Scale Size Comparison

warhawker · Post by **warhawker** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:05 am

This may have been asked before but what is the match up scale size between standard railroad scales (N, I, G, O, HO, H, etc) and 1/72, 1/32, 1/18 and 1/6?

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:37 am

A fairly good explanantion can be found here... http://www.hobbiesplus.com.au/scaleandgauge.htm
Hope that helps. Cheers,

Scott

Morian Miner · Post by **Morian Miner** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:06 pm

The only thing I'd add to that website is the discussion of G-scale. Trains running on G-scale track run a whole range of scales. Yes, the LGB is 1:22.5 - along with most of the buildings like Pola and Piko, but alot of the Bachmann and Accucraft models are 1:20.3. USA and Aristocraft run 1:29, and MTK and "pure" standard gage models are 1:32 scale. If you're interested in the 1/18 stuff, I can never remember the scales "true" name (something like 16mm - sad because I do some modeling in this scale), but it's mostly British models running on O-scale track, that is 1:19 scale.
And, if you get into F-scale (new fish in the pond), its 1:20.3 scale with correct track for standard gauge equipment.

And 1/6 scale stuff is generally ride-on equipment - very expensive.

warhawker · Post by **warhawker** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:21 pm

I am mostly interested in 1/18 and 1/32 conversion into train scales.