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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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An N-Gauge shelf...

Point controllers

Had a spare hour or so this evening, didn't want to sit in front of the goggle box, so decided to build a few point controllers. These are MERG (Model Electronic Railway Group) kits. Each board controls one or two points, acting as a mini CDU, and providing frog switching for each point. The kit is quite simple, with not many components:     I find the kit goes together really easily, and without much trouble batch built 4 of them this evening. These are destined for the station board.
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Adam's part-time modelling

And yet more from the Steelworks...

Now comes the really fiddly/interesting bit. The working parts of these ladles are very simple. The chain used to tip the ladle runs through three pulleys. One at each end of the wagon and another mounted on one side of the ladle itself The pulleys themselves are rather nice turnings mounted on castings which need a little bit of preperation (and some care as holes need drilling - a bit of 80 thou' plastic between worked for me. The pulley attached to the ladle was fixed to a swinging link, her
Adam

Adam

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Fen End Pit's Blog

Started work on J39 chassis

I started work on my Christmas present on Friday. A Dave Bradwell J39 chassis. The instructions are detailed and seem to need reading from beginning to end completely at every stage but as usual the etching is superb and so far seems well thought out.       David
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Adam's part-time modelling

More from the steelworks

First, an update with progress on the ladles. The wheels as supplied are not quite to the correct pattern (this is detailed in the instructions). Who knows, some one, somewhere might want to do something similar so how I did it is shown, and described in full, below. The wheel as supplied is originally meant for 4mm scale narrow gauge, has a recessed face and six holes. We need a flush face and 8 holes. I used Miliput to do the bulk of the job.     Once this was fully hard, I levelled off
Adam

Adam

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South Hall Yard

Update One

Well almost! Three things failed - first, I had to de-ice the shed, getting the wife to work (but she's been very good, working from home!) and ordering the Pannier chassis. With no post reaching us, it seems pointless ordering a package from Chris & then trusting it to the vagaries of the Post Office storage system! However, all is not lost - I've got a conversion kit for the Bachmann '08' which will be the next 'target'. After all, I need something to test the trackwork!   Talking of
scanman

scanman

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RJRs Branch Lines

More fun and games in the shed !

Like many I couldn't get on the forum the last couple of nights but it did mean I got some modelling done.   On Sunday night I took the shovel nose down to the shed and discovered I had should have checked it before getting so far !!! Without the benefit of other stock to check against, due to working in the house not the shed I seemed to have accumulated some extra height... Taking it slightly over maximum permissible height for CRM module use.....   So some rework was required to get the b
johnteal

johnteal

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steamrailuk's Blog

My Freelance Loco River Class 2-6-0

Hi everyone, im new member to RMweb. One of my friends here on RMweb, Tomtank suggested that I show you all the locomotives that I have built.   Here is my latest loco, River Clyde. This is a freelance 2-6-0 based on the style of Scottish locomotives of around 1910/1920 built to run on my fictional railway, which I have called the Grand Northern & Carlisle Railway.   The loco started life as the Bachmann Junior 0-6-0ST "Digby" and the remains of my Hornby GWR 28xx 2-8-0, which was beyond
steamrailuk

steamrailuk

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Edinburgh Junction's Blog

Crewesly TMD

Now, your probably wondering what the hell this is! Well, some of you may know, I have a small, long board in another room, which was intending to be EDJ south TMD, but, I thought this would be the opportunity to test out running an end-to-end layout. The TMD will be diesel to start off, but when Peco release their Catenary range, then It will be an electric depot. The plan has always been, 4 lane siding with a 2 lane depot. The depot building will be the Peco train shed, and the two lines meet
Edinburgh Junction

Edinburgh Junction

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Bachmann Chassis Fitted

Chassis matched up to the Dapol body at last     needed to nip a little bit out of the chassis sides to clear the angular webs that link the Dapol tanks to the body sides and then used a bit of Hornby handrail wire bent in a long C section inserted into two 0.6mm holes in the Dapol tanks to hold the sides in place. I will add a keeper plate over this wire secured with screws to the underside to stop the wire from dropping out in service. The fit is so good that I am minded to not bother wit
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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halfwit's fantastic workbench!

Judith Edge Steelman Royale lifting brackets and steps.

The lifting brackets are made up from 2 parts, a backing plate which needs to be 'riveted' and folded 90' and the bit with the hole in. A little fiddly perhaps but quite satisfying once soldered. I will leave these off until the bufferbeams have been painted and striped, then superglue them on. The top steps were added next. These fit into grooves etched int the frames and are laminated from 2 layers, the top layer having the anti slip checker plate etched in. I held both layers together in s
halfwit

halfwit

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The Grime Street Blog

I'm on 'Easy Street' !

As was mentioned before I'd ordered some 'Easy Street' girder rail for the proposed extension to'Grime Street', it's produced in the US and available from http://www.proto87.c...tcar-track.html (usual disclaimer)   So what do you get?     Well this is a twin left hand points module, as you can see you also need the plain and curved track sections to complete a working point, so I duly ordered some! Also shown is one of the downloadable drawings available on the Proto 87 website, these ar
Red Devil

Red Devil

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

Fairlie Slow Progress...

Will these puns ever end?! Probably not, but they should!   To be brutally honest, I haven't done anything on my Double Fairlie since my last update. I've been trying to convince myself that painting the crew figures (see the unpainted versions below)     I had a stroll into town (York) yesterday, and while I was there decided to nip to the NRM to have a look at Livingston Thompson. Obviously this counts as research, so I have done something (hmmmm). I didn't have my proper camera with me
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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Paxton Road's workbench

Tractors and cows...

Christmas and New Year were great fun, but combining the family commitments and putting together an issue of my mountainbike e-zine I had very little time for modelling. The first two weeks of January have seen a reversal with a snow bound last week and issue deadline out of the way. So what did I get for Christmas and what have I been working on recently?   I treated myself to the Bachmann sound equipped class 37 (in Railfreight grey) and a Dynamis controller. This has proved great fun (a
James Hilton

James Hilton

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An N-Gauge shelf...

A history...

Real history   The history of railways in Leeds is a mess of rivalry, co-operation, interference and desire. The first railway to arrive in Leeds was the Leeds and Selby in 1834, with its carefully graded route to the port of Selby from Marsh Lane (east of the city centre). The next arrival was the North Midland Railway when it opened its line south to Derby in 1840 from a terminus at Hunslet Lane in the Pottery Fields area to the south of the River Aire. With the arrival of the Leeds and B
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Calle de la Coronacion

Glazing the rovers & roys plus a new 3rd building

well with under 2 weeks till this & Forks Trestle are at the C.R.M show 24th jan crewe heritage center well with the kid again at home as the schools closed I have glaxed the building & put in the doors as you can see inside i have put some paper planking on the walls       & heres the 3rd building Ropa Interior del Mundo Terrenal can any one tell me which business this is from the street
mozzer models

mozzer models

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Bachmann Chassis Mods

The following image shows the plastic chassis frame from the Donor Bachmann deltic following an attack with razor saw, large file and 120 grit wet or dry     I started by razor sawing off a section from the ends of each tank end to reduce the overall length of the tanks so that they fit within the "lip" on the inside of the Dapol sides. The tank side faces were then sawn off as close to flush with the frame sides as I dared. These sides were then filed flush and the bottom edges of the ta
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

PTAs - the finished wagon

I've now added most of the transfers to one side of the first wagon. (just needs tops code and number)   The Fox sheet is intended for the 2nd version of the livery carried by these wagons, this has a slightly wider blue band than the 3rd version of the livery that I am doing. If the transfers were straight it would be a simple case of cutting them down to size, but of course they aren't.....  
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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St. Simon's Workbench

St. Simon's Workbench - GWR Horse Box

Hi Guys,   Here's the picture of the Horse box as promised. These were taken before primer was sprayed. The red masking tape is protecting the glazing (hopefully!):     Now the roof is masked off, so I need to get some GWR Chocolate colour and some transers now!   Comments welcome   Simon
St. Simon

St. Simon

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