Hello all,
Being an HO scale railroader for more than 25 years , and seeing a Revell bucket wheel excavater listed on e-bay. This kit would look cool sitting in a mine . What is 1/200 scale N or Z or other ?
Patrick
N scale is 1/160 and Z is 1/220, so 1/200 is somewhere in between. Revell isn’t primarily a model RR manufacturer; model kit manufacturers have come out with stuff in all SORTS of scales (I’ve got a 1/16 AFV and a 1/2400 cruiser in my collection! 1/285 is one of the most popular scales anywhere, and is a wargaming size)
I would think the 1/200 excavator might look OK on an N scale layout without any other consideration MAYBE.
If it doesn’t look quite right next to scale size equipment, it might be placed toward the back of a layout scene, suggesting forced perspective.
Unless it is a kind of machinery that is made with similar appearance in widely different proportions (like an N scale rock would just represent a smaller rock on an HO layout), I doubt it would work well on an HO layout.
1/200 is a very popular ‘airliner’ scale for plastic kits…
Jim
Considering that the prototype bucket-wheel excavators are HUGE, 1:200 would make a good forced-perspective ‘way off in the distance’ model in HO, and a somewhat closer but still background model in N. You can put the coal washing/sorting plant in front of it and be able to load a half-dozen 200-car unit trains of coal every operating session.
The real fun is found in emptying all of those cars so you can spot them empty at the washer. (Empties in, loads out is so mundane!)
Chuck