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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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coombe junction - moorswater

13 - Kyle - Progress...

Update - managed to progress some more this weekend with a few hours each day.   Most of my thinking and planning of the layout is done is my sketchbook with an espresso. I have attached a few examples of recent issues with Kyle which have been drawn through as ideas to resolve. These include the integration of the bases to the stock box, the internal face of the backscene including uncoupling magnets and the most recent, the slither of water at the front.   I cracked the way to do this was
bcnPete

bcnPete

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

OOn3 Ruston 48DS - sandboxes and dents.

Sandboxes have now been added to both locos. For the standard gauge loco I used 3 x 1.5mm plastic strip with a rectangle of .030" plasticard glued to the top for the filler cap. Once the glue set hard the cap was shaped with a needle file to give the angled top before the sandbox was superglued to the footplate. Its easier to glue the top to the strip before its cut to length. It is 3mm high (not including the cap), dimensions taken from the Chasewater loco. A pic (white plastic doesn't photogr
halfwit

halfwit

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Captain Electra's Blog

Time for T

Another couple on units have received the T-reatment now.   Class 377 Electrostar running as a 3-car set     Class 151 DMU     Another view of the 151 and 377. The 151 would benefit from the front end being angled back but is ideally suited to this slab-sided donor unit.
Adam1701D

Adam1701D

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The 891mm Project

Op 14t Open Wagon Part 4 - Details, details, details...and paint

A considerable amount of work has been completed since the last update.       Underframe detail including the air brake and reservoir tanks has been completed and mounted to the underside of the body. All brake rigging is in place and awaits fitting to the clasp brake shoes and tie bars when installed. W Irons are now fixed in place. The finer details to the sides of the wagon is also complete all bar the rope/lashing points located along the side of the wagon. These will be formed us
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Clevedon - track building commences

I'm pleased to say that track building has started for Clevedon. Once I found my EM track jigs (haven't used them for 9 years...) and once I remembered what on earth I was supposed to do, progress has been slow but steady. The EM demo at the Bristol show has helped too - it is EM gauge track after all. In case you're wondering, it's code 55 on copperclad, which is the closest I can get to replicating the WC&PR's 'permanent' way. The check railed curve is only 540mm radius (can't remember the
ullypug

ullypug

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Update - The Pits 2

Work has progressed on the turntable pits and I now have 23 of the 24 pits fitted. Only road 14 remains to be made but this is causing a minor problem as it is the long road which contains the wheel drop.   I know the shed had a hydraulic wheel drop which was situated on this road just outside the rear of the shed - it had a brick shelter with a corrugated roof - but I have been unable to find any information about it. If anyone can tell me which companies made hydraulic wheel drops or provide
barrowroad

barrowroad

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blue star control's Blog

New parts from New shop!

Well Today I attended the opening of DRM, which was a rather good event! And with that I purchased the points, corksheet and a couple of other bits to get Cobra started.   The board is already built and the track has been ordered from Mike as we speak. Although I have two other layouts on the go this one is for inhouse use aswell as exhibition use.   I'll be posting the diagram and the photos as I get things moving, not alot of point just yet given that it's just a bare board.   More in 24
BR Class 94XXX Diesel Shunter

Cautious Beginnings

Hello there, okay basically the situation is thus: about a year ago Model Rail's George Dent published an article called desert rat. Within it Dent converted an old Lima train set diesel shunter, formerly a fictitious dockside shunter, into army shunter. I decided to the same as Dent had done previously, i.e covert a similar model into an industrial shunter. I would like to stress at this point that this is my first modeling project proper.   Anywho I eventually choose a colliery shunter to b
scots region

scots region

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Work Experience at Chiltern Railways

Work Experience with Chiltern Railways - Day 3 & 4

Hi,   This entry is split in Day 3 and 4, due to me going to my club last night and not being able to write my entry for yesterday:   Day 3:   Right half way through my first week and loving every minute of it! My Third day was as follows:   Got to the Depot around 7:40, went to get my tag (a tag is hung on the 'not to be moved' board on unit and tells everybody who is working on the unit) and went to see who was I working with. First we went to get a Class 168/0, No. 168002, ready for a
St. Simon

St. Simon

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

OOn3 Ruston 48DS - filler caps and roof.

For the radiater and fuel caps I used some handrail knobs soldered in place but not pushed all the way in so part of the shaft is still showing, as in the photo; Then the top of the knob was cut off with Xuron cutters and filed down to form a cap; The roof was first annealed over the gas hob. Then I clamped the edges to a 2mm drill in a Hold And Fold to form the outer bends. A similar sized drill was used on the opposite side to even out the clamp angle and stop the roof being 'spat out' b
halfwit

halfwit

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Words for those last pictures

Well the pictures are there but probably need some explanation, so, from the top: Picture 1 The green bit is the hinged extension designed to hold the two boards together when in the folded position. The machine screws fasten into pronged 'T' nuts fixed into the board end. There is a step in levels shown here to. That's the start of the hidden sidings which are cassettes. More about those later.   Picture 2 The hinged extension folded down to running position and extending the length of t
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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Dave at Honley Tank's Blog

Pictures

]I promised some pictures and then only up-loaded one; sorry! Here's a few more:   I'm not too sure of what I'm doing here. I think I've attached the pictures so I'm going to press "Publish" and hope I've done it all correctly.
Dave at Honley Tank

Dave at Honley Tank

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Sisters in Class, just not in liveries!

A quick update, two finished Original Battle of Britains, one depicted as the early BR Livery of Malachite Green, the other (well somewhere under all that dirt) is Brunswick Green   First up is 34049 Anti-Aircraft Command as requested by my client to be heavy weathered. This used a Winston Churchill as a Donor     Next up is 34050 Royal Observer Corps as early BR with Wedge Cab and standard BR font and slightly workstained appearance. I used a Sir Archie as the donor and swapped the smok
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Ragtag's Workbench

GNER's Badger - Part 4

I've finally managed to crack on with some work on the badger this week. I'm now happier with the profile of the cab end, and I've also started work on the roof panels. They're more or less done, though there is still detailing to be done on the pantgograph well, and hinges to be added from microstrip across the whole roof. I've also filed back the class 58 chassis to fit the body, so I can finally post some shots of it on the track, posed with a couple of Mk4s and a DVT. The Intercity DVT is on
Ragtag

Ragtag

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Turin 60's Blog

Hello, goodevening & welcome!

Evening all, thought I'd have a go at one of these blog thingies, how difficult can it be?   Please don't expect frequent entrys from me, the modellings slow enough without blogs, groups, forums and so on!   I,m trying to finish a conversion of the old Hornby 06 to EM gauge (hence my recent request re top rear lamp iron, thanks to those that helped). Body as above, chassie by Branchlines, gear box by High Level and wheels by Markits/Romford. Very pleased with it's running, a little bodywork
Turin 60

Turin 60

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Etched Pixels Workbench

A new visitor to Llanast

The solebars need finishing and I am currently pondering the buffer beams. The real lightweights had a most interesting buffer beam arrangement that isn't going to be trivially replicated with a bit of styrene strip.   (and a 24/1 with some paint on it)  
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

Nothing to Buy! (The curse of modelling 'right now'?)

I've been getting restless lately (in a modelling sense that is), as having sworn not to start a new layout until next year (after Ring Road has done a couple of exhibitions), I've had nothing new to get stuck into.   Fanciful ideas pop up, such as making a small single board layout just to run the locos round (seemed too much effort for small return due to limitations of layout size), deciding what to do with my stalled entry into OO DDC Sound, and ideas for the next large N gauge layout...bu
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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