Modelling a Miniature

[TheHenryHoover]

Hi everyone!

So I'm looking to model in N gauge for the first time! And just to make life easier for me (note the sarcasm), I'm looking to model a 10 1/4" railway.

I'm going to model at first the Audley End Miniature Railway shed. Has anyone modelled miniature gauge railways in N Gauge before?

As far as scaling for accuracy, creating the rolling stock shouldn't be too hard, but scaling the people and accessories, would 1/32 scale sound about right? I'm only basing this off some very rough maths I did on the back of a postcard last night, but would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Additionally, are there many stockists that sell American Narrow Gauge? The main steam locomotives at Audley End are of the S.R & R.L "24" and of Denver and Rio Grande K-36 "489". I'm more than happy to do plenty of kit bashing, but if anyone has any recommendations that would be amazing.

Thanks!

[ntpntpntp]

It's certainly been done before, somewhere I've seen a layout in a book modelling a miniature railway in a garden, with a greenhouse and flower beds etc.  I'll see if I can track that down.

Some years ago my sister wanted to do something representing a "sit and ride" type of miniature railway for some sort of art class thing she was doing at the time.   I think it was inspired by memories of the Saltwood Miniature Railway (we used to live locally and indeed I did help out there a few times). We created an oval of track, took the roofs off a couple of old Grafar coaches and sat some G scale figures in them.   Sadly I don't have any photos.

[PLD]

Just for clarity, the proposal is to model a miniature railway in a larger scale using 9-mm gauge track and N-gauge locos/mechanisms; not to model a minuture railway in N-scale (1:148 scale)...

9-mm is commonly used to represent 15" gauge in 1:43 (UK O guage) or 18" gauge in 1:48 (US O gauge).
For example Clee Valley by fellow Hull MRS members or Colin Peake's Shifting Sands. Stock for that included a model of CCLR's 15" Sandy River 24.
There are quite a few small suppliers working in that scale.

For 10 1/4" gauge, dead scale ratio would be 28.9:1, so 1/32 Dolls house figures would be the nearest  of the shelf items.

[icairns]

It's certainly been done before, somewhere I've seen a layout in a book modelling a miniature railway in a garden, with a greenhouse and flower beds etc.  I'll see if I can track that down.

The layout was called The Garden of Eden and was featured in the September 1970 edition of Model Railway Constructor.

This thread contains some further information:   

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=53625.msg705538#msg705538

Ian