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Building a 4mm layout based on the S&D

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Stourpayne Marshall - recent developments

This week  has seen a wee bit of progress on the new scenic extension to the layout. Recapping from July, I showed how I'd decided to push the scenery onto one of the previously non-scenic connecting bits, by reworking the end of the summer module:     Into this revised format, where the sky board is now "unwrapped" so that it continues out over the former connecting bit.     I've now begun landscaping the new bit:     The gist of it is

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Stourpayne Marshall - a few new pics (plus added King's Hintock)

Yesterday's recap seemed to go down well (thanks all who kindly visited) so I thought I'd take a few more general snaps around the layout for the benefit of those who haven't seen it before, or lately!   These were mostly taken freehand with just the automatic setting on my camera so the depth of field is fuzzy in places. Normally I use a tripod but it wasn't handy there and then. However I think there is something quite pleasant and old-school about a good old slightly

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Stoupayne Marshall progress

I've really neglected this blog since 2021, mainly because I was more focussed on the French stuff in the build-up to the RMweb member's day, but it's high time for a modest update to show some recent alterations.         In this shot, S&D allocated 9F 92006 waits for the go-ahead to depart Stourpayne Marshall with a Bournemouth to Bath stopping train.   What may be of interest is that until recently, this shot couldn't have been taken, as it would hav

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A tale of two Blandfords

It must be about twenty years since Hornby released their improved West Country/Battle of Britain pacifics, supplanting the old triang-era model. I've got four of these nice models, mostly acquired with little thought to region/period suitability. It was only when I started work on Stourpayne Marshall that I started taking a closer look at what I had, and how they might fit in with the S&D theme.   Back in October, with the help of some friendly commenters, I came up with this non-

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Stourpayne Marshall one year on.

Incredibly, it's 12 months to the day since I posted the first pictures of Stourpayne Marshall on rmweb. As elaborated on at the time, this isn't a new layout, but an identity-swap for my existing GWR-based layout King's Hintock. Using various dodges, King's Hintock can be swapped over to an S&D station (and back again if needed) in about twenty minutes. In the course of the transformation, the station building moves from one side of the tracks to the other, the goods shed is relocated, and

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S&D coaches - paint and lining.

After the full brake I showed in the last entry, I cracked on with a second vehicle from the same range of kits, while the build sequence was fresh in my mind. I think it's a composite!   I haven't progressed this second one completely as I'm still puzzling over the roof details, and might want to revisit the first one in the light of better understanding. The kits come with four different types of castings representing the set-up for day and night running, but the instructions ar

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S&DJR passenger brake

A year or two ago I acquired four kits for S&DJR six-wheeled vehicles from the Connoisseur Models range of 4mm "Pocket Money" models. These kits were reduced from the 7mm vehicles in the main Connoisseur range and judging by the packing on mine, date from the 90s.   An evening's work saw the main body put together without too much difficulty. Although I have a rolling bar, I'd misplaced it, so all curves were formed by gentle finger pressure. Once completed, I then found the o

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Rocking suspension on an EFE bus.

I've been working on and off on an old EFE Hants and Dorset bus. After opening the bus up and painting the interior, as well as adding people, I wanted to make the front axle rock, to help the bus sit nicely on uneven ground. I also wanted to add a slight turn to the wheels, which I think always makes for a more interesting look.   The rocking mod is quite simple and I've done similar jobs on kit-built road vehicles as well.     First, the existing axle w

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Stourpayne Marshall - Rebuilt Bulleid Pacific tender gaps.

A minor digression into drawbars, here.   Hornby's Rebuilt West Country/Battle of Britain models are nice products, with a couple of annoying quirks. The first and worst of these is that they're prone to gear failures, at least the ones produced in the early batches. I ended up with three, and after a few years two of them were both non-runners due to various issues. Hornby's repair department was no help at all, which I found very disappointing as they are by no means o

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Stourpayne Marshall - motive power #4

Following the debacle mentioned in the previous blog entry, 5MT 73049 has now been paired with the correct type of tender. The route I went down was to buy a second hand Bachmann model of 73049 itself, what I should have done in the first place, but since I'd already gone to the trouble of weathering and renumbering the original loco, I decided to swap the tender from the new model and use the old tender and new model (do keep up at the back there) for a future repaint and relining job into BR b

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Stourpayne Marshall - motive power #3

Some examples of 4MT and 5MT motive power on the layout, including an exciting blooper!   First off, a Bachmann 4MT 4-6-0 which has been renumbered (using HMRS and Modelmaster transfers) to an S&D example:           Light weathering is applied by brushing on liquid acrylics, then almost immediately swiping it off or buffing it around using cotton buds. I must admit I rarely use the airbrush for weathering these days, preferring to use brush

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Stourpayne Marshall - goods store

As seen below, there's an area of raised platform to the left of the station building that was notionally going to be a loading dock:     After living with it for a while, I decided that I wanted something else occupying this space, in line with the parcels store at the real Shillingstone. Unfortunately I missed the boat with the Bachmann nodel of this structure (and they seem to be very scarce on ebay) so I decided to build something of my own.   The basis for thi

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