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Working on track design for nscale and need help in calculating my demensions: how do you figure nscale one foot to actual one foot?
I’m using chart paper for design with each square = 1" or 12x12 squares = 1 sq foot. how do you figure nscale ratio 160:1 to determine footage?
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One N-scale foot is 1/160 of a real foot. Or, to look at it the other way round, something that is 160 feet long in the real world is one foot long in N-scale. Now, throw in your graph paper, where you are representing one real inch represented by one square. So each of those squares will be 160"x160" in the N-scale world (or 13’ 4", if you look at it that way). By the way, depending on the size of your layout, a square for each inch may be an inconvenient scale. You could end up with a huge drawing.
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Why are you drawing your track plan in N scale? Aren’t full size people going to operate it? I think what you want to do is draw your plan at a scale like 3/4 real inch is 1 real foot. That would make (for example) a 4 foot by 8 foot layout 3 inches by 6 inches (granted this is too small to see, but you get the idea). You can use a larger scale (like one real inch equals one real foot or 2 real inches equals one real foot) for a smaller size layout.