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Re: Pictures of 8mm:1ft scale trains
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Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:17:46 GMT
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Even on British trains (more so on American), the wheels are less visible
than with 6-wide Lego trains due to the vehicles being wider than the track.
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This has been discussed before
but I totally agree that
A: Six wide is a bit too narrow to represent anywhere
B: American trains need to to be wider, they are so much bigger than UK
trains(with mainland Europe somewhere in between) If I was modelling US
prototype I would be tempted to go at least 9 wide.
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Given that the wheels are not in the right place, I’ve hidden them behind
the bogie side frames and put yellow dots where the real wheels should be.
Very few people are any the wiser!!
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I think that this has worked very well, its lucky that axleboxes are often
painted bright colours
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Seeing the Miniland trains, they seem to be a metal chassis with some Lego
plonked on top. A shame really, but for year-round reliability I suppose
it’s necessary.
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I my view they are not nearly as inventive as a lot of the MOCs you see on
lugnet, I think its easer if you build larger, you can just get the curved
shapes using plates, it is more traditional lego tho.
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But don’t forget that there are different gauges within particular scales.
What you have chosen is true for standard gauge of 4’8.5”, but LEGO track
could also be used to simulate a narrow gauge at larger scales such as 1:25
or up. Brian Williams has done some work at Belville scale using LEGO track
as narrow gauge (Feldbahn). That is why I use the dimensions of the LEGO
wheels to dictate the scale rather than the track gauge, and why I am
deciding to abandon LEGO altogether for the use of couplers, wheels and
track, because they are simply too small to simulate 1:32.
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I am working towards narrow gauge using lego track, as you say this means that
different (real) track gauges will give different lego scales. At present I a
modelling 2 foot/60cm guge prototypes, I can’t really give a stud width at the
real widths varied so much but it works out at about 14-14 suds wide for a
large loco. Next will be Swiss metre gauge, which will mean a smaller scale but
the stock tends to be bigger so the models will work out to be about the same
size.
I also have been doing a bit of CAD British standard gauge in seven wide just to
make it hard (credit to Ben Beneke!)
As a British lego/train enthusiast I can see that Mark’s models have captured
the look of the real thing very well. The
Peak and the Hymek are
superb but all of them are instantly recognisable, the coaches are the weak
point if anything. I will also be looking hard at the
broken-back tankers
Tim
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| (...) The Mk3 coaches were a bit thrown together as I needed a passenger train quickly. They date from before my first exhibition alongside other scales and gauges in October 2000. The bogies have been rebuilt several times as the trim kept falling (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Trock Trick! :-) (...) I agree wholeheartedly. I would never leave LEGO track outside at the mercy of the elements, which is why I'm going to utilize G scale track which can and is designed to do. And BTW, I'd never heard of connecting dual (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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