There used to be a small kit manufacturer, who used to be located about
100 foot from my new studio. They called themselves Crummy Products and
they made kits mostly for the O narrow gauge folks but also a few S
kits--most involving plaster.
A bunch of us were invited over one night to actually use their molds to
learn about plaster castings. They stated that they used S scale
Holgate & Reynolds brick for their O scale brickwork. They said,
because of the compression needed in O, the S brick pattern was more
believable. So even if the kit might be specified a certain scale--it
might be different.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
> John's observation reminds me of an interesting conversation with a fellow
> who dropped in for a visit during the recent O SCALE WEST convention. He
> noticed I was using HO Kadee couplers and asked what other HO items
> were on
> the layout. So we took a layout tour together and I pointed out a whole
> bunch of non-S items in use on the layout. Included in said tour were
> products labeled N, HO, O and G. And there were a lot of them. Most were
> accumulated over many years and I had never made a point of thinking
> collectively about them. But the overall use of non-S items was more
> than I
> would have casually recollected. Here are some examples:
>
> The main problem with folks who claim S scale does not have much is that
> those folks are looking only at products that have S on the box. Try
> looking at products that simply look reasonably correct, regardless of
> advertised scale, and you will find many items out there which will look
> right at home next to their S neighbors.
>
> "S"incerely.....Ed L.
>
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