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Friday, July 22, 2011

T-GUAGE IN MACRO VIEW

im STILL amazed at the details on this small itty-bitty model train i own.

i was goofballing down at the club and took these shots of soe of the buildings and scenic stuff in MACRO, which is a higher quality shot when your taking something close up. which in order to see clearly, has to be done in order to see ANYTHING in these tiny little things.

as a note, the buildings have actual floors, and the floors themselves house a variety of differnt things depending on the building itself.
the office building had desks, and file cabinets, and a staircase.
the home has a 1st floor with a couch and tv, stairs to the second floor, which it has a bedroom with a bed and dresser in it.

unfortunately you can t see that, even in the macro shot. ill have to disasemble them and take more macros of just the interiors.
my question has always been...WHY? with even the naked eye you cant discern the details to any great degree, would you even think to do that?
my husbands answer to that question is: "because they can."
i suppose.

hers the pics. ENJOY!
MICHELLE

me holding my yellow t-gauge

look how small this thing actually is!

my t-gauge next to a standard sized stick of gum.

ON the gum itself.

T-Gauge House. if you look closely in that top window you can see theres somthing 'dark' in there, thats some peice of furniture on that floor.

another shot, "dark object" still there.

same house, now you can almost make out the bed and dresser in this shot.

i lost the bottom floor somewhere, apparently. it has a couch and TV set on it.  wouldnt know that by looking at these few pics tho, very empty in there without at least a floor.

Building, shot of the stairwell

sorry about the tape. the parts done all go together and fit perfectly. the bottoms like to fall off and out, so i taped them.

front of the same building, and you can barely see the floors have objects on them.

different building


again, each floor has something placed on it for depth. great in a macro shot, but to the naked eye, almost impossible to even see that detail.

Z Scale house (chewed lovingly by one of my dogs) and my T-Gauge House. pretty big size differential.

Z Scale Caboose, and my T-Gauge Train Car.

T-Gauge in the front, Z scale caboose right behind, and an N-scale brass caboose furthest back.

sorry about the quality. my T-Gauge against the N-Scale caboose.

t-gauge people and animals. Horses, and cows, and other things i cant exactly make out due to their size. i think its all livestock, or barn animals. by the way..ALL PAINTED!


my husbands fingers to show how very small these items are. i dont think youd see them actually On a display. youd certainly never miss them, and could possibly never find them if they fell off...smaller than a grain of rice these are.


Wednesday, June 22, 2011

T-GAUGE PLAN IDEA- SPAGHETTI BOWL (Track Plan #9)

http://www.t-gauge.net/plan_9.htm
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i really like this track plan, would LOVE to have this done on a layout..even a coffee table one would be awesome.


MICHELLE

 Track Plans: 9. The Spaghetti Bowl 
 
Want to impress your friends and amaze your family? Build a glass-topped coffee table with this inside. Although it doesn't have to be a coffee table, that was the idea behind this plan, which features two independent loops that just happen to be identical (evident when you look at the parts plan below). You'll need deep pockets for this one—the trees alone will be a substantial investment!
PARTS REQUIRED
6 X R-003 60mm straight
12 X R-006 145mm 30º curve
4 X R-012 30mm straight
2 X R-022 60mm straight power feeder
26 X R-023 120mm straight
12 X R-024 157.5mm 15º curve radius
60 X R-025 157.5mm 30º curve radius
DIMENSIONS
45" X 24"
114cm X 61cm
Plan gridlines are on 6" centers
elevation in centimeters
NOTE: Unmarked straight parts are R-023, and unmarked curved parts are R-025.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

EVEN MORE EMAIL ON THE T-TRAK NAME..Another LEGAL Owner???

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i opened this can of worms up, and im just watching the debate right now.
waiting to see how it all plays out, if it ever does, it might just fizzle away into nothingness and become obsolete within a week, who knows? but this is the latest on the dbate of the use of the name T-TRAK.

I've been biting my tongue over this for quite a while.

The politics of the T-TRAK name has been blown out of proportion. I agree with you on the copyright and trademark comments.

What's in a name? You are right about the name - it is currently trademarked by a lighting company in the USA. It's also the name of a tracking company for vehicles here in Australia.
http://www.t-trak.com.au
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We are also doing this in HO, so I can't see a problem with using other scales with the same idea in mind.

John Rumming.
Western Australia.
i find it rather interesting that a company IN Australia already owns the "T-TRAK" name. well, they own the website associated to the name, anyway.
so, the question then begs to be answered, if anyone already owns the "T-TRAK" name, and subsequent web page, then why is there even a debate? i can call my T-Trak: T-Gauge-T, or T-Gauge T-Track, and it would be completely legal. right? well, within reason, of course, lol
my question about a system, has turned completely into a monster! lol
but its all good. i enjoy hearing the opinions, and wisdom of those who know more than me. helps me learn, and grow.


MICHELLE

A DIORAMA THAT PUTS THE T-GAUGE INTO PERSPECTIVE

i had seen this before, and am amazed at how much you can actually fit into the small space shown in the city diorama, but i misse seeing the size comparisons of common items next to it...


heres the pic of the whole thing together:

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and a close up of the size relations to common items:
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is it me? or does that spoon look HUUUGE next to the t-gauge sized cars, and the cigarette look like it could be the size of godzilla in T-Gauge world? it seems pretty big, but i think thats cause the camera was close to it to get an adequate shot of the entire scene.


but, WOW!


MICHELLE

THIS PIC INSPIRED ME TO DO A T-GAUGE IN A DIFFERENT WAY

i saw this image on the net...opened it up, read what was being said about it on MODELRAILFORUM.com




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and my creativity got the better of me, and i thought HOW COOL!

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yes, folks, thats a microwave that has been used to place a Z scale (thats z you see in there on the track) inside of to show off, AND be protected at the same time...i LOVE this idea!
and actually considered using it for myself, we have an old microwave in my garage right now. craigs, but he wont part with it, because he says it still works..*sigh* thing HAS to be like 25 years old...sheesh! lol


so, i went a different route. with something we all use (well most of us, anyway) and have been figuring out things about it to enhance the idea.


i have pics to post of the steps as we have taken them to this point thus far. and im not giving away what it is were doing just yet, youll have to wait for the pics, to get the idea.
but i thought this was pretty cool, and it is the inspiration for my own unique T-Gauge diorama.


MICHELLE

PICS OF SCRATCHBUILDING IN T-GAUGE

as i surf the net i find allot of interesting things in the areas of my interest, and looking for a T-Gauge track, led me to this image.


ive thought about taking this up as a hobby, selling my stuff on ebay...N-Scale can command a couple of hundred dollars for a diorama...why couldnt *I* be the next greatest T-Guage Scratch builder and make some serious cash?? i like crafty stuff, this is just in miniature...well, micro miniature..lol

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imagine how much you can make out of a single sheet of..anything in the industry to make buildings with????


heres the blog by the creator of these small pieces:

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Lately I have been working on some "Super-mini-micro" models in a new scale they call "T Scale" or 1:450.
They even have working trains and track (see information and videos on http://www.t-gauge.net/boards.htm) .
A house in this scale is so small that could fit in my thumb nail. In a future post I will show more photos and information about these houses, but today I rather talk about the Scale Ruler.


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I made this Scale Ruler 1:450 in order to design and built my own structures in T gauge. I put it together with a 1:300 scale (used in some Checz models www.minibox.cz). You can print and laminate it for durability.
There is no way to upload this file to this blog (Blogger does not aloud it) , so if you want it I will gladly e-mail it to you. Just send me an e-mail to miniaturetrains @blogspot.com and I will send you the PDF file as soon as I check my mailbox.
Important: The scale is in feet.
When printing this PDF file check:
Paper=8 1/2 x 11
Page Scaling = none
After printing, verify the 1:450 scale lenght is 6.68" (169 mm) that's mean 37.5 feet per inch
Good luck
J. Palacio

so neat! and he was kind enough to provide a scale ruler and a link to his page to print the PDF of the ruler out so you can use it. sweet!
MICHELLE

EMAIL ABOUT T-GAUGE TRACK

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this email was about track. and if in such a tiny size it would hold up to the abuse of being "snapped" together and then pulled apart over time. a legitimate concern. and appreciated for its thought.


Hi Michelle,

The thing that makes T-Trak really work well (at least in N & HO) is the robust track and joiners produced by Kato. Other scales may have some T-Trak possibilities, but without an available, similar track system with robust and replaceable joiners, their performance will fall short of T-Trak-N and T-Trak-HO layouts using Kato's Unitrack products. The closest thing to Kato quality in other scales is probably Micro-Train's line of Z gauge track, but their joiners are two piece affairs, and frankly are so small and fragile that using them to hold the modules together as well as the track is marginal. Bachmann's EZ-Track in HO has built-in plastic clips for holding the track sections together, so it sort of works in HO, but these fingers are easily broken, rendering that section of track useless as a joiner piece (although it could be used in the interior of a module as long as it was well attached to the deck).

I'm not sure how well the available T-gauge track sections & their joiners will work in a T-Trak application, but at least being a smaller scale, the modules could be made as small and light as possible to avoid over-stressing the track joiners.

Good luck, and keep us posted on your progress.

Regards,
Bill
 my track looks like this image (i think). hard plastic with snap/plug-in joiners (for a better and train-term language). i might be wrong. i cant remember. im pretty sure i have the plastic set for tracks. they are so small compared to z, scale, i dont remember any difference..lol


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im pretty sure, they would hold up to the constant "snapping" together and pulling apart abuse.
and for the most part, would only even really be used when id take this system to some show, or event anyway. for the rest of the time, id prolly have this T-Guage system sitting in one of my display cases at the club.
i dont even leave my z scale engine, or my T-Gauge engines there. they all come home with me. i DO have a dummy T-Gauge passenger car sitting in the display with a Z scale caboose, and an N Scale caboose, just for size reference.

MICHELLE

Sunday, January 9, 2011

SOMEONES COME UP WITH *MY* IDEA!

but...its in Austrailia, so i can STILL be the originator of the idea here! would be so cool to have SOMETHING that out there as a result of MOI! lol


heres some specs (in metric system) and a pic of what a small modal would look like done in the specs.

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now, to get hubby to transfer all those into inches and such, and somehow copyright the transition in american, i can revolutionize the t-gauge community with the ability to take t-gauge out and have a small modul to play with it on!


YESSS!
ill soon be in control of the world! (just kidding..lol)


MICHELLE