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Title: what scales tom tank!
Post by: matt-b on July 10, 2011, 10:08:51 AM

bit of a silly question i know,

but does anyone know what scale they used to make the tv show tom tank?
wonder where that layout is now, cause it must be pretty impressive too see

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Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: AndyGif on July 10, 2011, 10:37:01 AM

From what i can remember reading most of it is done with O gauge, and for close up work 1/24th seems to stick in my memory.
edit: i must have a shocking memory, heres a link to the info you seek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine_and_Friends#Models (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine_and_Friends#Models)
Though now most of it is down via cgi so no scale at all.
Much prefer the real models over the cgi's ones, tho the 2 1/2 yr old thomas nut in the house dosent care either way!!!!!

Stinky steamies....... Bring on Devious and his hydrocarbon burning bretherin, thomas and the gas axe.......

Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: poliss on July 10, 2011, 12:54:54 PM

Article in the Model Railway Constructor about the making of Thomas the Tank Engine can be found here. http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/ModelRailwayConstructorDec1984.pdf
From the The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine. http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/index.html

Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: OwL on July 10, 2011, 06:24:51 PM

Enjoy this video:

Thomas the Tank mad bomber:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F6ckqYfg9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMAnEsA3QtY

Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: poliss on July 10, 2011, 06:27:40 PM

Have you seen the 'making of the mad bomber'? Very interesting.

Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: EtchedPixels on July 10, 2011, 08:33:08 PM

Quote from: poliss on July 10, 2011, 12:54:54 PM
Article in the Model Railway Constructor about the making of Thomas the Tank Engine can be found here. http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/ModelRailwayConstructorDec1984.pdf
From the The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine. http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/index.html

And the 'original' (as in the Reverend's originals - he had a spare Thomas) are on display some of the time at the Narrow Gauge Museum Tywyn, as is his study although they normally keep it closed or the stale pipe smoke smell honks out the entire museum.

Title: Re: what scales tom tank!
Post by: longbridge on July 10, 2011, 10:06:56 PM

My Parents had the honor of being Married by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry at Kings Norton Church in Birmingham, I bet they didn't know back then that their first born would become a Thomas freak :thumbsup:
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