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Post by firewood on Nov 22, 2023 3:46:02 GMT
Oh no, I’ve started sumthin’! 😆😆😜 While we’re on the subject of small-scale figures, in downtown Toronto is an attraction called Little Canada. It’s an amazing place, and you can add yourself to the crowds by being scanned and 3D-printed. Your miniature self will be there permanently. Somewhere in the downtown scene is a friend of mine and his wife! little-canada.calittle-canada.ca/who-we-are/little-canada.ca/littlization/Dave There are self-print options out there - one software product is Meshroom which blends your series of selfies into a file that can be printed. Then you export yourself to a slicer… 😳😳😳 This techie advancement stuff sounds scary… 😉 Dave
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 22, 2023 5:54:30 GMT
My brain hurst doing the math. Now imagine if on that little layout that the O-scale figures are admiring also includes figures admiring yet another smaller layout. Existential crisis stuff right there.
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Post by firewood on Nov 23, 2023 0:26:53 GMT
My brain hurst doing the math. Now imagine if on that little layout that the O-scale figures are admiring also includes figures admiring yet another smaller layout. Existential crisis stuff right there. So I guess that would be 1: 5308416 scale... methinks that's electron microscope models - a bit smaller than that guy in the movie.  Dave 
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Nov 23, 2023 1:15:49 GMT
My brain hurst doing the math. Now imagine if on that little layout that the O-scale figures are admiring also includes figures admiring yet another smaller layout. Existential crisis stuff right there. So I guess that would be 1: 5308416 scale... methinks that's electron microscope models - a bit smaller than that guy in the movie. [nerd mode on] Mmm, I came up with *only* 1:110,592 scale, which should still be visible with an optical microscope! 
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Post by firewood on Nov 23, 2023 4:30:28 GMT
So I guess that would be 1: 5308416 scale... methinks that's electron microscope models - a bit smaller than that guy in the movie. [nerd mode on] Mmm, I came up with *only* 1:110,592 scale, which should still be visible with an optical microscope! Haha, I goofed and was thinking 1:2304 twice over lol.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 23, 2023 6:07:18 GMT
You guys are obsessed with small scale and mathematics! I looked around and the smallest scale of self-powered trains seems to be T gauge or 1/450-1/480 with a track width of 3 mm or about 1/8 inch. This is a “Made in Japan” special which I have never actually seen but looks to be at the outside limit of discernible detail (without a microscope):
I can just about see putting this on an O gauge layout as a representation of a model of a model - although I bet it would look like G scale rather than O. One of our forum members (Bill) who does village modeling posted about an example of one of those layouts in a briefcase which I think was Z scale or around 1/220 (I think).
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Post by firewood on Nov 24, 2023 16:46:20 GMT
I think you actually have to disinfect T-gauge track to remove any derailment-causing bacteria... Dave |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 24, 2023 17:20:30 GMT
I think you actually have to disinfect T-gauge track to remove any derailment-causing bacteria... Dave
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