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Connie, Indy & Dizzie

Modeling Rolling stock
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Posed on the ready tracks - Connie, Indy & Dizzy exhibit their wide range of sizes. Lighting could have been better, but you get the idea. [url=lsc.cvsry.com/ConIndDiz-1024-01.jpg]

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[/url][color=blue]FF: Click to Enlarge - IE: Right Click Photo and select Open Link in New Window to Enlarge[/color] Indy, a new arrival at the C.V.S.Ry., has yet to venture outside. The Spring Thaw Plow Extra ran into an ice blockade today at Indian Hill Junction and was forced to retreat to the engine house until a few more warm days help loosen the ice. Jon

#2

Jon,

Believe it or not, both functions noted below the pics work in OPERA9.24 :wink:

Nice pictures. Now we wait for the “see the difference and they’re all the same scale” comments. :smiley: :wink:

#3
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
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Nice pictures. Now we wait for the “see the difference and they’re all the same scale” comments. :smiley: :wink:


I suppose that’s the crux of the photos to begin with, but wait!!! Isn’t than an RS-3 on track 4? They’re not all the same scale. :slight_smile:

(Just doin’ my best to be difficult tonight.)

BTW, HJ, did you get my e-mail?

Later,

K

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Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Jon,

Believe it or not, both functions noted below the pics work in OPERA9.24 :wink:

Nice pictures. Now we wait for the “see the difference and they’re all the same scale” comments. :smiley: :wink:


Hey, see the difference and they’re all the same scale!

Just couldn’t bear to see you disappointed, Mr M :wink:

tac

#5

:smiley: Yup - That’s a string or RS-3’s on track 4. I was going to move them, but then got lazy. None of the other items in the picture are 1:20 either. The work car bash in the foreground of the side view is a mix of several scales - I don’t have a clue what scale it is :slight_smile: Does the Indy really scale out to 1:20? I know it is sold as a 1:20 model and has the same size headlight, bell and whistle as Connie. It looks proportionally OK when compared to the original prototype of the boiler/cab & tender - Hawaii #5 seen here in Kent, CT.

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/HRYCO5-640.JPG)

Jon

#6

Well sure…locos scale out well…its the Appliances that are the give away…I have a picture in a boook…somewhere…of the neatest little industrial switcher…it is an 0-6-0 and was used by an institution to switch coal hoppers into its power plant…

(http://www.lscdata.com/users/bart_salmons/jack.jpg)

Now Don’t that look Indyish?

#7

In my mind, it all depends on the size of the people. Unless it is an exact model of an individual 1:1 piece of equipment, everything works.

#8
Kevin Strong said:
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BTW, HJ, did you get my e-mail?

Later,

K


No, just checked all the accounts. Nothing there! Where did you send it to?

#9

Whichever e-mail is linked through this site. I was wondering if you had drawings or measurements of the DB’s BR-218 (the ubiquitous German diesel that bears a passing resemblance to a VW Bus). I’ve got the Piko model here for review, and I was hoping to get an idea for what scale they actually chose for it. (Near as I can tell, between 1:26 and 1:27)

Later,

K

#10
Kevin Strong said:
I've got the Piko model here for review, and I was hoping to get an idea for what scale they actually chose for it. (Near as I can tell, between 1:26 and 1:27) Later, K
Well, some of it is 1:27th and some of it is not. The wheely bits are the first thing that might strike you as rather odd - not the shape, round is good for a wheel, even I know that - but the space between them for what is supposed to represent a standard gauge model...

Anyhow, if it ain’t SP&S, GN, CP, CN or ONR I’m not too bothered if it looks like a camper van or a wheeled banana.

Still looking forward to reading your take on it though!

tac

#11

I’m wondering if Piko’s not taking a page from Aristo’s playbook, and making standard gauge trains that are “visually compatible” with LGB’s stuff. The difference in the loading gauge between US and European standard gauge stuff dictates that the European stuff would be a slightly larger scale than US stuff, hence the 1:26.ish as opposed to 1:29. If you look at their web site, all their “G” listings look to be of standard gauge prototypes.

Perhaps they need to take the “1:22.5” off their box, though.

Later,

K