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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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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

A bit more done...

Hello Again   I thought I would put together another post to show what I have been upto...     Inspired by another thread I had a go at making a 2mm scale padlock. According to the size of it, it works out at around 3 inches square.     Here it is fitted to my new little hut I made. From that photo it looks a little too big for a padlock. That photo shows the laser engraved brickwork quite well. The building still needs weathering but I will do that when I next am using the airbrush
-missy-

-missy-

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Further building work

Heres a few photos of the concourse as mocked up.   Its made from 80 thou plastic sheet, supported beneath by 80 thou strips cut 10 mm wide. On top of this will go scribed paving to bring it up to the level of the building and metcalfe cobbles for the road surface.     And here's one of the main entrance to the GWR offices     Well, back to work   Rovex
rovex

rovex

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RJRs Branch Lines

RJR Goes "N gauge"

Having been on Holiday last week with the family, as is always the case when board on the beach my mind wandered to what could I do if I was in the shed. Some time ago I started the G scale micro layout to let mea) do some finer 1:24 detailing than would be normal in the garden.B) give me a chance to run the G stuff even when it was cold and wet.The later of the 2 reasons never really worked out as due to an oversight I built it in 2 halves adding up to 8', as everyone knows an 8' shed is 8' out
johnteal

johnteal

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

45072

A little more work on 45072.   Having looked at some more prototype photos it looks like 45072 had a black headstock (whereas the base model I am working on was red). So today it was out with the black paint to correct this.   Once that was dry the next job was to make a start on the bufferbeam detailing. Again working from photos the 5 pipes were added, air and vac pipes were from Heljan (Class 47 parts) and the air control pipes were Vi Trains. This gives the prototypical look with di
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Stubby47's Micro Layouts

Wheal Tiny name board

Following Shortliner's quests for magnetic letters for his 2010 chalenge layout, I purchased a tub of similar items from the local Early Learning shop.   Juggling with the contents, I have manage to come up with the following :     This will, of course, be painted once the glue has dried - though not sure what colour as yet...   Stu
Stubby47

Stubby47

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

Cylinder slope

I think Horsetan is right, there is not enough slope to cylinders, this view shows them better.       A little more progress last night, I really ought to get on with the chassis however.
GWMark

GWMark

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

A Lighter Shade of Green....

While Volcanic ash has stopped air travel and caused mayhem at the airports and the wife to be is busy with business and family issues up North. I've been beavering away with Bulleids as usual   34001 Exeter is on the final stretch and will be finished shortly.   34049 Anti-Aircraft Command is currently being tweaked.   And for a change work has finally commenced on a Malachite Green B of B, using a donor 21C159 (Sir Archie) I'm recreating 34050 Royal Observer Corps in it's original guise
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot MkII v.3

I suddenly had an idea today, pretty basic, but it's given me some ideas for half of the layout. (Stop laughing at the back!) "Why not copy from the prototype?" OK, it had occurred to me before today, but suddenly it all seemed to fall in place. The top screenshot shows the location of the Calshot RAF Narrow Gauge Railway and shows its route (red line) along the spit across to Eaglehurst camp. Now let's zoom in a bit: Looking north towards the end of the spit we can see a jetty (ma
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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GWMark's Workbench Blog

A few small steps forwards

Well, the 72XX has taken a few small steps forward. Now we have the next problem, the motion bracket has been laminated from three thicknesses and now doesn't fit over the slide bars. I think I will ned to look at that when I am feeling more awake. But for now this is were I am. The cab roof and the slide bar are just laid in place, everything else is firmly attached.       I really do like this loco and can see it getting ever closer to being finished, or at least to be ready to be paint
GWMark

GWMark

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, It fits!

Took the goods shed round to the layout to see if it would fit in the 'ole Steve marked out for it.     As it seems to, and doesn't look too bad, it's time to take it off again! (Then go away and finish it..)   While progress has been slow in my workshop, Steve's finished off his water tower and re-started laying track on the high level station.  
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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leopard1299's Blog

z bashing!

been bashing resin around again and stuck some pipes and a few other bits on the z class over the past few days! used alot of bit from the spares box so its not spot on but getting there!       cheers ian
leopard1299

leopard1299

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

Caught on Film

Ring Road had a very extensive run last night, as it was set up for filming for the next volume of MSIM's Modern Image Layouts DVD series.   It was a great fun evening, which has hopefully produced some good shots for the DVD, including some interesting angles that will certainly show the layout in new ways. What I got out of it most though (apart from a good chat with Nigel!), was a real sense of what being on show at an exhibition is like. When running a continuous and varying stream of
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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Chris's Blog - 4mm Weathering & Detailing.

37035

In between other projects, I've been tinkering with this loco. Still not finished as of yet, but should be complete very soon. While the sun has been out all day and Stockwell Road set up,I took the time to take some photos of the loco posed on the layout.   Further updates when I've finished the Crompton.          
Chris56057

Chris56057

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54Strat's N Gauge Bench

Fruit D

After what seems like a year or two of collecting stuff and not doing stuff, I've actually got my finger out and started to turn a few of those kits into reality.   First up on the workbench is the Fruit D kit from PD Marsh. This is a whitemetal kit, and comes with no chassis or roof, though there are some under frames and a cylinder included.     It's very straightforward to put the body together using superglue. My soldering skills would probably be more like melting skills so I opted
54Strat

54Strat

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Potterbourne GWR Branchline Available for Exhibitions

Potterbourne

Thought it was about time to create a blog for myself on this newly designed forum so here goes:   Potterbourne is a small GWR branchline set in the heart of Devon. The layout was designed to satisfactorily represent an actual location and be portable for exhibitions. Potterbourne took around 6 months to complete and compromises changes in my ability, first of all starting out with code 75 and progressing onto hand built track. Also which I will post in the coming weeks I have progressed into
josh993

josh993

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

When you can't see wood for trees.....

I'd tried several different ideas for producing the tapered GSM-R mast, but wasn't really happy with the results. Either there wasn't enough taper, or it wasn't possible to get a consistent taper. What I hadn't realised was the answer was sat in the tool box the whole time......     After running a scalpel blade along the length of the plastic brush handle a few times it created representation of the flats on the real mast, and tapers just nicely.     All that remains to do now is fit
TomE

TomE

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Highworth

Hornby Class 31 for Highworth

Without going into endless detail I've purchased a Hornby Class 31 for the layout. The 31s were a familiar sight on my childhood commute, so along with my 37 something of a "must" for my layout.   My local model shop was offering them at £68 which seemed to be a good price. Sadly the first one I took home succommed to a problem that apparently has dogged Hornby - the cab floor at one end cracked and sheared off. So, back to the shop with that example. The replacement broke in a different pla
AndyB

AndyB

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Wagons Also Spin

Actually that's a lie because although last night saw the wagon turntable installed it is permanently fixed in line with the main siding.     The outer slots are from when the turntable would have been broad gauge. Information that I have been able to locate suggests that the castings that formed the outer ring were hacked on site when the gauge conversion was made.     The wood deck is removable for the moment to facilitate painting. It also requires the planking scribed in.   The e
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

Calshot MkII - 009 Diesel Critter

As I'm sure some of you will be aware, I have started construction of a freelance diesel (009) for Calshot. It is based on the Knightwing kitbash that I started a while ago and never got round to finishing. The chassis is from a Dapol M7, but it looks as though i'll have to add some lead weight in both bonnets. Here's where I have got up to so far:       Hope you like it, there's still more to do on it such as the rear bonnet end and handrails as well as other little details and tidying up
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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AllScales' Gerlos Blog

Moving North

Not much has changed on Knucklesford, some more track has gone down, mainly the goods spur, that's still in progress... I've worked out a pretty good method of soldering drop wires for power feeds.   Put the soldering iron on full. Liberally tin the drop wire Use minimal solder on the track bottom Put the soldering iron to the drop wire and touch both of them onto the track to fix Speed and accuracy is of the essence here to stop the sleepers from melting.     As for the Oxted and
AllScales

AllScales

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