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Diapet Thomas - Trainfanz - 05-17-2018
Who's ready for a new range of Thomas stuff to import?
Company Diapet will be releasing a new range of diecast Thomas engines touted as being 1/64 scale.
![[Image: eDSG9Mg.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/eDSG9Mg.jpg)
![[Image: BMTncck.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/BMTncck.jpg)
![[Image: Ckd88Ld.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/Ckd88Ld.jpg)
These three come out in July, and there's a Bertie and Hiro slated for September.
RE: Diapet Thomas - Super - 05-17-2018
Wonder how big their 1/64 will be? If they are true 1/64 then they would be larger than a Plarail train right?
RE: Diapet Thomas - Trainfanz - 05-17-2018
1/64 scale is S Scale - so between O and HO size. Whether they will fit on S Gauge track or not is another story.
RE: Diapet Thomas - Nigels - 05-17-2018
Are they motorised as well Trainfanz? Just curious as you say they are diecast, these days its not so common to have motorised diecasts due to the weight...
RE: Diapet Thomas - Trainfanz - 05-18-2018
No, not motorized, but their side rods will function.
RE: Diapet Thomas - Nigels - 05-18-2018
Still pretty nice looking models though, could make a nice static display
RE: Diapet Thomas - TrainMan2001 - 05-19-2018
Where did you find the information on these?
RE: Diapet Thomas - Trainfanz - 05-19-2018
These are the only pictures of these toys available at the moment, but they were brought to my attention by a Japanese Twitter user.
RE: Diapet Thomas - Super - 05-19-2018
(05-17-2018, 06:51 PM)Trainfanz Wrote: 1/64 scale is S Scale - so between O and HO size. Whether they will fit on S Gauge track or not is another story.
I have found that scaling, like the 1/64 scale is quite ambiguous and different makers have different ideas and sizes for their 1/64 scale. This was very evident to me when I was in a buying frenzy for 1/64 Tomica, HotWheels, etc when some sizes were noticeably larger than others. This was first realized for me when I bought 5 vehicles from a seller and their combined shipping they quoted me was enormous for what I though 1/64. I weighed out 12 Hotwheels/Tomica vehicles in their boxes and it was half what they were stating. Turns out the ones they had were quite larger diecast metal vehicles but still saying 1/64.
RE: Diapet Thomas - Nigels - 05-20-2018
Yeah I know what you mean about that sort of thing Super, at one point I was collecting the Cars 2 range of Diecasts, so had been buying the 1/64's from the generic stores, then bought some in a Disney store (same packaging) and thought they were a bit odd, turned out they were actually 1/56's instead and these days the ones in the main stores seem to have taken on this slightly larger size for the Cars 3 range. Not too bad as they are nice bigger, but it sort of messes up collecting if some are one size and others bigger/smaller...