Dear Mr OV - an excellent post, Sir, and well worth your effort - should be a sticky, IMO.
I KNOW it's mainly a British thing, but here are a good few on your side of the water who model British outline live steam and electrically-driven stuff. running on 45mm track [I'm ignoring, pro tem, the 32mm track stuff].
This scale is called 16mm, and has a linear ratio of 1/19th. Most Roundhouse live-steamers and the single electric loco are about this this scale, likewise an ever-increasing amount of rolling stock and locos from Accu-Craft - in both live steam AND electric propulsion.
The recently introduced Isle of Man stuff is around this scale, although some of it is actually 1/20.3.
Looks VERY fetching too.
tac
http://www.ovgrs.org/
'16mm - 5000 of us can't be wrong...'
I KNOW it's mainly a British thing, but here are a good few on your side of the water who model British outline live steam and electrically-driven stuff. running on 45mm track [I'm ignoring, pro tem, the 32mm track stuff].
This scale is called 16mm, and has a linear ratio of 1/19th. Most Roundhouse live-steamers and the single electric loco are about this this scale, likewise an ever-increasing amount of rolling stock and locos from Accu-Craft - in both live steam AND electric propulsion.
The recently introduced Isle of Man stuff is around this scale, although some of it is actually 1/20.3.
Looks VERY fetching too.
tac
http://www.ovgrs.org/
'16mm - 5000 of us can't be wrong...'
