New Train Club & Coffee drinking Society
While most of the guys want to make a rail road, I want to make
the models. So, trying to figure out scale layouts and the like.
Confusing a bit, what else is new.
Any suggestions?
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pyotr filipivich
Rock is Dead! --- Long live Paper & Scissors!
pyotr filipivich <phamp@mindspring.com> wrote in >news:e4j9ugtatt1ps6vg72tmb4dtca4nh4s83c@4ax.com:
New Train Club & Coffee drinking Society
While most of the guys want to make a rail road, I want to make
the models. So, trying to figure out scale layouts and the like.
Confusing a bit, what else is new.
Any suggestions?
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pyotr filipivich
Rock is Dead! --- Long live Paper & Scissors!
Not sure exactly what you're asking.
Most of us either build from kits or scratch-build.
Kits, of course, generally have pre-cut pieces.
For scratch-building, your best tool is a scale ruler (and a sharp Xacto >knife). The scale ruler lets you measure in your chosen scale as if you
were doing prototype measures, so you don't have to do the conversion
math. If you're actually into the math then you need to know the
conversion factors:
HO scale is 1:87 (3.5mm = 1 foot)
N scale is 1:160 (1.92mm = 1 foot)
so if you are building in N scale, for example, an 80 foot boxcar will be >around 6 inches long.
HO scale is 1:87 (3.5mm = 1 foot)
N scale is 1:160 (1.92mm = 1 foot)
.075 in is 1 scale foot.
.Are there rulers in N-Scale? I haven't chance to see if any of my
drafting rules can map easily to 1:160. Metric 300 can be use as
1:150 "double". ("Just remember which way you're converting...") .Otherwise, I have spreadsheets starting at 1" = .00625" up to
12" (or one foot) being .075" and then foot increments as convenient.
Or I can plat the city as 1 chain front to back and 1/3 chain side to
side.
.I'm working on the "model" side of the rail road club. The other
guys want to do the choo-choo, I just want to build the town. I think
I may have bit off more than I can handle. B-)
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