just to avoid possible misunderstandings
I wish you good luck with the project, it is certainly a magnificent thing
I may have taken a different approach, but I don't know, since You weren't very detailed
I started my railway wargaming project over a year ago with a friend
from the very start it was clear that it would be quite expensive
after careful consideration on what to do with it (size of loaded vehicles and artillery peices for example) and the availabality of material we decided on the gauge (0)
then it was clear that the models were meant to be used in every possible manner:
scenery, moving civil trains, moving military trains, scenario objective, train accident site , whatever
AND
in every possible period, so a broad period decision was fundamental
(I am not very peculiar about extreme accuracy, however a Kriegslokomotive in WWI or 1930 America is.... well not because of the appearance, but because of the technological implications)
regarding Your BR-52 Project - the yield would be a superdetailed, magnificent model, a locomotive, to go with 22 mm gauge
fine - use it how?
freight cars, passenger cars, gun cars??? - also to be cast in 28mm?
and then, a rather heavy resin model, supported by (somehow brittle in any quality) 12 Resin wheels, which have contact on 12 tiny spots with the rail, and are spoked wheels
and then, if it is to move in gaming terms, has to be picked up every time and reset on the track?
or will it have turning axles for the resin wheels? a heavy resin loco rolling on very delicate resin wheels?
and then - probably the waggons too - also pick up every single one and reset it on the track? with loaded models and vehicles?
My point is that I spent a lot of brain substance and time with the conception of my project in order to maximize the yield of something very expensive and time consuming (it has to painted too, damn
)
and that the result will be trains which roll on their tracks (which I was able to buy cheaply on ebay, complete with switches - no point in trying to get affordable S-gauge tracks in germany and Company B offers only track without switches - How am I going to make a train station without switches?)
which have converted (as good as I can) Locos and Waggons
and I will be able to use them from 1890 to 1945, anywhere in Europe and on some other continents as well - without having to think a second about authenticity
this is my approach, I find it very tempting to join the project, but with this status quo I will have to regauge on 0 (which is not a problem at all, I've done this before) at least, and I am still considering it, because the model will be amazing
this is the reason I asked, and not to disqualify your project
if You have considered all the points I mentioned above, You did not communicate them -
which information I need in order to make a decision if I am to join or not
Your absolutely ingenious and tempting project (please don't take this for irony, I mean it)
cause what I certainly do not need is a locomotive I simply display behind glass or on the tabletop -
I can't afford that