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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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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Club Open Day

About five years ago the club had a very successful open day, demonstrating a number of our layouts as well as other bits and pieces - demos etc.   This year we have decided to repeat the open day format (not an exhibition)with the two layouts currently starring in our club's blog. If anyone is in the east Hampshire area on Sunday October 24th why don't you have a nice day out and come and say hello!   MODEL TRAINS IN THE VALLEY 2010 Poster2.rtf
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - 37142 - Part III...

Update - The Spanish heat has certainly supressed the Expo fever somewhat - last week, I took out Board 2 to work on it, spent 15 minutes looking at it on the table, before concluding it was complete pants, putting it away and watching some TV Remedy - Leave the layout and concentrate on rolling stock. I decided to carry on with 37142, namely adding wire handrails to the front end and lowering the body on the chassis. Bachfar introduced the wire handrails on the front of the recent 37254, but
bcnPete

bcnPete

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work bench

GNR Atlantic

Very slow progress last week, if any at all. As I have been building turnouts for someone else.   I cleaned the chassis, then primed it and sprayed it, but the paint is wearing off at the edges. Should have given it a better clean using Fairy Liquid rather than a wash in white spirit. Still once the chassis is finished I will touch up the parts with a brush.     The gear wheel on the axle has lost most of its grip (its a push fit), because of the space between the frames gluing it to the
hayfield

hayfield

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

A repaint

Having discovered that my brickwork should have been white, I got my spray can out and whited out the brickwork again. Once completely dried I gave this a wash over with diluted black enamel, varying the mix so as not to give a variation in colour. Areas were washed down with more white spirit (like the front of the columns) to add greater variety.   Have also started building both attic pavilions. The arched heads were done with a 10 mm flat drill to make sure there were equal. Ordinary drill
rovex

rovex

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Track Planning and Experimentation - Anyone with experience with Fleischmann set track?

After completing the work on the baseboards last night I got a few pieces of flexi track out and had a play around with the proposed layout. The original plan was to have the siding for the station on the viewing side of the running line. However upon closer inspection this would make the siding either very short or very long to get the desired effect. Therefore I decided to put the siding on the other side of the running line and infer that there is some sort of way of crossing the line off sce
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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Redgate's Modelling

Accentric - Me?

more like driven batty   The Accentric links proved to be the most troublesome of the motion rods to lengthen. Due mainly to the fact that they are a single etch and not laminated from two etches.   Long and short of it is that I had to lengthen them by approx 5mm so some re-inforcement was needed. Good job I have some 5 thou' phosphor bronze sheet to hand. The three bits of the lengthened rod was soldered to the sheet then the whole thing cut out and trimmed up.   Two rods done, two ho
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Somewhere in Germany

Detailing points

A chance ebay find a while back provided me with a load of detailing parts for DR pointwork, sold as Tillig cat # 85509, although actually containing various Erbert parts- axle counters, point motors, check mechanism, markers, locking mechanism and mysterious electrical boxes. There were next to no instructions, so it took me a while to suss the placement, and even then it was only from an illustration on a Tillig dealer's site. So, armed with a little data and no knowledge, I have attempted to
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Flying Banana - Part IV

Me again   Im still working on the flying banana. Things have now turned to a bit of detailing plus adding the bits for the lights. The roof proved to be a bit more of a pain than I first thought getting it to fit flush onto the top of the sides but now its nearly there plus it seems to 'clip' on so I dont think I will need to hold it in place with anything else. Anyway here are some pictures...       The above two photos show how far I have got with one end. I have added the buffer p
-missy-

-missy-

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Baseboard construction

I don't know what it is about when I go on holiday but I usually get an idea about building a layout and then I have a tendancy to actually follow through and build the thing! This time was no exception. Not only was I modelling in OO but I had some time to myself to sketch some ideas for a new module which could double as an extension to my current French layout (Neuvic Entier) or a stand alone exhibition layout.   So yesterday I went to the DIY store and purchased the materials to start bui
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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The 891mm Project

Focusing attention back to the Gp

This has been a long time coming.   After constructing the body for the Gp, work went on hold. Firstly I wanted to make sure that the ply wood body remained stable and secondly, I wasn't sure if the grained texture from the wood was too coarse. Meanwhile work progressed on the Op and now that it is near completion, I have started to focus my attention back onto the Gp.   Seen here sat on its new formed under frame and wheel set for the photo, work has started on trying to get the van finish
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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Cruikglen - Fictional Waverley

Choosing a DCC system

One of the ‘new’ ideas I discovered, on returning to railway modelling after a twenty year break, is DCC. This is attractive to me for two reasons; firstly I can drive locomotives not blocks of track, and secondly because it holds out the hope of controlling points, signals etc. from a computer.   I have a Dapol 9f which is entirely inappropriate for the branch to Belsey, but comes with a DCC socket and an opportunity to try DCC out. In order to help decide which system to buy I used my go
DaveArkley

DaveArkley

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

High Level RSH 'Husky' - Control Panel.

This part, the control desk in the cab, is so nice it deserves its own entry. Its made up from 4 etches and .5mm rod. Here's a pic of the etches;     The fork shaped pieces are control levers and fit into slots on the top of the desk. The part on its own at the top folds into a gauge panel. Both sets of levers have to be set at the same angle as they are linked on the prototype. Here's a pic of the control panel assembled;     The .5mm rod is in the midle of the panel. I'll glue the p
halfwit

halfwit

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Southeast Steam Railway

Southeast Steam Railway - Almost there!

Hi,   Now that I have finished School for the summer Holidays (yay!) I can now focus my attention on the SESR and the new extension for Hythe. One of the big jobs that stood between me and finishing the SESR was ballasting down the middle of the track. With only a few days between end of term and going on holiday to Wales for a week, I decided to complete that big job. By yesterday morning I had finished ballasting the main running lines!   I was never happy with the grass I had laid between
St. Simon

St. Simon

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RJRs Branch Lines

Roof colour improvement

This afternoon I have been doing some roof colouring, lots of 25 pictures show the roof as being near black with dirt. The coach roof was too light as well.   I also have sprayed some sleeper grime on the bottom of the coach, which still needs a lot of glazing ( I keep putting it off !)   Roof ..     Grime..     In the next one I like how you can see the coach through the cab, one of the benefits of larger scales, this sort of picture is easier !     And my favourite picture
johnteal

johnteal

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harkins77's Blog

lines on a shelf from a wardrobe - An extra board is added

I realised when testing the locos back and forth that when the locos were pulling into the station that at one end they had no where to go and left me a very short running length so whilst the family were out I found another spare shelf from the wardrobe that was thrown out and created another frame to fix to it to create another run off off area but on the other side of the main scenic board make it effectively have 2 fiddle areas one at each end.   I've also made the raised area out of foam
harkins77

harkins77

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Kingsbridge Branch N

PW work Pt2

I got all the pictures done yesterday, as well as nearly completing the throat and testing my first point motor!   This is the track, weathered, using acrylic drybrushing on the rail and chairs, followed by two ink washes, with the lineside grit/ash/mud done as below. Ballast was dried and seived grey builders sand I found in the yard.   The lineside area, stage 1. Fine playsand dyed with ink and PVA   Stage 2, Grey drybrush- Dark first, then light   I felt this was too bright, so
devondynosoar118

devondynosoar118

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87 101's Blog

More progress on the shed

Work is progressing well today on finishing the shed. The rear wall has now been clad in brick paper and the walkways are being added on the depot floor. Heres some pics...   86 412 tries to hide behind the wheelie bin..     I love this pic as the shed is starting to look so relistic..     The same shot as the first now with the walkway added..     Just to prove that it's not real !     A couple of shots through the roof..       and one from the door. Just a shame t
87 101

87 101

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SNCF stephen's Blog

Holiday Project - First Steps in HO/OO!

I have just returned from a very relaxing and very needed 2 week holiday in France. I had always said to my future father in law that I would help him build a layout and seeing as it was not possible for me to do much in the way of physical activity at the moment he suggested that I make a start on the layout. We had a few trips to the DIY store where we purchased the trestles and other bits needed to get some track down. We used some old doors which were joined together to form a decent siz
SNCF stephen

SNCF stephen

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RJRs Branch Lines

Buffer Details

If you collect together enough scraps of rubber tube, wire and plastic sprues then add in a couple of plastic card offcuts and you have just enough bits to make some buffer beam details     The green is a garden plant tie.   I also have moved the numbers to be on the drivers window at each end as per the discussion with James after the last blog post.   Then add a bit of black, orange and silver paint..       Finally pointing man is devastated it appears the platform is not buil
johnteal

johnteal

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St Ruth

About St Ruth

This layout is the current offering from the Midland Area group of the 2mm Scale Association. It draws heavily from Penzance station and is very much 'work in progress'.   The scenic area is 12 feet long and up to 3 feet wide, with a further 4 feet of length of a traversing fiddleyard. It is set in the 1960's, but the trackwork is based on what was there in the 1930's.   Currently, the track is operational and work has started on the scenery, buildings etc.   The layout had its first outin
D869

D869

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Copley Hill Works

"Return of an old friend"

Some news, finally! I'm doing some remedial work on Copley Hill for filming in due course, but in the meantime have fixed 61572 (better known to myself as Stephen) for work - spot the differences between this model, and a standard Hornby one:       The mods are quite simple. Modifying the Hornby bogie, by removing the guard irons, and adding the guard irons (made from shaped plasticard) to the front bufferbeam. I took the opportunity to clean up some of the weathering that I felt I'd ove
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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gc4946's Model World

Ringfield haven, or what to do with older non-DCC ready locos

Over the past year as part of me going digital, I've chipped many locos fitted with DCC sockets, and also giving me the opportunity to sort out what I really wanted to keep. As part of that process I've invested in new locos at the same time and replacement chassis for ex-Lima 37s, 47s, 73s and DMUs. The situation is now what to do with my remaining non-chipped, non-DCC fitted locos, for which there are no current state of the art replacements planned, the biggest group being my 86s, 87s, 92 an
gc4946

gc4946

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