tsgtbob wrote:Excellent point Paul!Over the past few months, I have been on a structure building jag, one of the first in the que was a Gloor Craft "Bryan's Farm Supply" kit, that takes up a 12X10 (ish) footprint on the layout. This is approx. the style building many coal patch towns had for the company store.Just a point of curiousosity, but for me, in O scale, a 40.5r is about the minimum that a 50ft modern era car will negoitate with out looking stupid. What does that equal in S?As for the earlier poster mentioned about TT, I have some pieces of old HP TT scale, where does on get track in the States?
Excellent point Paul!
Over the past few months, I have been on a structure building jag, one of the first in the que was a Gloor Craft "Bryan's Farm Supply" kit, that takes up a 12X10 (ish) footprint on the layout. This is approx. the style building many coal patch towns had for the company store.
Just a point of curiousosity, but for me, in O scale, a 40.5r is about the minimum that a 50ft modern era car will negoitate with out looking stupid. What does that equal in S?
As for the earlier poster mentioned about TT, I have some pieces of old HP TT scale, where does on get track in the States?
S scale is 3/4 of O for one dimension. So 40.5r in O would be 30.5r in S.
The site for TT in the U.S. is http://www.ttscale.com/ One of the pages covers DnS TT track and gives an address for mail order.
Enjoy
Paul
Thanks for the info!
30.5 is not all that obnoxious a size, thanks, now I am having doubts on staying in O!
joe-daddy wrote:After I visited John Widmar's Royal Gorge and Western, any notion that N scale cannot be super detailed left my mind forever. His ability to build and attain high quality N scale models is remarkable. The entire layout is a joy to the eye.
Has he found a wire or some other substance to recreate 3/4" handrails in N-scale? Even in HO I have to endure looking at hatch lift-out eyelets that are grossly oversized. My brain almost can't comprehend that in N.
2-8-8-0 wrote: Hehehe. After beating my head against a wall for the last 6 months or so, trying to convince myself that a prototypical roster of late steam B&O locos and equipment was possible in N, i decided to give myself a break and work on some NS dash 9s. I had a couple already, but decided making a few with road numbers NOT offered by athearn would be nice (the diesels will probably just live in a display case for now, i dont have room for any layout really, in N or HO, so i want a few detailed models)Is HO always this easy? In 10 minutes, i was able to order decal sheets from Microscale and a couple undecorated dash 9s, and i am preparing to get new headlights, grilles, grab irons and railings to do some superdetailing...and they are all available?!?This could be addictive. Deciding what i want to make, and then simply ordering it...i suppose it is made doubly easy by the huge number of C44-9Ws, both in the prototype world and the model world, but wow...just wow. This is a pleasant change of pace, i gotta say! The NS horse is making my steamers nervous....Tim
Hehehe. After beating my head against a wall for the last 6 months or so, trying to convince myself that a prototypical roster of late steam B&O locos and equipment was possible in N, i decided to give myself a break and work on some NS dash 9s. I had a couple already, but decided making a few with road numbers NOT offered by athearn would be nice (the diesels will probably just live in a display case for now, i dont have room for any layout really, in N or HO, so i want a few detailed models)
Is HO always this easy? In 10 minutes, i was able to order decal sheets from Microscale and a couple undecorated dash 9s, and i am preparing to get new headlights, grilles, grab irons and railings to do some superdetailing...and they are all available?!?
This could be addictive. Deciding what i want to make, and then simply ordering it...i suppose it is made doubly easy by the huge number of C44-9Ws, both in the prototype world and the model world, but wow...just wow. This is a pleasant change of pace, i gotta say! The NS horse is making my steamers nervous....
Tim
No.. There can be a lot of frustration in locating detail parts,some decals etc and that age old cry of "Your dealer can get it from Walthers" doesn't always work.
So,in plain truth both scales can have their moments.
Larry
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