Puzzle for Wednesday

[HobbitFertang]

Hi folks, here's a Wednesday puzzle: If Jane builds a G-scale replica of her house and garden complete with her G-scale garden layout . . . what scale would Jane's 'model' of the garden layout need to be?? . . . answers on a postcard.

 

[PhilP]

answers on a postcard.

Then a postage stamp....


PhilP.

 

[Rhinochugger]

Now, this is an area of thought that tends to make my brain go all fuzzy ....................... pure maths wasn't my strong point.

So I reckon the answer is going to be either 1:45 or 1:506

As 1:45 seems plainly illogical, I've got to go with 1:506

* the assumption being that we're using 1:22.5 as being a rough representation of G scale

 

[Rhinochugger]

Then a postage stamp....


PhilP.

Absolutely - if my calcs are right, then T scale would roughly provide a Gauge 3 garden railway

 

[HobbitFertang]

Yes, my brain went all fuzzy several years ago . . . (can't remember how many years)

 

[Northsider]

That reminds me of the model house of a house that we saw in Cape Cod. Bigger scale, though!

 

[korm kormsen]

just to confuse the imperial thinking:
if i take a metre (39.4" )
and divide that into 22.5 parts, i get 44.44 mm = millimetre (1.75" )
if i divide these 44.44 mm into 22.5 parts, i get 1.975 mm (0.08" )
using those numbers, i divide one metre by 1.975 mm ( = 0.001975 metres), i get 506.33
so, scale 1:506.3 it should be. (for ship modellers a quite normal relation)

just for the fun of it:
an inch should be built at about 0.005 mm
a foot would be about 0.6 mm long.

for modeling in that scale one would need additional tools.
absolutely needed a looking glas.
recommended a microscope.

or, to put it into relation: a loco in 1:506.3 would reach up to the trouser's seam of your LGB stationmaster.

......

 

[HobbitFertang]

Not something Hornby will be releasing any time soon then . .

 

[playmofire]

In the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds, there is a model of the village in the pub garden with a model of the village in the garden of the pub in the model of the model village. The model village is one ninth the size of the real one and the whole thing is Grade 2 listed.

 

[HobbitFertang]

That way lies insanity . . .

 

[HobbitFertang]

or 3D printing maybe??

 

[Chris Vernell]

That way lies insanity . . .

Appropriate for this august assembly, then

 

[Rhinochugger]

or 3D printing maybe??

The problem is that in T scale, the trains have to have magnets to keep them on the track - they're so tiddly.

So, by the time you've got the gauge down from 4' - 8.5" to somewhere between 2' - 0" and 3' - 0" ................... you've definitely gone berserk