Standard Scale

[cardean]

Hi,

Maybe a daft question but, are all the MSTS items made to a universal scale?

The reason I'm asking is that I coupled Daryn Dunkley's model of the Prince of Wales to a couple of David Ball's LMS 69ft SLF's and there seemed to be a distinct height difference.
I'm sure this wasn't the case in real life as both the Loco which was built at Crewe and the coach, made at Wolverton would have been built to the same loading gauge.

baffled

John

[jbilton]

Hi John
No you will find differences between modelling software.
You can use SFM to re-scale on some models.
Cheers
Jon

[cardean]

Thanks Jon.

Now I'll really show I'm a newby.

SFM.....

What is it and where will I find it.


John.

It's okay folk's I found it

J

[ianmacmillan]

The LMS coaches are slightly smaller than scale.

If you run them thru SFM and re-scale by 1.025 they should match most other stock.

[RobertM]

SFM = Shape File Manager.

Shape File Manager Version 2.4 [14317 bytes] - sfm.zip File ID: 658 Date: 13 Aug 2003 - 3685 Downloads

Cheers...

Robert

[cardean]

Thanks Ian and Robert,

Ian, how do you do that, I've had a look at the prog and I haven't figured out how it works.

Is there a Tutorial anywhere?

Cheers again

John.

BTW What does this mean>

patched newshape.bsf file

J

[jbilton]

Hi John
Try

http://steam4me.railpage.org.au/trainsi ... m_faq.html


Cheers
Jon

[cardean]

Cheers Jon,

Perfect, There's a lot of good stuff on that site

Just shows I've got a lot to learn


John.