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This view shows how made the curve gluing 2 pieces of hardboard and then holding them in place with a series of clamps until the glue sets
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We have been working on the wing walls for one of the road bridges under the railway. We have based then on wing walls on a bridge close to Northfield Station which have a slight curve on them as the protype picture of the bridge at Northfield station shows.
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More progress tonight on the cinema
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Afew more views of progress looking the other way into the town
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Now the cinema has a roof
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We are progressing with the storage tanks for the oil terminal We have 8 of these tanks scratch built around a length of plastic waste pipe. This has been covered in plasicard to replicate the metal panels the real ones are made from. The tops use the lids from storage containers purchased from Wilco before they went out of business
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Progress tonight on the Cinema. Being scratch built around a mdf shell
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Hi Captain Kernow - We don't have a first exhibition planned as we still have loads of building to scratch build for the layout. We think unfortunately you will have to wait a few years until the layout is on the exhibition circuit
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Over the last couple of weeks we have made a start on the scratch building from MDF and plastic tube of the dual carriageway road that will dominate the one end of the layout - designed to take the eye away from the fact the railway is curving round to enter the fiddle yard
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Just so you can see we have not been idle since the last posts - the town area is moving on with start made on the town's cinema as well as some of the other building being more complete
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From this year the Redditch Model Railway Exhibition moves from its usual 3rd weekend in September to a new permanent slot on the first full weekend of March. The 2024 show will therefore be on 2nd and 3rd March. The venue remains the Trinity High School in the town centre 10-15 minutes walk from rail station - plenty of free car parking on site at the school
details at www.redditch-mrc.com
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More progress on Norgrove
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A few views of progress on the town area
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A recent picture progress on Norgrove showing the scratch building of a garage next to rail line
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The parish church on the layout forming part of the town centre area
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The parish church for our Norgrove layout which is totally scratch built using thick card shell covered in plastikard
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A link to our article that was in BRM on the construction of the XP64 coaches which used to be run on our Arrowmouth club layout http://redditch-mrc.com/images/Club Pictures/Magazine covers/XP64 BRM.pdf
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On 18/12/2021 at 15:12, rka said:
Do you have an issue number for this?
Hi December 1994 edition
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12 minutes ago, Reddibus said:
Hi you are quiet right Arrowmouth is one of our exhibition layouts at Redditch MRC and 2022 will mark 30 years on the exhibition circuit as well as 55 years of our Club. One of the trains we ran in the early days of the layout was a model of the XP64 rake. These were based around Lima mk1 coaches with scratch built sides. There is an article on how the coaches were built in an early edition of BRM
Arrowmouth still going strong after nearly 30 years of exhibitions at the Great Electric Train show in October
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On 18/08/2021 at 01:20, Halvarras said:
I was just wondering whether anyone had ever modelled the XP64 stock, and I think the answer is yes - I may be completely wrong here but "Arrowmouth" comes to mind. IIRC this impressive 'coastal' exhibition layout built by Redditch MRC used to feature some interesting late 60s stock many years ago, when few people modelled that era (not much change there.....) although their website is illustrating the earlier steam/diesel transition period. I'm sure it has been featured in magazines and I did see it once, most likely at Bristol. I think a RMRC member was keen on creating unusual coaching stock using plasticard in RTR conversions, including at least one XP64 coach.
That's my recollection anyway, but my ever-ageing grey matter may be playing tricks on me......
Hi you are quiet right Arrowmouth is one of our exhibition layouts at Redditch MRC and 2022 will mark 30 years on the exhibition circuit as well as 55 years of our Club. One of the trains we ran in the early days of the layout was a model of the XP64 rake. These were based around Lima mk1 coaches with scratch built sides. There is an article on how the coaches were built in an early edition of BRM
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We have made some more progress on the layout. The large factory at the rear of the layout nearly has all of its roof on and some progress has been made with the oil terminal storage tanks. All the sidings now have buffer stops
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The following pictures show the latest progress with Norgrove
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Another project we are working on are the oil storage tanks for the oil terminal we are creating for the layout. The tank on the left is the raw plastic pipe and the one on the right has been clad in plasikard to for the tank detail. Getting information on how these tanks are constructed is proving difficult and we would welcome any detail readers might have
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Norgrove - A 4mm layout based in the 1970s in South Birmingham
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Progress on the cinema