Sunday Photo Fun 6/26/16

[Sturgeon-Phish]

More next week

Have Fun

Jim

[Frank54]

[Penny Trains]

Current temporary layout.

I know this doesn't really have anything to do with trains, but I have mentioned them before and a few are 1:48 scale:

Well come to think of it, there is some train stuff visible in the photo after all! 

Becky

[overall]

Penny,

I'm curious about your plans for the rockets. I see serveral apollos, some geminis, even a german V-2. Maybe a layout featuring Lionel's space oriented trains from the late 50's early 60's?

[Penny Trains]

Well, I hope eventually to rebuild as many of them as possible in 1:96 scale, which would match the tallest Saturn V.  (The Saturn V that's a bit shorter is an Estes 1:100 model.)  The shuttle stack is 1:144 and that will stay at that scale because it has an MLP and Crawler under it (that I really don't feel like building again).  Some of the Geminii models which are from the covert cold war MOL program are 1:24 while a couple of the V-2's and the N-1 were built "as big as I could get them without excessive waste", so I don't even know what scale they are! 

I do have a 1:48 scale Saturn V kit and that would be over 8 feet long if I ever decide to complete it beyond the first stage, which I started years ago.  Clearly too large for a 4 by 6 layout!    I'm not even sure the pad would fit in that footprint.    But engines make good flatcar loads and that 1:48 scale Titan II (third object from the right) is fully staged and could fit on flatcars if the mood should strike me.

One of these days I'll start over and recycle whatever doesn't fit the new standard.  And I have sooooo many more new kits to build!    At least twice as many as what I had already built.  Put it all together I could be building rockets for months!