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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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TBG - Bulleid Nutters New Blog

T9's an update

Well another week or so down the road in 2010 and my current spate of T9's are nearly all complete. 30718 and 30288 are finished, just 30726 remains on the workbench, just needing a few final tweaks to her weathering. I have got to photograph 30288 in natural light as I ran out of time yesterday. Here's the finished 30718     On the Bulleid front the 'Bionic One' 34014 is ready for the paintshop now and some serious weathering
toboldlygo

toboldlygo

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

59004 - Chassis ready for paint

Having sourced a pack of Evergreen 5/16th" tube at the Warwick show yesterday, I've now got the air tanks fitted to 59004.   This was a case of fitting the small tank end to the 2 lengths of tube, then filing to shape before gluing on the other end. 2 lengths of 40thou by 80thou strip were glued to the top to act as a base to glue to the main chassis.   All that remains now chassis wise (other than painting) is to add the missing bits from the no2 end bogie.  
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

St Albans Show 2010

Hello   I spent this weekend at the St Albans show courtesy of the CMRA with a demo of my modelling bits for Highclere.   -My (messy) stand closest to the camera-   I just wanted to say that I had a great time and thank you to everyone who came and spoke to me (David Bigcheeseplant, Atso, Halfwit, and others from RMWeb), it was the first 2 day show that I have done and I still got hardly any modelling done! (Apparantly this is a good thing ) I hope that I have inspired a few people to
-missy-

-missy-

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The Saltney Railway

Early Daze

We moved into our lockup in October and started with this. After a week or so Steve had painted the floor and found a bit of carpet and the place seemed quite homely. As work beckoned, I missed the next 10 days or so but imagine my surprise when I came in to offer a bit of help and this lot had appeared. The track was only placed just to see what would fit where, but it gave us an idea of what we could do. All the planning in the world won't really tell you what looks right until you
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Southern Electric workbench

More 2-Bil progress

A package from NNK arrived yesterday, so the EPB has it's replacement window frame and is now finally heading to the paint shop   The NNK trailing bogies having now been fitted with their etched step boards, and assembled. I've also added detail to the ends out of wire and various bits of plastic strip. As with the EPB ends there was a bit of guess work, and various drawings and photos don't seem to match up (possibly variations between different batches of units). I don't think this will m
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Modelling the VSOE in 1998

Edit 1/1/20:  I am debating reserecting this project later in the year, so have been spending some time updating the research. Updating this old blog as a good starting point... My intention is to revisit this post again later this evening to add in photos of the current state of each build.   This is another one of those long term projects which rears it head now and again, given the length of the rake it is far longer than anything which can realisticly be fitted on my current l
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Warick show and ramblings

Spent today at the Warick show demonstrating on the demu stand.   Didnt manage to get a whole lot of modelling finished (a combination of traders not managing to make it there, and me forgetting to bring stuff) but did have a good day despite it. Impressions of the show was something of a mixed bag, some good layouts (although not really enough of real interest to me other than Almwich), if ICM and Bill Bedford had been there trade would have been 'ok', without them it was only really shawpla
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Markmiller2008's Blog

Millbenton Back up and running

Hi all   Millbenton Lane was re-assembled in the spare bedroom a couple of days back and so far the only thing wrong with it since it has be stored is one point motor not throwing! Which isnt too bad going for 5 months in storage.   Well on the rolling stock front , here are the latest additions to the fleet , 47769 " Resolve" which will be finished shortly thanks to John at Precison Transfers making me some custom numbers, 47635 which was purchased before Solihull and has had no work done t
Markmiller2008

Markmiller2008

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Paxton Road's workbench

Class 37 chassis detailing...

I took my daughter for a trip out this afternoon to our local preserved railway, the Churnett Valley Railway at Cheddleton near Leek.   We spent many happy days there earlier this year and were hauled on numerous occasions by the lines resident Class 37 due to a steam engine failure for a lot of the summer.   The line is 'closed' during January but I thought we'd see something today, and since my daughter really wanted to see some trains it was worth a punt. Cheddleton was pretty busy and
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Rose Hill, Marple in P4

One too many... (of these windows!)

Boy am I glad that Rose Hill doesn't need any other buildings when this one is finished!   I've been making slow but steady progress with the pub for Rose Hill all week - after the photo of the 'first cuts' last Tuesday I got to the stage where it was self standing last night! A long way still to go though and I'm absolutely hating cutting windows and details out already!   Construction is 40 thou plasticard with a brick plasticard laminate. This is hopefully strong enough to prevent warping
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Calshot 4mm - SRS's Blog

First NG loco attempt

Well after a period of inactivity I have been doing bits and bobs on the layout. Last weekend I made major modifications to a Knightwing Kit to turn from this: Into this: I ordered a N gauge motor from Japan: And a test fit proves successful: And that pretty much sums up as far as I have got at the moment. I need to add the air compressor? and maybe a few underframe details and then a lick of paint.   If you have any queries feel free to ask!
SouthernRegionSteam

SouthernRegionSteam

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Liphook & District MRC Blog

Liphook & Distict MRC

At last, we have returned following Christmas, snow etc.   Still we are focussed on getting our N gauge layout ready for the Alton show in February, followed by the Midhurst show a couple of week later. Yamanouchi Oshika has it's own thread on here now, and progress photos will be posted in the club's gallery.   Currently we are working on the townscape behind the station, as well as the tram line and depot. There will be some work on general tidying up, and of course, we need to add the cat
Claude_Dreyfus

Claude_Dreyfus

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

A forgotten van round the back ?

With some free time this weekend further work on Brooke Stone could take place however I was still a bit undecided what to do next on the main board so with a list of small side projects to get underway I decided a spot of detailing and weathering would fill Saturday afternoon.       I wanted a van to sit on the back road round the side of the servicing building. Something that would provide storage for the depot and engines could be put to use shunting into a position of loading/unloading o
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Paxton Road

Back up blog?

I've launched my own Blogger blog, to complement RM Web and to provide sollace for those dark days when internet gremlins make the forum un-available...   Don't panic - I'm going to keep my blogs up to date on here with modelling progress. The external blog has feeds from the RMWeb blogs anyway... This will just give me somewhere to post other ramblings and have a play where I've a little more control over how the site looks Add it to your favourites!
James Hilton

James Hilton

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Neil C's Micro-Layout Project Blog

Action

I have, at last, laid the track and wired it (almost all) up. I seem to have managed to get the live frogs working properly, just need to wire the point motors to throw the blades.   I might even manage a photo later. A trip to B&Q is planned for some 'fiddlestick' inspiration.
Neil C

Neil C

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RJRs Branch Lines

CREWE EXHIBITION LINE UP

A week tomorrow the Crewe exhibition will see the first assembly of the CRMs On30 modular layout. As each individual section is connected with 4" long lengths of track using fishplates, its a bit like building a train set with set track, "plug and play" for model railways.   "The On30 layout, 'Ferrocarril Internacional', will be made up from a selection of the following modules plus a pair of fiddleyards."   RJR SHED     FIDDLE YARD - no picture required   ORANGE GROWERS  
johnteal

johnteal

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Raffles' Ramblings

I Have A Bad Case Of Diorama..

Poor weather and the onset of cabin fever have led me to this, God help us all.   In case of a sudden attack of Diorama, take one scrap piece of MDF, 18inches by 10 inches and then spend an evening scouring fotopic for inspiration. Once inspired you can press on with step two.     Scrawl a rough plan onto your scrap MDF   Add some track...   ...and instantly become dissatisfied with the look of it so add another piece with adjusted sleeper spacing.   More later, as they say.
Raffles

Raffles

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RJRs Branch Lines

Wagon load re-secured

Always keen to improve, a couple of keen observers spotted that the way I had secured the old truck onto the flatbed was not very good, and gave suggestion of how it would be done in reality. So a small amount of rework later ........       The tie downs that were threaded through the spokes of the wheels are now placed at 45 degrees to the front and rear and secured to the truck chassis.       John
johnteal

johnteal

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The Saltney Railway

From the ashes

When the old Talacre gauge 0 garden railway had to come down in October 2009, we were feeling a bit down. We had amassed quite a bit of stock and a lot of scenic work had been done in the sheds. We were left with a lot of very second hand track, a mixed bag of locos and stock,quite a few working signals and all the elctrics. We even salvaged most of the buildings. What we didn't have was somewhere to build a new layout. Steve found the answer on his doorstep. A secure lockup, 27 X 17. A bit tig
Jon Fitness

Jon Fitness

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - NSE 159007

Feeling fairly pleased with myself tonight. My Farish (not Bachman) 159 has been in bad shape for some time, poor running and noisy with lots of cliking sounds. I have suspected split gears, as Farish was (?) prone too. Tonight I took the wheel sets off and took apart the gear stacks and to my surprise found not one but two split gears; one on each gear stack. So off to the parts bin (you never know what will come in handy) found two wheels sets with correct gears on them. Reasembled the ge
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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