Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
Just spotted a typo in this note. 3-2-1 should have read 3-2-2 ( ie
Inglenook).
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Nick
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Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
Have a look at the instructions when you try to print. "Custom Scale" is one of the options allowing smaller size to be printed. This is where a percentage can be inserted.
The other thing to consider
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Archibald Campbell
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Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
Right on their website is a list of different scales and it tells what
needs to be done to the parts so they print out at the right scale. I would
imagine one could download the file then if need be
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Ron Hunt <btlarea@...>
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#27282
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Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
Normally they do redesign for different scales, to get around issues over
board thicknesses and also to avoid joining pieces in small scales that run
over multiple A4 sheets in larger scales.
Looking
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Nick
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#27281
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Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
If you want to change the scale you could print at 7/8 ie 88% for HO or 50% for British N etc. It would no longer be the size of a box file but would that
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Archibald Campbell
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Re: Layout in a boxfile
#106a
I¡¯ve built a lot of buildings from Scalescenes, and can endorse them as
excellent.
They are self-print kit, designed to be printed onto A4 paper, then stuck
to cardboard of various weights, cut and
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Nick
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#27279
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Layout in a boxfile
#106a
Hi,
ScaleScenes are a British company producing card model railway kits for buildings and structures at various scales. They are mainly British scene but some of their industrial buildings would not
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Chris
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#27278
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Small Layout/Inglenook Presentation this Saturday - South Bend Indiana - Michiana Div NMRA (you don't need to be a member)
At Last! Something other than "What is a 'Small Layout'....."
Jude in Choo Chootown
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J. A. Foxall
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#27277
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Small Layout/Inglenook Presentation this Saturday - South Bend Indiana - Michiana Div NMRA (you don't need to be a member)
Short notice but I wanted to alert anyone in the northern Indiana/Southern Michigan area of a Small Layout Presentation at the Michiana Division NMRA monthly meeting this Saturday in South Bend,
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Jason C
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#27276
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Re: What is a "small layout"
Barry...The texture and coloration look really authentic...keep up the good work!? Many thanks for the kudos.? John M.
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john mac
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Re: What is a "small layout"
Thanks John.
My rockface is foam board glued together with a glue gun. I then got some images of the rock faces and had them colour printed on good quality paper and stuck these on the outside with
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Barry Loraine <inchrail@...>
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Re: What is a "small layout"?
Here is a discussion started by referring to Dick Andrew¡¯s 18¡±x24¡± drawing board 1/4¡± scale 2¡¯ gauge
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Charles Brumbelow
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Re: What is a "small layout"?
Friends,
Please check out these several pages at the Carl Arendt web site for some small layout ideas featuring 1/4" scale standard gauge equipment:
* Page 65a - September 2007
* Page 69?? -
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Casey Sterbenz
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#27272
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Re: What is a "small layout"
Barry,
Love the "KTR"! The homebuilt equipment and locomotives look and seem to
run well. Love the small single shaft DC motors visible in the one
industrial shunter as well as the single point
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TILLMAN, JOE
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#27271
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Re: What is a "small layout"
Your mountain looks a lot like mine!? The scales are different (mine's O-tinplate), but the scenery is about the same--my main mountain in styrofoam is about 1' x 3' x 2.6' h. that lifts-off and I
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john mac
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Re: What is a "small layout"
In the UK it was common place for the horse to be unhitched and walked to the other end of the tramcar; YouTube link to a horse tram in operation at a museum:
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StevenB
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Re: What is a "small layout"?
What is a "Small Layout"?
Perspective is everything and it is nothing....
The late Carl Arndt is credited with the term "Micro Layout" -- And he pegged it at four square feet or less..?
That said,
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Reynolds John
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Re: What is a "small layout"?
Hello group -
I may have missed this as an answer to the question at hand, but to me a "small layout" is just that - a small layout. Not a module (though some of these may be operated as
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Mike Calo
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Re: What is a "small layout"
Also used in 1:1 scale on the old horse tram systems. The wheels ran? on the flanges while passing through the points and the horse was moved out to the side to provide the bias needed for the tram
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Ken Howard <khoward@...>
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Re: What is a "small layout"
We called them "Kick switches" in underground mining. Ok for hand-tramming (pushing an ore car) but not too good with motors (locos.) Nowadays they use regular double-point switches ..... that long
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Skip Luke <salty4568@...>
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