Now what do I do

As I've mentioned before, when I came back into railway modelling some  five years ago, I decided 009 was far too small for my fat fingers and  failing eyesight, which is why I started modelling in O-16.5 last year.

However, I bought this last week.





I even managed to get the track together without resorting to my magnifying visor, to test it.

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Question is, what do I do now  


Ed

Wow Ed, that really is tiny!!!

I can fully realise just how difficult your resistance must have been in buying it, futile  :???:

So, are you going to use it to decorate the next family birthday cake, have some forced perspective action at the back of your layout, a Christmas window display (plenty of time), a model railway garden layout on your model railway indoor layout, or something completely different?

Have fun and good luck in finding a decoder to fit!

Best,

Bill  :thumbs

Errr, think it'll stay DC Bill  


Ed

That looks great Ed but, if it were mine, and given that my fingers are much, much fatter than yoursd, I'd have to put it back on E-Bay ………………………….. :oops: :oops:

Way, way too small for me.

I'd hate to think of you straining your eyes, send it to me and save yourself the trouble……

Doug

Hi Ed,

Bit of modification, you have an estate locomotive running down to the On30 lines. In this case you would be On18ish.

Nigel

One of the reasons I bought it Peter, just to see how small it really is and it's not as bad as I thought.

I'd like to oblige Doug but it's the wrong scale for you, 3.5mm to the foot, not 4mm  



Ed

[user=1632]BCDR[/user] wrote:

Hi Ed,

Bit of modification, you have an estate locomotive running down to the On30 lines. In this case you would be On18ish.

Nigel

O9 over here Nigel, but I'm interested in what I can fit in a small space in 3.5mm scale.

An estate railway in 7mm would still need a fair amount of space for any buildings.


Ed

Gerrah bigger board and keep going. :roll:
Good luck and regards,

BrianT.

Thanks Brian, I'm having a go here.

http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=15986&forum_id=93



Ed

Hi Ed.   3.5 mm ? Does that mean the track gauge? I thought that T/T , my first model Railway back in 1958 was small? Or is that because it is narrow gauge.  Best wishes Kevin 

Kevin: HOe uses HO scale (1:87, or 3.5 mm scale) with narrow gauge track of 9 mm gauge (i.e. N scale track gauge).

Ed: coming in very late here, but you could set up a small scenic 'plank' layout for your HOe model. Something more compact and easier to stow away (and hide!) than O scale.

:cool:

Hi Jeff.  Thank you. At the time of writing, I have just realised just how short eight foot is in OO Gauge. When I built the fiddleyard at four foot, I didn’t think about extending on the other side of the Inglenook for a longer run. Now I am stymied, but one day I may have a longer run with scenery?  Best wishes Kevin