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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 Saltney Railway

Saltney, Alterations,additions and a bit of scenery.

When the track was layed into the LM station, we knew we were on the very limit of curvature for most of the locos (we reckoned some of the curves were 4' 6" radius) and this proved to be too much for some. A re-think was necessary which resulted in much alteration of the woodwork and a reduction in complexity of the trackwork. We had originally envisaged a double track into the station but this was reduced to single. Many attempts were made before a compromise was reached. As the corner by t
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

A Star is born

Not a GWR coach at all - but it didn't seem worthwhile starting a new thread for one picture. I'd asked elsewhere about problems with the old Hornby Saint - and wow was that a case of lighting the blue touch paper and retiring.   Anyway it stirred me into having a go at knocking up a Star (Saint to Star? Don't ask) I can't claim any credit for the process as its all detailed elsewhere on other threads - have a look at the thread on the Hornby Saint for the links.   This is based on the old A
rovex

rovex

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Clydach

Workbench

As this was originally intended as a layout blog, all of my workbench content from now on can be found here.   This includes the 142/143 conversion and any new posts will be made there.
JZjr

JZjr

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JZjr's Workbench

Arriva 142 to First 143

My Arriva Trains Wales class 142 has now been half converted to a First Great Western 143.   The final livery of the 143 will be the First Great Western 'Plain Blue Interim livery', this was applied to one of the class between the 'Local Bristol Livery' and the 'Local Lines Livery'   Only the first half of the unit is done at the moment and the other half will be done in three-four weeks. If I have not updated this blog after three weeks then feel free to PM and remind me!   Some pictures
JZjr

JZjr

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clarkea1's Blog

Further wagon progress

Just a quick update on the various steelworks internal user wagons on my workbench. The Workington scrap bogie opens have made it as far as the paintshop - all three have had a good blast of grey primer. I have also splayed out the sides on the wagons as per the prototype photos. The next stage will be painting (in "rust" livery) followed by some fairly severe weathering with a mixture of dry brushing and powders.     Two of the wagons will be finished in a fairly poor condition, but I'v
clarkea1

clarkea1

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DRAG TT2 progress

First trains on TT2 run under their own power

Last night we got the OO P87 circuit on TT2 temporarily wired up and actually ran some trains on the new facility for the first time.   The honour of breaking the metaphorical ribbon went to John farmer's LY pannier tank, which was swiftly followed by a succession of other Western Region, Southern Region and S&D trains.   The first powered movement on the completed OO circuit.   A general view of the test track   10800 getting his version of The Cornishman ready to put on the t
Captain Kernow

Captain Kernow

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The Saltney Railway

Gradients and curves

Seeing the first train run gave us a bit of a boost and once the hidden loops were in it was time to start adding the upper station area. This will eventually be the WR station and will be the larger of the 2. The large board will be hinged for access until the lower area is proven to be ok then it will be fastened down with a removable front retaining wall for access. The turntable was rescued from Talacre and tried here but proved to be a little out of reach (more of which later!!) Th
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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'CHARD's Low Benchmarks

Brush Blue D1958; major surgery for 47148

Blessed be the forum without glitches: this is the third time I've begun to write this blog entry since the problems with UK2 manifested themselves. All being well, here is the concluding (sort of) instalment of what happened to my trio of Bachmann tri-grille 47148s, Hattons bargains tied up with string etc...   Having tackled 1536 and 1547 in Early Blue, as Waverley Route visitors, and seeing Bruce Mac's evocative snatched shot of D1958 whizzing through Riccarton Jct with a single BG in tow,
'CHARD

'CHARD

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Scale7JB's Blog

Basking in the sunlight.

I walked into the room where the K2 was sitting earlier and it looked great sitting in the sun, so had to take a couple of pictures... The colour of the rods doesn't look to bad in the warm light..   I played around in photoshop to try to make it look a little more like film grain too... don't worry, I didn't spend too long on it, and I know it's far from perfect   JB.    
Scale7JB

Scale7JB

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - Withdrawal

It is with regret, that last week I contacted the 2mm Association to formally withdraw Coombe Junction from the Golden Jubilee Layout Challenge at the 2FS EXPO this coming July, in the main, due to the logistical/financial complications of getting the layout from Barcelona to Oxford for a 48 hour period.   I would welcome an opportunity one day to exhibit it in the UK and it will keep progressing but I should just like to thank everyone for their interest in the layout to date.   Pete
bcnPete

bcnPete

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shanks522's Blog

Mail terminal building

Very little work has been done on the layout of late as it is moving rooms and has had to be dismantled for a short while, so today i had a few hours and thought i'd try and get some work on the mail terminal, the building itself is very boring and i'm hoping that with the trains and general clutter around it will fit in quite nicely. It has only been sprayed in primer but i actually like the colour so may leave it so, all it really needs now is the lights fitting inside to highlight the platfo
shanks522

shanks522

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

59104

The roof is now finished, New roof pods were formed from some evergreen strip filed to shape, and then fitted with 10thou square plastruct strip on the end and groves across the top working from http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=ykqh3x&noresize=1&nostamp=1&quality=95   These were then glued to the recesses at each end, again working from Martyn's photos.   I have also turned my attention back to the underframe with the new fuel tank is now glued into position, and the Lima bat
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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ewsjo's Blog

Knuckle Duster

Having picked up a handful of the new Farish MBAs over the weekend, today I thought I'd set about adding body mounted knuckle couplers to them. The outer ends of the outer 2 wagons retain Rapidos in NEM pockets for coupling to locos. The inner ends of these two, and both ends of the inner wagons have been fitted with a Microtrains coupler mounted at bufferbeam height. On the buffer fitted wagons, this represents the swinghead coupler, and the inners are fitted with a fixed knuckle, though of cou
Steadfast

Steadfast

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bmthtrains' N gauge projects

350 continues! (and stock musings)

After some feedback from a couple of people, I've made a few tweaks to the 350 - most notably thining down the roof-top air con pods, and adding a shadow effect to the bottom of the coach side to represent the slight curve that should be there. This image is a bit deceptive as it is sat on very short bogies (until the 'correct' ones arrive), giving the appearance of the whole body being too deep, but once on the final set of wheels it looks okay to me.   Ive also been making my list of thing
bmthtrains - David

bmthtrains - David

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Paxton Road's workbench

Meadow Lane - another distraction?

Not another one I hear you shout! Paxton Road is 2 years in the making and still only 60% finished - and Rose Hill is barely 3 months in, what is he thinking?!! As readers of RMWeb will be aware this week I've been musing over building a 230hp Sentinel shunter - a chain driven one based on the Manchester Ship Canal examples - using a Judith Edge kit. This would ideally be P4, DCC and possibly even sound fitted. It would definitely feature working headlights, cab light and flashing beacon on the
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

Upping the pace(r)...

My P4 project, part of the RMWeb 2010 challenge is a model of Rose Hill, Marple. It's a toe dipping exercise in prototype observation - not 100% to scale (something more like 80% with the station building and pub) but with the definite intention of 'feeling right'. That means fantastic observation of prototype and artistic colouring.   The only rolling stock required (until Bachmann release a 150/1 in Northern Rail) was deemed to be a Pacer as I had one of the original Hornby ones to hand fr
James Hilton

James Hilton

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barrowroad's Blog

Sand Dryer Roof

I have now received the sub roof parts for the sand dryer and so decided to take a break from constructing the office complex to complete the sand dryer.   First I attached the mdf substructure to the locating lugs on the internal structure     then I cut pieces of 20thou plasticard to form the hipped roof and fixed these to the mdf.     the next task will be to add plastic rod over the joints before adding the tiles. These come in self adhesive strips which can be cut to fit using a
barrowroad

barrowroad

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Smallbridge

Why do we do it?

A few more bits and pieces have been done to the layout, and I will update with photos later on tonight.   A huge curve ball was thrown at me, while on a quick visit to Tennents on Wednesday lunchtime, all I bought was some more trees, a decoder, and some Plastic Cement for me to crack on with the Kadees for my wagons. But there in the cabinet all shiny, new, and looking absolutely stunning, was a Blue Grey 4CEP, and all I have thought about is going three rail, how I can adjust the fiddle yar
wollastonblue

wollastonblue

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Summat Colliery

Red Lorry

Took a break last night from the Deltics to do a bit more detailing on the red lorry for Summat, it was about time that the owner's name was added to the sides B)     I've added a sprinking of coal dust to the loadspace floor too   EDIT: looking at the photo there's room to add "UK" on the end as well, not sure how many traders in 1958 were keen to say they were a UK company but hey ho!
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Somercombe

The Beast.

Well, here it is, 'The Beast' My stretched Hymek on a Falcon chassis, to which I am indebted to 6026, for obtaining it for me. Body now ready for what I hope is the final coat of primer. As for the final colour scheme, I am open to suggestions, but I don't want to make it too like the original Hymek scheme. One thought is two tone green, like the Brush type 4s, with white or very pale grey window surrounds. As for number? D0270 would fit in nicely between Lion and Falcon, but these were der
JZ

JZ

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RJRs Branch Lines

Cheshire Railway Modellers Exhibition

Well after mentioning the CRM exhibition in several posts, due to the fact that "The Orange Growers" and "On shed" modules were built to be part of the "clubs" exhibition layout I thought I should post a video of them in action with the other modules on the day.   With the set up being (left to right) RJR Shed and Orange Growers Association, Me. Perejil Apartadero and Asilo, Bob Hughes. (Yorkshire Pullman) Rio Paleta, Nick Palette & Bob Hughes. Calle de la Coronacion Andrew Milner &am
johnteal

johnteal

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Class 59 & 66

A quick update, I've now picked up the rest of the bits so can get on with 59104. The body needs a little more work to get a perfect fit on the chassis, This is a result of the Bachmann WIPACs being mounted about 30thou lower than those on the Lima 59 body, (rather than just filing a hole to match the wipacs, I carved them off as a complete unit for reuse elsewhere...) a couple of short lengths of 30thou strip cut to fit will sort it out nicely.   Other than that its going to be a case of
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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