KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
I tested out Ray's new '0' gauge chair and table in Lynborough's fiddle yard room and immediately my perception of the room did a sudden shift. What had been a not very large room became huge and the fiddle yard board looked much too wide. So continuing with the experiment I narrowed the room by moving the walls until it looked more plausible and I cut back the fiddle yard baseboard width as well.
I was impressed by how a simple change in floor level and the scale of the furniture had made such a difference, but the downside was that door now looked completely out of scale, - which it was of course since it's an 00 scale door.
I could try the same experiment out on the main layout (I'm working with a clone copy of 'Lynborough'), but I would have to turn all the cupboards around to show a blank back and the door would be out of scale. The teapot and the tea mugs would be huge as well, - which some might say is a good thing, - but it does tend to break the illusion.
Overall though I have to say that the '0' gauge experiment is worth expanding on, but of course this means a lot more work for Ray and I certainly don't want to take advantage of his goodwill.
I was impressed by how a simple change in floor level and the scale of the furniture had made such a difference, but the downside was that door now looked completely out of scale, - which it was of course since it's an 00 scale door.
I could try the same experiment out on the main layout (I'm working with a clone copy of 'Lynborough'), but I would have to turn all the cupboards around to show a blank back and the door would be out of scale. The teapot and the tea mugs would be huge as well, - which some might say is a good thing, - but it does tend to break the illusion.
Overall though I have to say that the '0' gauge experiment is worth expanding on, but of course this means a lot more work for Ray and I certainly don't want to take advantage of his goodwill.