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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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Sonsey's Blog

LMS Layout

Hello all,   Thank you for your kind comments so far.   Here are a few pictures of the overall station area and station throat with template placed roughly in place.   Station Area:   General Station Area.bmp   Station Throat:   Station Throat.bmp   As you can see, lots to do still, but I am loving it!   Regards   Soney
Sonsey

Sonsey

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Doveston Works

Welcome to Doveston Works

Evening everyone   Welcome to Doveston Works. This is where I will update you all on progress to Doveston itself and to the rolling stock that runs on it. Unforgently, there won't be many updates with regards to layout for a while as I need to save up to get the parts I need to continue. Here's how the layout and rolling stock looks at present.                 The Layout's Topic: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/1972-doveston/   I am looking for a Gres
trainfan

trainfan

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MRDBLUE17's Blog

Rannoch Moor in Layout Topic section

Hi Everyone,   Finally had some time today to get my old Rannoch Moor thread moved over - I have put all this into the layout topic section as I have transferred all the old pages onto this so you can follow hoe the layout started and how it is currently progressing. Now I am back to this point I will add some new updates once I have taken some more pictures.   Thanks, Mark
MRDBLUE17

MRDBLUE17

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On Ravensers Bookcase

PMVs, wagons and a Pacer

Now to try the third part of the old ORBC. This contains several things I'm still working on or have only just finished...   ORBC - Ravenser   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2497&start=50&hilit=ORBC"> original page on Old RMweb   __________________________________________   posted on Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:30 am   Time for a bit of an update. Contrary to appearances , there has been some progress on the modelling front.   The Parkside PMV is painted ,
Ravenser

Ravenser

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The ramblings of Peter K.

First thoughts on planning

Many years ago, Jack Ray and his team built a large O-gauge garden railway called Crewchester. Perhaps you remember it. One of the terminus stations was called City Road; a splendid name and a splendid site for a terminus in London, filling the gap between King's Cross and Broad Street.   Being interested in London Midland and Eastern Region stock, I thought a terminus a little nearer the centre of the city might make a possible basis for a model; somewhere just to the north of Clerkenwell Roa
Peter Kazmierczak

Peter Kazmierczak

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Southern Pride 4REP

The (almost finished) pictures....

Here are the pictures I promised a while back:   These are the Driver Motor Second Opens. I have now noticed that no.91 needs the roof fitted down properly     Here is the corridor brake first     This is the Restaurant     Here are the Restaurant and the Brake First joined together.     I have fitted the Mk 1 widow frames as suggested by Jim S-W a while back. They went on to the Restaurant and the Brake First easily, but the windows in the DMSOs were not quite so high, s
DIW

DIW

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Southern Electric workbench

Two steps forward and one step back

I'm planning on doing this unit in BR Green circa 1960.   I'm still plodding along with the roof. I spent a long time this afternoon trying to work out how the cables connect to the junction boxes at the end of the roof - some of them turn through 90 degrees and run down the coach end, whereas others go in to the junction boxes. After some head scratching I now think that there are at least two different roof layouts on the "production" 2-Bil units.   2010-2116 seem to be close to all 3 publ
pete_mcfarlane

pete_mcfarlane

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Pugsley's Workbench

End of side one - please turn over...

As is kind of hinted at by the title, I'm pretty happy that I've finished the first side of the 09. It's just been a matter of adding the the little details with gouache and powders, so again it won't look much different to last time.     The masking tape depot plaque seems to have worked as intended, a bit more gouache washes and powders in this area have made it look as it should.     The trickiest part of this phase was the marks on the battery box where the BR arrow had been remov
Pugsley

Pugsley

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Newark Northgate in N

Northgate Trackplans

Hi Di Hi Campers   Well today's update is bringing us closer to the current status. As I explained before Newark Northgate was chosen as it fitted a number of criteria. Major features for me was a full length station but a little yard for shunting and leaving interesting items of stock was also an important feature for me. Newark has some somewhat overgrown sidings that I have decided to revive as an enterprise yard using a little licence. I don't really have enough space for all 5 sidings an
cutting42

cutting42

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Later the same century...

This one's gone wrong somehow - try the link   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2497&start=25" page on Old RMweb   Comment posted by russellwar on Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:34 pm <br /> <cite>jim s-w wrote:</cite> <br />No, you fit the glazing after the paint. You do need to cut your own but there is a small overlap between the etch and the hole. I have asked a lazer cutting company about the costs of getting windows cut - if its viable i'll let you
Ravenser

Ravenser

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On Ravensers Bookcase

Sometime in the last century.. ORBC

ORBC   by Ravenser   original page on Old RMweb __________________________________________   ??? posted on Fri May 04, 2007 5:24 pm   As I'm hoping that I will actually get something done over the bank holiday weekend, I thoughtt I'd better salvage the spiel about the Bratchill 150 from the old forums.   Having gone back to RMWeb2 , I was confronted by my New Years Resolutions from January last year:   I must make some progress on other fronts this year. I have a lot of DCC inst
Ravenser

Ravenser

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On Ravensers Bookcase

As I was saying before we were interrupted...

I really must get more done this year . In fact I seem to have spent as much time taking stock as making stock. However first things first , and I'm going to try to transfer ORBC from the old forum. This is because half the projects concerned are unfinished - and it's not going to make a lot of sense if I announce with whoops of triumph that the PMV is finished and you haven't a clue as to the long-running saga of distress to this point.   And I have a sinking suspicion the Bratchill 150 hasn'
Ravenser

Ravenser

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Blog number6

Southerham

2009 has been a rubbish year of modelling for me. I feel like I've tinkered with stuff rather than making any progress. But what I do think I have achieved is some progress on the planning of Southerham MkIII. The first was the RMweb challenge layout, II was the extended version that still operates and fustrates in equal measure and III would be a huge tail chaser with more of all the things I enjoyed from the first two. So with apologies to anyone who remembers me blathering on like this two ye
number6

number6

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Sonsey's Blog

LMS Layout

Welcome to my first ever blog!   The track plan is attached. It was drawn on Xtrk Cad but I have not worked out how to attach an Xtrk Cad file, so I converted it to a JPEG instead. I have annotated this file; it now looks a little busy!     Basically, this 15' x 14' loft based layout is being built in two phases. The first phase is the roundy-roundy element including an urban side incorporating station, small goods area and general post office/dairy warehouse(as my mood suits) and the o
Sonsey

Sonsey

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NECROPOLIS layout

New coach & were,s Binky?

well at the Huddersfield show i built up the next coach for the layout a Jubilee 1st built from Bill Bedford etchs & 247 Development parts over the weekend i got all of the soldering done now all i have to do is build up the seating & paint the coach   Tonight this Gentlemen was seen getting off the last train of the day asking if any one had seen Binky ??
mozzer models

mozzer models

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OK_WB - North British 225hp 0-4-0DH

A nut allergy

... or at least it could feel like that ...   The superstructure of this kit is built on its own baseplate which is bolted to the footplate.   This baseplate [10] the cab floor [11] and the footplate support [12] were removed from the fret and the tags filed off. Noting that part [12] has two tabs that should not be mistaken for tags and not removed.     The baseplate is attached to the footplate with seven 14BA screws and nuts through the holes etched in each part. There are nine hole
Kenton

Kenton

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Gravy Train's Blog

Gravy Train Portfolio

I have created this Blog to simplify posts so that members can access my portfolio and if so desired post comments etc. As this is my first post in the blog please bare with me if there are errors with posts and may appear untidy.
Gravy Train

Gravy Train

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Somercombe

Griffin & Fudge Ltd

I have decided that the engineering works at the far end of the private siding will be named Griffin & Fudge Ltd. An odd name you may think, but it is named after a real company in Bradford-on-Avon, that closed it's doors for the final time only a couple of months ago, after more than 50 years. My connection is that my late father was a personal friend and business customer and that my oldest friend has worked there for the best part of the last 20 years. So this is my little diorama named a
JZ

JZ

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Lauthern Junction

Trying to get things right!

New forum - new beginings. Lauthern Junction is intended to be a 'vignette' of a junction on a mainline with a freight spur. Portable and located in our spare room it's main purpose is to practise track building skills and provide a 'short' run for my stock as it is detailed and weathered. The leassons learnt will then be carried forward into a larger EM gauge layout when we move house circa late 2010/2011. And then Clay Cross or Aldwarke Junction ??¦.dream on.........     Back to the p
Melly

Melly

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Modelling Mike's Blog

Nutbrook now

As promised, here are some pictures of Nutbrook, the tiny "shelf" diorama I've been building for a friend of mine, as it appears now.   As you can see, extra detail and vegetation has been added. One of the key ideas behind doing this project was to practice with detailing items that I've bought but not been able to use yet on my loft layout.   The scene is set in the spring, so I wanted plenty of greenery and flowering shrubs, etc. The biggest problem I had was making the trees. I used the
Modelling Mike

Modelling Mike

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