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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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Dearnford Junction's Blog

An Update...

Hello everyone, after the period a few weeks ago where i was going hell for leather with the moddeling, i have slowed down slightly and have been taking stock! But since the last blog entry there has been alot of change on Dearnford! The hill that can be seen is a lump of polystyrene in the last blog entry is now complete and i have chaged the trackplan to accomodate the new TMD which will soon reside on the layout. Track is now down and wired in for thenew TMD and i have alos been doing various
Trainsrgr8

Trainsrgr8

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Stubby47's Micro Layouts

Harbour in a crate - trackplan

Further to last night's ponderings, I've decided that the crate will be replaced by a 3ft x 2ft bespoke box. I've also had a play-about in XtrackCAD and come up with this.     The blue represents the modelled water, the thick brown lines the edges of the opened out side/front. The hinges are represented by the red lines and the grey blocks are the lift out sections of quay, to allow the side/front to fold up. I may adjust the edges of the water to co-incide with the quay walls.   The trac
Stubby47

Stubby47

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Transpennine Blog

Tidying the knitting away

This working for a living lark certainly gets in the way of a bit of decent modelling time. Anyway, I have cleaned up the OLE today and made the small repairs needed to some of the masts. I have taken away all of the old contact wire and everything is now set for rewiring.   Drawing on experience now gained I intend to try out a new way of tensioning the wires. I am building a small pulley tower from Meccanno which will take the contact wire's free end and run over a couple of pulleys to a bal
Gallows Close

Gallows Close

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Pugsley's Workbench

Side two.

A little more, much the same as before. The tank spillage needs a bit more work, I'm not entirely happy with that bit yet, but everything else is coming on nicely. The underframe has been done in much the same way as before, but this time I tried using raw umber gouache to tint the Tamiya Smoke for the oily bits on the underframe, instead of using the gloss tan.     It's worked rather nicely, so that's another combination of materials added to the arsenal!   Next stage is putting a bit
Pugsley

Pugsley

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On30runner's Blog

A start is made

well christmas 07 came and went, and left me with a bright yellow Bachmann Mogul and matching Rio Grande wagons, and a lovely set of mine tippers. The whole lot was sent belting round an oval of track loosely laid on the board and a lot of fun was had.   The loco is actually not a D&RGW (Denver & Rio Grande Western) loco but is the generic loco Bachmann use in their sets. Its actually a pretty accurate model of a Colorado and Southern mogul with a few bits altered to make it more lik
On30runner

On30runner

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Grahame's dining room table

Vehicles

At yesterdays High Wycombe show Cheltenham were selling Oxford DC cars for just ??1.99 each. I purchased a couple more taxis to add to my collection;       Now why would I need so many?   G.
grahame

grahame

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New layout and a change of scale

Old Lane Yard 1960's Yorkshire wollen grot!

I think I need to change the title of my 'blog, I'm still a little unsure of whether this will continue or go back to the old format now 'tis available. There are alot of ways in which I like the 'blog format but it seems that in general, people are not prepared to embrace the opportunity, preferring to stick with what is familiar.   One thing I've just realised with the 'blogs is that your 'blog has to cover all your contributions, whereas you can have seperate threads for each different int
Russ (mines a pint)

Russ (mines a pint)

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On30runner's Blog

Oh by jeavons, a Blog thingmy watsit!

well hello there, my names Matt, a 20 year old modeller from the South near London. I noted a distinct lack of On30 type stuff on the forum (or at least I haven't stumbled onto it yet!) and thought I would rectify the situation. As a lot of my layout is already built, I shall cheat a bit and let you have snippits of info at a time to keep things interesting. Fortunately I take pictures of everything as I do things so I shall have plenty of archive to fall back on. As its twenty to one at nig
On30runner

On30runner

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Barry Ten's S&D blog

Track laying

I've finished the two tracks that run through the Shillingstone module. They're lightly tacked down since I want to tweak the alignment a bit but the wiring is done and tested. Since I don't envisage ever wanting to operate two locomotives at once, I've only used on-off switches, so a train can be parked in the station while another passes. I do want to run DCC-equipped locos on the layout occasionally, though, so there's a DPDT switch to select between analog and digital. Screwed to the undersi
Barry Ten

Barry Ten

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LHW's Blog

Modelling Grain Wagons Dia 1/271

Hi All,   I have no idea what I'm doing here, so will probably be a bit of a learning curve as i go , anyhow here goes, sorry if dont work first time.   Hopefully this entry will be a step by step article about modelling the BR unfitted grain hopper wagon, using the Dapol model as the basis of my project. For prototypical shots the first obvious place is Paul Bartlett's excellent site http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c1477752.html which is a modellers heaven for people who like their wagons, t
LHW

LHW

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Penrhos1920's Blog

Working lights on a Goods Brake Van

I just received two packets from DCC concepts, via Bromsgrove Models. The first is a sample pack of their FlickerFree lights and the second a packet of 6 working guards van lamps, in 4mm. After a little messing around with resistor values to get the reds the same brightness as a normal 1.8mm LED this is what I've achieved today:       The white lights stay on for about 10 minutes after removing the track power and the reds are still on over an hour later.   Phosphor bronze pickups are
Penrhos1920

Penrhos1920

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Southern Electric workbench

More 2-Bil progress

I've left the roof for now and have done some work on the underframe. The truss rods are from NNK and are much better than the kit's crude plastic mouldings or trying to make these out of L section brass. They are preformed and solder up in a couple of minutes.   They are designed as a complete unit (presumably to fit the chassis of their own EMU kits), but as this made tem too wide for my chassis I removed the central section before glueing them in place.     The underframe castings I'
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Captain Electra's Blog

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland...

...actually, I've never been but, it seems, there is a growing following for Irish N Gauge. I have had a few requests in the past to produce overlays for IR coaches and thought "why not?"   Given that a lot of IR stock is of UK design, such as the Mark 2 and Mark 3 coaches, these have been fairly easy to replicate, thanks to some superb web resources like Fotopic. As I already produce the Class 442, modifying the artwork for the hauled IR Mark 3s is fairly easy and the finished coach really lo
Adam1701D

Adam1701D

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Etched Pixels Workbench

Full Brake Underframe/Details

It's slowly taking shape. The underframe is now fitted and the various white metal bits hung off it barring the dynamo. The roof has its vents and I've put the handrails on. That leaves the end gangways and some spots of filling to sort out.   The buffers are fun as they have to be held in a pin vice and filed to give the Gresley style flat top.  
Etched Pixels

Etched Pixels

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Scale7JB's Blog

More reworking...

Had another burst of enthusiasm on the work bench today.   I have been playing with the Scale Hardware parts that I received a while back.   Along with finding a drill bit that was perfect for drilling the hole in the eccentric rod for the oil corks, I have added the fake nut and bolt heads to the expansion link, and another piece dunked in the chemical black.   I don't know if you agree, but I think this chemical black on nickel gives the perfect look for rarely looked after rods... migh
Scale7JB

Scale7JB

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Southern Pride 4REP

Hands up - Who hasn't read the comments?

I am most grateful to all the readers who took the trouble to respond to my previous blog entry, 'Is anybody reading any of this?'. Thank you all......I have some answers to the questions you posed (Further down the page, indicated by a sub-heading).   To readers who have not previously stumbled upon this blog, I would suggest that you read the comments to the aforementioned previous entry, in order to make sense of the rest of this missive!   Some general questions now. Anyone who has not b
DIW

DIW

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Stephen Lacey (92245)'s Blog

Lessons in Woodwork.....

Well finally I have got around to building myself a layout....only taken the best part fo 20 years....!   The orginal plan to run my O gauge in the garden is going to be mothballed (especially during the winter months), while I concentrate on building an Somerset and Dorset themed depot (circa late 1950's, early 60's) in the garage.   I'm not going to model a specific location, but there will be influences from Bath and Templecombe MPDs no doubt. Modellers Licence will definatly be involved
Stephen Lacey (92245)

Stephen Lacey (92245)

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Blog number6

Polly Styrene

Sliced a big piece of 5mm foamboard into a 90 degree curved board today. Used Evo-Stik wood glue - worked in the past - and small veneer pins to hold it together. I will remove the pins and encase the sides and ends in thin ply when its all set solid. This is to create low walls to stop things diving to the floor as well as to add to the stiffness. The track should probably go on an underlay of some sort. I'm thinking that the neoprene route is probably better than cork as the latter is quite he
number6

number6

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Stubby47's Micro Layouts

Harbour in a Crate

Whilst musing on the Cement Shed boxfile, and doing some modelling on Wheal Tiny, I've been thinking about another concept - a harbour in a crate.   Sounds daft (so it must be one of mine), but consider this... Take a crate, similar to that used by Marc Smith for Bracty Bridge , and cut out one side and the front. Make these pieces hinge from their bottom edge, so when laid flat the layout forms an L shape. Leave the back and other side in place, to retain strength and provide a back/side sce
Stubby47

Stubby47

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Brackhampton Snow Hill

70 footers in the paint shop

These are the coaches after the first visit to the paint shop, lining and numbering to be done. Have you noticed they don't give you enough "W"s on the transfer sheets. I'm gonna be left with tons of left over lettering and numbering from these transfer sheets. I wonder if I can sell partly used sheets on ebay .   Rovex  
rovex

rovex

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