Hello!
In the last hour, I've taught myself a bunch about model trains, and I think I know what I don't know, if that makes sense.
I've joined the forum to ask for some help with what kind of passenger car I can use for a project on which I'm working.
I don't want the car to run (gasp!), I want to use it as a prop in an art project. I'm going to be using a plane, a ship, and I hope, a (19th c, probably) passenger car.
From my research, I think that Z scale is the smallest size, right? I'd like to keep the train car roughtly the same size as the other models I'll be buying: my ship is 4 in. long, and my plane is 2.4 in. long. I realize a Z scale car won't be in scale with those other 2 items, but they will be roughly the same size for my art project, right? The N series cars I found online were 5.5 or 6 inches, which makes them a bit too long to be photographed nicely with my other miniatures.
Again, I would like a passenger car and I'm having trouble knowing how long an older passenger car is compared to any other type of car. Am I right to think a 75 ft train car would come out to about 4 in in the Z scale? If so, how does an old passenger car compare to that 75 ft/4 in. scale?
I'll check back in a few days and I thank you for any help you can give. Since I'm not looking at track size, I can't find any sellers offering dimensions of the actual cars b/c most people don't buy them that way
jes
In the last hour, I've taught myself a bunch about model trains, and I think I know what I don't know, if that makes sense.
I've joined the forum to ask for some help with what kind of passenger car I can use for a project on which I'm working.
I don't want the car to run (gasp!), I want to use it as a prop in an art project. I'm going to be using a plane, a ship, and I hope, a (19th c, probably) passenger car.
From my research, I think that Z scale is the smallest size, right? I'd like to keep the train car roughtly the same size as the other models I'll be buying: my ship is 4 in. long, and my plane is 2.4 in. long. I realize a Z scale car won't be in scale with those other 2 items, but they will be roughly the same size for my art project, right? The N series cars I found online were 5.5 or 6 inches, which makes them a bit too long to be photographed nicely with my other miniatures.
Again, I would like a passenger car and I'm having trouble knowing how long an older passenger car is compared to any other type of car. Am I right to think a 75 ft train car would come out to about 4 in in the Z scale? If so, how does an old passenger car compare to that 75 ft/4 in. scale?
I'll check back in a few days and I thank you for any help you can give. Since I'm not looking at track size, I can't find any sellers offering dimensions of the actual cars b/c most people don't buy them that way
jes
