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Title: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: DWS on September 24, 2014, 04:00:54 PM
If you thought N Gauge was small, watch this...    :hmmm:    :worried:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoa55uBGWI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoa55uBGWI)
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Ditape on September 24, 2014, 06:02:30 PM
WOW
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Komata on September 24, 2014, 07:39:24 PM
it's very nice, but I wonder if it is in fact somewhat misrepresented?

Is it in fact a 'working' layout (which is what it is promoted as  as far as I can see), or just a very carefully-assembled 'bunch of bits' on the (very, very  small) equivalent of a CD on a turntable?

However one interprets it, the builder must have a high quality microscope, a good eye. and a  'non-slipping'  pair of tweezers... :) :) :)

Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Bealman on September 25, 2014, 05:35:48 AM
Well I know I am totally wiped out. That is awesome. And just as awesome is the concept... a working model railway in a Z scale shop window!!!

The things people get up to!!

Mind-boggling ingenuity.
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Sprintex on September 25, 2014, 06:06:25 AM
Quote from: Komata on September 24, 2014, 07:39:24 PM
Is it in fact a 'working' layout (which is what it is promoted as  as far as I can see), or just a very carefully-assembled 'bunch of bits' on the (very, very  small) equivalent of a CD on a turntable?

The latter I'd say ;) Even describing it as a "model railway" is pushing it a bit since there's no track or separate coaches/wagons just the end of a tube with notches in it - more a crude model RESEMBLING a railway :unimpressed:

Let's see him shunt on DCC :evil:


Paul

Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Bealman on September 25, 2014, 06:47:13 AM
Don't be such spoilsports.  :P The late great P.D.Hancock had a little clockwork train on a stick running around in a garden on his legendary Craig & Mertonford way back in the 1950s!

I think it is very fitting that, in these days of smartphones and miniaturisation of electronics, some ingenious person has built a nano railway!!

Imagine folks reactions when they peer into the little shop window and see a little train running around!

Wonderful stuff!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Agrippa on September 25, 2014, 09:20:19 AM
Yeah, too many grouches. Someone will be complaining about the livery or oversized couplings next.... :D
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: OwL on September 27, 2014, 12:15:37 AM
Very impressed myself HOWEVER!:

All the children of Lilliput are really upset that their local barber shop layout has been ripped out by those giants! LoL  :smiley-laughing:

I'll get my coat :dunce: :confused1:
Title: Re: Worlds Smallest Model Railway
Post by: Ozymandias on September 29, 2014, 02:46:50 PM
I wouldn't fancy trying to replace the motor brushes on a loco that size... ;)

Alright, so it's not a "proper" model railway - but what a lovely idea and beautifully made!