Steam Train kits

Aug 09, 2009 24 Replies

In the UK, the term "scale" is rarely used with a gauge identifier. If you talled about "OO scale" people would look at you over the tops of their spectacles. :-D If the scale was mentioned it would be "4mm" etc.

I say "rarely" because Airfix used to label their lineside accessory kits as "OO/HO scale", and happily ignored the fact that OO and HO were two different scales that simply did not go well together!

LOL Excellent!

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for plastic kits of Japanese locos and rolling stock.

State of the art for 1960, a bit crude now, and the molds are from the age of Very Cheap plastic--enough weight on the sprues for a 1/32 Zero--but full of character.

28mm, now there is an idea. Worth a go methinks. In Japan the N gauge people use either 1:160 or 1:150 due to different gauges used on the prototype, not sure how they cope with HO though.

Mike

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