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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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Beardybloke's 009 Bodging Bench

A pair of narrow gauge composites and a cut-down Ashbury

Well, the badly-bodged carriage 11 was stripped down completely and resprayed from scratch - I could have lived with the slightly raised nature of the ivory paint compared to the green if I hadn't then noticed that it was a distinctly yellower shade than on its sister! That taught me a lesson - clean the syringe thoroughly between paint shades, and you can actually see how much you're picking up   The ends have been sprayed in BR early (pre-1965) bauxite, and seem to look okay. The next thing
Beardybloke

Beardybloke

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Will's workbench

Dirty limpet: Poor man's Bruninghaus springs.

I did some more work on the limpet I started the other day. I applied the modern warning flashes (very nice Fox transfers) and blacked out the DC prefix on the data panel which I forgot to do last time. The body has had a little bit more work with washes and powders to try and tone down the contrast a bit, otherwise it's much as before. The white filler on the inside is to cover a soldering iron mark from the denting process, it'll get sanded down and painted over tonight hopefully.     The o
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Bomp's Blog

Painting and Exchange Sidings

Only two pictures this time, but they show what I've been up to.   I'm behaving and doing things properly. I cleaned my rails before I painted them, and I've left things that I've glued (four layers of cardboard glued with woodglue for my raised areas) to dry overnight before I carry on. And, surprise surprise, it's all working better than in my impatient days of rushing ahead to get things done. And my son has been helping to paint the rails, which means I've got to let him play when it's
Bomp

Bomp

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Colwyn Bay Goods - 2mm Finescale

Herring Progress

On a more positive note, my second set of test etches have come through for the Herring ballast wagon. As stated on the previous version of RMweb, this is a 2FS kit I have been designing from scratch.       So far the basic build it going well, but I have some how left the top side panels 2mm too high! Not seeing the wood for the trees
Bryn

Bryn

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Work Experience at Chiltern Railways

Work Experience with Chiltern Railways - Final Day

Hi,   Well, we have come to my Day 9 entry, my final day at my Work Experience:   Today (Friday), was my last day of my placement with Chiltern Railways at Aylesbury Depot. I was working Upstairs on the North Driving Car of Class 165 No. 165010 and the South Driving Car of Class 165 No. 165027.   We started off working on A & D doors of the North Driving of 010. Our first job was clean off the old grease from the rubber seal between the doors and then reapplyling new grease. This was
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Redgate's Modelling

Tender pickups

FInally got the tender pickups done. Used a whole length of EE's 0.35mm phosphor bronze wire to give me these fancy springy coiled backscratchers     They are soldered to two bus bars made from double sided copper clad PCB material (thanks JZ for the offcuts with your sleeper panels!) These were low melt soldered to the chassis frame on the underside then the pickup springs soldered to the top.     Took a lot of fiddling and repositioning to get them right, you can't see it but the en
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Work Experience at Chiltern Railways

Work Experience with Chiltern Railways - Day 8

Hi,   Day 8 at Aylesbury Depot was as follows:   Today I worked both 'Upstairs' and 'Downstairs' on the North Driving Car of a Class 168/1, No. 168110 ( the real vision of my Model!). We started off by checking the brake pads. This is done by sliding a chunk of metal 13mm deep inbetween the brake disc and the section that holds on to the brake pads. We found that the outer brakepad of wheel 2 was out of spec. Wheels are counted clockwise from the second man's side of the unit (if I remember
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot MkII v.4 - Baseboard design - your opinion

It's about time I got my brain into gear! Today I've been thinking about baseboards, and configurations of the new layout.   I have several possible routes I could go down; 1: A 1ft x 4ft fiddle yard with a 2ft x 4ft scenic section bolted on to the front - Can get in a circle of 009 track and a bit of 00 gauge 2: A 2ft x 4ft fiddle yard (thin circular) with a 2ft x 4ft scenic section - Can get a circle of 009 track and a circle of 00 track 3: A 1ft x 2ft fiddle yard with a 3ft x 4
Work Experience at Chiltern Railways

Work Experience with Chiltern Railways - Day 7

Hi,   Day 7 of my Work Experience was as follows:   Today I was working on the North and South Middle cars of a Class 168/0 No. 168004. We started by replacing on the LED lights on the Oil reserve control panel of the North Middle Car (for more on what the oil reserve control panel does see last entry here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/424/entry-3547-work-experience-with-chiltern-railways-day-5-6/). When the engine oil is low, a Red LED on the panel lights up and then flas
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Getting Hooked Up

There haven't been any entries recently and this is not due to a lack of progress. My main focus is on getting the wiring complete. This always takes me far longer than I would like, looks disorganised, costs too much, and generally fails to work quite as well as I hoped - hence there are no images to accompany this entry.   Perhaps tomorrow will be a fruitful day and the TOUs (revision - I've lost count) will be installed and working and attention can turn to a pair of locomotive chassis that
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Coombe Barton

The Obligatory Workbench - building one in the first place

Coombe Barton Workbench   For the past twenty five years I've been using half of an old church notice board as a modelling workbench. However age as taken its toll and the ply is seriously delaminating. So this is the construction of a replacement. I can now incorporate features that will make life easier that I'd neglected to do for the past quarter century.   I've been using the modelling workbench for a whole variety of things, sometimes including railway modelling. However from the model
Coombe Barton

Coombe Barton

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simonmooremk2's Blog

Trying to create the ultimate class 92.

Sometime ago i realised although i enjoy modelling steam i think the modern railway system is very intresting & the WCML is something that i have a keen intrest in modelling at some stage.   Over the past couple of month i have collected a small fleet of modern locos & one being a Hornby class 92 in EWS livery. The Hornby model is rather dated now & although it captures the loco well their are certainly areas that need improving greatly.   My model i picked up cheap at £25 mis
Simon Moore

Simon Moore

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Dave's Layout Blog

If only I could print out the whole thing

Today, I took my plan of action a step further. I exported a hi-res image from Xara, and plopped that onto a banner page in Publisher, suitably sized to match my baseboard size. That was printed out onto A4 sheets, which were then duly trimmed, and taped together into one big sheet. Finally, said sheet was pinned to the board.         Various locos and rolling stock were then placed onto the sections of track, to see how things fit, how sizes are, etc. I printed it on the laser printer, a
David Rickard

David Rickard

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Hopwood Parkway

More stock arrives

It seems the carriage works have been busy, turning out both an A60 & an R Stock in a period of little more than 2 weeks.   Neither are fully finished, so any passengers will have to stand in the windowless shells, but they are moving under their own power and have had first coats of paint.   Being Harrow Model Shop / Radley models kits, they are seriously heavy and the spuds are sweating a bit...
noiseboy72

noiseboy72

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The Abercorn Branch

So where does this sort of thing begin, then?

I'm always intrigued by articles describing railway modellers early fascinations with (almost invariably) steam engines etc etc.   For me it begins differently, as a boy in the early/mid 70s when family magnolia, having fled fortress Scotland and secured economic migrant status in Ingerland, became located on the Bedpan line. Not for me though any fascination with the real thing, but rather many brief periods with my nose pressed against a toyshop window in St Albans as I waited for my bus hom
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

Sneak Preview - the New layout for next year...Canal Street

Getting grumpy lately with not much modellig to do has helped make my mind up to finaly commit to building a new layout - same size as Ring Road, and in as many ways alike as different.   Planning will be ongoing for the next few months, and once finalised, I will be able, as with Ring Road, to begin building construction well before the baseboards are started, which won't be until next spring at the earliest.   So what are the plans?   A couple of screen grabs (copyright belonging to Goog
Dave's Layout Blog

I have a cunning plan

My first layout, having returned to railway modelling, turned into a disaster. It was spiralling out of control, was too complex, fiddly, and quite frankly, no fun to work on. I ripped it all up, and decided to start again. After much deliberation, fiddling around in XTrkCad4, and browsing magazines and things, I've finally come up with a plan.   I present - 'untitled II'.       Location: Somewhere around the Chilterns. Ish. Era: Modern, post-privatisation. Scene Modelled: A small TM
David Rickard

David Rickard

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Further EM progress at Honley Tank

Rest over so back to the track laying. Plain track is C&L flexitrack purchased via EMGS stores and once the P&C work was completed the whole layout quickly got its ballasted track down and fixed. First viewed from the hidden siding area and then from the opposite end Track at the ends of baseboards is rather vulnerable to damage and to strengthen things up a bit at such places I pin and glue copper laminate sleepers and aim for solid, soldering of rail to these: So now all the t
Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Progress with EM at Honley Tank

We have the baseboards but what about track? The first pic shows my original track plan in sketch form but I wanted this layout 'Templotted'. My good friend and fellow Manchester MRS member Les Fram is far more Templot literate than I, and kindly offered to convert my sketch and " nothing tighter than 4' radius or B6 turn-outs" to a scale drawing. Thanks Les, a great job with the final result, albeit in sketch form is at pic2. I have been building track since about 1964 in TT then in OO,
Redgate's Modelling

Steps to finish tender ....

Some of you may have seen my questions in the main forum about rear tender footsteps on this loco. Well, a couple of evening's fiddling with 3mm brass strip and a soldering iron has given me a fair representation of said steps.     Don't worry about the roughened area around the base of the step, it's where I've glassfibred away some cyano overspill   So all that's left to do is fabricate the tool tunnel and maybe open up the corresponding hole in the tender front bulkhead. Not sure ab
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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coombe junction - moorswater

8 - Kyle - A night off?...

Update - Good morning - I had hoped to have a long productive evening last night working on the layout with the TV tuned to the UK elections...but it was one of those evenings where everything I began, started going wrong   To begin, I painted the platforms a beige colour as from the photos there are two different types of platform surface, however it looked so awful, I ended up overpainting with grey about 3 hours later. Then turned my attention to the backscene, which has been produced usi
bcnPete

bcnPete

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