Hello. Love the teeny trains! Super cool!
I'm brainstorming opportunities to incorporate them in my N-scale set. The PS-300(CrossTrack) would be a great trail for a ski boat. The description says it's 1:1500 while others say 1:1000. Is that correct?
Also, can the tracks be painted?
Hi and thank you.
Yes the train cars actually scaled 1:1500. Earlier we planned to use our standard cars 1:1000 but failed due to the small track curve radiuses.
Not sure about painting; we would recommend to cover (glue) tracks with ultra thin plastic (0.001" THK) making sure that there no any air baubles between them.
Any luck with painting? I detailed an oval but did not paint the rail area so it looks like black ballast on the roadbed.
Unfortunately, my entire project is on hold for budgetary reasons. :-/
Maybe a blue contact film to represent water, if it is thin enough and put on without bubbles. There is also a dark or silver color mirror type coating used for car windows to block solar rays. That might be safer to use and removable and easier to find scraps and such. I think its kind of floated on a water covered surface and then the water is kind of squeeged away when in position.
Another use would be mining carts for a gold or coal mine. Maybe a little loop coming and going through the mountainside near a oal mine building, set up to look like a couple mine carts and a man pushing them.
is it OK to apply a light acyrlic wash over the tracks without affecting the operation of the system ?
I don't know, but I think acrylic and latex can be removed with rubbing alcohol without damaging a printed circuit board. Even after it has dried. You might want to test this first. Some final clear "varnishes" made of acrylic and intended for artist's painting contain some wax which might help to make sure there is not sticking of the train cars to the surface. I am just an interested old architect and don't have one of these sets however. I am no mechanical engineer but have experience in pc boards, and painting for instance. I would make sure that anything you do can be undone without hurting the system before proceeding. fwiw
We never tried to cover an actual track section by any plastic or so. If this additional layer would be thick and/or sticky it absolutely prohibitive. In the same time we know that some people covered whole track by supper thin layer of vinyl and it did work well