Someone asked me if I knew how many members here were doing N scale. I couldn't even guess, so I'm thinking that it is time once again to answer that age old query, "What scale (or scales) do you model in?"
I have listed the most popular scales in descending order. Some scales encompass several different ratios, depending on where you live, but for simplicity, pick the one (or ones) that come closest to yours. If you deal with more than one scale, you can pick up to three different one. We can keep this poll open for as long as is appropriate.
Oh, if anyone chooses, "Full scale", can we meet over at your place one day soon?
ezdays Wrote:Oh, if anyone chooses, "Full scale", can we meet over at your place one day soon?
The only time I'm in "Full Scale", is when I've had too much to eat, and then I fill the room and no one else can get in !
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My click on HO actually means/includes OO.
I'm still a volunteer in full scale so I picked it too. 15 years running a 12 inch to 1 foot job, doing everything from tightening bolts on joints to painting locomotives and equipment, including a tender for a steam locomotive in 1987 might qualify as "modeling", but yes, I was working in it.
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Charlie
BR60103 Wrote:My click on HO actually means/includes OO.
I debated which scales to put in the list and which to leave out and I just knew I'd leave one out that someone did.
Charlie B Wrote:I'm still a volunteer in full scale so I picked it too. 15 years running a 12 inch to 1 foot job, doing everything from tightening bolts on joints to painting locomotives and equipment, including a tender for a steam locomotive in 1987 might qualify as "modeling", but yes, I was working in it.
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Charlie
I was hoping we had a few members that volunteered with restoration work. I wonder if we have anyone here that actually owns their own full scale railroad... Wouldn't that be a kick???
This is just NTKS - Nice To Know...."Stuff" - but Sinatra had a large layout in the basement of his Vegas home.
I have HO and N Scale..My primary scale is N because of space limitation.
BR60103 Wrote:My click on HO actually means/includes OO.
Same here -- I chose HO because I actually do run some HO North American locos but mainly run British 00. 00 has the same gauge as HO but it's (fudged) scale is slightly larger, i.e. 4mm=1ft instead of 3.5mm=1ft.
Rob
My Dad dabbled in all sorts of scales -- he collected N, TT, HO, OO, O & S, but mainly had HO layouts. Come to think of it, he might have had an N-scale layout. At any rate, I mainly run HO / 00 but have been tempted to consider N or TT (which I still think is the ideal gauge, a nice compromise between N & HO).
If you go by the stuff stored in the basement, I have N, OOO, HO9, (or HOe?), TT (one plastic loco), HO, OO, On30, O tinplate, and G (not sure which variation).
I claim the last 3 are my wife's.
And a small collection of prototype relics.
OOO is half of OO gauge (actually, it's 9.5m gauge). It morphed into N. I'm not sure how it relates to 2mm scale.
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Later they electrified (ca 1962).
Mr.Day, I also model in 1:32 scale which is concidered G gauge around these parts because it uses the G gauge track to replicate standard gauge trains.
BR60103 Wrote:OOO is half of OO gauge (actually, it's 9.5m gauge). It morphed into N. I'm not sure how it relates to 2mm scale.
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Later they electrified (ca 1962).
Interesting! Thanks for this info. I think I might have heard about it a few years ago but didn't know much at all about it.