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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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Cul Uisge - Kyle in 4 feet - A Brief Recap

Some of you may recall this layout from previous versions of RMweb. The original plan was to build one side of Kyle of Lochalsh station in 4mm scale. The Mk1 version of the layout was 8' x 2' plus fiddle yard but this became to big for the room I was working in so Mk2 was begun, recovering as much material from the previous version as possible.   Main scenic board :   Overhead view showing trackplan :   Today the layout is fairly well progressed. There is still the main building to con
backwaterscotland

backwaterscotland

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Rederring - The layout creeps on a pace

Original 'Rederring' thread on Ye Olde (and I think more user friendly!) RMWeb Rederring   I have been continuing with the scenery on 'Rederring' and it is slowly coming along. I will transfer the original Rederring forum posts when I get time. Here is a selection of pictures of the work so far.  
Savoyard

Savoyard

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Made the leap, finally !.

Hi Guys,   I see one by one we are all making the move to this new site. Its going to take a few days to get used to it, but I am liking the look so far.   Anyway, what`s happening on my workbench ?. Well forthcoming are a number of scratchbuilds which include GWR Castles, Modified Halls, LMS Princess` and Rebuilt Scots, to name but a few. Some will be long term projects, others will move with pace. All 7mm of course.   I hope to take time out to watch other people work and also give any
Nortonian

Nortonian

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There is no rest for the tired ones..

At the moment it seems that everything is all go and work is quiet. so here I am with no time to do any more modelling. When I get home in the evening I have to do all chores before 9pm before I collapse in a heap on the floor and can't do anything which followed up with a bad nights sleep and a rolling snowball of tiredness! Luckily there is somthing that I get during my working day called Break time. This is where all the theory work (drawing/ head scratching/ Planning for Newport happens) M
Yarnham

Yarnham

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Traintronics Signal light bleed issue

Will transfer the How to soon, but i've put the picture up so you can see how to and might not need the description off the old forum. How to: When i first got my traintronics signal i was slightly disapointed by the light bleed, at the time I had to accept it. But the other day I decided to have a fiddle (technical word) around with my signal, it turns out a simple 5 min job will fix the problem. Firstly you have to prise gently the back pannel off the back of the signal, you will then be f
DRSJOE

DRSJOE

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More Templotting on Bodmin

The last day or so has been spent doing yet more fine tuning to the Templot plan for Bodmin, Focusing on more small improvements to alignment, and more importantly sorting out the sleepers.   This results in a change from this:   to this:   Much tidier!   There is still a fair bit more to do, with the Sleeper spacing still needing to be corrected on to concrete track (still more reading of the manual needed to work out how to have two different sleeper spacings on the layout without
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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An evening of Art work

Last night was spend productively in front on the PC drawing a wagon turntable. The plan was inspired by the York Model Making stand at Scaleforum and is an attempt to try and get something laser cut. The first drawing was e-mailed late last night so I'll be interested to hear back on feasibility and cost. Dependng on these I may try to get a number produced. If any one might be interested then please let me know. The design should be ok from P4 or EM, I think I'd need to draw a different versio
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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LMS Coaches

2 of the 3 Sidelines LMS coaches I'm working on have been primered - it might be warm enough for top coat today. I also went to the expense of adding the suspended gangway, it does make a significant contribution to the clutter on the end of the coach - worth doing.  
dibateg

dibateg

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More Ex LNER Opens!

Right - I think I'm getting it, the previous tatster shows mdoified ends with steel channels replacing the lower planks.   Just working on 4 Parkside Opens that incorporate the wooden underframe from the fitted van, and the body from the unfitted kit. I'll be demonstrating them at BRM Peterborough alongside Dikitriki.   Come and say hello.   The fitted gubbins takes shape  
dibateg

dibateg

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On the start line

Instructions read and re-read, yet I cannot get over the fact that they remain incomplete as a whole, making too many assumptions of the kitbuilder's knowledge of the prototype, kit locomotives and building this type of kit. A good description of the process in text referring to numbered parts in a list and on the fret does not give the builder any real idea where a part happens to be used on the prototype or on the model. Not all parts are clearly identifiable as a locomotive part. The drawings
Kenton

Kenton

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Recap

Hi all,   As a first post, a recap of where me and my lad got to after ten months working on the layout.   Starting at Xmas 2009 we embarked on creating our son his first model railway. He had acquired an interest in trains when visiting his 'grandma by the seaside' for holidays where grandad had an exhibition standard n gauge setup in the spare room.   Using a starter set from the Argos sale and a few trackpacks we got a basic trackplan going with a double loop and a siding. This was en
Steve with the Hat

Steve with the Hat

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Millport Victoria, work continues

Although we have good clubrooms, they are not just used by ourselves and therefore we have to box Millport up after each session. We try to spend a good hour and a half working on the layout were possible. Some of last nights tasks for the group were the laying of track in the station area and completing the track laying in the shed area. Also a start was made on giving some of the buildings some TLC in the form of a gentle dusting and hovering.   Below is a photo showing the track laying in
87023Velocity

87023Velocity

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DCC and Me

Ok...here's the next installment. My venture into the world of DCC...but first I have to backtrack in time...   After I finished the 6ft x2ft layout that I built a number of years years ago, (I mentioned it and posted pics of it in the second entry of this blog) I took a few years to read, do research,accumulate stock and armchair( build in my mind) my next layout. One of the things I knew I wanted to do on the next layout, along with makeing it very lightweight and trying the bike-spoke po
Gene

Gene

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Wot's this blog stuff all about

To give this blog thing a try then (database permitting) I'm going to start a blog!   My layout is about 2.25m by 4.5m and sits in the garage (gathering dust most of the time). I started it in late 2005. Trackwork and wiring are about 75% complete, scenery about 5%. I intend to build the layout up as a series of dioramas representing a fictitious route leading north or east out of Manchester. Timescale is the present day, and I can run scale length passenger trains and freights up to 2 m
Edwin_m

Edwin_m

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The classic vicarage study layout?

Well, it is in a parsonage study, anyway. This space over the fireplace and the photocopier seemed inviting, so I filled it with some benchwork:     The space is 116" wide, and the layout is 25" deep at the two ends, about 13" in the middle. This view gives an indication of the shape:     (Apologies for the picture quality, by the way. My camera is on the blink, and these are taken on my 'phone. I hope to get the camera sorted and have clearer pictures as this progresses.)  
Easterner

Easterner

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New forum - new resolution

Like the rest of you, I'm trying to get the hang of this new format. I've had a few days not posting at all to watch how it all works, and I thought what better time to turn over a new leaf and become a bit less of an armchair modeller, a bit more of the productive kind.   So I've resisted posting until now; this is my first contribution to the new forum, and the big news is that it contains some actual modelling!   Here we go...
Easterner

Easterner

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Disaster....

So much for 34100 Appledore being in the paintshop It currently lies totalled on the layout after it got knocked off the paint stand by yours truly and hit the floor smokebox first - it's not a pretty sight. Fortunately I have another donor...
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Hinton Parva - Post Farnham

Hinton Parva made an appearance at the Farnham and District MRS show last weekend with the new lighting rig making its debut.     A few teething issues mainly with the operators on Saturday morning were soon overcome and on the whole the weekend went well. We do however have a couple of small items to fix before its next outing at Wycrail on the 7th November.
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Tigh Charran - The Construction So Far.

I have tried to bring in some of the content from my layout thread on the old board, but it didn't work. So anyway a brief summary of the construction.   Baseboards:   Constructed by Grandad and I, using 5mm MDF, 2 x 1 for Legs and Strengthening, and Shelf Brackets for support.   Track:   Is all PECO Code 100, using concrete sleepers. All the points are insulfrog, and made live for dcc by using the Hornby DCC Electroclips. The hard standing area is constructed using card from used refill
wollastonblue

wollastonblue

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GWR slip coach finished

well one of the jobs i did today was to finish off the Comet kits kit No W46 of the Dia F24 slip coach I have found this as with all the other Comet kits i have built a nice kit to work on with no problems though i did replace the seating from the kit with southern pride seats
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Brave new world and old back's of envelopes

Well this is my first post on here an a bit of a test really. I was going to bring some stuff over from the old forum, but decided against it due to complete lack of activity. I am hope that this spurs me on to 'get things done' But being a serial scale hopper I am trying to tie myself down to 1 or maybe 2 at most so I can have some output.   Whilst digging around files sections I came across this plan which I drew some time ago. I still rather like it and think it would make a nice 2mmFS layo
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Here we go...

Thanks for all the kind comments, glad people like the pics/layout!   Marc - I can't see myself ever exhibiting the layout to be honest, it wasn't planned as an exhibition layout and, as such, hasn't been built correctly. Although it amuses me to shunt a few wagons about randomly, it doesn't have enough scope to entertain at an exhibition. Coupled [no pun intended!] with the fact I changed my mind mid build to not have a fiddle yard, the siding lengths are really all wrong!   Audley Road - I
matto21

matto21

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