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> think people out there making miniature train towns, very-high-setting-realism RPG campaigns, etc. It'd be a poor fit for miniature train towns, the scale is
by rtkwe 9y ago
> think people out there making miniature train towns, very-high-setting-realism RPG campaigns, etc.
It'd be a poor fit for miniature train towns, the scale is too large for them. The largest is G which is 1:22.5 (approx 8 inches high) and the most popular is HO (1:87.1). HO runs on a 16.5mm track so the blocks are about as wide as a train track on their shortest dimensions.
Overall it's kind of an awkward scale for any hobby miniatures.
- stickfigure 9y agoThe live steam hobby commonly works in 1:8 and 1:5, sometimes even 1:4... and that's just the folks on 7.5" gauge track. Tilden Park has a RR running on 15" gauge. It's a beast.
- rtkwe 9y agoOh yeah I've seen those. Never really seen them talked about in the same category as the rest of the model railway world though. Seems like it still kind of leaves these mini materials in an awkward position at 1:12 scale so they're too large for traditional model railways and too small for these live steam guys. 1:12 is a common action figure size though. Maybe it'd make interesting materials for that.
- bpicolo 9y agoYeah, I only intended that as an example of the sorts of communities where realistic miniature-things are desirable. You could definitely produce different scales for these sorts of things to match.