To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.trainsOpen lugnet.trains in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Trains / 2485
2484  |  2486
Subject: 
Re: More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
Date: 
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:34:52 GMT
Viewed: 
967 times
  
In
Other model railroading scales:

TT 1:120
OO 1:72


More correctly for OO is 4mm/ft :)  Some of us model to 18.83, which is exact
scale gauge OO.

(16.5, 18, 18.2,18.83,19 mm are all used with 'standard' gauge track in 4 mm
:)0



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
 
(...) 4mm/ft? Crossing measuring systems surprises me, but I can see its usefulness in the name of accuracy. So 4mm/ft is roughly 1:76.2 . What does the 18.83 mean? Is this in any way related to the 28mm wargaming scale? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: More scale questions (Was: Scale of Lego)
 
(...) Other model railroading scales: TT 1:120 OO 1:72 Outside of model railroading: Car models: 1:24 Military Models: 1:35 Military microminiatures: 1:285 Wargaming: 15mm (about 1:120) 28mm (about 1:64) 54mm (about 1:33) Naval miniatures: 1:2400, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

20 Messages in This Thread:







Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR