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Re: Getting started in 7mm finescale NG

 

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John,

I think we've been having similar thoughts while reading the same pamphlet!

I have no particular skills to offer to the wiki, but here are some of the things that have?worried me (still do!) and might usefully?be addressed:

  • building?turnouts or other complex track formations;
  • wheel profiling;
  • outside frames and
  • running gear/motions.
'Getting started' in the context of these issues has, as you know,?meant leaning heavily on other people's skills and generosity, and I have been very blessed in this respect. I have also been fortunate in finding at least one loco kit?which was within my build skills because it is a tram engine so I could hide much?behind its skirts. I know the running gear issue is not peculiar to NG but I think?it has a lot to do with a 'finescale' frame of mind. As we have found at Burton, many people come to finescale NG having experience of EM/P4/S4 et al, but for some like me O14 is our first toe-in-the-water.

Food for thought for the O14 table at the 7mmNGA Convention, perhaps?

Just my two-penn'orth,

David H



From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of John C via Groups.Io <jclutterbuck2001@...>
Sent: 08 April 2018 21:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: [o14] Getting started in 7mm finescale NG
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I was reading a similarly titled pamphlet over the weekend and feel that we could really do with something similar with a finescale focus - and open to all via our wiki.

The aforementioned pamphlet seems to assume the reader will be starting railway modelling in 7mm NG, whereas my experience is many are existing modellers and want to model NG properly.?

I'm thinking we could have sections covering approaches to modelling different types of track, couplings, wheels, etc and specific prototypes. Perhaps a para or two on each aspect with links and/or dedicated pages for more in depth material. I think we should focus on NG specific things rather than general modelling stuff such as DCC and baseboard joints. However, Paul's superb accomplishments with sound and smoke do deserve a section.

I welcome your thoughts.

John

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