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Bunchie3174
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Hello all
I've arrived here on my seemingly never ending journey through the scales of model railways. I've done a bit of N, OOn3, 5.5mm, OO, P4, O, and now my focus is on 1:32. This is after realising that I'm never, ever going to get the time to build all the scales I want, in the space I have.
My interests lie with light railways, Col Stephens and the like. Concerns which have the same financial constraints that affect me. I also have a soft spot for Irish 3ft and French minor railways.
Add in a bit of blue diesel and colonial oddness too, and industrial for good measure.
The 1:32 appealed to me because at standard gauge there is no gauge compromise. Something that galls me in OO, and several other sizes. After working out the sizes I found that 18.83mm is as near to 600mm in 1:32 and 32mm conveniently is very near metre gauge. That's my French and industrial sorted.
I now concentrate on micro or minimum space layouts, restricting myself at the planning stage leads to creativity and economy.
I size my layouts based on paper size. An A4/4 layout is 4 sheets of A4, 1200x210, my A3/3 plans give a surprisingly large area to work in.
One day I may post a photo of something I've completed but don't hold your breath, I've just seen an S scale forum and........hmmmmm.
I've arrived here on my seemingly never ending journey through the scales of model railways. I've done a bit of N, OOn3, 5.5mm, OO, P4, O, and now my focus is on 1:32. This is after realising that I'm never, ever going to get the time to build all the scales I want, in the space I have.
My interests lie with light railways, Col Stephens and the like. Concerns which have the same financial constraints that affect me. I also have a soft spot for Irish 3ft and French minor railways.
Add in a bit of blue diesel and colonial oddness too, and industrial for good measure.
The 1:32 appealed to me because at standard gauge there is no gauge compromise. Something that galls me in OO, and several other sizes. After working out the sizes I found that 18.83mm is as near to 600mm in 1:32 and 32mm conveniently is very near metre gauge. That's my French and industrial sorted.
I now concentrate on micro or minimum space layouts, restricting myself at the planning stage leads to creativity and economy.
I size my layouts based on paper size. An A4/4 layout is 4 sheets of A4, 1200x210, my A3/3 plans give a surprisingly large area to work in.
One day I may post a photo of something I've completed but don't hold your breath, I've just seen an S scale forum and........hmmmmm.
