anybody out there have any idea what scale is close to 1/35th in the model railroading world?
gary
Good ol’ Wikipedia seems to have the answer here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_railway_scales
Cheers
now I’m even more confused! I have found 1/35th scale track (metal not plastic), and have a three foot long piece ($13), but would like a modern locomotive (dummy of course) to go with it.
gary
hmmm…I do know of 1/35th track being made for those monster German railroad gun kits (but I thought those were plastic)…perhaps it was intended for something like that, or simply to be left empty in a dio? Sorry I can’t help more…
Both Trumpeter and Verlinden do railway track in 1/35, but with plastic, not metal, tracks. You mihgt prefer to subsitute ‘O’ gauge metal rails for the plastic ones. They’d be slightly underscale, but probably not noticeably so. I recently built the Hobbyboss 1/72 Leopold railway gun, which has a length of track for a base, and substituted metal ‘OO’ gauge rails for the plastic items provided in the kit. They look a lot more realistic, and provide added strength to the base.
I’m pretty certain that there are no modern locomotives in 1/35. Depending on the precise time and place you were representing, you might get away with Trumpeter’s 1/35 Kriegslok. Kriegsloks were used in Germany, both East and West, and also in Eastern Europe west of the Soviet Union (which has a different, wider, track gauge) well into the 1960s.
Cheers,
Chris.
One hobby shop near had the plastic stuff from Trumpter for $26, and I almost walked out the door with it. But the owner of the shop flatly told me that this wasn’t what I wanted for two reasons. one it was in the European narrow gauge (I never knew that). Two was that it was in sections that just didn’t look all that good, plus they were plastic. He sent me up the street to a local model railroad shop (even called the guy to tell him I was on the way!). When I got there he told me he couldn’t find such an animal, but to give him a day or so. The next day he calls me up to tell me he’s found it in solid 36" lengths for $13!! from Walthers. Had it in my hands in less than a week. So now that little peanut inside my head gets to thinking “why not a piece of railroad junk laying besides the track?”
So where does all this garble led up to? Well it’s a diorama I’ve been thinking about for a month or two. Picture a sandbaged bunker (pillbox or whatever you want to call it) setting right square ontop the railroad track. The track looks like Superman got kind irritated with it and just twisted it all up on one end with a locomotive all rusted and decaying on one side and a blown bridge on the otherside. There’ll be about twelve to fifteen little bittey green Claymores setup just like doorbells in all directions. About four troopers doing this and that (sorry no shots being fired), and taking in an ammo resupply after last night visitors finally went back home again for the fifth night in a row (they ain’t got no sense of humor about the boys squatting on their realestate). This really existed, and at onetime there was a locomotive laying on its side, but was torched for salvage later. These boys flew the “Stars & Bars” daily after the local government refused to allow them to fly the Stars and Stripes.
so here’s the list of needed stuff:
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about a zillion sandbags
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three M60’s and one 50 cal (these young men were serious)
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two starlight scopes
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couple Merrimite cans
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two 5 gallon water cans
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30 cal ammo cans and a couple crates
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50 cal ammo cans
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bunch of .223 ammo cans and mags (strait 20 round ones)
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C-Rats and a lot of trash
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two cots and a ghetto blaster plus two or three magazines laying around
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3/4 ton pickup with mail and ammo plus a merrimite can
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a couple cases of soda pop (no booze on a guard bunker here)
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engineers stakes and a good supply of chicken wire and all the other goodies to make life more interesting
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ah yes; we need radios too!
I have the sandbag situation figured out, and I’m using an air drying clay sold by Crayola (Hobby Lobby of course). The railroad track is in house. Truck will be here soon enough. Figures are still up in the air, but there’s plenty to choose from.
gary
Look at LGB scales… LGB is used in a lot of “Garden Railroads” and scales out around 1/32nd or so… Close enough for government work…
Better be just the clackers laying around… If the mines are emplaced, they gotta a LOT farther away than what’s practical on a diorama…
US Weapons set from Tamiya and Dragon has the M60s
Probably have to scratchbuild
Ditto scratch
You can find those all over. They’re more or less just jerry cans with a diffent cap, more or less
Again, US Weapons set
5.56mm NATO Ammo Cans are same size and type as .50 cal, just different lettering. Mags, scratch-build, although I have no idea why you’d bother…
There’s MCI and MRE boxes out there, made form paper, you cut & fold… Can’t remember the manufacturer, but a google search will go a long way in helping you find them.
Folded cots in US Modern Equipment set form Tamiya. Open ones, easy to scratch, or find a couple stretchers from the Tamiya Ambulance Crew. Ghetto blaster’s are easy to scratch… Magazines? Cut from any ad in real ones, or print out the thumbnails in a google image search
Dunno about the 3/4 ton pick-up, US Army CUCVs are 1 1/4 tons (five-quarter ton in the vernacular), but you said you got a ahndle on the truck, so… Scratch a good mermite and ammo crate and cast copies…
Sliced sprue or get some Plastruct or Evergreen rod and cut to can-size and place in sheet-plastic flats…
You mean the U-shape picketts? Heat-form some strip plastic from garage sale signs around a wood dowel and cut to length. Notch with knife. Veil material for chicken wire. The rest is your OWN imagination… I’ve suggested enough…[:D]
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PRC-77s in various Modern US kits by Tamiya, like the US Armored Troops kit. Really good VRC-46 and AUX in the M151A2 kit, as well as the M151 TOW Carrier kit.
PRC-77s or VRC 46s? The 77 is in the Tamiya US Armored Troops set, and the 46 in the M151 kits…
No. 1 Gauge (1:32 scale) is the closest that I know of. Aster is one of the better known manufacturers of 1:32 railway products. You can’t use LGB track. Even though the gauge is correct, the scale is completely different at 1:22.5. LGB track is meant to represent European meter gauge railways (1,000 mm or 3’ 3/8").
Even 1.32 will be about 8% off from 1:35, though if you’re only using the track, which is available in European design, it might be close enough. I should add that Marklin also makes 1:32 gauge trains and track.
- ah yes; we need radios too!
Claymores with a good backstop will work at forty to fifty feet as long as you keep your head down. I’ve had them thirty feet in front of me on a hill side. The trick is to know where the backblast angles are gonna be. Never strait at you, but criss-crossing angles.
Merrimite cans come with the Legend stowage sets
.223 ammo cans were much smaller in the sixties than even a basic 7.62 ammo can (the smaller one)
the engineers stakes can be made out of scale channel iron glued to a flat piece of plastic and then trim to fit
there is a kit of the Dodge 3/4 ton pickup truck
I can recommend making sandbags from the air drying modeling clay that Crayola sells. Dosn’t need an oven, and stays pliable for quite awhile. Plus it’s cheap. I’ll probably use PRC-25 radios as they were a common sight in those days.
gary