Sorry have not replied to this earlier but other things got in the way. The reason for my original question is I was asked to produce something that needs to take up as little space as possible (Scale is not an issue here because using T to represent a 1m NG Z line (fictitonal)) The rolling stock wi...

As I shall be away from a computer for the next week may I take this opportunity to wish every one festive greetings for the coming week regardless of race,religion,etc.

Stupid but simple question
21m motorised chassis what is the minimum radius I can use?
There will be no other rolling stock on the line chassis is in a railbus.

16 or 17% for OO
32.8 British N 1/148
35.5 US or European N 1/160
48.8 Z gauge 1/220


Simple formula Scale is in divide by scale wanted eg 220(Z) ? 450 (T) = .48.8 when printing put 48.8 in print scale change

I am still around but modelling seems to have stopped for now. :? Call me sad and not really giving the hobby/scale a good name but I am going to use a 70mm radius fine track set, my class 67 and 2 hopper wagons and do a simple xmas table decoration. :roll: Shame Alan has no RTR hopper wagons anymore.

Question of reality - How will the hand of god sort out things if you have a problem on those 2 loverly complex spans?

Typical, I go into hospital for a week and come back to pictures like below.

looking good so far

That scenery work looks like a medical emergency about to happen in my case but keep up the good work

martink wrote: I have one old thread that went into a bit of detail that might be more to the point:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=130&start=10

Thanks for the link, That covered exactly what I wanted to know even more embarassing it was me discussing it with you back then.