In a somewhat relevant way, I've found some 1:72 and 1:76 military items are very useable in HO scale. I have a 1:76 DUKW truck from Airfix, and I've noticed Airfix makes structures and details in addition to the vehicles. Theres many neat bits in the military sections of the hobby shops.
Modeling whatever I can make out of that stash of kits that takes up half my apartment's spare bedroom.
groundeffectsDoes anyone have any other examples of utilizing a detail part from one scale to use in another?
I needed some large flood lights for several projects in HO. I discovered Grandt Line #150 Galloping Goose headlights in O Scale worked perfectly for this application. A small SMD LED cemented in the housing worked perfectly!
http://www.grandtline.com/products/mrr/mrr%20car%20and%20loco%20detail%20parts/o%20details/o_misc_loco_details.html
Scroll down to part #150.
I also used these for modeling a rear-facing Mars light on passenger cars and for track inspection lights under the rear platform of a business car.
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I used N scale railings on two vertical tanks, to help push them farther away than they are. Don't have a decent picture of them, as they are kind of hidden behind my milling and food plant.
Mike.
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There are some details -- industrial roof vents and chimneys come to mind - that come in so many sizes in the prototype that models of them are really of no fixed scale. Famed kitbasher Art Curren was not above using N scale railroad water tanks to model the smaller rooftop water tanks on his HO structures. I have also seen the bodies of N scale tank cars used to model smaller industrial or farm tanks in HO.
Curren also advised HO modelers to check the Walthers N scale catalog because he felt some European N scale roof tile sheets were better suited to HO. Of course now Walthers has taken care of that by combining the catalogs. And one reason they did that was because there was a fair amount of duplication between the catalogs anyway when it came to scratchbuilding parts etc.
Another fairly obvious example is the cut stone walls and abutments that Chooch sells - I even think they mark some of them as being "O and HO" and "HO and N."
In my own case I want some open loads of the VERY large shovels and drag lines that the Bucyrus Erie factory shipped on the C&NW. I have used die cast toys and models of much larger scale items -- even larger than 1:50 in some cases -- and disassembled them into component parts to see which portions look plausible for HO.
Dave Nelson
CNJ had some steam engines with a large steam turbine generator mounted on the rear of the tender for passenger car lighting. An O scale casting works well to represent this in HO.
I did use O scale guttering, back when I was modeling in N scale. I needed some water troughs for a stockyard I was doing, and the guttering was just the right size.
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