ME Canal Crane scale?

The series on the Canal Crane appealed to me as that type of crane could be found at many places along railway lines as well I think. That is also my intended use, but in H0/00 scale so I wonder what scale the drawings in the magasine are made in?

BR

/Peter

The ME drawings are usually rescaled to fit the page by the illustrator and each one varies. In no way would I advise scaling off the drawings.

Neil has given a scale of 1:12 so just multipy the given sizes by 12 and then divide by whatever Ho/00 scale is.

J

Edited By JasonB on 25/02/2013 07:29:46

I agree with whats already been said about scaling off the page. Whats wrong with carefully measuring the largest dimensioned part and the part which is lacking a dimension and comparing? Surely, you would get very close to the correct size of the non - dims part/parts.

Hi DMB

You are assuming the crane is drawn to scale.

How do you know it is?

regards David

It would look neat mounted on a goods platform, perhaps with a lorry loading bay the other side.

I suspect that the drawings may have been enlarged or reduced by varying amounts to fit with the page layout. For OO (1:76) divide by 6.33, for HO (1:87) divide by 7.25. I would be inclined to divide the published dimensions by 7 to keep things simple - scale dimensions seem to be a moveable feast for small scale railway modelling

Joey.

Good question Peter!

All the drawings I supllied were full size or half full (model) size, buitobviously it isn't practical to publish them that big. If you would like a pdf of the drawings mostly at 1:12 send me a pm.

Neil

Ah, thank you Jason, I must have been very tired when I read the article, it says 1:12 but I managed to miss it

In general I think there are enough measures on the drawings to re-scale them, but I think it is always useful to be able to check at specific places without measures and then a scale is nice to have, it simplifies. For my purposes I have to re-calculate anyway, from 1:12 Imperial to 1:87 metric. It will probably be a fiddly little thing but one with a lot och charm as those older industrial items often have. It must be due to that at the time the designer bothered not only about function but also about the looks and that create items with their own character I think.

Furthermore, such items are easy to use in just about any layout in Europe as the things were traded all over.

Neil, PM coming ...

BR

/Peter