Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl...
by bpicolo on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:59PM
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Yeah, I only intended that as an example of the sorts of communities where realistic miniature-things are desirable. You could definitely produce different scales for these sorts of things to match.
Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl...
by stickfigure on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:40PM
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The live steam hobby commonly works in 1:8 and 1:5, sometimes even 1:4... and that's just the folks on 7.5" gauge track. Tilden Park has a RR running on 15" gauge. It's a beast.
Re:Growing a company that sells miniature construction suppl...
by rtkwe on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:48PM
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Oh yeah I've seen those. Never really seen them talked about in the same category as the rest of the model railway world though. Seems like it still kind of leaves these mini materials in an awkward position at 1:12 scale so they're too large for traditional model railways and too small for these live steam guys.
1:12 is a common action figure size though. Maybe it'd make interesting materials for that.
It'd be a poor fit for miniature train towns, the scale is too large for them. The largest is G which is 1:22.5 (approx 8 inches high) and the most popular is HO (1:87.1). HO runs on a 16.5mm track so the blocks are about as wide as a train track on their shortest dimensions.
Overall it's kind of an awkward scale for any hobby miniatures.