Here’s another update on the increasingly mis-named “September Project Party” project. I drew up some plans based on the Google Streets views I despaired about recently. Although meticulously prototypical, these new plans would never have worked. Why? Because Tomix FineTrack is not meticulously prototypical. For example, the tracks are much closer together than one can achieve with FineTrack—or would even want to, for fear of model collisions! Likewise, the real girders would look far too narrow with FineTrack. In other words, the compromises that allows us to model Japanese narrow-gauge prototypes with semi-narrow-gauge models on 9mm gauge track mean that meticulous bridge plans won’t actually work.
So I’m sticking with the plans I already have, which do work well with FineTrack, even if they aren’t meticulously prototypical. And I finished my second girder, too.
Despite everything I just said, I have changed the bridge plans a bit to accommodate what we’re seeing in Google Maps. When they’re done, I’ll post updated plans.