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A Question of Scale


Matthew Cousins

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Whilst at the Seaford show an old couple asked me if I could help sell some of their brothers old locos. These included some S scale locos, which is a scale that I haven't seen before.

I thought that I would post this photo to show the comparison of 0 gauge 00 gauge and the intermediate S gauge, which is 5mm /Ft ?

The model is of course the well known Terrier with the S gauge loco being the A1X next to 'Brighton'

It would be interesting to know if anyone on RMWeb does S scale and might be interested in these locos.

The nickel silver A1 nearest the camera is a 4mm kit that was made in the 1970's by GW Models, who now make rivet tools and other builders aids.

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S is a lovely scale and is an all-Imperial scale of 3/16" to the foot, or 1:64, and therefore 19% larger than 4mm. There are some of us on here who model (I occasionally dabble) in S. probably the best person to ask about the locos on here is Phil Copleston. See the RMweb S Scale forum here and here's a nice layout in development

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There are so few people modelling in S scale, I'm surprised this model isn't known about.

 

Did you try contacting the society?

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S is a lovely scale and is an all-Imperial scale of 3/16" to the foot, or 1:64, and therefore 19% larger than 4mm. There are some of us on here who model (I occasionally dabble) in S. probably the best person to ask about the locos on here is Phil Copleston. See the RMweb S Scale forum here and here's a nice layout in development

Thanks for the links, sorry to be so ignorant, I suppose that our popular gauges of mixed imperial and metric are a bit wierd. The Terrier is a very nicely made loco, so I can see the attraction.

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