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posted: 17 Jul 2015 00:04 from: Trevor Walling
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I came across this on RMWeb and thought someone on here might find it interesting. Video showing British modellers building track seem a bit thin on the ground when compared to our friends in the USA. Regards. Trevor. |
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posted: 24 Jul 2015 08:40 from: Hayfield
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What make of components are used in this video please | ||
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posted: 24 Jul 2015 09:10 from: Jim Guthrie
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Hayfield wrote: What make of components are used in this video pleaseIt looks like Cliff Barker's track. http://www.cliffbarker.talktalk.net/Gauge1FineandStandardTrack.html He does parts for Gauge 1, Gauge 3 and 16mm scale narrow gauge. They are very good. I got a sample yard of his G3 track parts recently to have a look at the scale and the combined sleeper/chair mouldings looked good and the track went together very easily. He also does gauge widened sleeper/chair units for the relatively sharper radii found in the larger scales. I've decided to go for the smaller 1:32 scale (accurate G1  ) and I'm intending experimenting with his sleeper/chair units to build Caledonian interlaced turnouts. I suspect that I might have to resort to battens to hold things together - maybe using something like 1mm thick styrene strip.Jim. PS One yard of G3 track for sale. |
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posted: 24 Jul 2015 09:45 from: Martin Wynne
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Jim has an interesting topic on his large-scale venture on Western Thunder forum at: http://www.westernthunder.co.uk/index.php?threads/a-venture-into-the-garden.4597/ Jim Guthrie wrote: I've decided to go for the smaller 1:32 scale (accurate G1I have added this to the Templot pre-sets. I have given it the name P-32 in line with the existing convention (as P-87, P-48, etc. The S prefix is used for scales in mm/ft as S2, S4, S7, etc.). As always when adding a new gauge pre-set the biggest problem is knowing what to call it, because after folks have created files using it, changing the name later would cause lots of problems. I have set the default spacing at 106.36mm, but I would expect users to widen it on sharp curves. 106.36mm is the correct scale spacing to correspond to 6ft way on the prototype at 1:32 (11ft-2in centres). The gauge should be 44.85mm but I have not changed it to that from 45mm. I'm not sure how "pure" the large-scale community likes to be?  I have set the default radius warning at 2500mm. Again I don't know if that is a sensible figure. Users can easily change it or ignore it of course. 2_240442_380000000.png  In the next program update. Martin. |
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