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A place to post loosely related projects and activities where they might entertain. Very unlikely to present a consistent narrative.

 

0.87 is the ratio between 1:76 and 1:87, two scales which I work to when I play with model railways. Both the scale ratios are obscure. For those modelling the railways of the British Isles, the existence of both scales has been inconvenient and uncomfortable ever since they both emerged in the 1930s. For anyone, it should be obvious that picking a scale ratio simply because it broadly represents in actual millimetres (or fractions of actual millimetres) a prototype imperial foot is a silly thing to do.

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Wasserbach

First train out of the mini FREMO fiddleyard

This short traverser fiddleyard was designed to incorporate modules from Grainge and Hodder's laser-cut baseboard range into something I could use with my FREMO modules. I had two different use cases in mind: firstly to allow the station module to become a conventional layout suitable for home or exhibition, and secondly at a FREMO meeting to add a branch-line fiddleyard representing 'the rest of the branch'. The station can only take shortish trains in the loop and platforms. The loops are abou
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Wasserbach

Composing a layout with a photo editor

This evening I took some smartphone photos of my current layout project, something that I quite often do as it progresses to get a sort of scale eye view of things. I think of the layout, in scenic terms, as a set of cameos shaped by images and recollections. In the case of this layout, although I can contribute to the scenic setting from my own memories and photos, the details of the railway must all come from photos in books and online.   Because I have been thinking about backscenes
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readingtype in Wasserbach

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