David's Workbench

[Mol_PMB]

New Accurascale Invisilock:

 

[David Holman]

Hmm... not sure to be honest. Might just need a bit of getting used to. Wonder what a whole train of these will look like alongside the black ones? Rather emphasises how big a tension lock is compared to three/screw links.

 If only the world had standardised on the buckeye! Life would be a lot simpler as we'd all be using Kadees.

[Horsetan]

2 hours ago, David Holman said:

.... If only the world had standardised on the buckeye! Life would be a lot simpler as we'd all be using Kadees.

For coaching stock, yes. For freight, it might be a bit different.

The Accurascale semi-transparent couplings could have gone further, and been made fully-transparent. Maybe something could also have been done to reduce the massive gap between coupled vehicles.

[Galteemore]

Reminds me of an idea that briefly blazed a trail when I was a British N gauge modeller. In some ways this worked because the whole thing was transparent. 

[David Holman]

That makes sense, because N gauge couplers are a real eyesore, especially in smaller stock. Terriers, 03 shunters and the like seem dwarfed by them.

[jhb171achill]

The Hattons Genesis stock have gaps between them which must be about 8 scale feet.....

[Horsetan]

13 hours ago, David Holman said:

That makes sense, because N gauge couplers are a real eyesore, especially in smaller stock. Terriers, 03 shunters and the like seem dwarfed by them.

I also saw a suggestion that the N gauge couplings be replaced with the much less-obtrusive Märklin Z-gauge/miniclub ones.