While looking at my Awstats page on my 55n3 website, I found this on a forum:
"The irony is that now he has the correct track gauge,
but everything else becomes far less accurate because you have to tweak 1/48 and 1/87 models to fit the new scale…
so instead of having very accurate models in 1/48 scale with the wrong gauge,
you now have much less accurate models in 1/55 scale with the correct gauge…"
No, 55n3, uses oversize and undersized components from other scales that measure correctly to Scale55. Just because an object is labeled “HO” doesn’t mean it scales to HO. Example:
The Lifelike “HO” stock pen, it is too large for HO and S. It scales right in Scale55.
That is the advantage of 55n3 there are so many things available that are cheap and readily available. Just because it is label a “scale” doesn’t mean that it measures out to that “scale”.
Everything scales out to a real world object that I display at:
Sounds to me as if the person who made the comment is suffering from, “Ready-to-run-itis.” That’s what happens when somebody can’t seem to grasp that a Z-scale 55 gallon drum is a keg in HO scale and a #2 vegetable can in in one of the several scales that run on G gauge. In 55n3 it would be pretty close to a #10 (restaurant-size) vegetable can.
IMHO, there are some things that have fairly standard sizes (manufactured doors, which are all 68 inches high) and many things that have a shape, but no set size (most tools, fence posts, logs…) Then, too, before pre-hung doors and pre-framed windows were common, their size was a variable. If you wanted your commercial establishment to be impressive, you put in big doors, big windows and high ceilings. So there’s no ‘inaccuracy’ in using a 1:48 scale station on a 55n3 layout - it’s just built big to impress the neighbors.
OTOH, if you want an exact-to-the-millimeter model of PD&Q #97 as it was when great-grampaw brought it into town, accepted his gold watch and retired, that will take a lot more than tweaking - in any scale. I don’t see scratchbuilding as more difficult in 1:55 than in 1:80 or 1:12. All require the same skill sets.
Love what you’ve done so far. Not my cup of o-cha, but really nice - and original. [bow]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - on 1:80 scale, aka HOj)
I invented my own modeling scale, 29n2, exactly as Harold invented 55n3…my 29n2 scale is most definately not a “ready to run” scale…
I was only pointing out a basic fact…that Harold’s 55n3 concept makes the track gauge correct, which is good…but then makes things more difficult by making a large number of 1/48 scale models now “less accurate” and more difficult to adapt to the new scale…I wasnt criticizing it, I was just making an observation, to help clarify the concept to people on a G-gauge forum, (where my post was made) who dont really know much about On30, On3, On2, etc…it was a comment made in the context of that discussion…
It was just a simple observation in the context of an obscure (to all of you here) G-gauge forum discussion…I dont think it really needed to be plastered across 5 different forums…
a few of my projects should prove that: