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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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Meadow Lane, MSC Railway in P4

Can you tell what it is yet? Progress with the Sentinel!

Slow but steady progress, that's what wins the day (so they say)... It's been quite a while since I posted up photos of progress with my Judith Edge Sentinel kit. To be honest, despite what appears to be massive progress it's not really taken much time to build the body - it came together surprisingly quickly - and I must add very easily due to excellent kit design and well fitting parts - quality etches I guess!   The first stumbling block for me was mounting the Black Beetle - as the kit is
James Hilton

James Hilton

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Update - The Pits

Having been effected by the Volcanic Ash Cloud - I should be in Canada - I now find I have time to start the inspection pits inside the roundhouse.   The task has been made easier by a set of laser etched sides and bases from York Modelmaking such that the task is reduced to one of colouring and assembly. The pieces are sprayed with primer, coloured and assembled using a jig and clamps.   Strips of 4 x 2mm plasticard were first added to the top of the side walls to form the timber baulks on
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

...And a bit more done...

Me again   I have a few more photos that I thought I would add to my blog. I have now painted all the track on the board I have been working on recently, added some static grass, plus ballasted the track (the ballast was still wet when I took the photos.       Oh, and I have made a start on the first of many, many trees!     Missy
-missy-

-missy-

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4mm/00 Falcon Brass ROD 30xx GWR Top Feed Variant.

Slogging on with the ROD

Things are trundling along at a steady but unspectacular pace just like the real loco once did!   The lamp irons have been sweated in place and I have finished fitting all the grab handles in place along the running boards and splashers as well as the cab sides, also note that the missing handrail knob has been fixed in place. (Thanks BR(W) ) I did ponder a little on how to fix it in place as the handrails are soldered into the cab front along with the handrail knobs so if youve ever tried to
5XP

5XP

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leopard1299's Blog

southern z class update!

well just a quick update after fitting a new step to the tank and a box on the running plate and fitting some cab hand rails we are starting to get there! anyway took a quick paick on my desk this afternoon! cheers ian.
leopard1299

leopard1299

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Grahame's dining room table

Weekend report

I attended the Crawley Club's exhibition at Horsham over the weekend with my layout and have to report that I had a super time. It was a very good exhibition, the club were friendly and helpful and my layout won the Bill Avery/Plus Daughters award for 'best in show'. Plus I was able to pick up a few second-hand goodies including a Lima Enparts Siphon G which now that I've changed the bogies/wheels for those from a Dapol Siphon and given it a dusting of matt varnish looks pretty acceptable
grahame

grahame

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2mm layout based in South Wales The Blog

Latest update with some progress on the building side

Updates on the layout seem to be few and far of late, ballasting was mostly done over the last bank holiday and the retaining walls & bridge have all but been completed. The ballasting requires a bit more work to finish but is awaiting any infrastructre and other detail, to be done around the trackwork before finalising.   Station footbridge, a mix of plasticard and some parts used from a Ratio kit.   Provender shed, made from plasticard with Ratio corrugated roofing sheet & gutte
Trevor H

Trevor H

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Ragtag's Workbench

GNER's Badger - Part 3

Well, work commitments have kept my modelling time to a premium recently. However, after a couple of people badgered (sorry) me via PM about how the project was going, I finally set aside a couple of hours to crack on with it. The nose is starting to take shape now, with most of the major surgery completed and just minor refinements needed to get the cutouts looking the part. There is one small groove still to carve, and a small grille to etch. Headlight recesses still need to be done - I haven'
Ragtag

Ragtag

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ClikC's P4 BREL Workshop

Blackwell Road

Hi all, and welcome to my layout thread.   Blackwell road (or more accurately Blackwell Road V2) is my first real attempt to produce a layout of P4 or 4-mm finescale standards. It's basically a glorified test plank, as i've a real desire to model a prototypical section of the Northwest LMR circa May 1974. But the layout will be exhibitable and hopefully that'll help me gain some much needed exhibition experience. By entering the layout here in RMWeb's 2010 layout challenge, I hope it'll give m
ClikC

ClikC

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"Taunton Central" Modern N

Taunton Central Modern Image N - Introduction

This is the third version of my first permanent layout. Having just moved house, I found for various reasons that I couldn't use the loft as a home for my railway. However, I am able to now use a 12ft x 6ft concrete shed, albeit shared with bicycles, lawnmower, and a few other bits.   My railway is N gauge modern image, circa 2008-2010, enabling me to run some of the latest Dapol & Farish models. The station is a "what might have been" alternative history of the railway through Taunton: T
pingudad

pingudad

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Bulleid production resumes....

.... just in a different shade of green!!!   I took advantage of a "Volcano Day" , (well it is dead at the Airport at the moment). I plowed on with the Bullieds. 34049 Anti-Aircraft Command is all bar done for my client and my personal project 34050 Royal Observer Corps - this time in its original form and in Malachite!   She still has a way to go, light weathering varnishing and coaling. Here is a sneak peak...  
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Ullypug's tales from the tinking table

Silver Bullet

Have had a play around with the Dapol Silver Bullet I purchased at York. Re wheeled with Alan Gibson disc wheels and replaced the ladder and handrail assembly with ladder etch from Model Signal Engineering and origami in 0.33mm brass wire. I've given it a light weathering blast with the airbrush. I'll probably add some drybrushed white and rust streaks yet, but probably not in time for the Epsom show this weekend. Any RM webbers are very welcome to come and say hello. Now the ladder's been trim
ullypug

ullypug

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Coal drops progress

Have made a bit of progress with the coal drops, recently. The stone retaining walls and brick support pillars have been painted and are almost ready to be fixed in position. I've also added the deck to the top of the structure - hand rails still to go and also some support beams and other bits underneath the deck.   First set of photos show the parts painted in as-built condition. The pillars are brick with ashlar stone bearing pad inserts. These all look a bit garish but were later toned dow
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Hang On - These Will Test Your Patience

I mentioned working on Masterclass brake vans in a much earlier post. The kits go together very well but then there are the handrails. I've been doing some other things to give me a break from bending and cutting wire before *ping* and it's out of the tweezers goodness knows where! I think you have become a seasoned model maker when you can make a valiant attempt to recover the small parts based on the sound of what they land on or against? I must have half a set of handrails in the carpet some
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Adam's part-time modelling

Two BR(S) Ballasts

A pair of vehicles from the backlog. A Cambrian SECR 2 plank ballast open and an ex-traffic LMS Medfit (Ratio) in use with the engineers per now no longer available Paul Bartlett picture. All the lettering is by hand using Humbrol enamel and a 000 size brush. This is definitely the hard way, but provided a good match for the lettering in the photo.       The majority of weathering is with fairly thin washes of Humbrol 62, 64, 100, matt white and metalcote gunmetal for some of the oily bi
Adam

Adam

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4mm/00 Falcon Brass ROD 30xx GWR Top Feed Variant.

In an effort to purge unfinished projects the ROD is back on the bench.

Well as mentioned in the kitbuilding thread regarding the L & Y horsebox the layout both the horsebox and the 04 were intended for has been shelved at present so we can concentrate our efforts in finishing and taking Rowntree Halt to shows.   As I have a stack of kits both rolling stock and locos for Rowntree Halt sitting in front of me excluding the three loco kits in the bag below my workbench I've just purchased at Wakefield Scalefour show.... I'm on a mission to clear a few unfinished
5XP

5XP

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magic_monkey09's Blog

37411 to 37422

Hi, This project has actually been on my workbench since about october last year. I actually started and finished 37406 after this one so its been kicking around a while anyway i will be making EWS 37422 (in its current dumped at toton condition) from the current Bachmann base model 37411 using Model Master transfers for the new numbers and Fox nameplates. i will be trying to achieve the same standard as 406 with the exception of sound on this one. (incase you are wondering why i keep referri
magic_monkey09

magic_monkey09

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buffalo's layouts

Baseboards completed

Most of my modelling activity in the last month has been on odds and ends that, in themselves, are too insignificant to post anything about, but will eventually find their way into blog pages in some form or other. On the workbench, I've been servicing motors and chassis, and fitting DCC decoders to some of the recently acquired HO and HOe stock for the Nowhere layout.   After a couple of weeks away, I've managed to finish the second, and larger, board for Nowhere. This has now been brought in
buffalo

buffalo

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

And then there were two....

I attended the Amersham model railway show on Saturday with my teenage son, and he came away with a purchase. A part finished Cotswold kit of a 72XX! Now, I wonder, is he trying to outdo Dad here!   Anyway, the upshot is that my planned day of working on the PDK 72XX got highjacked, first by household jobs like fixing a leaking tap, but then by aiding Daniel get his 72XX chassis working. By Sunday evening I had lost my work area and tools to Daniel who was busy soldering whitemetal steps to hi
GWMark

GWMark

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ewsjo's Blog

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The first bit of modelling I've achieved since Trainwest, where the 4VEP ran ok all weekend is to get a coat of paint onto the body to become 60074. Lack of modelling has largely been down to weather and workings like this: 47739 'Robin of Templecombe' passes Avoncliff with 4Z47 Gloucester yard to Eastleigh with ex Fastline hoppers for store 13/4/10 The welcome return of a tug to the Robeston - Westerleigh Murco circuit. 60096 lifts the train of empties up the gradient near the junction i
Steadfast

Steadfast

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MRDBLUE17's Blog

Rannoch goes Digital

Hi Everyone,   I don't really get around to updating the Blog much but thought I would let you know than Rannoch has been wired up ready for DCC control. I still have one board to finish at the viaduct end but having installed all the droppers from each track section as I built the layout the job of joining everything up on the 3 boards was completed in a day and apart from the slight issues with the3 way points the layout has gone over to DCC control using my Gaugemaster Prodigy. See my layou
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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