What is British G Scale

DafyddElvy said:
Someone winding me up, Brunel Models don't have a Laxey wheel on their web site.......

David
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Not a wind up. If you have the money Brunel will make to order - Bespoke Projects Their work is outstanding. They usually show up at the 16 mm NGM show with a selection. Their made to true scale, say 16 mm, really shows the difference in size from most buildings made in "garden scale" by other suppliers. Then you could always get the BBC "Money for Nothing" team interested and get that nice fitted kitchen quickly upcycled to a Laxey wheel. Whatever it is it will be quite imposing, as will the other half's reaction. Max
 
ebay mike said:
Another slight thread drift David. I've been following this with interest. Initially assumed it would be 45mm gauge, now 32mm gauge mentioned and your self-imposed rules detailed in post #85. Just to throw my spanner in - this is looking for a new home if you don't find anything IOM suitable. 32/45mm adjustable.
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Dare I quietly ask 'ow much?
 
maxi-model said:
Not a wind up. If you have the money Brunel will make to order - Bespoke Projects Their work is outstanding. They usually show up at the 16 mm NGM show with a selection. Their made to true scale, say 16 mm, really shows the difference in size from most buildings made in "garden scale" by other suppliers. Then you could always get the BBC "Money for Nothing" team interested and get that nice fitted kitchen quickly upcycled to a Laxey wheel. Whatever it is it will be quite imposing, as will the other half's reaction. Max
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If you've seen any of the truly amazing model structures made by Brunel for Gauge 1 layouts - as well as a 16mm scale Woody Bay - you'll know that the quality is as big as the price. Given that even something as 'compact' as a 16mm scale signal box costs around £400, you can imagine how much something like the Lynton & Barnstaple's Chelfham viaduct must have cost.

They will make any thing you want as a one-off project - all you need is a LOT of money.
 
tac foley said:
If you've seen any of the truly amazing model structures made by Brunel for Gauge 1 layouts - as well as a 16mm scale Woody Bay - you'll know that the quality is as big as the price. Given that even something as 'compact' as a 16mm scale signal box costs around £400, you can imagine how much something like the Lynton & Barnstaple's Chelfham viaduct must have cost.

They will make any thing you want as a one-off project - all you need is a LOT of money.
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They made me two bridges, LGB R2, and R3, expensive yes, but not that bad.
 
tac foley said:
If you've seen any of the truly amazing model structures made by Brunel for Gauge 1 layouts - as well as a 16mm scale Woody Bay - you'll know that the quality is as big as the price. Given that even something as 'compact' as a 16mm scale signal box costs around £400, you can imagine how much something like the Lynton & Barnstaple's Chelfham viaduct must have cost.

They will make any thing you want as a one-off project - all you need is a LOT of money.
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A Bridge too far?
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Good movie. Loved the scene with all the DC-3s taking off (crank the sound up for that)._
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............... and fairly close to the historical account :nod::nod:

One of our friend's father's uniform is in the museum at Oosterbeek complete with shrapnel damage - he survived and spent the rest of the war POW
 
ntpntpntp said:
I do wish we'd not adopted this curious British railway modellers' hybrid scale ratio thing: 2mm=1', 7mm=1' etc. A ridiculous confusion of metric and imperial measurement systems! 1:152, 1:43 etc. is so much more logical .

Funnily enough, SWMBO teaches english and maths to adults who need a bit of a "top up", and she came and found me the other day because a student who's into model railways just happened to mention they couldn't work out how to calculate measurements needed to make models to match their existing trains in 7mm=1' (or whatever it was) . The hybrid unit mix just seems very odd to people outside the hobby. Of course she's perfectly capable of working out the true ratio but hadn't heard of scales being expressed in this way, so wanted to be sure she'd understood her student's questions correctly. I wrote out a chart of the common ratios we use, to give her some ammunition.
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It is not totally odd. We use a similar system in ship design. Only on this side of the pond, it is fractional inches to the foot.
In the dark recess of my mind, we did something similar when I was a designer in the aviation industry in another life.

As a funny side note, some of the newer Navy designs build in mm dims with SAE piping, not DIN.

What can I say? We humans is a silly lot.
 
Technocrat said:
Yes, it is.
The 1/22.5 scale was initially chosen so they could advertise it was twice as big as "O "scale (European, not American).
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Yup. European 0 scale - NOT O scale - is 1/45th. American 0 scale is 1/48th - much easier to model in imperial dimensions, being simply 1/4" to the foot, hence the popular name of quarter-scale.

British 0 scale is another dimensional hybrid - 1/43 and a bit - 7mm to the foot..........................grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
 
Technocrat said:
It is not totally odd. We use a similar system in ship design. Only on this side of the pond, it is fractional inches to the foot.
In the dark recess of my mind, we did something similar when I was a designer in the aviation industry in another life.

As a funny side note, some of the newer Navy designs build in mm dims with SAE piping, not DIN.

What can I say? We humans is a silly lot
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I understand that when metric started coming in the old British Leyland compromised by continuing with Imperial threads and metric heads!

Edited 10:08 to correct mistype.
 
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Many years ago I met someone on a sponsored degree study placement at Warwick University who's project was the design, development and construction of a concrete canoe. His sponsor..........British Leyland. I kid ye not. Max
 
maxi-model said:
Many years ago I met someone on a sponsored degree study placement at Warwick University who's project was the design, development and construction of a concrete canoe. His sponsor..........British Leyland. I kid ye not. Max
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Now if you'd said a concrete hot-air balloon, I might have believed you......
 
One of my colleagues, bought a ferro cement hulled yacht, partially built, and completed it in his front garden..

A bit like us fitting metal wheelsets, it keeps the centre of gravity low..
 
maxi-model said:
Many years ago I met someone on a sponsored degree study placement at Warwick University who's project was the design, development and construction of a concrete canoe. His sponsor..........British Leyland. I kid ye not. Max
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Ah, remember, people laughed at the idea of iron ships.
 
PhilP said:
One of my colleagues, bought a ferro cement hulled yacht, partially built, and completed it in his front garden..

A bit like us fitting metal wheelsets, it keeps the centre of gravity low..
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Yeah, concrete hulled yachts, and river barges are not uncommon, but a canoe :mm::mm::mm: .............. something that's meant to be portable and lightweight :rolleyes::rolleyes:

A bit like the 'lightweight' Landrovers for the military that ended up heavier than the normal Series 2 :eek::eek:
 
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