track plans I'm thinking of doing.
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Out N About - VLOG 19 - End of the Line.

That's right, starting a new project instead. got MANY THINGS right this time, a lot went right, learned a lot, BUT...   But...   BUT...   I am highly frustrated and so was forced to scrap it due to angry bear.  
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Out N About - VLOG 18

Computer issue sorted out. Turned the overclock off. Must have been over heating. As a result here is Out N About part 18.  
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Photobucket and plans update

Involves Photobucket.   I don't like uploading pictures manually to different forums as I usually paste them on a few so there is over 10 years on several forums of projects hidden to the world. Not paying $399 to resume as normal. A right pisser. :shock:   They updated there terms of usage on the 28th of June 17 apparently. 2 days ago, as a result...   "Free account : Each individual Member gets one free account that provides 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original
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I Left Work! Plans!

This is to do with modelling and other things, a video for those of you who want to know me a bit more.
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P4 layout popped -Onwards & Upwards!

Doubting this post will interest many for a variety of reasons but I feel it deserves to be explained fully.   A few days ago I ripped the layout up.   P4 too hard for me? Giving up? Nope, neither. All is explained below.   I originally designed the layout to utilise the P&C already built rather than build some new points. I built it as a typical P4 test plank as is traditional to get a feel for things, make mistakes on, experiment with new ideas, provide a photographic backdrop an
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