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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Introductions => Topic started by: Andy in Germany on March 18, 2018, 03:22:23 PM
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Hello from Esslingen, south Germany...
I've been skulking about various wargaming forums, having tripped over them while looking for figures for my model railway, which is in the rather offbeat scale of 1:55. In model railway terms this is a tiny minority scale and requires you to make almost everything yourself.In particular figures and animals are hard to get hold of, hence my search in wargaming scales.
One of my 3 boys saw what I was looking at, and decided this looked far more interesting than Dad's boring trains. I'm very keen for all my boys to do something more creative than play on their smart phones, so I had a look around until I found the Pulp Alley rules. I watched a couple of the videos on YouTube and liked the way things progress fast without endless looking at rulebooks. This is important as I’m trying to wean the boys of computers, so things need to keep moving. Meanwhile I've been encouraging them by looking at pictures of figures, games and strange gadgets.
So here I am trying to stay one step ahead of him and figure out if/how I can keep them interested. At the moment we’ve got a copy of the basic Pulp rules and the Younger Son joined in painting some figures, and turns out to be pretty good at it. Meanwhile Middle Son is intermittently joining in creating a 'tank' which he insists should be steam powered and have a Gatling gun.
Meanwhile, I'm working on understanding the rules and making model buildings. The scenic part isn'r a problem for this old railway modeller, but the rules are taking some work...
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Welcome :)
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Herzlich Willkommen!
It’s a very nice place here.
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Hello.
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Welcome from northern Germany!
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Hi !
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my model railway, which is in the rather offbeat scale of 1:55
Hi Andy, ein herzliches Willkommen aus Franken!
Your Railway sounds rather interesting to me. I am doing wargaming/model railroading for years and like to see pictures of yours.
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Greetings from Karlsruhe :-)
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Hi Andy,
Great introduction, You've definitely pick the right mad house to join. The Pulp board going to be a useful resource for you, As author of Pulp Alley,is a member of the forum.
Unfortunately for you (but fortunate for the rest of us) You've declared yourself a 1:55 railway modeller. It may be an obscure scale in Railway terms.For gamers its pretty much the top of the scenery wish list(along with decent water effects ).
Which means you've declared yourself a resource . Which will be enshrined in stoke .Once you post pictures of your 1:55 layout. :D
Michi is good source too.( knows his onions when it comes to a good looking railway. ;) )so your bound to find inspiration for both layouts and games here.
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Greetings from (near) Zurich.
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Welcome. :)
Your knowledge of 1:55 railways may be very interesting indeed! I don't know of any suitable tracks in this scale, except those of the cheap Fenfa trains which are quite good gauge except the rails are a bit too big. Could I ask where you have your rails from?
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Thanks for the kind responses.
I rather foolishly made my first post in the last week before my final written exams which will be happening (at last) tomorrow and Friday, so I'll answer properly when I've got a lull in the revision schedule...
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Welcome aboard Andy!
HAVE FUN
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Thanks Dave...
I knew there way a post I'd forgotten to reply to.Welcome. :)
Your knowledge of 1:55 railways may be very interesting indeed! I don't know of any suitable tracks in this scale, except those of the cheap Fenfa trains which are quite good gauge except the rails are a bit too big. Could I ask where you have your rails from?
I don't know how much help I'll be: 1:55 scale is usually used for making models of Narow Gauge prototypes, either using 12mm gauge track to represent 2' gauge or 16.5mm (HO) track for 3' gauge. I use it to roughly represent metre gauge which is a common narrow gauge in Europe.
Unfortunately for you that means I just use normal HO gauge track with ballast up to the tops of the sleepers to hide my trickery. Metre gauge trains in Europe are often the same size as standard gauge trains (2'6" trains are as well, now I think about it) so I doubt it would matter.
A simpler option in the US would probably be to use 0n30 (1:48 scale on HO track) for all trains. That way they have the bulk for 28mm figures without the extra space needs of standard gauge trains...
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Thanks Andy. :)
Yes I think HO is quite suitable for metre gauge tracks, which are/were used on secondary lines in Europe and colonies (BTW I'm in Brittany where quite a number of metre gauge railway lines existed till the second half of the 20th century).