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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: Stuey
Date: October 31, 2013, 4:05 pm
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Cheers Jim :)
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: PROPERJOB
Date: November 1, 2013, 3:27 pm
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The 47 is a Hornby not a Lima one btw
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: bubble
Date: November 6, 2013, 1:21 am
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So what in everyone's opinion is better? OO or 'N' gauge and
whats the pros and cons of each? Reason I ask is I reckon you
can fit more in a certain space with 'N' gauge if that makes
sense. Bear in mind I have never owned or run a model railway
but is something I'm thinking about for next year after I've got
through the list of projects.... ::)
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: Dave
Date: November 6, 2013, 2:59 am
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They both have pros and cons. It's something that can really
only be answered if you have an idea of what you want to create
and how much space you have.
Do you want to shunt trains on an end-to-end railway or sit back
and watch the trains go round and round?
N is better if you want to see bigger trains running in the
landscape but OO is better for detail.
Then there's a question of what era/company/type of services you
want to model. Some things that are available in one scale may
not be available in the other.
To give you an idea of what can be done in N, here's a few pic
of my N gauge layout.
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: espacekiller
Date: November 6, 2013, 3:15 am
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I would imagine OO scale must be easier to work on? Just the N
guage stuff looks incredibly tiny for somebody with big numb
sausage fingers. (ie most land rover owners ;D )
Dave you should start a thread teaching the various skills
involved in building and painting these the detail is superb.
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: megatoad
Date: November 6, 2013, 6:46 am
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Very nice looking layout Dave, any more pics?
I had a dabble with N guage when I first went into DCC, also I
had very limited space, then I got married and got a whole loft
to play with.
As you say, with N you can easilly run longer trains, in 00
gauge a loco and 6 coaches requires a good 6' just for a tight
platform !!
N is a bit fiddly, especially when trying to fit digital
decoders, but the quality of the new models coming out is
superb. The manufacturers are finally catching up with the rest
of the N world.
There is still much more available in OO though as this is the
more popular market in the UK. Loads more LandRovers in 1/76th
too :-) :smilewide:
#Post#: 79015--------------------------------------------------
Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: Dave
Date: November 6, 2013, 1:45 pm
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> Dave you should start a thread teaching the various skills
involved in building and painting these the detail is superb.
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Not sure about that. I think it would bore most folk on here to
death.
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> Very nice looking layout Dave, any more pics?
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Somewhere. I'll have a look.
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: espacekiller
Date: November 6, 2013, 5:46 pm
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> Not sure about that. I think it would bore most folk on here
to death.
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Nope Skills are always nice to see and learn as most are
transferable to other situations.
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: bubble
Date: November 11, 2013, 1:28 pm
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Really nice N gauge set there. I was thinking of a layout based
in the 70's with a track that goes round and round with sidings
to an engineering works/industrial setting. I for one would
enjoy some how to's on modelling?
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Re: Any model railway buffs know what these are..?
DIR By: PROPERJOB
Date: November 26, 2013, 2:41 am
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For me Dave's N gauge layout ranks as one of the best out there,
just goes to show how good a job can be done with N, just
because its smaller you can still get a good level of detail.
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