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G Scale SF Cable Car
Richard has a question for anyone with knowledge of G scale and asks:
“I am currently building a G-scale SF cable car from Occre. Would anyone happen to know where I could buy a pair of circular beacon lights for the opposite front panels of this model. Diameter would be .25 inch. Voltage should be 6-12v. DC. I also would like to install 4 overhead lamps to hang from the underside of the roof of the cable car, same voltage, diameter to be 3/16 inch. Color of these lights is clear. Finally, there are 4 pilot lights that need to be installed in the 4 corners of the roof top of the model. Color is yellow, voltage 6-12v. Diameter would be. 1/8 inch.”
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I have had trains in my younger years, But this the frist I have tried to do scenery & make look realastice
Your ideals have proved very helpful in many ways.
Thank You very much. My ? Is and I know that HO scale is 1/87 but what I
want to know just the simple trem in inches what that is in laments terms like from feet to inches
(Example a house is 50’x40′ real life what size is that in inches for the HO set up?
I’m trying to do a lot of my own building work myself.
So I need to know the foot to inch ratio for the HO SCALE.
As I learn more myself and use different materials I will gladly pass all info. I collect.
I have found out that some material that is QUITE COMMON around the house can be used and works great for different projects.
Thank You Very Much
John Vires
John, Google http://webpages.charter.net/sinkwich/sdventure/html/sd_scalecalc2.htm
It is a great conversion calculuator. Real to scale, scale to real or scale to another scale.
You do have to convert feet to inches ie 50′ = 600″ and 40′ = 480″. 600″ converts to 6.89″ @ 87.1 and 480″ is 5.51″ This makes a 50 by 40 foot building 6.89 by 5.51 inches in HO. Also does metric.