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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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Track & Traversers

C+L underlay and Carr's ballast

For what it's worth, here's a quick recap of some of the products I tried out for the underlay and ballast on "The bay".       C+L foam underlay. I used neoprene foam from C+L Finescale for the underlay. This was of 5mm thickness, although I believe they now also have an 3mm version available. The foam may at first seem rather sensitive: Even a light prod of a finger leaves a noticeable hollow. However, the foam eventually evens out, and in any case becomes much less sen
Mikkel

Mikkel in Track & Traversers

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70 ft update

Just thought I'd post a few more photos of the restaurant and corridor composite now they've had a coat of undercoat and the underframes have been put together.This is the underframe for the composite, the trussing is made from 60 thou square plastic strip. This shows the extension of the interior by adding an extra first class and third class compartment.   both sides of the composite.   the restaurant car   underframes for both vehicles, showing the six wheel bogies on the restaurant
rovex

rovex

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Wot I dun wile RMweb wuz down

Mostly working actually. But I did spend a little time on Somercombe and now I have a week of annual leave starting tomorrow, I hope to get more done. Firstly I purchased a granite pestle and mortar from Tesco for the princely sum of ??7. Then, in return for a helping hand, I got hold of a tubfull of fine coal from one of my neighbours. Some of this has been ground up and graded, first through a cheap metal tea-strainer to get the dust out, then through some 1mm mesh for something that can be u
JZ

JZ

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Cottleston Park

Tonight was the moment of truth. How would the electrics fare having been in storage? The simple answer is very well!   The controller was plugged in, and after a minor glitch traced to a loose wire on the controller connection, we were ready to go! The track was cleaned and teeh first trains to run for over a year were let loose.   I took along a single box of bits to try out, pictures below:   The first example is a very nice Micro Ace Kiha 48 two-car DMU. This model runs as well as it
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Coombe Barton

Coombe Barton   Coombe Barton is a small town west of Exeter and east of Penzance. It lies on the southern slopes of the granite moorlands and thus is sheltered from the worst of the weather. The town takes its name from its deep valley location, or coombe which is possibly of the same derivation as the Welsh cwm, and the parish's most important farm, or barton. This latter may have been derived from the Old English (Anglo Saxon) beretun, meaning enclosure or barley-yard.   The town owes
Coombe Barton

Coombe Barton

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6. Let's See Some Action!

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee. OK, lets break things up a bit shall we? Here are some videos of the trains moving. Its not the best digital camera in the world for taking the first five videos but I hope it gives you a different view of the layout in action. The last two vids were taken with a new camera and have a better quality picture. You will see that I like to run things at express speeds so my appologies to those that get travel sick:rolleyes: Lets feel those G forces......  
John Geeee

John Geeee

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More from the ERG Virtual Workbench

The second draft of the 59 stock is a lot better and bodes well for the future. I've been pretty busy with some other bits following some requests, viz the Class 158 in EMT livery in both N and OO, OO Turbostar in Transpennine livery (a real pig to do), and more N Gauge Renaissance coaches.     The Renaissance stock has given me a few ideas for other "international" releases in N. Unfortunately, I can't get onto my FTP site at present to do some much needed updates.   It's supposed to chu
Adam1701D

Adam1701D

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Prototype pics from the real Deadwater

One of the features of the blog idea I was really looking forward to was getting the prototype pics in somewhere near the start:   on the old forum I put them in a seperate prototype thread and they got swampled/buried within a very short space of time! I hope these pics may be a useful companion to both the Ian Futers articles/drawings in RM and the 'Modelling Scotland's Railways' book. There are also pages on the Subbrit and Northumbrian Railways webpages. Fairloans area looking towards
Russ (mines a pint)

Russ (mines a pint)

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Rannoch Moor Returns

Hi Everyone,   The only advantage to the site being down is I have made good progress on Rannoch but now things are back I thought it is about time I bring you up to date with the progress of my modern image layout Rannoch Moor. I have been redesigning the storage roads as I have too much stock planned for this layout so I now have the space for an additional four 2 car units of 156 / 158 length. The re build has also given me 2 longer loops so again gives more flexiblility in operation. This
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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5. The First Turntable

The OO Garden Shed By John Geeee   So, this is my first attempt at a working turntable. I bought the Dapol turntable kit because it was relatively smaller than others available and it was cheap. I thought I would try and motorise it and use it in the first loco yard. I bulit the kit easily and tried to paint it to make it look dirty and weathered. This was my first attempt and I think it shows!   I plonked a length of track on top of the turntable and added a couple of brass strips undernea
John Geeee

John Geeee

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7011 Banbury Castle

Although most of my recent heavy duty modelling has been directed at building my S&D layout, I've still got far too many other projects on the boil, much of which revolve around my long-term interest in the GWR/WR. Here's the latest thing off the workbench, which (like my 9F) appeared on the old forum in an unfinished state. Just in time to be made completely redundant by the new Hornby model, here's a detailed and re-powered old-style Castle, numbered for 7011 Banbury Castle. It has a Comet
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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A Signal of Success

Well, in less than an hour we have this ....           Shame that Major Clanger (Wizard Models) only has four or so left of these servo kits left, even I managed to get it up and running
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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grass has grown

Did some work over the tunnel that leads to Upper Brimsley, grass and heather has grown and filled in nicely. Just tried uploading an image and got an error so will try again later.   update: success  
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

CMS 123 and other information

From the outset we wished the layout to be used as a platform for explaining the amount of work undertaken by staff every day (and mostly at night) to ensure the trains continue to run for the public.   The backscenes by the wash and toilet discharge roads were unable to have any meaningful scenery added before the exhibition so they were chosen to display information to the exhibition visitors (another of Glenn's ideas). This not only finds a use for the screen in front of the fiddle
Flood

Flood in Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

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Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

The first public display (Mickleover Oct 3rd/4th)

Attached are a few photos from the first exhibition we attended. The first four were taken by Glenn about three days before the exhibition in his front room/dining room. The remainder were taken rather badly by me on the Saturday morning of the exhibition.                     The hole in the depot building roof is deliberate. Without it the public cannot see inside and we can have difficulties unc
Flood

Flood in Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

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Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

Basic scenery

The next job for the layout was ballasting all the viewable track and, yet again, we ended up spending far more time on this process than we first thought.   We started the job together but with the layout being at Glenn's all the time I only managed two boards with two lines on each. Writing this report I'm beginning to wonder how much I actually contributed to this layout! In the meantime I was given the responsibility of making the depot shed and Glenn decided to have a side project
Flood

Flood in Blog Aberdeen Kirkhill

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Southeast Steam Railway - A New Arrival

Hi Guys,   The SESR has a new arrival, A Bachmann BR Green Class 20, which I brought off a club member on Wednesday.   It's one of the older batch of models & I brought it for ??20   I don't know what I should do with my old Lima class 20, any thoughts?   Simon
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Gloucester Road - intro

Have been lurking around for sometime now, both on the old RMweb and here on the new site. I am still having image issuses so I won't put any on here till that is resolved, but there are pictures at www.freewebs.com/nguagingwilliam. I have been interested in modeling trains for some twenty years and have built several over the years, some good some not. All have been a learning experience; now my two boys are interested and we spend time together playing and modeling. Gloucester Road is not
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Onwards and upwards

The footplate of most loco builds is the platform for the rest of the locomotive and needs to be a substantial structure - I have seen (and built) several kits where the footplate is so flimsy that an inevitable curve is later introduced by the addition of the superstructure. I am not expecting such problems with this kit, however I am aware that there are parts in the design that may cause me some challenges - not least the use of some serious overlays (buffer beams) and the nuts and bolts (lit
Kenton

Kenton

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J52

As I said The loco has been sprayed black and have started to paint the cab, buffer beams etc. Going away to see the inlaws for a few days and hope to get the farther in law to help me letter this loco and a few others. Mad rush last night to finish off painting a couple of other locos and get my bits together.
hayfield

hayfield

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Cul Uisge - Kyle in 4 feet - Goods Shed

On the layout there are only 3 major structures - the overbridge, the station building and the goods shed. The overbridge is simply thick card covered with metcalfe stone card.   For those of you who don't remember the how the shed started out it went from a basic mounting board shell with peco doors :     Corrugated plasticard was added to the outside and the whole lot painted with Humbrol green spray paint :     Finally, in the last few days the roofs have been painted silver, the
backwaterscotland

backwaterscotland

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Weyford

A few more pictures from the last week as a progress update.   The next job around the docks area is to complete the platform tops. This is in the capable hands of Ben and looks pretty god so far. The M7 is one of 009Matt's forays into the big stuff .   Evidently Hornby know something about the M7 that none of us at the club were aware of     Finally, also from the workshops of 009Matt are a number of soldiers out and about on the cliff top...
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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