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Worlds Smallest Model Train

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Worlds Smallest Model Train
Posted by hubbards98 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:02 PM
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Posted by wm3798 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:21 PM

Check out his other videos, too.  He's done some amazing micro-animation... most of it for N scale!  This is my favorite....

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3bm88Ccbnyw&feature=user 

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Posted by hubbards98 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:34 PM
 wm3798 wrote:

Check out his other videos, too.  He's done some amazing micro-animation... most of it for N scale!  This is my favorite....

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3bm88Ccbnyw&feature=user 

Lee 

 

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Posted by loathar on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:31 PM
I must be missing something here. An HO built in N that's 1/2" wide???? That doesn't make any sence???Confused [%-)]
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Posted by Rotorranch on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:43 PM

 loathar wrote:
I must be missing something here. An HO built in N that's 1/2" wide???? That doesn't make any sence???Confused [%-)]

Yeah, Loathar...it's definitely out of scale! A full scale 4x8 foot layout would be .66 inches wide in N scale!

That layout is only 6 scale feet long! Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by hubbards98 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:04 PM

 loathar wrote:
I must be missing something here. An HO built in N that's 1/2" wide???? That doesn't make any sence???Confused [%-)]

 

When I read that I thought the same thing, It looks almost like 1/4 scale ZZ but what do I know

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:06 PM

My son, who is autistic, has a penchant for stating the obvious. He said,

"That's the world's stupidest train set."

"But," I said, "Look how small it is."

"You can't see it."

I tried explaining how it was a miniature, N scale...

"Dad, will you let me get back to Pokémon?" 

 

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Posted by cacole on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:21 PM

It's not the world's smallest.  I saw one at a Great American Train Show in Tucson, Arizona a few years ago that is 1:900 scale with the train running in a circle inside a cigar box.  And I think there's another one that is even smaller.

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Posted by boston1943 on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 8:10 PM
Not to burst your bubble dude, but I think hat that's a hoax.Confused [%-)]
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Posted by wm3798 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:10 AM

No, it's not a hoax.  David K. Smith, the modeler, is a regular poster on The Railwire forum...  All of the projects are quite real.  He's also done an N scale barber pole that rotates, and roof top turbine vents that spin in the wind.  He's quite an accomplished modeler.

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Posted by gmcrail on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:53 AM

 loathar wrote:
I must be missing something here. An HO built in N that's 1/2" wide???? That doesn't make any sence???Confused [%-)]

1/2" scales to 80" (6'8") in N-scale. An N-scale person built himself a small HO-scale layout - makes perfect sense. Think of the N-scale person as 1:1 scale.

 

A cool bit of animation. 

 

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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:01 PM
 SpaceMouse wrote:

My son, who is autistic, has a penchant for stating the obvious. He said,

"That's the world's stupidest train set."

"But," I said, "Look how small it is."

"You can't see it."

I tried explaining how it was a miniature, N scale...

"Dad, will you let me get back to Pokémon?"

Classic, Chip. Laugh [(-D]Thumbs Up [tup] You gotta love kids for their honesty sometimes.

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Posted by brothaslide on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:22 PM

ZZ Train,

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZvIyBqLak&feature=related

The video is in Japanese but it appears that there is ZZ scale now. 

 

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:00 PM
It's the size of a dime.. real or not what the heck do you do with it?
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Posted by brothaslide on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:31 PM

 trainfan1221 wrote:
It's the size of a dime.. real or not what the heck do you do with it?

I don't know if you watch the Saprano's but Tony's brother-in-law is a model railroader and Tony basically looks at model railroading the same way.  I think Tony told his sister, "He's a grown man!!! (brother-in-law)", "What the heck is he doing playing with toy trains?!?!?!"

If the guy want's to make a model railroad smaller than a dime; more power to him.  It's all a matter of perspective.

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Posted by hubbards98 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:41 PM
Did he collect "O" scale?
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Posted by Rotorranch on Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:50 AM

 trainfan1221 wrote:
It's the size of a dime.. real or not what the heck do you do with it?

Put it in the window of the hobby store on your N scale layout? Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by Pruitt on Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:56 AM
 cacole wrote:
It's not the world's smallest.  I saw one at a Great American Train Show in Tucson, Arizona a few years ago that is 1:900 scale with the train running in a circle inside a cigar box.  And I think there's another one that is even smaller.
I don't know about it being the world's smallest, but it's MUCH smaller than the 1:900 you say you saw. This one would be 1:13936 scale. And 1/2" is MUCH smaller than a cigar box!

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