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Scale models my a**e!
Done a bit of measuring. According to what I've been able to find out, Standard railway gauge is 4' 81/2" which is 1435mm in new money. So for 1/72 scale, the tracks should have a track width of 19.93mm - right? Here's what I have found:
HobbyBoss track width = 21mm
Hasegawa track width = 19mm
Unimodel track width = 19.6mm
A railway track is just two bits of steel bolted to a plank! How difficult can it be to measure that? And once it's wrong, everything else has to be wrong as the rolling stock axle width has to match the track! Does anyone know how or why the model companies have done this?
All that means is the dio I had planned just ain't gonna work as it should. Back to the drawing board.
Gern
PS Thanks for your info on model railway stuff Rick. I should have said I was looking for kit makers rather than model railway stuff. As you say, they are generally considered to be different genres.
Hi, This is my very first post anywhere!
But I have been building models for years.
Yes "standard gauge" 8' 4 1/2" is 19.93 in 1/72.
But, I have just bought a UM Armored self propelled Leningrad Railroad car No. 604 and the track width of the supplied track is, as close as I can measure, 21.1mm !!!
But this is correct, 72 x 21.1 = 1519.2 which is Russian 5 foot gauge which is either
1,520 mm (4 ft 1127⁄32 in)
1,524 mm (5ft)
Track gauge link:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge
I think I will use P4 from kits.