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Hi folks, here's a Wednesday puzzle: If Jane builds a G-scale replica of her house and garden complete with her G-scale garden layout . . . what scale would Jane's 'model' of the garden layout need to be?? . . . answers on a postcard.
 
Now, this is an area of thought that tends to make my brain go all fuzzy ....................... pure maths wasn't my strong point.

So I reckon the answer is going to be either 1:45 or 1:506

As 1:45 seems plainly illogical, I've got to go with 1:506

* the assumption being that we're using 1:22.5 as being a rough representation of G scale
 
just to confuse the imperial thinking:
if i take a metre (39.4" )
and divide that into 22.5 parts, i get 44.44 mm = millimetre (1.75" )
if i divide these 44.44 mm into 22.5 parts, i get 1.975 mm (0.08" )
using those numbers, i divide one metre by 1.975 mm ( = 0.001975 metres), i get 506.33
so, scale 1:506.3 it should be. (for ship modellers a quite normal relation)

just for the fun of it:
an inch should be built at about 0.005 mm
a foot would be about 0.6 mm long.

for modeling in that scale one would need additional tools.
absolutely needed a looking glas.
recommended a microscope.

or, to put it into relation: a loco in 1:506.3 would reach up to the trouser's seam of your LGB stationmaster.

panther-sherlock.jpg ...... scale-506.jpg
 
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In the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds, there is a model of the village in the pub garden with a model of the village in the garden of the pub in the model of the model village. The model village is one ninth the size of the real one and the whole thing is Grade 2 listed.
 
HobbitFertang said:
or 3D printing maybe??
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The problem is that in T scale, the trains have to have magnets to keep them on the track - they're so tiddly.

So, by the time you've got the gauge down from 4' - 8.5" to somewhere between 2' - 0" and 3' - 0" ................... you've definitely gone berserk :lipssealed::lipssealed::lipssealed:
 
korm kormsen said:
just to confuse the imperial thinking:
if i take a metre (39.4" )
and divide that into 22.5 parts, i get 44.44 mm = millimetre (1.75" )
if i divide these 44.44 mm into 22.5 parts, i get 1.975 mm (0.08" )
using those numbers, i divide one metre by 1.975 mm ( = 0.001975 metres), i get 506.33
so, scale 1:506.3 it should be. (for ship modellers a quite normal relation)

just for the fun of it:
an inch should be built at about 0.005 mm
a foot would be about 0.6 mm long.

for modeling in that scale one would need additional tools.
absolutely needed a looking glas.
recommended a microscope.

or, to put it into relation: a loco in 1:506.3 would reach up to the trouser's seam of your LGB stationmaster.

View attachment 340630 ...... View attachment 340631
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Or you could just multiply 22.5 by 22.5 and get 506.25. But that's just spoiling the fun, I guess!
 
HobbitFertang said:
what scale would Jane's 'model' of the garden layout need to be
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My pal has an indoor N scale layout besides his outdoor garden railway. We figured that the N scale was a good representation of a ride-on (7.25" gauge) railway. I fitted some Playmobile kiddie seats to an N scale gondola, and he bought a Bachmann HOe/OOn9 "Skarloey" to pull it, along with his collection of N scale locos. I even bought some HOe track for him.
Alas, he still hasn't got around to putting the track on a board and making the ride-on a part of the garden.
 
My question is what are you running?? Here is what I see here in the USA:

G scale can be confusing as there are many 'scales' in G.

1/32, 1/29, 1/24, 1/20, and even 1/13. Some manufactures make models in 1/29 and 1/24 such as USA Trains in the USA and also the old Aristocraft. It is their maintenance stock that is 1/24 scale.

Is Marklin 1/32 whereas their LGB trains are a rubber band scale and length, height and ends can all be different scales such as the USA F7. USA trains will make this F7 engine in 1/29.
 
Dan said:
My question is what are you running?? Here is what I see here in the USA:

G scale can be confusing as there are many 'scales' in G.

1/32, 1/29, 1/24, 1/20, and even 1/13. Some manufactures make models in 1/29 and 1/24 such as USA Trains in the USA and also the old Aristocraft. It is their maintenance stock that is 1/24 scale.

Is Marklin 1/32 whereas their LGB trains are a rubber band scale and length, height and ends can all be different scales such as the USA F7. USA trains will make this F7 engine in 1/29.
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Yep, but that may not help.

Most of the answers have been based on LGB's approximate scale of 1:22.5. If the OP is running 1:20.3 (Fn3) then there's a bit of latitude, but with anything smaller than 1:22.5, I think the answer is 'no chance' :nerd::nerd:
 
NCS from Qbyn said:
Or you could just multiply 22.5 by 22.5 and get 506.25. But that's just spoiling the fun, I guess!
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"why do it simply, if you can do it long-winded?"
that would have been like answering to the reason for everything with a simple: "42"

(truth is, i had shortly before read about imperial measurements. - acres, furlongs, chains, sea-miles, continental-miles, land-mines and so on... )

;)
 
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