Greetings! You will probably think I'm mad, but I wish to build a copy of a steam engine (like a movie set, not with a working engine) but it won't be full-size! I'd like to use some standard scale if possible, and to call it by the correct scale name. I mean, who needs another scale name? But to my dismay, I cannot see any rhyme or reason behind the scale names that are presently used. I see that I will have to extrapolate in front of the existing table that I have managed to cobble together, to get my desired scale which is about 1:1.3 or about 3/4 of full size. Yes it's rather big isn't it :) See I told you I was mad. But then you must also be mad if you are reading this newsgroup!
What I really want is a new scale name. I was rather hoping that the O, OO, OOO series worked the other way so I could call it OOOOOOOOOOOOO but that won't work. Maybe I could put a decimal point in front, like .OOOOOOOOOOOOO but I don't like that much. Shall I just call it Threequarter Scale? Or NZ1.3 Scale? Ideas anyone?
Here are some of the scale names I have found so far: Name Ratio VI 5.5 X 5.5 VII 8 IV 11 V 11 M 13.5 III 16 F 20.3 G 22.5 II 22.5 LGB 22.5 II 25 II 27 A 29 Gauge 1 32 I 32 O 43.5 O 45 O 48 On30 48 F 55 S 60 OO 62.4 S 64 HO 65 OOO 65.2 EEM 76 EM 76 OO 76 OO 76.2 HO 87 E 96 TT 100 WESA 100 TM 101.6 TT 120 C 144 N 148 OOO 152 N 160 K 180 Z 220 TTT 240 M 300 X 305 HZ 440