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My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Destination Realization - 11-24-2024
Hello everyone!!
This Thread is dedicated to my Gauge 1 Thomas Replica!!! It will be updated every Saturday, so today I received the first Batch of parts, I also met @SmokeyJoeModeler!! An honor to meet someone from the community in person!! I also saw his w.i.p Gauge 1 Thomas!! He gave so many suggestions I am so grateful for!! But enough of that here’s the main attraction
![[Image: image.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/bsknKkHx/image.jpg)
The running board has been fully sanded, but it’s raining, I am ecstatic to have this with me, I can also see that a Gauge 1 Thomas is BIG!! Don’t let the size judge you!
Oh yeah! If anyone is interested.. I will be selling this Thomas by June as I will be making one out of acrylic
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - GreatGordonFan - 11-25-2024
That's a pretty ambitious task you've decided to undertake. I wish you good luck in building the model and selling it!
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Destination Realization - 11-25-2024
Thank You! GGF!!
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Destination Realization - 12-02-2024
oop, I forgot to update!
I received the side tanks, dome, and funnel
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Super - 12-02-2024
Forgive my Train ignorance but what is a 'Gauge 1"?
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - DalaGStanator - 12-02-2024
1:32 scale (as used in the show between 1984-2008). Bigger than O Gauge, but a bit smaller than the old Lionel "wide"/"standard" gauge.
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - chrisjo - 12-02-2024
Yes, at 1:32 scale, gauge 1 is the MOROP (the European federation of national model railway associations) equivalent of the NMRA (National Model Railroad Association) 3/8in gauge.
There is no traditional UK equivalent, Britain has tended to use its own distinctive model railway scales for historical reasons driven by its Victorian network origins which left us with a very restrictive loading gauge, narrower and lower than in the rest of Europe with the same standard gauge track.
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Super - 12-02-2024
So can I then assume that Gauge 1 is what the models were in the filming of the original series before animation?
![[Image: thomas-1981-first-live-action-shot-wide.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/LhP9KPmg/thomas-1981-first-live-action-shot-wide.jpg)
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Destination Realization - 12-02-2024
Yes!!
RE: My Gauge 1 Thomas Replica Process! - Super - 12-02-2024
Interesting...will your replica run on tracks?