What would 1/8 (1.5inch) scale be considered? It’s big enough to ride one and a “large” guage of 7.5 inches.
And it’s in my backyard.
There’s a “avatar” of an 1/8 scale Fairmont motorcar to your left.
What do you mean, what would it be considered?
Exactly what it’s always been considered.
Inch and a half scale.
What I ment was what letter would it be?
Errmmm… There are some combinations of scale and gauge that do not exist in the alphabet slurry of the NMRA. This is despite there being several thousand members of the 16mmngm society in the UK -as far as Mr Amis is concerned -it does not exist. It is interesting to note that this society pre-dates Mr Amis -as does the Gauge 1 Model Railway Association G1MRA. I belong to a garden railway club that shares the same site with: a 2 foot narrow gauge industrial preservation railway, a std gauge steam preservation railway, a model engineering society (2.5 3.5 5 and 7 inch gauge track), and finally the only one with ‘letters’ in its name an OO scale layout club. Don’t bother with letters -they are useless anyway. regards ralph
Once you get into live steamer gauges, above Gauge 1 the letters dissappear. The reference becomes whatever the actual scale you used, 1 1/2" = 1’-0", or 1" = 1’-0" and the guage refers only to the gauge used. Most live steamers refer first to the gauge of the model; 3 1/2", 7 1/2", then to the scale the model is built to.
I think it a shame, since 16mm is one of my favorite scales to view, as it is mostly scratchbuilt and pleasing to the eye. I’ve often been tempted to get into the scale. Since there’s no book about this scale, I will just continue browsing 16mm websites to learn more.
David, To be honest -in all the time that I have ever modelled in 16mm -I have yet to find a book on it either!!! One of the great joys about 16mm is the simple fact that ‘anything goes’. On the club track a highly detailed model of a Seirra Leone Garratt is as welcome as the collection of lollipop sticks glued onto a tabacco tin -used as a wagon… The nearest thing to ‘books’ on the subject that I have is an 1960’s book on OO9 (4mm scale narrow gauge on 9mm track) that I use as a ‘crib sheet’ for techniques. I have a stack of suppliers catalogues (about 2cm high) -and well that is it. If you want to have a go at 16mm then simply pick up your breakfast cereal packet and scissors and cut yourself your first cardboard coach. The sides for them are ‘paintbox’ files that I can ship you if required. Matthew has quite a few of them. If you replace the cardboard with sheet ABS then you get some very fine coaches indeed!!! Please please please -have a go. There are no rules and nothing stopping you!!! regards ralph
What am I doing?
I’m building an, as I say, 1:20 scale model-ry. from a prototype 600mm forrest-ry in sweden.
Is it a G? No it’s 32mm=1,25’ and it’s no 16mm either (can’t divide in 19,05)
so I’ve to stick to 1:20 n600-32. Most likely you whould say 15mm scale. About a toenail.
And wy 1/8 - 7½ when rest of the world run 7,1/4? The DIN germans were mostly
right, you are going nuts!
14 Kjell G
(cough!) Actually 16mm scale is normally used to model 2 foot and 600mm gauge locomotives and rolling stock. The scale is 19.1 -but I have very rarely seen that used by people other than as the divisor for the scale. Most of my locomotives are 32mm gauge and the originals are from 1 foot 11 and 3/4 inches to 615mm. The scale is also used to model CAPE and MANX gauge equipment at 45mm gauge. I do have a friend that uses 16mm scale to model Great Western Broad gauge at 115mm gauge -yes the track is all custom and hand made. My desktop spreadsheet and photogrametry software all now have 19.1 as a standard scaling factor… “G” is normally accepted as 22.5 -which interestingly enough is very close the Gauge 3 scale of 22.6 Oh by the way -there is a simple reason why I have a German Forename and Surname and I speak German with a Saxony Accent. regards ralph