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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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buffalo's workbench

Goods stock

Like everything else I have shown here, most of my goods stock is in varying stages of completion, though none are actually complete...   To kick off this section, here are a couple of early GWR brake vans built from variations of the ABS (formerly D&S, I believe) kits. I am starting with these because they have been mentioned in a couple of threads in recent weeks (hereand here), so some people may be interested in seeing them close up. The kit is available in two forms. The first represe
buffalo

buffalo

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mozzers 4mm workbench

M&NEJPS TPO ready for painting

Today i have been working on the Midland TPO again i have been fitting the roof vents & built up the chassie as this is going to be finished in LMS livery i have fitted it with a battery box & dynamo plus not fitted lanp tops to the roof as pre the photos of the M&NEJPS ones in the 50's then there was the bogies to build again these as well as the underframe parts are from 247 Developments  
mozzer models

mozzer models

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

47768 yet again...

Sorry if your getting bored with this one.... ...But its yet more work on 47768   Transfer work this time, replacing the OHLE flashes with the post 98 type and correcting the blue flashes on the RES logo with the correct colour.   With the OHLE flashes unfortunatly I wasn't able to use my normal method where I remove the red part of the flashes with microsol before adding the new transfers, because the Vi printing just wont shift. Thankfully the printed ones were a bit of the thin side col
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Stibbington

Steam shed plan version 2

You are right, the two things that were bugging me with the plan were lack of headshunt and the turntable only access to the shed. I will have to move the turntable I think.   What do you think of this plan instead?    
Phil-Essex

Phil-Essex

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

47768 - Continued......

I have attached a photo showing 47768 so far, now fitted with most of the details. The plan is to use a different ETH socket as the Vi one isnt great, I have a couple of Bachmann ones at home which I want to have a look at, else there's a bunch of Heljan parts somewhere. Pipework will be added once I've painted the ends (again of course I've forgotten to bring the paints with me.) The tail light surrounds need painting white (again with the paints....) finally I have some Hurst jumper cables t
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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Stibbington

Steam shed track plan help required

This blog will follow the progress made on my 00 Guage shed layout. It's current name is Stibbington and the layout is 10 x 8 foot in size and consists of three tail chasing mainlines and a steam shed. The era is late steam early diesel and situated somewhere between the LNER/LMS routes.   The baseboards are complete and the track for the mainlines and fiddle yard have been laid and tested.   I am currently trying to decide on a good track plan for the steam shed. I have purchased and insta
Phil-Essex

Phil-Essex

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Eridge Mk 2 - rebuild of a P4 layout

Shock Horror! A green Loco!

Well, another new item of stock appeared last week, a very nice J Class tank. I suspect Mike was very disappointed it was withdrawn before MT black livery was introduced though...     Track laying is also preceding apace, the second board is mostly finished, and the third board well underway. Here, you can see Richard, (the new boy), Mike, Simon, and Mark hard at work. In the foreground you can see the TTU, (Tethered Testing Unit), Mike's re-wheeled Jinty chassis hard wired to a controller
Pinkmouse

Pinkmouse

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Somercombe

Close coupling experiments.

Everybody wants close coupling and in recent years the main players in the trade have made improvements with this on coaches and some bogie wagons. Yet the humble 4-wheel wagon seems to have been left far behind. All my kit-built wagons are fitted with 3-link, but the rest mostly have the old tension-lock type. Now fitting 3-link to these is not always an easy job, due to the way they are moulded. So what can be done to make these close coupled, yet still go around my tightest radius, which happ
JZ

JZ

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Somercombe

It's wet, it's cold and nothing's happening

Since my last entry nothing has happened on Somercombe. Although time has been available in the evenings, torrential rain has put me off going out to the shed. My eight straight days at work has now turned into nine and sthough I have quite a late start tomorrow, car problems mean I have to go to the garage instead of working in the shed. Never mind. I have thursday off and hopefully saturday I will get annual leave granted and then I am not available this Sunday. However, I have not been totall
JZ

JZ

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MRDBLUE17's Blog

Trains at Rannoch

Hi everyone,   Having now fitted all the window frames on my station building in place - I decided that it was time to run a few trains at Rannoch. I have added more to my layout topic in layouts and have also altered my settings on there as it will now be quicker to go straight to the new content currently on page 5 as having transferred all the original thread over it took a little while to load with all the photos on 1 page so reduced the number of entries per page to make it easier for any
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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coombe junction - moorswater

Boxfile Kyle - 37420...

Update - Only a little modelling undertaken this evening as after preparing the new rails for soldering the common crossing I found that my soldering iron has packed up...will check again tomorrow, but it's frustrating after waiting a week to get back to the turnout.   So, a little further work on 37420, being converted from a Bachfar 37/0. Thanks to Bernard of TPM for letting me test some new etches, I have filed smooth the grill adjacent to either opposing end and fitted the correct grills,
bcnPete

bcnPete

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John Geeee's OO Garden Shed Blog

14. The Industrial Warehouse

The OO Garden Shed   By John Geeee   I needed a space filler for the top left of the layout to add a bit more interest but there was not much ground surface available because of the way I had fitted the backboards. Therefore I decided to go for a warehouse unit that I could fit over the backboards without actually taking them off. I went for the Scalescenes model because it could easily be configured to fit any space. It was something different to build and because of the size I was building
John Geeee

John Geeee

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barrowroad's Blog

Barrow Road Shed Track

Further progress today with all the rail now laid on the three point 'zig zag'. The new gauge really helped with the fine tuning - I will now revisit all the other completed turn-outs to fine tune using this jig.   Just a single slip and turnout to make now and I can start some track laying on the boards.  
barrowroad

barrowroad

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

More Vi 47s : 47768

Pretty much what it says on the tin...   My third Vi Trians class 47 arrived in the post this morning, 47768 in RES.   So far I have removed all of the glazing, and then masked off and sprayed the cab windows & doors with some satin black paint. the roof grills have been removed prior to fitting Shawplans grills. As previosuly mentioned I will also be adding the roof pipe that crosses the roof grills (as can be seen in this photo on the left hand side.)   Will edit this to add a photo
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Keeping up With the Pacer

I promised someone I'd post a few notes over the weekend on some of the bits I'd been doing to the Pacer ; it's Monday, I haven't, so here we go.   I've assembled and fixed in place the rear trailing wheel assembly. Unfortunately its not absolutely spot on: I reckon the hole is about 0.35mm out to one side. I've made one attempt to drift the hole sidewards with a file , and stuck in a scrap of 40 thou plasticard into the recess above to take the thread , and drilled it out. However this doesn'
Ravenser

Ravenser

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Gloucester Road's Blog

Gloucester Road - Tour de Chooch

The weekend after Thanksgiving there is an event in Southern NH and Eastern Massachusetts that this year involved 23 open houses/layouts that you can visit. This year on Saturday there were 11 open in MA and on Sunday 12 in Southern NH the event runs from 9-4 on both days and allows one to visit layouts that are not open to the public. It is rather fun to sit down and plans one attack, then with mobile, camera, map and two excited boys we left mum (who looked rather pleased at our leaving) to e
Gloucester Road

Gloucester Road

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Grimleygrid's Blog

BBA update - 30 Nov 09

I have managed to make quite a bit of progress with the BBAs, the ends and buffers are now on and apart from some parts underneath they are ready for painting.   Now comes the fun part of putting together the 46 bogies!       Progress so far, not great quality photos but you get the idea:                
Grimleygrid

Grimleygrid

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Sandhills' 2010 Challenge Blog

A sign for the times...........

Just a quick update today with one addition to the project.........................   The era the board is run & photographed in will vary according to the stock I have at hand but the main time period I am going for is 1990-1995. My favourite railway period and also a time of some of my favourite liveries. Dutch, civil engineers & above all the two tone grey with sector markings.   The colour scheme and vinyl lettering is as close as I could get to 'Construction' and with a blue dra
Sandhills

Sandhills

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Redgate's Modelling

Golden Arrow Crosti - Loco Body Fettling

I've set the tender aside for now, fall plate might need adjusting once connected to the loco, but that is to come ...   Bodyshell was fettled and filed, this took much longer than the tender, but then it is a much more complicated casting. It cleans up really easily and what initially looks like a bit of a dogs breakfast very quickly looks the business.   The blower and duct/tunnel cover was scraped off with my trusty Swann Morton #10 and smoothed off. The cab backhead etc was epoxied in pl
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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The Fatadder's Modern Workbench

Clan Line part 2

Bits for Clan Line have now started to arrive...   First of all there is a nice pack from Comet which contains the front bogie, and a West Country trailing truck. The bogie looks easy enough to build (just need to get round to buying some flux so I can get the soldering iron out!) and it looks like the trailing truck is modifiable once I get some castings for the suspension & axlebox (will be putting a request out in February to anyone going to the Tonbridge show to pick me up a set...)
The Fatadder

The Fatadder

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4mm rolling stock

Managed to finish some more wagons

Finished a few more vans tonight - the two Parkside LNER plywood vans from the new version of their kit, the hybrid Ratio body/Parkside roof SR van and my second go at the LMS type Plywood van using Parkside sides and Ratio ends. I'm especially happy with the SR van as the replacement roof makes it look like the real thing, something the original kit doesn't really do. The new LNER van kit looks pretty good as well - full marks to Parkside.
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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buffalo's workbench

Pre-grouping stock

2009-11-29: N6 horsebox added at end of this entry.   Progress on the Buffalo and Dean goods awaits a warm weekend suitable for painting in the garage. At least that's my current excuse In the meantime, I thought I would show some of the other items that have served to fill in gaps in locomotive construction over the past few months. You can blame Mikkel for this he has recently shown a selection of pre-grouping stock on his blog illustrating various approaches to kit building/bashing, etc.
buffalo

buffalo

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