LGB's Rubber rule
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Rhinochugger
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, put LGB alongside Accucraft AMS, and suddenly US outline, accurate scale models start to become extremely good value for money.
Gizzy
A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
Not the first or last time that the rubber ruler has been used by Model Railway Manufacturers though.
Hornby made their original HST MkIII coaches shorter with less windows (probably so they went round small radius curves) and another thread running on the forum atm, is discussing the inaccuracies of the Piko Harz Kamel....
Hornby made their original HST MkIII coaches shorter with less windows (probably so they went round small radius curves) and another thread running on the forum atm, is discussing the inaccuracies of the Piko Harz Kamel....
stockers
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Bredebahn said:Philbahn said:
Er, where do we start? It's not only length - it's width, gauge, height and just about everything else you can think of. But still, for some reason, we love the stuff!
Its because they look right - clever really. 4ft coaches doing R1s might not look too good.
True, even some of Roco's "H0" stock was actually closer to 1:100 at one time:
http://www.roco.com/products/Roco/44455
http://www.roco.com/products/Roco/44455
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
yb281 said:stockers said:Yes, but they are American!
Que ? :-
stevedenver
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i got over the rubber thing-so long as things are functional and sturdy its ok
the shorter toy like stuff has its own charm-but
as mentioned
put it along well modeled models and the short comings are obvious-
run it among its brethren and somehow its ok
off or not -i like the blue bounder
and for me -they are so much more tolerant of poor track and other 'real life' things in the garden than most others
i look at the AMS US coaches and they are gorgeous-the lgb versions look stupid, toy like in proportions and paint schemes--but........
they allow me to fit a train on a siding, run sharper curves and will survive a rain storm-etc-its a compromise between running and space versus modeling in what is really a very large scale -a real yard , could be fifty feet in length and still be small in this scale with proper points sidings and long rolling stock
i got over the rubber thing-so long as things are functional and sturdy its ok
the shorter toy like stuff has its own charm-but
as mentioned
put it along well modeled models and the short comings are obvious-
run it among its brethren and somehow its ok
off or not -i like the blue bounder
and for me -they are so much more tolerant of poor track and other 'real life' things in the garden than most others
i look at the AMS US coaches and they are gorgeous-the lgb versions look stupid, toy like in proportions and paint schemes--but........
they allow me to fit a train on a siding, run sharper curves and will survive a rain storm-etc-its a compromise between running and space versus modeling in what is really a very large scale -a real yard , could be fifty feet in length and still be small in this scale with proper points sidings and long rolling stock
beavercreek
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stockers said:Its because they look right - clever really. 4ft coaches doing R1s might not look too good.
USA Trains streamline coaches are almost 3ft long. They look good but boy do they need lovely graceful curves
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
beavercreek said:
And I thought we were talking trains
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
Cheeky Monkey said:
Yebbut, that's BMS. AMS stuff is different, apart from being US, it's made to different specs.
The AMS plastic stuff, with metal bogies is accurate, but not the sort of stuff you can throw around like LGB. The Accucraft US locos are brass and v v v expensive - but not that bad considering that they're brass and museum quality. I think the SP 4-6-0 can be bought over here for about £1500 - compare that with LGB Aster?
But, as a number of people have pointed out
it's US outline But it suits me