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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    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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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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Hiesler's Blog

Updates and new layout plan.

After 6 months of putting it off, I have weathered my 2-6-6-2.     All my locos are weathered with a black acrylic wash with a hint of grey. Sorry for the lack of light in the picture. The best camera I have is on my phone!   To make one of my boxcars different from the rest I used some plasticard to make an outside framed door. Does anyone know of a prototype for this?     Also, 'Planning permission' has been granted for a major extention to the layout.   Here is the current track
Hiesler

Hiesler

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road - Update

For those of you who have seen the MRJ 200 thread you will see it contains an article about my layout. It was originally intended to include a second article on the laser cut/etched buildings but this has been held over to a forthcoming addition - hopefully MRJ 201. If this is the case it will fit in nicely with this years Scaleforum where I will be demonstrating part of the layout with other members of the Glevum Area group of the S4 Society.   As promised here are some more photos of the she
barrowroad

barrowroad

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harkins77's Blog

lines on a shelf from a wardrobe - The walls start to go up.

I went out the other day and got some more foamboard to be used as the backboard material to keep the weight down on the 2 boards.   I've taken the advice given but after looking at it I thought 12" back board height was too much so I tried 6" and to be honest I'm happy with the look of it.   I still need to cut out of the dividing wall gaps so that the locos can go from one board to the other but apart from that and some filling of the gaps between the different boards the backboards are do
harkins77

harkins77

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Redgate's Modelling

More Rods

Whilst I am waiting for the bodyshell to come back I spent a pleasant evening with some wet or dry finishing off the coupling and connecting rods.     You can see the additional section added to the con-rod at the crank end to lengthen it to 47mm. This is 1mm longer than the drawing - I made up a test rod from scrap etch to the correct length which proved a tad too short for the Comet slidebars   Just the accentric link to lengthen and then I can start assembling the motion. It will be
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

High Level RSH 'Husky' - Bufferbeams and steps.

The bufferbeams are laminated from 2 layers, the outer layer is half etched with rivet detail, different front and rear. The buffers themselves are lost wax castings and needed a little bit of fettling, I held the shank in a pin chuck for this;     Here's the bufferbeams soldered up with the drawgear surrounds in place;     A bit of filler is needed where I cut the buffer shanks a bit too short in a couple of places. I'll attach these later on after I solder the boonet in place. The
halfwit

halfwit

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North Marsh Road - Eastern Region - BR Blue - OO

Sun, Surf and some Kit Building

As mentioned in may last post a some major work and home projects have been completed which meant that a much needed holiday was due. This was supposed to be spent up in Scotland, but a two week forecast of rain and gales put paid to that. So we ventured South West to Cornwall instead and found much better hot sunny weather.   As I also said in the last post not much has happened on NMR, so I managed to sneak some wagon kits into the campervan to make while on holiday; well I think building
Jaggzuk

Jaggzuk

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

A bit of Scrayingham progress...

...but not a lot! I've been catching up on jobs that I've been meaning to do for quite some time, and they are as follows...   1) drill a hole for the point motor at the end of the station run-round loop 2) continue fitting of insulated rail joiners - this has disrupted a bit of trackwork, so some re-ballasting is required! 3) permenantly fit the baseboard to the frame- this may sound silly, but when it was origionally built it was as a shelf and so had to be separate from the framework. 4
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Flying Banana - Part III

Hello   Things are still moving forward on the railcar. I have now been concentrating on the roof and this is how far I have got. Let me know if you are getting bored yet!     I firstly laminated some black plasticard onto the brass roof profile I previously made. In this case it was 5 layers of 0.5mm thick sheet. The reason was because it was easier to get the sheet to fit the profile at the ends with thinner sheet.     I left the roof overnight so the plastic had time to set afte
-missy-

-missy-

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Workshop - wall colouring

The sidings wall of the workshop is the last piece of the workshop & roundhouse to be assembled and coloured so I thought I would show a series of photos to show the sequence I use for colouring. As mentioned in an earlier blog I use Faber Castell Polychromos crayons. The following sequence uses Pompian Red - 9201-191 Terracotta - 9201 - 186 Burnt Ochre - 9201 -187 Raw Umber - 9201 - 180 Brown Ochre - 9201 - 182   The weathering is added using Schwarz Black - 9201 - 199
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Redgate's Modelling

Brake Clearance Issues

Been a bit busy recently with kitchens and ISO courses at work, but I've finally fitted one brake hanger to the chassis and it has become apparent that once they are all fitted the wheels will not come off.   This means that the chassis will need painting before the brakes are fitted. The hangers are glued to the frames in any case to isolate them from the live chassis sides, so no real hardship. I'll continue to fabricate them whilst I make a start on the valve gear.   One step forward, two
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Bits and pieces

Managed a bit more work on a couple of projects yesterday, had a first attempt at adding the mortar to the first bridge on the layout. Need to refine the process but looks like it's working. Also primed the core of the ratio footbridge. This is proving 'interesting' to build with most parts painted before gluing into place.   The final bit of work was on my Wales and west 158. This has now had it's new snow ploughs painted ready for fitting tonight.
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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    • LMSfan72
      Class 73/9 - development of a body shell or kit......

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    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      For anyone interested in seeing how the Ontario layout in the Pilentum video linked into the blog post was built, there's a thread here on a Benelux modelling Forum (in Dutch).  Build photos reveal how the layout goes together, as @AndyB highlights.  Very informative.   I have no connection with the builder, or with Beneluxspoor.net - everything I've linked to is in the public domain, Keith.  
    • Erudhalion
      GRC&W 10T End Door Wagons - A Typology

      By Erudhalion · Posted

      Unfortunately I don't have my copies of the S&W books by Ian Pope et al. at hand, only the scans I made of the wagon photos, mainly from vol.1 and 2. Luckily, many are dated GRC&W works pics, most from about 1890 to the mid 1910s, so presumably the 10t and 12t wagons were the newer kind being produced. There must have been many older, smaller wagons in use at the time, as the photos of Lydney yard in (I think) 1908 at the beginning of vol. 5 show what appear to me mostly 8t mineral wagon
    • MikeOxon
      GRC&W 10T End Door Wagons - A Typology

      By MikeOxon · Posted

      Noting that you "have been building stock appropriate for the Forest of Dean in the early '20s.", I am interest to see that the use of larger wagons persisted in the area from much earlier Broad Gauge (BG) Days.    In my own blog,  I have written about BG wagons built for carrying both coal and pig iron down through the Haie Tunnel to the dock at Bullo Pill.  Ian Pope et al quote an incident from 1863, when a train of 70 wagons broke free and led to a ‘pile up’, said to be 15 wagons hi
    • Keith Addenbrooke
      Episode 8: Am I 'brave' enough?

      By Keith Addenbrooke · Posted

      Thanks Andy, some good pointers as always.  I think the picture in my blog post of the abbreviated mainline DB train illustrates your point about train length very well.  Fortunately I also have a couple of railcars:   Epoche I:       and Epoche III / IV:     As for goods or freight trains, this is only 20" long in OO and could be used to generate ideas too:       I do need to give some further thought

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