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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

A New Home

No, not for me. For my blog.   I've decided to move my missives on building Brafferton here.   Previous wafflings can be found here: 2mm NEAG   Hopefully I'll keep it up to date and keep the layout moving forward.
Tony Simms

Tony Simms

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Musings and wonderings (for now...)

Further thoughts on Charlton

You may remember that I was considering Charlton in South-East London as a prototype, but felt it needed to be reversed to fit my space. Further investigation shows that's not necessary, all I need to do is re-orientate it, so that the station is along the short wall of the room. I've roughed it out in XtrkCad:     Of course, Charlton doesn't have an EMU shed but I like them, so my version will have one! The four-road traverser at the bottom is four feet long, enough for 2 x 4-VEP in N-ga
Del

Del

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Ouse Viaduct/Balcombe/Lewes project

More laying out of parts

Not much happening on the viaduct at the moment (due to work pressure in my case and getting Matford ready for Scaleforum in John's).   However, whilst over at John's yesterday we tried to set out as many of the pieces as we could to get more of a feel for the size and to think about next moves after September.   This shows about two thirds of the full length, with the balustrades in about the right position and full height piers shown in the middle (apologies for the quality - hand held abo
10800

10800

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

Into the carriage works...

I have started construction of Festiniog Cariage 22 in it's current guise with large windows, as opposed to the earlier wooden panelled and smaller windowed body style, for more details, see here http://www.festipedi...iki/Carriage_22   I have the Worsley Works etches for the wooden body version, but, at present the newer body version is not available. Using the etches as a guid for the windows and overall dimensions, I have begun construcion in plasticard.     I intend to use Parksid
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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muddys-blues' Blog

Newton Ridley

Hi, this is the start on my very first blog, this has come about during my time studying & admiring other peoples great efforts on the RM web, I have decided to stop sitting there and become more constructive with my time and join the ranks of the RM beavers who like to share their skills & woes with other like minded people.   Having had a number of baseboards ready for my layout, I have had too many false starts & change of mind whilst lying awake at night thinking about this an
muddys-blues

muddys-blues

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RJRs Branch Lines

Class 25 interior details

Work has now started on trying to replicate the feel of the cab interior of the 25. The first part being the front consol. This is made from some plasticard off cuts and other bits of scrap from the bit box. The dials are images composed on the computer and reduced to fit. They are composites of various interior cab pictures I could find merged together.   On the workbench     Details added and painted in the cab       John
johnteal

johnteal

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2mm Random Ramblings

A Grand Day Out

Hello,   Well, my aim of posting one blog entry a week seems to have fallen by the wayside. I'll try and stick to this in the future - if only because it encourages me to do some modelling!   Today I spent the day at the Thirsk show helping operate this marvellous layout.     Yes, it is 2mm finescale! This is Mayfield Street, built by David Long. Today was it's debut on the exhibition circuit, and it performed really well. Thank you David for letting me loose on it!   It has inspired
2mm Andy

2mm Andy

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ClikC's P4 BREL Workshop

Class 87 for Caldew

As a break from my recent projects, I decided to start a long overdue project, a Class 87 re-motored and converted to P4.   An old Lima 87 was picked up for about £25 on Ebay, and with Rails of Sheffield having the new Heljan 86's on offer for varying prices, I picked one up for £84.50. Also had the benefit of allowing me to evaluate a Heljan 86 offering, and to be able to make a more informed opinion on it's viability for re-motoring Hornby's much better 86's and Hornby/Lima class 87's.  
ClikC

ClikC

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Work, Glorious Work!

Evening   This weekend has been extremely productive in terms of club activity as the decision was taken to hire a local village hall and pack both layouts over for a blitz session. Both Weyford and Yamanouchi Oshika benefitted from some serious and sustained attention. It was also great practice in breaking down, transporting and re-erecting the layouts.   We certainly had a lot of room to play with, as can be seen in this picture. Weyford is obviously in the foreground, with Yamanouchi O
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Pugsley's Workbench

BOGIES!

No, I've not been shouting that word in libraries in homage to Dick and Dom, but I've actually started work on the springy bogies of 415.   Quite a productive weekend has seen me prepare the 42 teeth gears for fitting onto the axles and make a start on the axles themselves.     The gears originally had a 2mm hole in the centre. I enlarged these by drilling 3.5mm, 4.3mm and then reaming to 4.74mm for an interference fit on the 3/16ths axles. Which brings me, neatly, to the axles themselv
Pugsley

Pugsley

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work bench

K's GNR Atlantic

Last night I tried to get the chassis working with the front bogies. Those early locos builders never took us 4mm modelers into consideration when designing their locos. There are a lot of wheels to get into a small space.     Unlike most kits the front bogie is attached to the chassis from a bolt above the centre of the bogie, there is a cast section which glues to the chassis. It also holds the cylinders.   Like everything with this kit nothing seems to fit. On reflection the cylinders
hayfield

hayfield

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

flying Banana - Part V

Hello Again   I have learnt a few things this week...   1. Its not possible for me to survive a week on £10! 2. There isnt such a thing as a 'standard' mountain bike part! 3. Adjusting the windows on a flying banana isnt as straightforward as it first seems...   I havent done much modelling this week mainly due to number '2' above, but I have managed to get one end of the flying banana changed...     BEFORE.     AFTER.   I ended up cutting away the central window frame post
-missy-

-missy-

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On Ravensers Bookcase

News and Parcels

I've made a very slow start on things, but there is some progress to report with the Ratio Southern parcels van.   I've seen some adverse comment about this kit on here - notable Roger Chivas' remark that having seen somebody build one he went off and designed an etched brass kit because it would be so much easier. Given that most people are frightened by etched brass [I'm not saying they ought to be, just observing factually the way people actually react] this makes it sound like the
Ravenser

Ravenser in Constructional

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - Moorswater goes it alone?...

Update - Bit of respite in France for a couple of weeks means a break from modelling...but still the mind keeps turning... One of the things that came from Expo weekend Guinness fueled discussions and something I had also touched on in a previous post was the realisation that Board 3 could 'go it alone' and be a self contained layout. Granted, it's a only a run-a round-loop but it will contain a few signature ingredients of the layout, namely Moorswater dries and Moorswater viauduct. The main
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Southern Electric workbench

More 2-Bil work

Here's another photo of the 2-Bil motor coach. Buffers heads now added, using the Slaters rams and some spare plastic heads of (almost) the correct shape left over from a Southern Pride Mk1. The heads were glued to the rams and reprofiled to the correct shape. Not exact precision engineering but they look OK.   Since the photo was taken I've made a start on glazing the motor coach.
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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gc4946's Model World

Fictitious justification for your partners (and mates too)

Last Tuesday afternoon I travelled down with a mate to Dover via South Eastern Trains' highspeed service in unit 395001 Dame Kelly Holmes. One nice touch was their signature on the side of the carriage, not just a vinyl or cast nameplate. The "Javelins" are being named after well known British Olympians, so, I thought, could I imagine more units named after some of my former school pupils who excelled at sports? I knew three pupils who excelled in track and field athletics and have provisional
gc4946

gc4946

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon - track building 4

All trackwork has been built and now the long process of painting sleepers and rail sides begins, before I can lay and ballast. Two and a half hours this afternoon has seen all the sleepers air brushed and one board's rails painted.   I had the local EM area group round on Thursday so I built mock ups of the sheds and water tower to help visualise what the finished article will look like.
ullypug

ullypug

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Kingsbridge Branch N

Trains finally run!

Uncouted costs and grey hairs after beginning I finally ran my first fully digital train yesterday! Thanks to help from here I fitted the decoder myself, it was nerve wracking but worked in the end. I was slightly annoyed to find that my Lenz Compact only let me alter 7 CV's, even on the programme track. If anyone knows a way round this I would love to know as I was hoping to do some more tweaking to the CT chip I put in. I am going to be pretty busy this week as I have to get the Van ready fo
devondynosoar118

devondynosoar118

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Front and Back plus a stock wish list!

Today I made some progress with the front and back sections of the baseboards. The back is bolted into place at the moment which will allow easier access to the electrics and for mounting the printed backscene when that is ready. I am starting to consider the fiddle yard/storage cassettes options now. I am currently thinking of having storage cassettes that are 2 feet in length. Is this enough?   Anyway here are some pictures of todays work:           I have started considering
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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work bench

K's GNR Atlantic

The second attempt to secure the gear wheel to the axle seems to have worked, as there is no slipping. I took each wheel off in turn, trimmed and adjusted the pickups, greased the bearings and replaced the wheels.     As I watched the loco go up and down the track the rear drivers were not turning, the 2 small rear wheels were lower than the rear drivers by a fraction so a small amount of fileing sorted this out. The front bit of the footplate where the cylinders go needs building up,as its
hayfield

hayfield

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

Down the station, in the morning...

...see the trains all in a row! (or not in this case!) Well with other projects on the workbench it's been a while since I posted any updates on the Rose Hill P4 project, my 2010 Challenge entry - well it's not going to be finished but things are progressing still, albeit very slowly. The Pacer is coming along but most effort has gone into 'finishing' (for now) the station building. This is a 80% scaled version of the real building at Rose Hill, in length, so has a few comprises but I think it
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Paxton Road's workbench

The Ultimate Shed Pt 2 - Ready for the off...

I was pretty excited to get parcels from the US (Cannon and Co direct) and Eileen's Emporium so I've got everything to start the project now Here's a quick shot of the raw materials... In no particular order... Bachmann EWS Class 66/0 0.31mm brass rod 0.45mm brass rod 0.7mm brass rod 0.9mm brass rod 28swg copper wire (coil) 1.5mm x 0.5mm brass section Cannon and Co EMD Fuel tank detailing kit Cannon and Co EMD Chain tensioner New tools... Soldering iron tip Tip tinner S
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Turin 60's Blog

A van to go with the 06 shunter

It's been a while but I,ve not been completely idle, the 06 is slowly being weathered but that's one of those jobs I have to be in the mood for otherwise I make a right hash of it! By way of diversion I've been building an etched brass kit for a Glyn Valley Tramway tar tank wagon, doing quite well but there are as far as I know there are no extant photographs of the beasties. So some educated guesswork is needed to complete the brake gear, more on this in due course.   To go with the 06 I've
Turin 60

Turin 60

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