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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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Adam's part-time modelling

A Bigger Mineral [A Chivers MDV]

Loathe as I am to use a TOPS designation for a wagon, this is one of the relatively few occasions where the wagon type is fairly obvious! While the basic kit is pretty good, accurate and well engineered, also including many of the things plastic wagons sometimes lack, there are a few things which can be improved or extra detail to be added. The usual things like grab handles on the end door are easy enough though the sides and ensds are a bit thick, thinning them down a bit is straightforward.
Adam

Adam

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JaymzHatstand's Blog

The Van in Black...

My P-way box van has now been painted and numbered, I'm just waiting for the couplings to arrive so it can be properly finished! It's pictured in the headshunt of Scrayingham with a couple of the other P-way waggons, the rest of the train so far is a pair of bolster waggons which will have a load of spare rails (once I get some sorted out!)     J
JaymzHatstand

JaymzHatstand

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Fen End Pit's Blog

More work on the warehouse

Last night and tonight I made up some Brassmasters etched windows for the warehouse. I think these make quite a difference. Next step is probably going to be working out how to do the roof. One the one hand I fancy doing something with a pitched (maybe hipped) roof, but on the other I'm concerned how that might look given that the backscene means there would be no straight lines.   I think this calls for some cereal packet mock-ups!   David    
Fen End Pit

Fen End Pit

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Paxton Road's workbench

Warehouse progress...

It feels good to have made some solid progress in the last fortnight, Paxton Road is at last coming into the final phase...   The MOD warehouse on the back of the layout needed to be completed before I could finish the ballasting or scenery on the front of the layout. However since building the plasticard shell in the very early days of the layout I've struggled for inspiration... these new photos are 2 years on from when it all started: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68
James Hilton

James Hilton

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barrowroad's Blog

Laser Cut Model of Barrow Road Shed

I took my Sheep Pasture layout to the Wigan Show at the weekend - what an excellent show and a big thank you to the organisers.   York Model Makers attended the show and brought with them elements of a kit of laser cut parts for the roundhouse at Barrow Road Shed which they are making for me. The kit of parts is well on the way to completion so here are a few photographs to show the standard of work that can be achieved by this relatively new method - at least to the model railway world - of m
barrowroad

barrowroad

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RJRs Branch Lines

Coach repaints underway

At the end of the last post that introduced the 45mm garden stuff, I said someething along the lines of "you wont see any more of this till the spring"   Well having looked at the pictures I got tempted to do some of the repainting.   It early days yet, edges to tidy, details to add, glazing to add seats to fit but they are looking a bit less toy like ??   Heres how they arrived in the Autumn, being tested behind the shunter, the result of 3 successfull ebay bids       Some minor su
johnteal

johnteal

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Rob Pulham's 7mm Blog

And a bit more

I made further progress on the BG on Sunday but the weather has been terrible so Photos have had to wait until today. I have assembled the underframe trussing and the solebars and made a start detailing the underframe castings - adding cable to the dynamo etc. The battery box looks to be quite a crude casting with no back as is usual with cast battery boxes. I am still trying to decide whether to make a new one out of brass or just make a back for the cast one. No further progress with the 4mm o
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

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Inspired by Botley - Closed

Some Drawings...

A little more work on drawings. a first draft of the bridge at the station end, working from a couple of photos of the prototype at Botley and dimensions from Google Earth.       The second drawing from todays work is the signal box, again based upon the prototype at Botley. Makes an interesting prototype with the boarded up windows, door falling off, along with the various wires & lights on the end. The boarded up windows are also rather handy avoiding having to model the windows!  
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - 67027

Having passed my annual checkride and with six months to relax before my next one I decided to do some weathering. 67027 was the victim, as the pictures hopefully show I added the buffer detail and added the front valance. I seperated the valance from the bogies and reattached it, now when the bogies turn the valance doesnt go with it. Found a picture of 67027 online and went to work with my powders. I am fairly happy with how it turned out.   Before mod   Buffer details   Valance n
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

Got the hump !

Looking forward to painting the big building I was rather fed up this morning on discovering it was going to be cold, wet or both for at least the next week, so with the indoor spraying ban imposed by SWMBO any fun with the Halfords primer will have to wait !   Snatched an hour this afternoon between jobs and managed to get a couple more things started, funnily enough, both involving humps !   Laid grass to one of the sections between the cripple road & shed road and it didnt look right
Sandhills

Sandhills

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The Grime Street Blog

A couple more nearly built trams.

As mentioned in the last entry a few more cars are being worked on, so thought I'd stick a couple of pics up, may be of interest to someone!     Tower car 1, built from much modified E1 kit, bec reversed stairs, peckham cantilever truck, dashes from tinplate and plasticard laminate. Shown in first undercoat so needs rubbing down etc. Tower could be fun as I'm finding a good picture hard to come by. Will have a Halling vario truck for power.     Re-trucked pivotal car, this began life
Red Devil

Red Devil

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Grahame's dining room table

Southwark Towers

I've completed the basic core structure of Southwark Towers. The model is currently 23 inches tall and with the roof structures and protruding end towers/shafts it will be over two feet tall, but still a little short of scale height.         There still lots to do; towers/shafts as each wing end, roof sections and the solar(?) paneling but the basic shape is there. And that's why there's little point in making it with separate floors and see through with pespex wall and/or windows - once
grahame

grahame

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Adam's part-time modelling

Whitemetal LNER Open

The latest 'work-in-progress', well, more completion of outstanding works really is this LNER open. A fairly standard LNER vehicle, derived, I think from a GNR design with a wooden underframe and AVB. In this case - since dad built one years ago - I adapted it with steel channel ends following a David Larkin photo. I'm not sure whether I'll follow the photo and finish it in engineer's olive green or as a traffic vehicle in bauxite. All irrelevant until it gets a bit warmer in any case...    
Adam

Adam

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clarkea1's Blog

Converting Bachmann 16T minerals to EM

Just a quick update - have spent the past few modelling sessions converting a rake of Bachmann 16T mineral wagons to EM. The work required was surprisingly minor. Firstly, the wagon was disassembled to its constituent parts:     This included removing the brake gear, which was to be repositioned to line up with the wider EM wheelsets. The first job was to remove the stiffening ribs moulded on the inside faces of the W irons. This can be easily done by carving them away with a sharp scal
clarkea1

clarkea1

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

...not letting the grass grow under my feet !

10 days since the last entry & not had a lot of time to do much to the board, until today !   Awaiting detail bits & lighting for the 3 structures that have been started so rounded up every last bit of plastic & balsa and set about the 4th & biggest structure for the board.   Turned into a bit of a monster and by the end of construction I was cleared out of all material so building number 5 will require a few purchases & a re stocking of the storage box !   Anyway, resu
Sandhills

Sandhills

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NickL2008's Blog

More 73, stuff and MCA erm .. stuff

Following all the positive and encouraging comments on my Last blog post, thought id share some more pictures of 73118. the Mechanism is the Standard Lima motor, now although I am aware that the Lima Motor connected up to DCC is a good performer, Im in doubt as to wheter it will be powerful enoughto actually Haul much, even though the Real 73118 never really hauled failed eurostars much in its career. Any Suggestions?   Also the MCAs have had the hurst models etched handbrake wheels added, wh
NickL2008

NickL2008

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RJRs Branch Lines

Naming a video on YouTube

I bet for those that post model railway videos on YouTube, you dont give much thought to its name ?? I didnt used to untill now ... Having been going through loads of old pictures and films in order to get this blog worth reading, or at least up to date as a starting point, I discovered something amazing.   A video i posted on YouTube about 2 years ago has now collected getting on for 45,000 views !!!!! On its own it draws hundreds of people into my YouTube Chanel. What is the atraction ?? Wel
johnteal

johnteal

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Dave Holt's Blog

Point operation question

I'm working on the point operating mechanisms for the layout just now. In the connections from the Tortoise motors to the TOU's, I'm intending to fit omega loops or Z sections to allow for any over-travel of the motor output bar (I'm using the Exactoscale conversion units). Any suggestions about suitable wire gauge and approximate dimensions to be sufficiently flexible not to wreck the TOU/switch blade actuators but still hold the switch blades hard against the stock rails?   Cheers,   Dave.
Dave Holt

Dave Holt

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Inspired by Botley - Closed

Some thoughts on Bridges

This post will make a lot more sense to those who have a copy of 'Bridges for Modellers' by L.V. Wood........   I've been spending some time today thinking about what to do with the 3 bridges on the layout.   For the bridge at the platform end I have decided to go with something very similar to the prototype at Botley, in having an arch bridge of brick construction with no wing walls. As with the prototype the gap between the inside of the arch and the edge of the platform will be quite tig
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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2ManySpams' Blog

Treneglos in Hornby Mag Year Book

Last week we had the proofs through from Mike Wild at Hornby Mag for the Treneglos article that will be appearing in their 2nd Year Book. He's done a nice job and found a few new photo angles on the old girl. Just had to submit some captions and a few minor corrections. Now all that's left is waiting for publication!   October update: I've just spotted the first adverts for the 2nd Hornby Yearbookand it looks like Treneglos will be in pride of place on the cover. The blurb on the Ian Allan we
2ManySpams

2ManySpams

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DRAG TT2 progress

Superelevation strips

You can see the 'run out' of the Tillig superelevation strip. It starts at a point halfway along the transition curve and works very well in high speed 'push along' mode! If you are going to try this, when gluing the track to the strip with PVA glue (plenty needed), a lot of weight will be needed during the drying time, as the inner edge has a tendancy to lift if you don't!   Meanwhile a few more snaps of progress. More edging fitted and painting.
Re6/6

Re6/6

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coombe junction - moorswater

coombe junction - Backscene 2

Update - a little progress last night with board 3 as I have now laid the cork sheet below the trackbed. Unfortunately I cannot lay the track as am awaiting delivery of a new soldering iron and solder from the UK - giving myself the benefit of the doubt, I am guessing my soldering started to deteriorate from poor to absolutely shocking, possibly due to the only solder that I can find here was probably meant for joining water pipes together <img src='http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/sty
bcnPete

bcnPete

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RJRs Branch Lines

Introducing the 45mm garden Railway

Having gone to the trouble of indexing my blog I discovered I had no entries for the garden section of the empire. So decided it was about time the big stuff got a starting post. As the weather has got colder and wetter it is far to say the garden has really taken a back burner in the priority list, but during the summer it was the only thing on the list !!   I have always liked the idea of using the garden, my return to model railways was with an On30 garden line, which became a OO garden lin
johnteal

johnteal

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