Which of 1/32 & 1/24 looks best for road vehicles when seen alongside 1/29 scale Aristocrat/USA Trains rail vehicles

Garden Railroading
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I am just starting on the Garden Railways road to sanity (or insanity). I have been talking about it for a while and my brother-in-law is coming back from the States with an Aristocrat ATSF RDC in his luggage for me (so that I stop talking and actually DO something).

In my past lives I have had several jobs working with intermodal transport and (at the moment) intend to include a container loading area in my design. I am probably going to stick with 1/29 (unless I really, really like an LGB product) so the above topic question popped into my mind.

While there appear to be a lot more 1:24 products available, there appear to be sufficient variety of 1:32 vehicles to meet my needs ( there does not seem to be a multitude of 1:29 road vehicles available - well and still stay affordable).

Buildings are likely to be scratchbuilt and thus can be “stretched or shrunk” to not look odd/out of scale/out of place whenever I have road vehicles placed right next to them.

So, when I have Kenworths & Peterbilts, and trailers with/without containers (and over in the corner other “stuff” to put on flat beds) and place them next to a stack train or a NS Roadrailer set, which scale road vehicles will look better?

Or as my mother would have preferred me to say, which will be more aesthetically pleasing?

Either way it is a purely subjective viewpoint that I am after, based on your experience at seeing road & rail vehicles together in the garden.

Brent ( yet to devise amusing avatars or find a good image to follow my words of wisdom)

Although I might steal somebody else’s close-off -

Always try to do things in chronological order - it’s less confusing that way!

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Hey Brent, the problem with asking questions is that you might get an answer… Start Somewhere, but for heaven’s sake, START! Okay, enough. I like the 1/32 scale vehicles, that way the emphasis remains on the trains. They keep their imposing look by towering over everything without it looking ‘wrong’. If you set 1/24th back from a viewing area and away from the tracks and any truescale buildings (1/29 or 1/32) they will work fine because the eye has nothing with which to compare. I know there is an architectural term for that use of mixed scale, but I’ll be hanged if I can remember it (and who particularly cares, anyway?) Cheers.

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I have a 1/24 scale bulldozer and dump truck and they look way to big for my 1/29 train.

Jaime

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For 1/29, stick to 1/32

1/24 is just too big in comparison

Conversly if you thinking narrow gauge DO NOT use 1/24 cars next to 1/22.5 or 1/20.3 trains. They look like carnival toy cars next to them. Try putting a figure next to them to prove it.

I use 1/18 scale cars, run 1/20 and 1/22.5 trains and the cars look just about right next to them, but I have my eyes out for older Hubley car kits which are to 1/20 scale.

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Thank you for taking the time to answer me. And with reasons for your answers too!

I was worried that this would end up as a lost and answerless topic drifting in the winds of cyberspace, friendless, alone.

Remind me that after a drink or two , read forums YES, write in forums NO.

Apologies. And thanks.