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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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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot - This is the plan

In the true style of my unusual ways of going about things, here's the plan (after I've started construction!) Sorry if the frequent updates are getting a bit tedious - just let me know and I'll reduce the number to a couple a week or something.   I notice I'm still getting plenty of people viewing the blog so I must be doing something right!   Today my order arrived of 3 lengths of PECO 009 track and 3 009 points as well as my first point motor (SEEP). I also settled on a slight change in
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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The Saltney Railway

The Three Trees and other stories

Steve’s finished the footbridge over the lower yard and I think it’s blended in well and adds a bit of interest.     Still in the lower yard, some of the sidings have been partly buried in plaster to represent the ash and general waste material that was traditionally used to ballast the track in sidings during the steam era.     Still a lot of work to do on it with bits of grass and weeds etc.   The goods shed looks a little more “planted†now as well.   I’ve now fitted
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

The construction of Calshot - Part Three - Basic relief

Construction is ongoing on Calshot MkII. Progress is a little slow due to lack of materials but I did manage to scrounge enough polystyrene to do the majority of the first layer of the basic relief. The polystyrene isn't quite thick enough to be up to the trackbed height so another layer will be needed.   In the photo below the Walrus seaplane is standing on the slipway (yet to be carved) and the inset image is one little cameo I hope to include which will be a sunken pillbox with exposed and
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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coombe junction - moorswater

and now for something completely different...2FS Diorama idea...

Update - I thought I would give the hoods a break tonight   What follows is an idea that started brewing around the Expo weekend. I am not sure if it was influenced by discussions with Bryn on future layout plans, Kris's decision to adapt Avonwick into a roundy roundy or seeing the long trains running on Fencehouses.   I had been thinking for a while now, how to resolve the problem of running in my new locos. Both Coombe and Kyle are not suitable so for now I have been using a loop of old
bcnPete

bcnPete

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

High Level RSH 'Husky' - Rear bonnet.

I made up the rear bonnet today. The main body of it is folded up from a single etch with detail parts added. Here's a pic of it with the doors and door handles added;     The cut outs help when soldering it to the cab rear. And here it is soldered in place;     After attaching it there are a couple of riveted strips that sit along the base, which can be seen in the next pic. Soldering it in place was a bit of a pain, there are similar strips that sit along the base of the front bonnet
halfwit

halfwit

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Paxton Road's workbench

Paxton Yard... a scenic photo plank!

Paxton Yard? You've never heard of it? My OO gauge photo plank was getting on a bit and I wanted to try out some ballast, scenic and weathering techniques on some track work so came up with the idea of laying a couple of tracks to give a different sort of photo plank. I was inspired a few months ago by both Exactoscale's Fast-track and the P4 Diesel Depot, Weston Road, that used coaches as a scenic back drop. I'm pretty pleased - obviously this is still a work in progress! It's built on 2
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Whitemarsh Yard

Flange lubricator

As a change from ballasting and installing cable troughs, I went and raided some plastic kits to make this:       Not that exciting in concept, but exciting for me because I   1) Saw it in a prototype photo 2) Guessed what it might be 3) Confirmed my guess (thanks helpful RMWebbers!) and got some more information 4) Figured out some rough dimensions 5) ... 6) Made it!   As someone who's relatively clueless about the real railway this was obviously quite satisfying. The system wor
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

A Swabian in Exile

While running some errands earlier today I had a brief stopover in order to try and capture something only recently introduced on the rails around Frankfurt ...       Suburban EMU 420 429 working the S8 peak hour service 8819 from Kelsterbach to Frankfurt Central Station together with 420 430 and calling at Niederrad.   Well - these trains are not really "new" in a technical sense - the class having been built from 1969 till 1997. However, they are a novelty in that they belong to the 7
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Somewhere in Germany

Sending the right signals

We finally have a new home (well, have done for a month now!), and after erecting Steinruecken my thoughts returned to Bad Horn, and how it should be current priority with an exhibition booking in November.   In lieu of any procrastination, I finally feel I have nailed the signalling. Wolfgang Meyenberg's website is essential reading for anyone trying to get to grips with German signalling, and along with a couple of cribs in the form of prototype plans today something just clicked in my mind,
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - Hoodies...Part II...

Update - Still suffering from Expo fever and thanks to all the encouraging comments from my last post of my first wagon etch chassis build, I was keen to progress it.   The body is a Parkwood kit and a number of modifications were required to get it to fit better on the chassis. Firstly, the width of the buffer beam was reduced as this would have made the wagon too wide. Secondly, the overall length was trimmed to fit better. Thirdly, the moulding on the buffer beam was removed and a 2FS coupl
bcnPete

bcnPete

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

High Level RSH 'Husky' - Bonnet.

I made up the bonnet today. First the rivets were punched out, I use a gravity tool on a sheet of lead, then all the holes are drilled for the handles. The next job is to solder lengths of .4mm brass rod into grooves on the sides to form rainstrips. Then the bonnet is bent to shape and soldered to the front panel. I used 188 degree solder for most of this work. Here's a pic, bonnet rested on the footplate, before the end was cleaned up on a sheet of wet and dry;     The next job is to fit
halfwit

halfwit

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

One at a Time Please, But is this One Right?

I finally unfolded the layout on Sunday night after it's trip out the previous weekend. I haven't tested it yet, but I believe that it will work again now that it is in more comfortable climes (even if the room does get hot in the evenings, having a west facing).   Something that I became aware of is how much more stock I need to build for the layout and in the meantime I have started to chip away at the shelf of unfinished models (that have spread to the desk behind my window workbench). I pu
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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2mm Random Ramblings

A bit of S & M....

No! Not that sort! - this sort of S&M;     I made reference in my first blog posting to my 2mm Golden Jubilee Layout Challenge entry which never made it as far as the Expo at Oxford. I’ve been asked if I would post a bit more information on it, so here goes….   The original idea came from Roger Carpenter’s book on the Criggion Branch of the S&M (published by Wild Swan) – idly re-reading this one Sunday afternoon just after the GJLC had been announced rekindled my enthusia
2mm Andy

2mm Andy

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Redgate's Modelling

Motion support/Weighshaft mods

I've been fiddling with the motion support bracket over the last few nights. This little job has proved far more difficult than first expected due to the fact that it sits more over the #2 driver than a 9F and 9F's have smaller wheels!   I have had to solder in a section on top to re-inforce the bracket due to the large amount of material needed to be filed away from the vertical faces to clear the wheels.   So here it is, still with over long .7mm wires ready for all the fittings later  
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Paul Boot's Blog

New Member

Hello all. New member on RM Web - have uploaded to gallery, a few pic's of my first kit build loco and the start of a O-gauge layout in garden shed. Both will be updated as work progreses.   In the meantime - link to my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrPaulkBoot showing a collection of various travel, rail & BMRC video's.
Paul Boot

Paul Boot

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Redgate's Modelling

Picking up the pace!

Well, there was a bit of frantic activity on the chassis front ahead of last Saturday's Member's Day. I decided that before I go any further with the chassis I had to prove that the live outside faces of the PCB frames with pickups soldered directly on behind the wheels would work.   I'd never seen this before and frankly was a bit of a flight of fancy spurred on by the fact I have loads of spare PCB material left over from JZ sleeper panels.   First effort, straight Pb wire about 8mm long a
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Whitemarsh Yard

Where things are at

Having posted a lot of pictures of bits and bobs as I work on them, I thought I'd share an overview, to better show the warts. Click for big:     Note: Includes a loco for James, albeit an out-of-the-box RTR specimen! Blue Lightning has been helping me test the uncoupling magnets again now that they're ballasted. So far so good.   I'm afraid the layout plan evolved before the adoption of Whitemoor as a prototype, hence the "inspired by" name. I'm pretty sure I've made all kinds of gaffes
Will Vale

Will Vale

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work bench

GNR Atlantic

The weekend has been busy, however the bottom of the side has been built up and re-fitted. Its a bit straighter now.   The additional filling on the front of the footplate has come off, so I will try again tonight. At some point I will have to address the cylinders, but that will be the last job. There are a couple of bits missing so I will try and check the parts.   I now have a copy of the k's body parts sheet, unfortunatly no details of the bogie or cylinders.
hayfield

hayfield

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RJRs Branch Lines

Not much to show for my time tonight

I like a wander down the shed even if it is only for 20mins, and tonight that was about all it was, so not a lot to show, but what there is stands out as its still white in a sea of grey.         Its not as wonky as the picture makes it look, it was just taken at an odd angle.   Of course my lack of prototype knowledge prevents me from naming these bits but they are on the plans an pictures !     John
johnteal

johnteal

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Kingsbridge Branch N

Trackwork begins to take shape.

Despite my slowness with the wiring the track work is slowly coming together, all the sections laid so far have their droppers soldered and the points have now all been converted for DCC. The scenic board had its track sprayed and track bed painted ready for ballasting. I even managed to run a few trains on DC to test the joints and it all worked, which was a nice surprise. The big stumbling block is now cash for the remaining points and then fitting all the point motors. I am still looking for
devondynosoar118

devondynosoar118

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

High Level RSH 'Husky' - Cab overlays and footplate.

I soldered the cab overlays onto the cab frame today. These are half etched to give the detail for the window frames, rivets, door etc. Fitting them was easier than I thought, I tinned the edges and then held them in place one at a time and tacked an edge, checked then ran the iron all the way round until firmly fixed. The front and rear were done first and the sides last. The only problem that I had was with the LH side which was tacked slightly off square and decided to be a pig to undo... He
halfwit

halfwit

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The Grime Street Blog

Fitting Halling motor bogies.

I'm sure your all fed up with me espousing the virtues of Halling motor bogies, the one problem being how to actually fit them to the item you want to motorise. The vario units normally fit the Halling trams by small clips on the main body of the drive, the tram truck being made of flexible plastic.   So, thinking cap on and I came up with this....         It's a basic cradle made of 80 thou plasticard that can bolt up into the tram body, so easy removeable for access to the lower d
Red Devil

Red Devil

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