1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

hminky Oct 3, 2018

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    hminky TrainBoard Member

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    What about track?

    We are using HO Kato Unitrack to represent our early era narrow gauge track. The funky alternate universe HO spacing looks great for our track.

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    In our HOn30 adventure we found that the track can be painted at the bench and blended in with "fur grass" or Sculptamold/latex paint mixture.

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    Old time trains always look better in black and white.

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    Harold
     
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    While searching for a suitable proto railroad was perusing books from my late brother's collection. Found "Milwaukee Road Narrow Gauge" and found these pieces of narrow gauge and near 1/72 scale drawings. The box matches the size of our Mantua with the same truck configuration and they had an 1880 caboose that is the same size as the Roundhouse caboose.

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    An early Granger road fits the available locomotives and rolling stock. Lots of them out there in the heyday of narrow gauge.

    Harold
     
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    Haven't done this in a while.

    Found these vintage 1/72 cars and trucks.

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    Go to:

    http://tin-soldier.com/cars.html

    Made me think about late era narrow gauge. If you extend the cab below the footboard with a 1/8x1/4 piece of styrene and add a new cab side like our mock up, easy late era narrow gauge.

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    Doug Tagsold used the MDC cars with the HO trucks with 33" HO wheels. Substituting 24"(HO 28") wheels and shorter wheelbase Tahoe trucks makes the cars more "narrow gaugey"

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    Harold
     
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    Dart Castings supplies a line of OO scale wagons and figures which are well done. OO scale stuff scales out well in 1/72.

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    Dart says delivery takes 21 days, yup.

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    Finally got the "narrow gauge" look on the MDC/Roundhouse cars and loco.

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    Easy narrow gauge
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