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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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Brafferton - 2mm Finescale

Woody End

Time to address the left-hand end of the layout. In real life, the line just plodded on over several miles of open farmland before reaching Pilmoor Junction. This would look a bit odd, running the line through an undisguised hole in the backscene. Time to invoke my modellers licence!   There are several copses and small woods dotted around the line and indeed at Pilmoor itself there were substantial woodlands. So I've simply moved a small wood so that the line runs through it.   A base of da
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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Keyhaven

From: K2yhaven - Baseboards Completed

Another day shower dodging.   Baseboards connected, train turntable cut out, front scenic boards knocked together and the boards corked.       I've not decided yet whether the water (front middle board) will be done as before with paint/PVA/varnish layers on the flat ply top or to invert the board and create some depth to the water within the well. I'll try a couple of ideas and see where it heads.     When it's all locked together it's reasonably stable; I did manage to disassemble
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Keyhaven

From: K2yhaven - Baseboards Started

"Ooh, I didn't expect it to be that big", long time since I've heard that one.   Whilst showers just about managed to hold off I was able to get the main baseboards and legs knocked together. I hadn't properly considered the leg issue when I made the previous board so that's also been replaced which now means the legs are interchangeable between boards with an easy slot in. No more bulky steel trestles!               A little more time would have enabled me to fit the internal an
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Keyhaven

From: K2yhaven - fitting into the real world

Got the crayons out and had a scribble.         And then tried to put it into a 'real world' context.       That's definitely not to scale, that ferry would be huge!   For anyone who hasn't been to Keyhaven (which is probably in excess of 99% of the population) this snap shows where the car ferry ramp would be.   http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/19508             Source: K2yhaven
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Keyhaven

From: K2yhaven - The Plan

After months years of chewing over the next phase of Keyhaven everywhere I turned there were self-created compatability issues and also the legacy of bits that could have been better so I'd decided some time back that its offspring would recreate some of the old but improve upon it, especially from an operation viewpoint, and take the idea a stage further.   If I keep deliberating and looking for problems it'll never happen so now is the time of year to make a start, a time when you can traips
Andy Y

Andy Y

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Skinnylinny's Blog

First bits of scenery...

Well, the time came for another trip to Harburn Hobbies (usual disclaimer applies - no connection other than satisfied customer, etc. etc.) and departing with a yellow bag that felt much lighter than when full of 00 stuff (although the wallet felt heavier, so that's probably not such a bad thing!). Some more track (almost enough to complete the station and scenic area), a Peco platform kit and one wagon (to test my tracklaying until the rolling stock I made last year turns up in the unpacking!),
Skinnylinny

Skinnylinny

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Narrowman's Blog

Caia Road Goods, Wrexham

This was reactivated by a conversation with Martin Wales and started in the Prototype section.   Going back to Caia Road Goods, as our discussion, I feel it could be compacted from the goods shed which could act as a disguise for the entrance to the fiddle yard and the other end could continue over the road bridge along the embankment alongside the river Gwenfro and McDermot's scrapyard and under the rodbridge to Hightown Halt (the second fiddle yard). It would feature 57xx and 64xx panniers,
narrowman

narrowman

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"The Caley" BREL Glasgow Works (1974-79)

2. The Carriage Shop - Prototype Photo's

There's plenty of photographs of Glasgow Works / St.Rollox but usually involving locomotives and rarely of Loco-Hauled Stock, NPCCS, DMU's or EMU's in the Carriage Shops....   One person who did take some however was Brian Daniels to whom I'm grateful for allowing me the use of these shots;   View looking East to the end of No.6 Road in the carriage shop - usual Met-Camm in for a bit of bodywork and one of the many to get the rainwater strip removed and replaced with full length aluminium
Bob Reid

Bob Reid

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"The Caley" BREL Glasgow Works (1974-79)

1. The Carriage Shop - Introduction

You know the script with tribute bands like The Bootleg Beatles – kind of like the real thing but not quite! Well this “working diorma†is in essence a bootleg B.R.E.L. Glasgow Works /St.Rollox / “The Caley†(if you’re a local), specifically part of the Carriage and Carriage Lift Shop complete with the unique within BREL, lifting traverser sat square in the middle, set in the years 1974 to 1979.   The “not quite†bit is down to it being almost half the width with half the roads o
Bob Reid

Bob Reid

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work bench

K's GNR Atlantic

I have started to build up the cylinders, they are now glued together and I have started the filling process with Milliput. More filling is required along with rebuilding the cylinder fronts.     I also need to work out whow high the cylinders should be.     They are just a push fit into the chassis / body at the moment.   Next job is to rebuild the crossheads
hayfield

hayfield

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Jon020's Layout Blog

Scenic Photo/Display Board: Fourth ballasting attempt - 2 steps forward

Just a quick update to my last blog. Today I placed a bit of finescale track on a board (offcut of laminate flooring) and applied ballast... using techniques contributed through comments to my last entry - so, quicker than before... and then gave it a really good wetting... with it sat on my boys art table in the conservatory where the lino floor is easy to wipe to remove the water/screen wash overspill from - and there was lots. I applied the cement with a pipette and it seemed to work. It seem
Jon020

Jon020

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vulcanbomber's Blog

Rocrail and Barkham Green

I've started work on the layout after the hot summer. with work continuing on the gasworks and automation with Rocrail I've now managed to automate things, so that a loco with 2 coal trucks leaves the storage siding and proceeds to the gasworks, where it stops. I have prorammed into rocrail a simulated switch, which stops the loco until it has been uncoupled and the gasworks points set manually, when the switch is set to go (green). The computer runs the next schedule which is to return the
vulcanbomber

vulcanbomber

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4mm scale agonies

Catching up

Not posted to this blog in the longest time so here's a quick update of the salient points of the past year. The Layout continues to be well received at shows in fact I was interviewed on Saint Cloud, MN local radio with it at Easter as the layout is based on an industry there. I've also been approached by folks who actually work at the prototype and have shared inside information with me that helps me to understand the models operation. The layout received an invitation to the Worlds Greates
Ian Holmes

Ian Holmes

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Tredethy Wharf

A funny mix of events

The last three weeks have been a funny mix. Holidaying in a leaking tent. Doing some more work on the garden project. Painting and basing new elements for my 15mm Napoleonic Austrian army which were used for an inaugural game in my regular opponents new gaming room. Track laying being started on Tredethy Wharf with the first point in position and the Tortoise point control mechanism in place under the baseboard (motor still to be installed). Legs being constructed for the two scenic boar
Yan

Yan

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Will's workbench

60014: Sound, driver and minor cab tweaks

I thought I should take the plunge and get a test item of motive power finished up ready for Rail-ex in November. I like 60s, so it's going to be 60014, which I bought locally a year or so ago but hasn't been out of the box much in the meantime apart from the occasional ogling session   First step was to fit a sound chip and speaker - this is using the Howes class 60 chip with a DCC supplies bass reflex speaker fitted above the twin grilles in place of the "doughnuts". Since my chassis is an
Will Vale

Will Vale

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harkins77's Blog

lines on a shelf from a wardrobe update. Scenic work starts

After a little bit of a lull on the layout after the excitement of getting things moving on the 3 boards I've made a start on the scenic part of the layout. Starting with the dividing wall between the lower and upper lines.   I made the decision to use the Scalescenes archways for the first time and apart from fingers being covered in UHU glue I'm enjoying the kit so far.   I am thinking that before I put the archway onto the back picture is it worth just running the sandpaper over the cut o
harkins77

harkins77

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The Grime Street Blog

Some more festival pics and a little modelling update...

Contrary to the previous pics 'Grime Street' wasn't the only layout at the Festival of..., Paul kindly sent over a few pics of some of the other layouts     Sealane Sunderland trams in 7mm     Sealane Sunderland 48     Greg Marsden's superb Stockport 20, 3/4" scale     Stocport Water Car by Greg Marsden again.     Pete Whiteley's illuminated Blackpool Western Train     illuminated Hovertram     Foxwood Park by Gordon Bulmer as in RM recently.   Video showing
Red Devil

Red Devil

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

The construction of Calshot - Part Eight - Weathering trials and other news

The construction of Calshot - Weathering, modelling quay walls and general progress   Well, work is ongoing on Calshot II. I have experimented with weathering as it is something I have always wanted to try but never really been confident with trying out. The first image shows my two weathered wagons (I'm yet to work out how to weather the roof). First the wagons were given a wash of a browny colour and then mostly dabbed off with a cotton bud. The raised metal detail is then paint
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Dad-1's Blog

Current Diorama, or is it a Micro ?

I'm a fidget, I can't sit watching TV for long without wanting to do something with my hands.   Had over 35 years of scale aircraft modelling, but needed a change a couple of years ago. As with many I'd always dreamed of having a model railway, but never had the space, time, or finance. With retirement and the children all having flown the nest that just left finance, with interest rates at such low levels I thought I'd spend some money before it became worthless.   This means my knowledge o
Dad-1

Dad-1

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Skinnylinny's Blog

University layout - fresh beginnings in N (and 000!)

After a year in university halls, in which I dabbled a little in 009 and N scale (mostly building wagon kits and two Parkside 009 coaches), I moved into my flat for the next three or four years on Monday. Considering that I had the smallest room of any of the bedrooms in the flat, I didn't hold much hope of having any space for modelling. Cue two surprises when I arrived.   The first surprise was a shelving unit with shelves 5'6" by 1'. Hmmm... enough space for a small N scale BLT?   The se
Skinnylinny

Skinnylinny

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Protocrastinations

A short history of planning

I've been reviewing this section of my 4mm scale agonies blog http://4mmscaleagonies.blogspot.com/search/label/plans I can't believe that in the space of less than 2 years I came up with 20 schemes for layouts. Looking at them all again after not having seen them together in a year makes me realize that I'd still like to model them. All the concepts, Nuclear flask terminal, scrapyard and of course the Haven. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so creative
Ian Holmes

Ian Holmes

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Redgate's Modelling

The leg bone don't connect to the knee bone ....

Am I glad I fitted the return crank/eccentric rod before anything else.   It doesn't connect to the expansion link too well at all, in fact by 2mm   Looking again at the drawing (a lot!) leads me to the conclusion that the motion bracket/weighshaft needs to move back. The weight drawing of course shows a Britannia type bracket and I'm using a 9F one and there are differences.   One advantage of all this rework is that the valve rod will not need shortening and clearances underneath the
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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