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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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Paxton Road's workbench

3rd time lucky - improving a Bachmann 37

A trip to the Great Central Railway last weekend has spurred progress on my model of 37411.   First up - Lostock and some Smoking Barrels and the GCR itself - what a wonderful railway and a great achievement to have 8 locomotives in steam on the Sunday! From the Jinty through to Oliver Cromwell, my daughter and I were very impressed. My favourite was the BR Std 2 tender engine, Elly's was the LMS red Leander.   Some shots from the weekend - my favourite all weekend is the second one of Olive
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

Board yet? Baseboard progress...

Somehow even just mocking up something with wood and offcuts makes it all come to life in my mind...   Rose Hill has the beginnings of a baseboard! If you count an un-cut 18mm sheet of plywood as a beginning. These shots show her mocked up with track, Pacer and the two buildings. A view from the fiddleyard/backscene end of the layout from both sides - note the planned curved end   A few other shots... low angle and overhead A Northern Pacer waits with the 14:12 departure for Manc
James Hilton

James Hilton

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RJRs Branch Lines

A bit of everything

Evening all, Got some stuff done in a late afternoon session... Thank heavens for the variety afforded by blogs as this pot is a bit of everything !   The G layout now has the dowels fitted and all 3 lines that cross the joint are done, Im waiting for my 2 extra points to arrive at the moment though !       And here they are, stored in the shed, At the moment the On30 turntable module is sat in position on the left hand worktop, it stores on the brackets under the worktop above the G s
johnteal

johnteal

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barrowroad's Blog

Office Complex - the finished article

Here are some photos of the finished building - except for the 2 chimneys and vents previously mentioned. Final weathering will take place once everything is built and in place on the layout.   Thanks for all the positive comments.   The next installment will be the roundhouse and workshop itself.               I now have to wait a few weeks before I take delivery of the main shed and workshop...... watch this space.
barrowroad

barrowroad

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, fuel,film and fun.

After receiving an offer of 4 petrol tank wagons, Steve decided to squeeze a small petrol terminal in to the end of the LM station yard. Again, several bits and bobs were unearthed from boxes of stuff rescued from "Talacre" and fashioned into a representation of an unloading area. Although it's a "bitza" it began to look ok. We're not rivet counters here, it's more about having a bit of fun with the stock we have. This gave Les and Steve a chance to fill a bit of space with a roadway. This pr
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Bomp's Blog

New plan to keep me going

I have a large board which has been used as a fiddle yard in the past. This is in the other piece of basement which is going to be cleared for an extension to the layout. In the meantime, I am going to make myself a shunting layout on this board while I wait to clear the rest of the basement. I will use this to practise wiring a DCC layout from scratch rather than trying to bodge a DC one to DCC. It will also be smaller and therefore more likely to be finished scenicly in more detail than th
Bomp

Bomp

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

66705

Finally got some new nameplates fitted to my model of 66705, and made a start on the weathering. Not very happy with the affect that I ended up with on the sides, so started trying to wash it off, the Tamiya powders just arnt working very well over the ribbed sides so its going to need a different method. the sooty roof did come out a lot better (although the silencer looks awful...)   Comparing with photos it looks like the flag is completely wrong, in length, hight and colour which is ra
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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The Farthing layouts

Once Upon a Time in the West (video)

Here's a little video showing scenes and train movements at Farthing station - including the arrival, shunting and departure of the Westbury stopping train. It's 2,5 minutes long. Be warned that it features music, although only a quiet piano.  
Mikkel

Mikkel

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

more electrickery

Hello again   It was about time to post something as I have been quiet recently. I have been back onto the electrics for the layout in a desperate attempt to get something running in the traditional style of a railway layout (is a layout a layout if there arent any moving trains on it?) and with the help of Mark again helping me get a bit of woodwork done here is how far I have got with it...   This is my main board which has a few more connectors screwed to it now. The white one at the b
-missy-

-missy-

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Class 150 Improvements

Today I have received a pre production pack of Shawplan's new mk3 unit windows intended for use with Bratchell's multiple unit kit range (and Jim SW's etched windows). Deciding to be awkward I have set about fitting them to a Bachmann 150 instead. I have discussed before the advantages in accuracy that Jims etch brings over the Bachmann part, so see my old workbench thread on RMweb3 for more details on that. The first thing you notice is how thick the new windows are compared with the Bachm
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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My Layout - Talerddig Sidings

Critter...progress

Thanks for the positive comments. Jam, not sure about colours yet, but part of me wants wasp stripe bufferbeams!   Progress has slowed, but as I'm trying to utilise as much of the kit parts as possible I decided to fabricate a 'thing' for the top of the bonnet from one of the kit's buffers and attempted to make an exhaust stack from one of the plastic axles. Not sure about this though because, although successful, it doesn't look right when viewed as part of the model itself.   Oh well, back
matto21

matto21

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Hythe Parkway Blog

Hythe Parkway - SESR & Bluebell Gala!

Hi Guys,   Last night was the last night that Hythe Parkway will be up at the Clubrooms before Newbury. So, after hearing that my good friend Matt Wickes (Bluebell Model Railway on here) was coming, we decided to hold a joint Southeast Steam Railway & Bluebell Railway Gala at Hythe Parkway!   Matt brought along his 'H' Class 0-4-4T Tank and his E4 0-6-2T which can be see on his Horstead Keynes layout thread here: http://www.rmweb.co....oo/page__st__50   Another visitor was a Regional R
St. Simon

St. Simon

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - a Level of Detail?

Well, both DP1s are sat ready for their blue top coats, chassis done and running. So my mind wandered to the finishing touches..   As I used to work for a gauge company I thought it would be nice to paint the fuel level gauges at least on my Dapol/Bachmann version, then I thought of a better way.   Thanks to sir haydn for supplying me with this picture     after a bit of processing to crop out detail and adjust the exposure to take account of the reduction in scale by 1/76 gives me thes
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Grahame's dining room table

Easitrack

My Easitrack order turned up today - plain concrete sleepers with flatbottom rail and wooden sleepers with bullhead rail, it's just a shame that, at the moment, there are no wooden seepers available for the flatbottom rail, but I understand it is planned to be developed. Anyway, I've already tried out assembling both types and have laid some on the little photography diorama board I'm building.             G.
grahame

grahame

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The Saltney Railway

Saltney, Hills,holes and houses.

To fill a hole in a corner, Steve dug out some old bits of low relief buildings from "Talacre" and added a few walls (with support) to create a nice dank scene behind the signalbox. When it was completed (much to Steve's consternation)someone noticed the similarity to a scene from a certain grisly British film of the early 70's. A suitable street name was printed up and applied to complete the scene. (If you can't guess, you'll have to wait for a later post to see it ) Meanwhile, a scenic
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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barrowroad's Blog

Office, Mess Stores - further photos

Here are a few more photos of the office complex.           All that remains now is to paint the roof tiles.   There are two additional brick built chimneys to add to the higher of the two hipped roofs and two vents/chimneys. These will be made and added at a later stage.
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Glasburgh Loco Depot 1981 (Tay Bridge)

'Just another brick in the wall'

Well, in the words of a Pink Floyd song 'just another brick in the wall' has been this week's theme! My birthday present from my wife (would love to have heard this birthday present explained in the staff room!) some retaining walls has arrived. The local 'brickies' from Glasburgh have been out with their cement and trowels and the walls are taking shape. I had already fitted a few bits near loco depot but the latest parts around the raised section finally make it look like part of the layout
Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Planning J39 drive - rebuilding tender chassis?

Well the time has come for serious thinking (some would say I should have done this before).   The North Yard gearbox I got from Branchlines runs very smoothly, and sticking a mini-drill on the back turns the wheels quite nicely! However this isn't exactly the most prototypical drive so I need to work out how to get a universal joint through to the tender and mount a motor.   First problem is that the shaft of the gearbox comes out only slightly below the cab floor. I think I'm going to have
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Small scale property development!

One feature planned for the area at the top of the embankment is a block of modern flats, the brick built type that seem to have sprung up all over the place in the past few years and loosely based on the one where I live.   To get some idea of the size, I made a paper mock up to make sure it wasn??�t going to be too dominating, but it seems to fit in nicely.     Construction will be a transparent plastic structure, with my own brick paper overlaid onto a thin sheet of plasticard. Thi
TomE

TomE

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Grahame's dining room table

Blog update

Just a quick note to update my blog; modelling is still continuing but on a number of fronts including completing a Fireball XL5 Comet Miniatures vac formed kit and more background research and development for my big London Bridge project. For that I've started putting together a fleet of London Transport busses;         And I've been looking at track options for the project. I've just about decided that I'm going to run with the 2mm Easitrack option using the plain track as it is, but bu
grahame

grahame

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Pugsley's Workbench

I'll be your number one

Number one end, that is!   A couple of views of the No 1 end cab, with virtually all of the detailing parts added.   Matt - as you see, I've added the wire to the phone handset - couldn't make the wire itself curly though, I couldn't find the unfeasibly small wire, so had to use some slightly thicker stuff. I've twisted as best I can so that it looks the part though     The radio unit has turned out a tad oversize, and that coupled with the fact that the AWS indicator is also overs
Pugsley

Pugsley

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