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Hi all of you,

 

Happy new year from France

 

So, I've finished some detail parts on the bed track.

 

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And currently, I've building a CdZ (the French Gauge O Guild) U-60 kit.

 

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To be continued...

 

Fabrice

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I am curious as to what scale french O gauge modellers work to. Do you scale everything at 1:45th full size? (which gives some rather odd sizes to work to:- 22.22mm/m or 6.77mm/ft), or do you scale at 7mm/ft?.

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I am curious as to what scale french O gauge modellers work to. Do you scale everything at 1:45th full size? (which gives some rather odd sizes to work to:- 22.22mm/m or 6.77mm/ft), or do you scale at 7mm/ft?.

A thorny question indeed. Most French zeroistes work to 1:43.5 but some commercial products over the years have been 1:45.

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Hi Fabrice

I assume the new and blue is the saddle tank shunter. It's all looking really marvellous though. Rue d'Abbeville is a wonderful evocation of the sort of small yard most of us ignored when they were all around and, now they're not, wish we had paid them more attention. 

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On 20/01/2019 at 15:09, Joseph_Pestell said:

A thorny question indeed. Most French zeroistes work to 1:43.5 but some commercial products over the years have been 1:45.

There are currently three accepted scales for O gauge 1:43.5. 1:45 and 1:48

 

Looking throughold Loco Revues and other sources it seems clear that,  very early in the hobby's development, French modellers and those in some other countries generally adopted British practices for railway modelling but, as 7mm/ft is meaningless if you don't use feet and inches,  it was expressed instead as a scale ratio. To one decimal place that comes out as 1:43.5 but was often further simplified to 1:43. including by  Jean Fournereau the founder of Loco-Revue. However, the scale was also expressed as 23mm/m both by Fournereau and the authoritative Henri Girod-Eymery and Jean Falaize and that is a ratio of  1:43.5  (to one decimal place). Nevertheless most 0 gauge drawings in Loco Revue were to 1:43 scale for quite some time before 1:43.5 was adopted.

 

Meanwhile, the Americans, who do everything in imperial units, had adopted a scale of a quarter inch to the foot  or 1:48 whle the Germans had adopted a more accurate scale of 1:45.  O gauge was originally defined as one a quarter inches and now as 32mm so the German 1:45 scale is equivalent to a full size gauge of 1440mm (which actually used to be the French standard gauge until 1435mm was adopted)

 

For H0 quite a lot of early drawings were also nominally to 1:86 scale so half of 1:43 (I say nominally because in reality printing distortions were often far greater than the diference between 1:86 and 1:87) 

When model scales and gauges were being sorted out by the first pan European conference of national model railway associations (what later became MOROP) in 1952,  1:45 and 1:43.5   were both given as the scales for 0 gauge. while H0 was defined as 1:87  (despite some German efforts to have 1:80 scale adopted) 

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Any updates on this fine layout? I've just realised I hadn't seen it in a while and how, being a continental prototype, it was a little bit of something different, which was very enjoyable.

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Hi everybody,

 

I'm back...

😉😉😉

 

I've bought this layout but currently I'm building a new 7mm scale layout with the similar trackplan.

 

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I've built tracks and pointworks with some 3D items from FAB432. Cf. https://www.shapeways.com/shops/fab432

FAB432 is my new cottage industry.

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I've designed a manual pointwork control (lasercut).

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And I've designed some typical buildings like the signal box of Longroy Gamaches (Somme/Seine-Maritime), a 6 meters Saxby signal box, the goodshed of Miraumont (Somme) and the foot bridge of Amiens (Somme) station.

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Saxby signal box from the start (kit) to the end

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To be continued...

 

Best regards from France, Fabrice

 

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