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10 years ago I built a model of the Great Lacey Mine Railway in 1/35 scale using black Beetle chassis. The layout fits in a suitcase and has been displayed at the real railway in the Isle of Mann

Wow they do sliced bread now, what next I wonder!!!!! The loco build looks interesting as well Jason roll on part 2.

If you want to get a large scale on OO gauge track I, I highly recommend you take a look at GN15. There is no defined scale but I model it at 1:19 scale

Yet another fantastic scratch built loco Jason! Nice. Geniuses are rarely tidy 🤭 The diesel shunter lends itself to this kind of construction doesn't it - due to it's boxy shape. I wonder if there are rectangular punches available for cab windows somewhere? 🤔. Sliced bread 😳. Witchcraft...

Thanks for posting the video. 1/35 narrow gauge shunting puzzle is my next planned project to combine my 1/35 military modelling endeavours (once I’ve finished my Gn15 ‘puzzle in a box’)

GN15 is probably the biggest you can go on OO track, Small brook studios produce conversion kits for horny 040 chassis , but really easy to make. There are length, width and height dimensions on the GN15 forums but generally driver figures would be about 100mm tall. There are som good GN15 videos on RU-vid.

Looks like that figure is a No Brainer also mate

I have built a couple Gn15 layouts which are either 1:22.5 or 1:24 Terry

Thanks, I really enjoyed the video. AlI can think about now is building a narrow gauge trench railway in this scale!

Looking forward to seeing this project progress. If you want to go big on OO track have a look at the Tippy Ashwood channel.

I have also been working on 1:35 on OO 16.5 track. On my channel are a few videos of my brass scratch built loco. It is a 1:35 model of a Bradshaw FB2 warehouse truck that has been adapted to run on 2' narrow gauge in my layout. The wagons are still standard OO and will be rebuilt to 1:35 when I have time. The premise of my layout is that it is a 1/3 scale (7.25" gauge) garden railway for a 1:12 scale doll in a workshop, and 1:35 was close enough to 1:36 to make it work. My layout is also a dead rail set up with the loco being radio controlled. I should add that your layouts were part of the inspiration behind mine. Thank you.

Very cool, roll on part two!😊👍 BTW is that the version with the better motor (slower and smoother running)?🤔 As another poster writes, Gn15 type (estate railway gauges?) approach might be the way to go. Christopher Payne has done some nice - large scale - work based around 16.5 track. Without wishing to teach anyone to suck eggs, I quote:- "Gn15 is a rail modelling scale, using G scale 1:22.5 scale trains running on H0/00 gauge track, representing minimum gauge and miniature railways. Typical models built are between 1:20.3 and 1:24, or up to 1:29." Not quite 1:35, but I seem to recall a couple of railway articles (RM) using Britain's buildings etc, military modelling items and so on, therefore they must have been about 1:30/1:35 scale. I think that one was on 16.5 track, using Peco set track with sleepers removed and plastikard used to bolster the remaining sleepers to look like pressed steel sleepers🤔😊 The other used Peco's O-16.5 NG track🤔🤔 Enjoy!😊👍

A very informative film. How did you make the roof for this loco and the O16.5 model? Looking forward to part 2.

I love what you built. Well done. I have one question however, and don't take this as critisism, is there a particular reason why you keep the original buffers and couplings in tact? Because narrow gauge, especialy smaller gauges, is mainly with one central buffer/coupling combination. Regards, Albert

Always interesting. How dare you suggest that the rest of us don't work under laboratory conditions!!! ;-)

Have you seen H0F? It's expensive but I'm really tempted!

Always enjoyable watching your videos and terrible jokes lol. However...you wanted to go as big as possible on 00 track, yet by working at 1:35 scale you have actually gone SMALLER than 0 16.5. Too much Xmas egg nog lol. As someone else has said, Gn15 would get you what's normally the largest kit in 00 gauge track. Cheers Gary

1/36 (imperial) gives an exact 1’11” and a bit using 16.5mm gauge track. Typical of your major preserved narrow gauge railways. If you want “BIG” build a WHR Garrett in 1/36 or 1/35 would be a little over scale.