phileakins
Western Thunderer
Hi folks
For a long time now I've been talking about my S7 opus - Dock Road - only to have the idea scuppered by the builder (pursed lips, a tsk-tsk sound and an emphatic shake of the head) who couldn't give me enough room. About five feet (or a whole pre-group branch train) short in fact. He said the house would fall down - I was willing to take the risk but Mrs PE decided that she had a veto and that was it.
I had, of course, built all the pointwork by that stage and had two baseboards and the sawn parts for a third!
The track plan doesn't allow for any compromise and Dock Road became a recurrent dream - but not wholly abandoned as I've been researching the prototype for more years than I care to remember and have a whole pile of original drawings and photographs in stock.
Then I bought MRJ 199 from e-bay (I wanted the article on resin casting) and found that it's an issue about S scale. Just as an idle exercise I asked Templot to re-scale the plan, oh dear, it's do able in its entirety! And it's just that bit bigger (2/3 of 7mm size) for my ten thumbs to cope with.
I've printing out the 'P' class frames (see elsewhere) in 1/64th scale to have a comparison and there's not much in it from the 1/43.54 version in terms of drilling and filing. 4mm chassis parts are cheaper too.
Has anyone tried S and has some comments/advice to offer?
Phil
For a long time now I've been talking about my S7 opus - Dock Road - only to have the idea scuppered by the builder (pursed lips, a tsk-tsk sound and an emphatic shake of the head) who couldn't give me enough room. About five feet (or a whole pre-group branch train) short in fact. He said the house would fall down - I was willing to take the risk but Mrs PE decided that she had a veto and that was it.
I had, of course, built all the pointwork by that stage and had two baseboards and the sawn parts for a third!
The track plan doesn't allow for any compromise and Dock Road became a recurrent dream - but not wholly abandoned as I've been researching the prototype for more years than I care to remember and have a whole pile of original drawings and photographs in stock.
Then I bought MRJ 199 from e-bay (I wanted the article on resin casting) and found that it's an issue about S scale. Just as an idle exercise I asked Templot to re-scale the plan, oh dear, it's do able in its entirety! And it's just that bit bigger (2/3 of 7mm size) for my ten thumbs to cope with.
I've printing out the 'P' class frames (see elsewhere) in 1/64th scale to have a comparison and there's not much in it from the 1/43.54 version in terms of drilling and filing. 4mm chassis parts are cheaper too.
Has anyone tried S and has some comments/advice to offer?
Phil