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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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Muz workbench - Crediton in two forms

21C148 / s21C148 is now finished and just awaiting light weathering.   The difference in livery as 21C148 condition on one side as yet un-named and in post Feb 1948 condition on the other can be seen, along with the differing deflector lengths.     To answer Ivan's comment is that the casting for the original style cabs (which were based on my original scratch brass cabsides) are available to non members from the Southern Railways Group.
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Conflat Clay

Have made a start on a conflat clay for Wheal Elizabeth. Before anyone asks, they were a Boplate E conversion with a couple of cut down ISO 20ft containers with sheets over. I don't know when they were created exactly, but I found a photo of one in Larkin's 'Working Wagons Vol 2 1974-79'. Apparently they ran to Avonmouth which was news to me. I didn't think they exported clay from there. I'll try and post progress. Should look very nice behind a hydraulic...
ullypug

ullypug

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Stooperdale Engineering Ltd a box file layout

Stooperdale engineering,a layout in a boxfile   by Tel2010   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________ Comment posted by mason on Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:00 pm   just checked out your fotopic site and this is a fantastic project, really nicely done with great eye for detail, well done mate   regards   neil __________________________________________   ??? posted on Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:01 pm   Hi Neil Thank you for your kind comments.Your boxfile layou
Tel2010

Tel2010

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Ballasting is slower than on the real railway

By May I'd managed to give the boards a coat of undercoat to give the scenics a base and completed the first bit of ballasting I've ever done. Having read lots of different techniques mine is very simple - a coat of sleeper grime from a Railmatch aerosol, sprinkle on the ballast (Riko ballast scatter), brush into the right sort of shape followed by the traditional mist of water spray with a drop of washing up liquid and applying the PVA with a dropper.         Six months later the bal
pauln

pauln

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Some electrical works .....

With a huge effort of will over Christmas 2008 I put most of the electrics into place before trying to run trains but I now have a near complete track layout on the front side and a simple rigged up circuit around the back (purely for "test" purposes).   I've tried to keep the electrics as tidy as possible allowing for the fact I have never wired up a DCC layout before nor done any soldering. Some of the track droppers soldered to the rails look rather hamfisted but I guess I can go back and r
pauln

pauln

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The boards fit together

This is an edited summary of my thread from the old RMWeb. Progress has been slow over the summer so let's start with the initial steps in September last year (wow! I did't realise it had taken me a year to get to where I am today .... how embarrassing).   So the history ..... after four false starts (OO, N, Japanese N, OO) and 30 years since I possessed an actual model railway I finally put four baseboards together and roughly concluded on a track plan. The final layout has ended up as 16ft
pauln

pauln

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9. The Retaining Wall

The OO Garden Shed By John Geeee   I look on my layout as eventually being a series of Diorama scenes all linked by railway track. I am certainly learning all the time so I never consider any scene to be complete untill I can master all forms of the art of railway modelling. Therefore as I learn a new skill I revisit one of the scenes and try to improve it, as seen earlier with the way I think I was improving the yard surface.   For the area past the new turntable I decided to create a smal
John Geeee

John Geeee

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Back to square one - nearly.

I manage to straighten out the slide bar / motion plate etch and the whitemetal piston rods, I drilled the holes in the crossheads for the 12BA bolts and was hoping to get the chassis / wheels/ motion assembled. On close inspection of the chassis though it was obvious that the paintwork was flaking away, it has been applied without any sort of primer, so I decided to disassemble the chassis and strip the paint. I'm glad I did as it became also obvious that the paint was literally holding some of
PhilH

PhilH

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The story from the old site......

Southern Pride 4REP   by DIW   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:43 pm   Now that I've finished the Teddyland Loco for my mountain layout ~(see separate thread for SPB No.16), I can make a start on my 4REP.   The roof details are fitted, and the chasses are started:       More to come hopefully as progress is made.   Dave   EDIT - 'Workbench' removed from topic title _________________________________
DIW

DIW

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Southeast Steam Railway

Hi,   Went down to Hunts of Marlow today to get some bits for Hythe Parkway, but came away with a couple of bits for the SESR   These were a couple of water cranes for the platform ends and some seats for the platforms   I'll take some pictures tomorrow   Simon
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Hythe Parkway - Remodelling starts!

Hi,   Right, today saw remodelling of Hythe's fiddle yard begin.   We Started by getting the Hop Field board up and ready to begin work at around 10:00 (About half an hour after I woke up! ). This was followed by ripping up the curve in 'Hop Cutting' in about 5 minutes (in real life this would take a week long possession and countless health and safety forms! ).   We went down to Hunts of Marlow to get some radius 3 curves, along with a tunnel mouth. We got back and started work again.
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Re-built West Country 34014 Budleigh Salterton - 1

I posted a similar thread on RMweb3 showing the current 'state of play' and it is just as easy to start agin here on v4.     So here we have a completed tender and a motorised chassis with cylinders fitted. the kit is from David Andrews and I really like David's kits - they fit together well, the instructions are good and so is the quality of the etches and castings, white metal and lost wax. The wheels are from JPL, ready turned and rim insulated on one side allowing me to use the 'America
Ressaldar

Ressaldar

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Micro Layout

With the weekend at hand and nothing much to do, I decided to rip up my aborted Weymouth 'plank' layout, simplified the track plan and came up with a 5 feet long micro layout.   There is still a lot of the Weymouth idea in this, but its a simple island platform station with a hidden run off, just enough to shunt some DMUs about. A couple of sidings in the front will add to the fun, and there's plenty of room for a decent station car park and road scene.   All the building shapes are just moc
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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Replica 4Epb. Continued

Hi All, Now I am up and running with the blog, I will continue with the conversion pics. The conversion uses 2 BS shells, 3 SO shells and two of the large MLV driving ends. Replica print a conversion guide for this, but I have done the DMBS differently. BS body showing removed sections.   This is what you need for the new brake sections of the DMBS.   Window cut into door of new brake section.   Starting to cut sections out of donor SO bodyshell.   Parts needed from the dono
5Bel

5Bel

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Replica 4Epb.

Hi All. First Blog entry so please bear with me. Went to the Peterborough show with the intention of buying some bits for my Replica MLV. Ended up coming away with enough bits from Replica to make a 4Epb!!. Hopefully here are some pics of the conversion so far. . First two cuts. Score and snap, using a new blade in your knife.
5Bel

5Bel

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34100 Appledore

After the tragedy of losing Appledore off the paint stand, she's well and truly risen from the ashes. Here in all her grubby glory, may I present 34100 Appledore 2.0    
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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A little bit about Coombe Keynes

Welcome To Coombe Keynes! Into Coombe Keynes is my first proper attempt at a scale model railway, I have had layouts in the past but they have never been quite what I was after. Hopefully Coombe Keynes will be Differnt.   The Basics   I started coombe keynes in Febuary this year and I have done most of the work myslef but with help from my dad . It is a 7'6" by 6" continuous run railway built with three 4' by 2' boards and two 3'6" by 2' boards making it portable. I volenteer at Swanage
LBSC123

LBSC123

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P4ing the NRM Deltic

Another quick project which has very little use (prototypically at least) for the new layout. I'm back home in devon for a few days, and given the weather isnt good enough to do the painting I had planned I have dug out a quick project to keep me occupied, converting my NRM deltic to P4   I'm going to set about doing this slightly different than usual, this time using Exactoscale 14mm wheels. My reasoning for this is three fold, firstly the wheels were purchased with the intention of fitting t
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Q1 Charlie 33006 update - 5

Hi all,   here are the weathered pictures but still awaiting the cab canopy (having various thoughts as to how to capture it) and the coalman has still to appear on the scene.     33006 left side 3/4 front     33006 left side 3/4 close up     33006 left side cab close up     33006 mechanical lubricator     33006 tender close up     33006 right hand side tender/cab detail     33006 right hand side cab     33006 right hand side 3/4 front   Hopefully, wi
Ressaldar

Ressaldar

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N gauge downunder Neb - Sturminster Newton

Have been tidying up over the past few weeks, its amazing the amount stuff you find when you clean-up! Other work has included: trying my hand at fence building, refining my static grass technique and trying to finish my entries into modeling comp for the BRMA convention this up coming weekend (3 NGS Mk1 horseboxes). On a good news front, my 7F has hit the rails. Its one of the old GEM S+D 7F 2-8-0 kits running on a Farish 8F chassis. I contacted GEM last month to check on progress of
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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A brief update..

As the pictures are now back here's T9 30717 in all her grubby glory     I'll post a few pictures of Appledore 2.0 a bit later today along with an updated pic of the PMV I've built.   I've also got another renaming project on the bench, yes it's another rebuilt West Country - 34093 Saunton..
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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No.1's Tender Moments

While Andy's been fixing the image display problem (thank you Andy! :icon_thumbsup2: ), I've had the flu and have had little energy to do any modelling. However the last few days I have felt a little better, so cracked on with modifying the tender for my Stirling Single No.1 bash.   First up, I have two plans - and am going to do both and fit whichever one fits the "look" better. First up then, is removing the coal rails from the Bachmann Emily tender.   This is how the tender looked a mont
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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