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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...

More Tracklaying

Following the trials and tribulations with the first sector plate, I was pleased to see the second one hadn't reshaped itself after gluing on the cork. I fitted it (having first worked out which way round took best advantage of the warp for a level joint), and with the aid of a folded piece of card, it seems to sit fairly level. Having already prepared the track, all I had to do was glue it down this morning. It wasn't as easy as last time, mainly due to the curves in the branch line, not hel
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Adam's part-time modelling

Slag (n.) A piece of refuse matter...

And now back to wagons. I've managed to acquire a couple of these whitemetal kits for slag ladles, used to dipose of the by-products of the blast furnace. Rather specific as rolling stock goes, and surprisingly small, but dad and I have a couple of suitable locos, and they're a little bit different (to say the least!). For those interested, there are a few shots of the process here, together with the drawing and photo's of the wagon that the kit (from Clarke Kits - it is no longer available), is
Adam

Adam

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RJRs Branch Lines

New loco for a friend

ENTRY EDITED to include link to a prototype picture HERE   With the now fast approaching deadline of January 24th for the Crewe Exhibition, it suddenly struck me that I had offered to build a "shovel nosed" inspired diesel loco for it principal organiser, CRMs very own "Blackcloud" or as he was on earlier RMwebs "Yorkshire Pullman"   It was a while ago Bob asked if I would have a go at making an On30 Shovel Nose diesel for him, so I accepted the donor engine and promptly put it somewhere saf
johnteal

johnteal

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Wednesday Afternoon in Leipzig

...was when I took the following three images:       First, NGT8 car 1150 "Carl Gustav Carus" was travelling up Lützowstraße on its way to Gohlis-Nord. In the background the Church of Peace can be seen.         I then proceeded to the reversing loop of the 8 line at Paunsdorf-Nord - however, I found it to be not very well suited for taking photos as the overhead masts were in the way. But this Tatra "Großzug" on the 3 line with car 2186 at the head was still worth a picture.  
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Playing with control panels Part II

Hello   As the weather yesterday looked like this...   I had the day off work and carried on with the control panel for Highclere...     I have also made a start on the power supply for the layout, is there any reason why I cannot use one of these?     Missy
-missy-

-missy-

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Improving the Backscene

Tonight I managed to find time to attack the backscene again. I cut out the slots for the framing from the bottom of the left board's backscene, and glued it in place with the aid of several wedges to hold it against the back of the front top. Whilst that was setting, I started painting the right board backscenes. I picked up a tester pot of sky blue paint last time I was in Homebase, and used this as a base coat. By painting one end to the the other, I managed to get two coats on most of t
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Dapol Bogies

Roof is now done and glued in place so now my attention has turned to the next challenge - the bogies. I'd decided to use the Dapol bogie sides as the original Bachmann ones on the donor chassis were the wrong type. So armed with my mighty Swann Morton #10 the BM bogies were reduced to this     the brake gear etc actually just pops out being secured to the frame by pins etc. Then these bits were removed from the DP1 bogie sides     and the bogie cemented up using the correct ends. The
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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Harpers Road

Banana Terror Strikes Baseboard!

Oh, dear! The best-laid plans of mice and men, and all that...   My spanking new baseboard has suffered a terrible setback due to a terrible shortfall in planning on my part. The problem? Acclimatisation.   Basically, the wood (MDF sheet and spruce) has been sat in my unheated workshop all winter. I made the baseboard out in the workshop in the cold - it only took and hour or two, so no need to put the heater on. After spending a few days tucked up all cosy and warm in my understairs cupboar
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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My inept fumblings in N gauge and other associated stories

The Captains Windows

After seeing the Captains work on the new houses for Callow Lane it got me thinking about how to create windows. Up till now I have used black frames by printing out on OHP. Whilst it works, its not perfect AND its always black as I can't print in white.   So along comes the Captain with his window method and it got me thinking how else can I do this, especially if the 2010 callange layout starts. Can I improve on what I have done, so using a few off cuts of pasticard I knocked this up.   Th
pirouets

pirouets

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Pugsley's Workbench

What do you do in the bath?

Erm, rinse my kits after washing with soapy water - isn't that what everyone does?   It doesn't seem right that a 7mm kit bodyshell can be built out of this few parts, but here are all of the main structural components. These are now drying off before work commences on the cab bulkheads and sanding down the filler on the bodysides.   I've also discovered a few more parts I need that aren't included in the kit. The ETH gear is missing, despite stating that it was for a /4 at the time of
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Mark's Blog

13T Sand Tipplers

Some time ago, back on my RMweb3 workbench topic, I was working on a batch of sand tipplers which were destined for Stafford Railway Circle's New Haden Colliery layout, which is set in North Staffordshire in the late 1950s. The plan was to build about a dozen wagons; using the excellent Red Panda body only packs - at the time Mainly Trains were selling off their remaining stock of these at a discounted rate. With these I've used Parkside 9' wheelbase underframes to represent diagram 1/071 or 1
Mark Forrest

Mark Forrest

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Quintland

Traverser Table FY

In response to Mikkel who has followed the diary thread so closely, the following gives more detail of the traverser FY - the board had not been bolted on in the photo on the previous page.   Just as a reminder, I used drawer runners - the ball bearing type - available from most DIY chains.   The traverser board is in two parts - it has its own baseboard and a running board joined by the drawer runners. It is critical to keep the runners parallel or it will just jam. The running board is
Kenton

Kenton

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Bw Leipzig Hbf West

Someone told me / It's all happening at the zoo.

...as per Simon and Garfunkel's song .   Well, we paid a visit to Leipzig's zoo today - so only one rail-related photo for today:       NGT8 car 1152 "Dr. Tröndlin" - named after Dr Carl Bruno Tröndlin, a 19th century Lord Mayor of Leipzig - with full body advertisement for "Röstfein" coffee stopping in front of the zoo on Pfaffendorfer Straße while working the 12 line to Johannisplatz. The zoo is located to the left, and the steeple of St. Michael's Church, which is located at Nor
NGT6 1315

NGT6 1315

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RJRs Branch Lines

Building new Rollingstock

By the trickery of technology (the firbug addon to Firefox) I have mastered the art of entering a 2010 blog post !!!   Whilst not being able to post work has continued at the Orange growers... I was short of some rolling stock, so two OO coaches were stripped for their chassis and a boxcar and flat car built.   The boxcar was built as a plastic shell, covered with Balsa wood strips....       Then painted     Identified and weathered       The flat car was easier, same cha
johnteal

johnteal

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Harpers Road

Baseboard Construction

The baseboard is born!   We have finally overcome the first, and I'm sure many would agree, hardest hurdle when building a model railway: actually doing something in the real world instead of pouring over magazines, catalogues, the internet or endlessly designing your layout on paper.   As Harpers Road is only 48" wide and 9" deep it was never going to take long to do baseboard, around about an hour or two (in-between Seth's constant stream of questions about the tools in my workshop). The t
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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Redgate's Modelling

Deltic Prototypes - Dapol Roof

Still gathering parts for the Mikado so I'm trying to get a push on with the DP1s. To that effect the roof of the Dapol kit is receiving attention thanks to the A1 models etched grilles and a set of photos supplied by macgeordie (cheers mate ) so I know where to place them.     I've not added the fans yet, they will be painted and glued in place once the body has been sprayed, so they can be seen!   The plan is to get both bodies to the point of spraying then get both done in one hit. T
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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buffalo's layouts

Loose Ends: the Embankment

Now that I've taken the plunge and decided to unveil what I optimistically (perhaps laughingly) call my layouts, it's time to begin a description of progress on the collection of boxfiles that will be Loose Ends. Experience of RMweb suggests that whenever anyone starts a layout thread or blog without a track plan, someone will request one, so here it is:     Whilst it's a bit rough, it is the only plan I have No Templot for this one as it is just a straight section of two track main line.
buffalo

buffalo

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An N-Gauge shelf...

Stock Play

I was playing with some stock to check sizing issues, and to figure out where to put section breaks, and decided to start taking photos...   First up, a view of the station - with parcels vans sat by the parcels depot, and two 158s in platforms 2 and 3. I've always liked the Northern Spirit transpennine livery.   Next up, a 150 trundles out the station for a trip up the branch, whilst a Northern Spirit 4 car 156 arrives into platform 4.   The right hand end of the layout next, with a
MichaelW

MichaelW

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Harpers Road

Track Plans Revised

After considering the helpful comments on previous posts we have revised the layout for Harpers Road so that we can include an engine shed without the need for a set of 3-way points.   Our first attempt to jiggle things around was a complete disaster in over-complication so the v2 plans were consigned to the bin. Hence the new plan is referred to as v3:     The right-hand front siding has been doubled by using an extra left-hand curved point. The two tracks will lead into the engine shed
Peter & Seth

Peter & Seth

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Musings and wonderings (for now...)

An explanation

I suppose I should explain why I'm intent on modelling part of the Southern's 3rd-rail system, when it'd be far simpler to model something where all the motive power and consist were available off the shelf.   I think that most of us realise that we are influenced in our modelling by what we are familiar with, whether that's from childhood, adolescence or adulthood. I've been interested in railways since I was small, thanks to Dad who is Great Eastern to the bone.   When I was very young, we
Del

Del

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Tewkesbury MPD - S7

Death by a thousand cuts.

Finally started to cut metal for this challenge, well plastic if you want to be pedantic, and 1800 cuts to be precise.   I walked away from the Wigan show with various goodies from Exactoscale. So the few spare minutes over Christmas was spent cutting various chairs from sprues, fortunately I remembered on the third sprue that the keys were handed, 5 left and 5 right. So 1500 std chairs, 200 bridge chairs and 100 slide chairs later I have this to show for my efforts. I really think that Exa
Adrian

Adrian

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Cherry's Corner.

Jinty progress - braking news!

Having received a MOK Standard 4MT kit over Christmas has given added impetus to getting the Jinty finished first. I'm trying to make sure that I finish this Jinty before diving into the 4MT kit, whether my resolution holds will have to be seen.   So I've made a little progress on the bodywork, but I've been concentrating on the chassis. I'd like to get a running chassis to test out a MERG CBUS system I'm setting up. So progress to date is shown below. The detail changes from previous posti
Adrian

Adrian

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Neil C's Micro-Layout Project Blog

Small - but important - bits of progress

After a good few weeks of inactivity (work; christmas; real life, etc) I've actually done a small amount of modelling today. The two turnouts were modified to allow proper live frog operation, and the track was cut to fit, using a shiny new pair of Xuron cutters. It might not sound much, but psychologically it feels important: for some reason I'd been putting off the point modifications for far too long, as I just couldn't get my head around them. This explanation helped a lot.   Next I need
Neil C

Neil C

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