Yeah. I began messing around with things without really measuring anything on the loco cab. The whole point was just to build stuff even if it was not living up to my OCD standards.
That loco cab is just too tall for the scale, but whatever, I have a loco for now.
I think the cab would actually be about right for On30, as it comes out about 11' tall from the rail top. Yet, I am doing Crap Building. This means I am not using anything for detail parts or expensive trucks for any kind of fidelity. I am only using garbage old tyco trucks, wheels and couplers which I can find really cheap. the lumber is not scale lumber, but rather just cheap strip wood of the .30 per piece kind. I had my scribed wood sitting around in a box for years.
Back to scale issues. I really struggled with what scale to go with. What finally pushed me back to 1/55 is that a Tyco wheel comes out to about 20" in 1/55. When I tried using my models in 1/35th the wheels were more like 14". Also, my loco looked wrong next to 1/35th figures.
Ok, to embed it in this site... err... I can't seem to figure it out.
I am addicted to finding cool things to model now. Just resized this plan as my next model once the caboose is finished.
