ffayolle Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 Hi all of you, Ready to use a homemade storage box To be continued... Fabrice 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 (edited) Fabrice, Do be careful of that bubble-wrap. It has a reputation for marking the paint if left in contact for any length of time. Best Simon Edited September 22, 2018 by Simond Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) Hi all of you, Happy new year from France So, I've finished some detail parts on the bed track. And currently, I've building a CdZ (the French Gauge O Guild) U-60 kit. To be continued... Fabrice Edited January 20, 2019 by ffayolle 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 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?. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted January 20, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2019 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 Hi all of you, I'm back. Something new, something blue,... Have a G'day, Fabrice 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 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. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwayrod Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Your layout looks superb. Can we have some more pictures please. Rod 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) David, Rod, Thanks for your return Fabrice Edited April 8, 2019 by ffayolle updating message 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) 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) Edited April 8, 2019 by Pacific231G 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) Hi all of you, In progress with some new products of Cites Miniatures (railing and hollow brick wall) Happy Eastern from France Fabrice Edited April 20, 2019 by ffayolle - 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertc Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Nice work there Fabrice. cheers Bob 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Hi all of you, All the best for 2020 Best regards from France, Fabrice 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 What a beautiful layout you have here, Fabrice. The scenery work in particular is very convincing - well done. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil S Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffayolle Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) Hi everybody, I'm back... 😉😉😉 I've bought this layout but currently I'm building a new 7mm scale layout with the similar trackplan. 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. I've designed a manual pointwork control (lasercut). 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. Saxby signal box from the start (kit) to the end To be continued... Best regards from France, Fabrice Edited April 1, 2023 by ffayolle 13 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
47606odin Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 hours ago, ffayolle said: C’est Manifique 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Fabrice A stunning piece of trackwork, the 3D parts are they made in standard resin or from some conductive material Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Nice to see you back Fabrice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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