Combining Different Scales with Roger Russell
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Many ask narrow gauge modeler Roger Russell how he combines different scales on his ⅜-inch scale layout to make it look real. In the video, Roger shows a small engine service or engine facility with an S-scale boiler, an O-scale dog, a ⅜-inch jack, and a ½-inch barrel. Inside the facility are HO bags stacked up, three different scales of tools on the tool bench, water barrels in 0 scale, and even old jewelry of his wife’s that he made into a chain. He has a 50,000-gallon water tank in S scale that he converted to an 18,000 gallon ⅜-inch water tank using larger braces with the kit. Next he shows an O-scale bird that looks just fine in the layout. Cast military figures have also been modified to look like civilians. It is not the scale of the objects that really matters, but how the figure appears in the layout. Roger has proved this with his models.
This is how I combined different scales on my 3/8 scale layout to make it look real. Over here, this is a small engine facility or service facility, so I used an S scale boiler. This is an O scale GOG, a large O scale GOG. This is actually a 3/8 inch jack. That's a 1/2 inch barrel. Then we go inside in here, this is HO Bags that are stacked up. In here we have three different scales, at least, of tools. O scale, S scale, and HO. The smaller ones are HO. Like right there is a wrench. But again, who's to say, what are the size of wrenches? There's many different sizes. These are O scale water barrel. Over here, I even have some jewelry that my wife threw away, and I dipped it in some focal paint, put a little wash on it, and it's been hanging there ever since. Works great. Over here, we have a 50,000 gallon S scale water tank that's been converted into an 18,000 3/8 inch water tank. And what I did, was I used larger braces. That was the only thing I added to the kit. And right here, we have the Artesia O scale bird they came out with. Works just fine in this scale. The figures are Tamiya figures that were cast. The Japanese make those, their military figures. They modified them to civilian- 1/35th scale. Right, 1/35th, 1/32nd.
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