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I saw these earlier on brickshelf but couldn't find them later, until now. I finally stumbled across this again!: (URL) builder says the scale is 1 : 24 on 60mm wide track. Is that technic fig scale? Because I see some technic figs in one of the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building
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(...) I had thought that technic figures were about 1:20 scale, similar to the 18-wide trains at Legoland, but as with minifigures, you can get away with a range of scales and just assume average people are a bit taller or shorter! I see there's one (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building
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(...) I probably should stick to things I can understand better. But still, its a nice calculation! (...) This is one thing I pondered about too. With the way they are displayed on his table, it would seem that they were display models. Yet the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building
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I'd agree with Mark that technic figs are about 1/20 scale. My metre guage stuff works out at about 1/25 and there are a bit big and my two foot guage stuff at 1/16 and they are definately a too small. Having said that, the figs on this model look (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) That's why my big diesels have 2 motors without question. It also makes life easier if both bogies are the same (not for class 28 CoBo!). Big steam engines have 2 motors under the tender, plus any extra ones for driving the wheels. Small steam (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Motor cutouts (was Re: Vincent Veneman: AMAZING building)
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(...) I've had one motor where the cutout failed. After removal it worked fine. I now remove all of these on my DCC conversions. And rely on the overload protection on the decoder. I was also experimenting with swapping the can motor from a dead (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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