Hi Friends:
I'm about to order decals from Island Modelworks and I'm confused about decal scales. Which looks larger to the eye: 28" scale or 30" scale?
Thank you!
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I'm confused because I'm not sure if it's like wire, wherein the lower number = larger wire size.
Scale is usually expressed as a proportion such as 1:28 or 1:30 or alternatively 1/4" =1'-0" or 3/16" = 1'-0", etc.
If it a proportional scale then yes the larger the number the smaller the size of the decal. O scale is expressed as 1:48, S is 1:64, HO is 1:87, N is 1:160, and Z is 1:220. G gauge has the largest tolerance from 1:22.5 to about 1:32.
Not sure if that helps you or not, but I hope so!
This is another example of what Gunrunnerjohn referenced in another post, not having enough information. I'd never heard of this company so I did a couple google searches. First one took me to their site, but no mention of decals. Second search I typed in decals after the name and here's what I got... Is this the company you are referencing to:
http://islandmodelworks.com/Decals.html
If so, the answer is easy. These are not 28" and 30" scale. These are HO SCALE decals - half the size of O scale decals. The inch number refers to their scale height in HO scale. So item 8626 (24-inch high Long Island M hearld) is a quarter of an inch high in O scale.
Being an "027 scale" guy, I often can make use of HO scale decals, utilizing larger ones like from locomotives. That said, a lot of these, especially the lettering, would be on the small side, even for the 2400-series 11-inch Lionel streamliner passenger cars. Their HO 13-inch high Long Island lettering would be one-eighth of an inch high for O.
