Re: Peco / UK outline TT gauge Models

[bluedepot]

i just had a look and tt seems like a reasonable choice for german or czech layouts but not much rtr from other countries...

admittedly i just looked at in stock diesel locos...

it is a nice scale imo but going to take a decade or more for a wide variety of rtr british outline to be made... but anyway good luck to heljan and peco...

[maridunian]

FWIW, already having some 2mm and 3mm designs to hand, I've rescaled a handful of popular models to see what happens....

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/maridunian-models?section=TT:120+Scale

Mike

[Train Waiting]

Hello Chums

I've had a notification from the lovely people at Harburn Hobbies to advise that the first Peco 'TT:120' models are now in stock.  That didn't take long!

With best wishes.

John

[maridunian]

Hello Chums

I've had a notification from the lovely people at Harburn Hobbies to advise that the first Peco 'TT:120' models are now in stock.  That didn't take long!

With best wishes.

John

Yes, indeed:
https://www.harburnhobbies.co.uk/acatalog/TT-120-p1.html

Slightly off-topic (ie not PECO), I've put together a lot list of UK outline/plausible visitor rolling stock designs available from Shapeways in TT:120 scale - it's up to 52 items to date.

https://www.shapeways.com/designer/maridunian/lists/uk-tt120?sort=name

I'm finding the experience of being in at the beginning once again (cf N Gauge in the 70s/80s) when you couldnt buy almost anything RTR and had to mostly make or adapt, quite exciting!

Mike

[Bealman]

Yes, when looked at from that angle, it is! 

[maridunian]

I thought I'd share a photo of a completed TT:120 3d printed wagon I designed.



With no other points of reference, it's hard to tell its scale!

Here are some modified Peco 14t tank kits I built years ago:



It's surprising how much bigger the model feels than N Gauge when it's just 1/4 bigger in each direction. This does mean that working with small wagons is much easier.

Can't offer a side-by-side currently I'm afraid - N Gauge stuff still packed up after a house move in April!

Mike

[Railwaygun]

I've taken the liberty of expanding the scope of this thread

@Bealman

[njee20]

That's exquisite, Mike! Well done.

[maridunian]

That's exquisite, Mike! Well done.

Thanks very much Nick. I'm very pleased with this one. The easier-to-handle size made cleaning up the print more straightforward. I managed to dislodge one or two rivets in the process but hey, who's counting?

Mike

[Bealman]

Not me! Magic.