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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2011 21:20:54 GMT
Has anyone seen the new item that Corgi are doing for the Olympics? It appears (to my untrained eye) to be a 1/76 scale 1995 DM. I would link the ebay site that I saw it on but I'm not clever enough.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 5, 2011 21:25:15 GMT
Unfortunately it is not to OO scale. According to one of the vendors it is only 125 mm long.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 5, 2011 21:33:11 GMT
There is also a much smaller key ring version, about 1/400 scale.
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 5, 2011 21:40:28 GMT
The length of a 92 car is 16250 mm so if the model is 125 mm long the scale works out at 1/130.
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Post by SE13 on Aug 6, 2011 9:04:52 GMT
Has anyone seen the new item that Corgi are doing for the Olympics? It appears (to my untrained eye) to be a 1/76 scale 1995 DM. I would link the ebay site that I saw it on but I'm not clever enough. Is this the one you are thinking of? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2011 13:34:39 GMT
Yes it is. I was just wondering if it was to OO scale. Apparently not. Maybe if they'd thought about it a bit more. Has the success of EFE's 38TS taught them nothing?
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Post by phillw48 on Aug 6, 2011 18:56:47 GMT
My mistake, I took the measurements from 92TS rather than the 95TS which are longer. The scale actually works out at close to 1/142. Why they could not have made it 1/148 (British 'N' scale) I don't know. The chassis and bogies appear to be a one piece casting but it may be possible to motorise it to run on 9mm track.
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