I’m always on the lookout for n scale vehicles in the 1950/1960 timeframe. I ran across some from Tomytec that look interesting as filler vehicles behind the ones from CMW. But I’m trying to distinguish which is which.
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The auction site has some listed as set A, set B, and set C.
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M.B. Klein has some listed as sets 3510, 3509, 3514, etc
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Lee Trains has some listed as sets #1, #2, #3, etc
Are these the same Tomytec vehicles or different ones? Is there an online catalog somewhere which list which set name/number/letter contains which cars of which decade?
Jim
I checked some of the listings for Tomytec vehicles (you need to include the term ‘Car Collection’ in your search), and I saw all vehicle listings kept listing N Scale/1:150 (and the 80 HG scale was listed HO/1:80) – mmm, No, not even close. If it’s really 1:150, then that’s noticible larger than N scale, and so you can’t even put them in the background in a parking lot or something (like you could if they were, say, 1:170 or something) cause they’ll just look ridicolus.
Is it possible such a number (7 or 8) of on-line retailers are making a mistake in regards to the scale?
Tomytec smaller vehicles are 1:150 and n scale is 1:160, which is close enough in most cases. The question I asked had to do with the differences in Tomytec n scale (1:150) sets offered by different places like Japan, Kleins, Lee Trains, etc.
Japanese n-scale is 1:150 and japanese H0-scale is 1:80, just as US 0-scale is 1:48 when international 0-scale is 1:45 (UK n-scale is 1:148 and UK 0-scale is 1:43.5)
/Stefan
The reason that the Japanese scales are different is that other than the Skinkansen, most Japanese prototypes are narrrow gauge. Having slightly larger scales lets the models run on “standard” HO and N track, and be closer to in scale.