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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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The 891mm Project

Op 14t Open Wagon

As work on the Gp van continues, I have had to take a break away from it simply as I was losing the will to live. The thought of the hundreds of bolt heads still to be applied is demoralising enough to prevent me doing any modelling at all, so I have had to take a brief diversion.   Designed in 1942 these large open-standard two-axle freight wagons were designed to fill the general purpose role previously occupied by the older wagons of various vintages and designs. The original desig
Bristol_Rich

Bristol_Rich

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Etched Pixels Workbench

10203 continued

Done a bit of filling and painting work so 10203 is beginning to take shape. Still need to sort out the battery box further and fit the handrails, folded headcode discs and the other grilles. Then of course paint the chassis/battery box silver.
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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RJRs Branch Lines

Website update

Just to let you all know I have been doing some work on my website http://www.rjrmodels.webs.com feel free to pop in By joining the site I can keep you up to date on future changes.   The site is a member of the webs group "Model Rail" that now has 32 other member sites with the aim of generating interest in the hobby and raising the profile of model railway websites. If you have a webs (formerly Freewebs) site feel free to join the group. There is a link to it at the bottom of my webpage.
johnteal

johnteal

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Beardybloke's 009 Bodging Bench

Of slates, weights and couplings

Blanche, I'm ashamed to say, is still languishing at the back of the workbench awaiting a new coupling rod. I've not been very busy in a modelling-related way recently, but I've not been particularly idle either.   A stalling point in starting to ballast and lay scenery on my Hafod Las layout has been uncertainty of where to bury the permanent magnets for the Sprat & Winkle couplings that I've decided to make a go of... this is mainly because I have nothing fitted with the couplings yet, a
Beardybloke

Beardybloke

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Update 5

Having collected some more parts from Chris at the Ally Pally show last weekend, noteably a new shed floor, I have spent some time this week marking out the positions for all the inspection and disposal pits on the layout in preparation for a routing session.   I made a visit to the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre in Chippenham and obtained digital copies of a number of ex Swindon Works Drawings including the 60ft Cowans Sheldon turntable for Barrow Road, Water & Drainage diagrams a
barrowroad

barrowroad

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CHRIS WORKBENCH.

boy in blue, and a question.

hello Folks,   here we have the new boy in blue, one EE type 4,     I was going to paint her (or rather him ) into BR Green, but Ive decided against the matter due to its excellent condtion.   also we have a BR type 2, which I absent mindedly painted into black only when it was too late did one realize.... oh.... damn.     but never fear because I have a cunning plan MMMMAAAAHHHHAAAA Im going to do her in fragonset livery.     here we have two EE giants, now a question, as
CHRIS LNER

CHRIS LNER

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Sandhills' Model Photography

A productive 'good' Friday !

With Friday, Sunday & Monday free from work & a box full of scenic supplies in the model stores its time to crack on and cover some of the bare bits and those foam/concrete(!) blocks.       With the left bank complete I decided to make a little feature on the right bank. A landslip which occurred several years ago was fixed by an infill off large boulders which have since been overtaken by shrubbery. The retaining wall still needs a cover of stonework but the major task of glueing
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Engine Wood

Box vans

I've realised that I don't have enough P4 box vans for Callow Lane, so I've diverted my attentions from buildings and crumbling platforms to building 8 - 10 box vans to bolster the wagon fleet.   I'm using a variety of recent Bachmann items, purchased over the last couple of years as semi-impulse buys, plus some Parkside Dundas kits.   Currently on the workbench are a Bachmann planked BR 12t box van, which is having to have a virtually complete chassis rebuild, once I found that there was no
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, Making good(s) progress

Making a bit of progress with the goods shed for Slugworth. It's not a model of any particular goods shed but a conglomeration of odd pictures I've seen and a major influence is the 4mm scale Townstreet LNW style goods shed that "Coachman" has made in his Buildings blog (thanks for the inspiration Larry )         I'll be using some resin window frames from Invertrain and yes I know it has different styles on each side. Couldn't decide which window shape I preferred so I used both.
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Dave Holt's Blog

Delph - Brief update

It's been a while since the last entry, so I thought I'd just give a brief up-date. Not very much that's photogenic, but steady progress has been made with the electrics on the first board section. Most recently, I've been assembling the jumper cables and connectors which will link this board to those either side. Besides the two cables at the ends of this board (B3 in my notation), I've wired the mating plug connectors and jumpers for the adjacent boards (B2 - with the station throat pointwork
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

New Points at Tunnel Mouth

Well,   After much chopping, scratching and work with a chisel the old track was extracted from it's ballast at the tunnel mouth. A new longer point was put into mainline from tunnel mouth so that I can enjoy agood 20 or 47 thrash away from signal at entrance to tunnel. Now the loco can actually go a distance rather that the short hop to the shed. it would of course be much easier to plan this all before laying but why do it the easy way. In any case I needed to replace a broken point in coach
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

Finally... ... an update

It's been a while since I've updated my blog. Not a lot has been happening apart from commission work namely 4 of my Bulleid fleet have gone North to there new home (Eddystone, 249 Squadron, 603 Squadron and Saunton) in various states of dirtiness   Below is a picture of 603 in works minus tender and lurking behind is Bionic Bulleid 3 (more on that later):     My current spate of T9's is complete with both 30288 & a reworked 30726 Here's a quick snap I took of the finished 228 in th
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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My Layout - Talerddig Sidings

Replacement building - an update

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been considering replacing the Scalescenes building at the back of the layout. Work has now started on this using Wills sheets. I also made the most of the opportunity and repainted the brickwork of the other building and fitted guttering and a drainpipe.      
matto21

matto21

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, A W.I.P. round?

As Steve had started the water tower building for the loco shed (Made from some parts of a Kittle Hobby engine shed and some Foamex with rivet details added from a sheet) I thought it was time I had a go. Heres a few Work In Progress pics   This is Steves tank       And the startings of my goods shed for Slugworth. Its made from 3mm foamex and will be clad in Slaters stone plasticard.    
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Nile_Griffith's Mk 3 Shunter Blog

I 'aint got no body

Well this really is the home straight for the project.   First job is to cut away the coach under chassis cowling from the Hornby chassis. I'm not going to go into how I did it, just to say take your time and be careful. When done it's just a case of using Devcon or similar to stick it to the Bachmann chassis. Obviously make sure you get it central etc etc etc.   The seating can go. I did consider slicing the very ends of and finding a way to secure them to the inside of the carriage so as t
Nile_Griffith

Nile_Griffith

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RJRs Branch Lines

Mortar on Stone walls

I sat looking at the wall last night and realised a fundamental omission, I had forgot to do the mortar lines !!! Tried the paint on wipe off plan of quick lines, but as the stone has quite a lot of depressions I ended up with "mortar" residue on the stone face, not very professional from a builder ! So ended up painting them on by hand with a tiny brush.   Here one side is done one isn't, I guess if you cant tell which is which I wasted my time !       John
johnteal

johnteal

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Nile_Griffith's Mk 3 Shunter Blog

Bogies! The bit I forgot

The bit I forgot to add in the last bit.   A little bit of fudging is required, to match coach running heights etc. What I found that I needed to do was to remove the screw from each of the bogie towers and introduce a couple of spacing washers. Now obviously I don't know what washers you will have to hand, so there is an element of adjust to taste on this one. But don't forget to place your chassis alongside another Mk3 coach so that you can see that things line up. I couldn't get it bang on
Nile_Griffith

Nile_Griffith

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Nile_Griffith's Mk 3 Shunter Blog

Bogies!

The only really serious bit of modelling is converting the bogies from being that of a 158 to those found on a Mk3.   Being particularly experienced in contemplating my navel. Spending time contemplating the make up of the bogies and routes to a final result where a piece of cake. making my mind up on the final process was a different matter altogether.   But in a condensed form...... This is what I did   Firstly the 158 wheels are too small. So a bag of Bach'y coach wheels where purchased
Nile_Griffith

Nile_Griffith

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Nile_Griffith's Mk 3 Shunter Blog

Theirs a box of bits on the table

Right! back to that thing.   The reason for this blog is a small hope that it might provide the necessary push to those who like me......... have steered clear of some of the more varieties of plastic surgery, done with apparent ease, by some of the modellers on here.   Give me some bit's of wire and a bit of electrical current to tame and guide into certain devices and components and I'm as happy as a taxman in April!   But I have to admit to a degree of trepidation when it comes to fettl
Nile_Griffith

Nile_Griffith

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Nile_Griffith's Mk 3 Shunter Blog

I have an idea born out of frustration.

OK now here's a thing. Not a big thing, but a thing non the less (I'll Kill bloody Uma Thurman).   One of my particular pet hates are model Loco motors that in operation sound like they are just slowly grinding themselves to death, or at best could be described as sounding like a manic "Kenwood Chef" hell bent on self destruction. Audible noise seems to be directly proportional to lack of motive power in those models whose noise level exceeds a calm murmur it would seem. I can cope with a slig
Nile_Griffith

Nile_Griffith

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Ramblings from the Man Cave

Leg Problems No More. Stability Success

I now have the legs complete with stays and locking pins and I've had a clearout to allow the 'layout' to be installed in it's displayed state within the hobby room for work on the track and scenics. All the legs have adjustable feet on now too to compensate for uneven floors and my inability to cut eight legs to precisely the same length!   I fitted a lower brace to the outer legs, improving stability, that meant the cassette ends had to be shortened a little. This was carefully calculated th
richbrummitt

richbrummitt

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Trains in spring

On my way back from the doctor I shot two quick photos just outside Bad Soden Station ...       ...first of HLB (Hessische Landesbahn) DMU VT 205 or 648 405 working the 83562 service to Frankfurt-Höchst - travel time on this line is just 9 minutes. The 648 is an Alstom LINT 41 type unit.         The S3 line has been equipped with class 423 EMUs this past weekend - meaning that the older 420s will largely be restricted to the S7, S8 and S9 lines until the current franchise for the
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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