Finescale standards or Fine Standards
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model railway
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are Model building, modelled at a reduced Scale (ratio), scale.
The scale models include locomotives ...
standards that aim to be close to the prototype dimensions. Reduction in toylike, overscale flanges,
pointwork, etc. In Britain it is particularly used because small British prototypes meant that track gauge is underscale. Modelling to finescale standards requires skill, so modellers usually start with the coarse standards applied to ready-to-run models suitable as toys. Standards are set by modellers' societies.
Finescale model railway standards
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ScaleSeven
ScaleSeven (S7) is a set of finescale model railway standards for 1:43.5 (7 mm scale) using true-to-prototype track and wheel standards. It is principally used to model British standard gauge (), Irish Broad Gauge (), or Great Western broad gauge ...
(7 mm scale, O gauge)
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EM gauge
EM gauge (named after the track gauge of a nominal Eighteen Millimetres) is a variant of 4 mm to a foot (1:76) scale used in model railways.
EM was developed because OO gauge, favoured by manufacturers of British prototype models, utilised track ...
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4 mm scale
4 mm scale is the most popular model railway scale used in the United Kingdom. The term refers to the use of 4 millimeters on the model equating to a distance of 1 foot (305 mm) on the prototype (1:76.2). It is also used for military m ...
, 18.2 mm gauge)
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P4 (4 mm scale, 18.83 mm gauge)
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Proto:48 (1/4 inch scale)
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Proto:87 (
H0 scale
HO or H0 is a rail transport modelling scale using a 1:87 scale (3.5 mm to 1 foot). It is the most popular scale of model railway in the world. The rails are spaced apart for modelling standard gauge tracks and trains in HO.
The ...
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3 mm finescale
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2 mm finescale
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O14 (7 mm scale, 14 mm gauge - to represent 2 ft narrow gauge)
References
Model railroad scales
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