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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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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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Summat Colliery

Block Cut Outs

I've been busy rewiring Summat since the Nottingham show. One consequence of using a Powercab on the layout is that the Powercab does not respond gracefully to a short circuit, especially with two throttles in operation. So to mitigate all the unseemly unplugging of power, swapping handsets and reassigning of cab numbers some form of protection was in order.   Many moons ago Mike Bolton at MERG sent me one of his prototype BCO1 block cut-out pcbs to test with Dynamis. It didn't work, being un
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Redgate's Modelling

New (old) Tender Drive for 93000

Over the last few days I have been putting together this for my "Missing" Standard 8F:     Basically the chinese built 5 pole tender drive was incompatible with Peco code 75 turnouts, the 3 way especially. I tried removing the centre wobbly wheels and set the b2bs to 14.4mm (which then needed the wheels shimming to maintain gear mesh!) but then I looked at the way the Crosti 9F just ran at shows without fuss and I remembered the old drive that originally came with the 9F.   It's basically
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - Extension Track Laying Finished

Hi Guys,   Just spent the morning laying track on the extension to Hythe, it is now finished:   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/gallery/image/16796-new-board-003jpg/   The next thing to do is wiring it up and put in the point operating system (more to come on this)   I've also started work on the rail-served distribution centre. I'm making it out of 5mm foamboard. It has been covered in Platicard 'Cladding' and painted in Halfords grey Primer. I've finished the two important s
St. Simon

St. Simon

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Update 6

The new floor for the roundhouse has been used as a template to cut out the turntable pit and the inspection pits using a router. At the same time all the pits outside the shed have been cut as have the four inside the Workshop - a total of 38.   I need to add a few more pieces of 6.5mm ply under the turntable to strengthen this area - in the meantime I must remember not to lean on this area of the board!   Here are a couple of photos showing the result. The cut out for the shed pits remind
barrowroad

barrowroad

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The Abercorn Branch

A starting point

Not being familiar with the world of blogs puts me in a similar position to my familiarity with the world of model railways.   A year and a bit ago a 'significant' birthday saw delivery of a small train set in british n gauge. Me and my three young daughters (and my young wife!) have spent the intervening period learning a bit about the topic. we're now ready to complete the wiring on our 1500x600 board to give us 4 (maybe 5) cab control sections on our folded loop layout. It struck me that it
mr magnolia

mr magnolia

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shanks522's Blog

Holes, Wires and a little bang.

Hello all, I've had a reasonable evening of progress tonight, finally bit the bullet and started drilling holes that i've been putting off, In my haste to get the layout up and running i forgot to pre drill for some point motors and signals so rather than work from underneath i worked from above. I am using both Seep and Peco point motors, Peco ones have been fitted to the points in front of the mail terminal then re-layed along with a shunting signal which i have managed to destroy, with my wir
shanks522

shanks522

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The 891mm Project

Op 14t Open Wagon Part 3 – Side Stanchions

Some more work completed on the Op wagon progressing slowly to getting one side of the body “nearly†complete. One sides worth of stanchions have been fabricated and located along the body side. These were made using 2mm dia. brass tube with a 0.25mm brass wire looped and soldered into the tube. Once cooled down a file was used to shape and create the eyelet at the top of the stanchion.   Unfortunately, unlike the prototype the stanchions are not removable. I looked at the possibility of u
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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Neb from downunder N gauge Blog

Roof bending + UFO's

I managed to find some time to week to resume work on the luggage van. After several phone calls to the Sithlord up in Longreach, I made an attempt on the roof. With no previous experience with rolling brass, I was a bit hesitant to start with. To get the main curve of the roof I used a piece of 20mm diameter steel pipe and rolled it on a computer mouse mat. For the edges, I clamped it 1mm in from the edge in the hold-n-fold and then used a 3mm diameter brass rod to turn-up the ends. After
nebnoswal

nebnoswal

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

47768, RBK

Finally got decent paint coverage on the roof grills panel on 47768.   Unfortunately it looks like the paint I have used (Phoenix RES grey) is a completely different shade to that used on the model, so its now going to need painting again once I know the right colour for a match... _____________________________   RKB The other side is now complete, will be giving it a coat of primer this afternoon to see how well the joint has come out. If I have the right paint, the plan is to get it spray
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Mission Accomplished....

It's finished at last!!!   Well the 5,250gl tender destined for for Matt's (Bluebell Railway's) OO version of 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair is at least. After a slight technical issue, Vallejo's Satin Varnish is glossy compared to Railmatch's. After giving the sides a light rub down with 1200 grit wet and dry, I've oversprayed with Railmatch Satin Varnish. Still after that I've ordered some Vallejo Matt Varnish as I have an interesting idea....   Here is the aforementioned 5,250gl tender
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Class 47s, 33s, 52s and a RKB

An afternoon spent watching my Horse in the office sweepstake fall at the National has given plenty of modelling time...   I've started off with more work on Class 47s. 47817 has had its buffer beams fitted (having found a set of screw links and glued them into position, the buffers were glued to the headstock which in turn was glued to the model.) I also set about attacking the roof which needs to be converted from the rectangular boiler port panel to the round Spanner type. Again I am usin
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Paxton Road

BMX down at Paxton Road...

I'd forgotten how much fun it is riding a BMX...   Down at Paxton Road today 37013 had arrived from Didcot.   So of course I've not actually ridden my BMX for over 5 years! But I've been tinkering on Paxton Road this evening. After my experiment with Carr's Steel Blackening on Nickel Silver rail I applied it to the rails on Paxton Road. A worthwhile transformation? I'll let you make your mind up - I think it's worth it - it definitely takes the golden tinge off the rail surface.  
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Paxton Road's workbench

Blue steel... (or is that Nickel Silver?)

After my introduction to P4 with Exactoscale track and it's steel rail I've wondered about tinkering with my Nickel Silver railed Peco Code 75...   I'd read in Martyn Welch's 'The Art of Weathering' in my teens about using gun blue to get Nickel Silver to look like steel. I wondered if Carr's Steel Blackening fluid would work? (they do a specific Nickel Silver version - not sure whether that would have the same effect as this). So I tried it on a demo piece of spare Peco Code 100. Left hand ra
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

Brackhampton back

I've started work on the back of the old hotel at Snow Hill, unfortunately I've found very few photos of the back wall of the concourse (plenty - well enough - of the ticket office side and the two side walls but not the back) so i'm winging it a bit, but at least I know what the back wall looks like above the glazed roof   By the way the plasticard is that blue colour, I've not painted yet     Rovex
rovex

rovex

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Grahame's dining room table

Baby dust carts

I went to the BGS Berks Area Group open day this morning and picked up a Greenmax kit for £3 of what is claimed on the side of the box to be "Japanese Buses & cars for N gauge" dispite the picture showing council refuse/cleaning vehicles. The kit contained two each of a dust cart and a strange, presumably sludge gulper, tank thing with hoses. Both have Mitubishi cabs with the dust cart a more British/International looking body. The other vehicle is very much Japanese so they hae been
grahame

grahame

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RJRs Branch Lines

Spring has sprung

What can I say, the weather was far to nice to be in the shed playing trains, especially when you have the option to play trains in the sunshine   After cutting the lawn and having a good tidy up in the garden, attention turned to the railway and in particular how it had faired over the extreme winter weather. I am happy to report that bar a few minor bits of the concrete ballasting cracking no major rework has been required. I have chipped a few of the looser sections away and backfilled wit
johnteal

johnteal

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Somewhere in Germany

Seeing the light

Now that Steinrücken is a running layout, the opportunity to play trains is not to be missed. Pending a circuit diagram for an occupancy detector I've been promised, proper wiring is slighly held up, but then it'll be easier to wire when the layout is dismantled. As I'm moving house later this month that would be the sensible time to seperate all the boards and wire in the comfort of a chair with the baseboards on end.   Having some inexplicable urge to do things with a soldering iron, I deci
Taigatrommel

Taigatrommel

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Hammer's Blog

A Boxfile Diorama?

Since my last blog post, I've only been home once. I had been hoping to make progress in ballesting, painting and maybe doing something to counter the current billiard table effect. Annoyingly, I wasn't able to get any of that done due to other time commitments. With the problems of job hunting, dissertation and so on, I'm not going to get near it again for a few months.   So, I've been pondering making a box file diorama with a duel purpose - to let me take pictures of models against somethi
Hammer

Hammer

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