discussion Hello All

[terry b]

I normally scratchbuild British trams in 7mm but having a break to make a start on the Airfix Bentley

 

[Jim R]

Hi Terry
Welcome to a great forum. It would be nice to see pictures of your trams, a subject we rarely see. The Bentley is an iconic kit.
Jim

 

[adt70hk]

Welcome aboard!

 

[terry b]

Hi Terry
Welcome to a great forum. It would be nice to see pictures of your trams, a subject we rarely see. The Bentley is an iconic kit.
Jim

 

[terry b]

This is from a few years ago, scratchbuilt Belfast chamberlain tram in 7mm scale

 

[tigersteve]

Very nice indeed ! Welcome to the forum .

 

[Jim R]

Very nice model :thumb2:

 

[BattleshipBob]

A warm welcome from me!

 

[scottie3158]

Terry,
It's a very warm welcome from me. That is a great looking build I look forward to seeing you and your builds around the site.

 

[Dave Ward]

Welcome Terry,
Nice tram! I can just remember the last tram in Sheffield - 1960! & several visits to the Tramway Museum in Crich
A bit of a change of scale, from 7mm to 1/12!
Dave

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Terry. Welcome to the forum. Lovely scratchbuilt tram, and great to see it weathered rather than museum condition. What is your material of choice for those?

 

[stillp]

Welcome Terry - nice tram!
Pete

 

[yak face]

Hi terry welcome to the forum , tram looks superb , excuse my ignorance but what would 7mm equate to in ratio scales ie. 1/72 , 1/48 etc ? Cheers tony

 

[terry b]

Hi terry welcome to the forum , tram looks superb , excuse my ignorance but what would 7mm equate to in ratio scales ie. 1/72 , 1/48 etc ? Cheers tony

It equates to 1/43 scale. Always seems odd how metric and imperial are used together like that.

 

[Guest]

Welcome Terry , and what a model tram . We don't see many as Jim righly said .

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Terry, out of interest what track standard do these run on? I assume it’s one of the O gauge derivatives, but I know that comes in three or four flavours

 

[Mini Me]

Welcome to the "Mad House" Terry, I model in 3.5mm scale, so don't feel odd about dabbling in 7mm! :smiling: As Dave said, that is quite a jump up to 1/12th scale. I look forward to seeing your build thread when you start it.

 

[Airborne01]

Welcome Terry - an impressive piece of scratchery! (There are others here who dabble in arcane scales - very weird! -and better eyesight than some of us, that's for sure!)
Steve

 

[Mini Me]

Arcane indeed! :tongue-out3: :tongue-out2: :tongue-out: :thumb2:

 

[terry b]

Hi Terry, out of interest what track standard do these run on? I assume it’s one of the O gaugederivatives, but I know that comes in three or four flavours

Standard gauge comes out at 32mm, Belfast trams ran on 4'9" track