Is it just me or do other people hate having 009 and H0e stock on their railway at the same time?
It didn't used to bother me too much so long as I kept them on separate trains and didn't use them close to each other, but just recently it really seems to jar, which is a bit of a pig as I only have one 009 loco and that isn't finished yet.
For most 009 modellers they couldn't give two figs about mixing them, judging by the layouts I see at exhibitions and elsewhere, after all until recently the only way of getting RTR stock was to use H0e and old habits die hard! On the same basis they are quite happy at mixing locos with different prototype gauges on the same layout which is pretty similar! With luck with the rise in RTR 009 we will see less of it.
On a purely personal note I will try to avoid mixing H0e and 009 if I possibly can. My issue with such mixing is that I know the stock I model very well in Real Life and so such mixing stands out like a sore thumb, I can see the scale difference and it jars. Of all the compromises I am prepared to make a mixture of scales is bottom of the list... One advantage of H0e, though, is that it is just right for 750/760mm/2ft 6ins gauge and so has many different prototypes to model and most modelling manufacturers outside the UK use 1:87 scale or very near. Thank goodness for the rise of H0f/i, though, less excuse for 600mm gauge prototypes being masqueraded as 750/760mm gauge!
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Having considerable previous experience in working in various larger scales, and now contemplating the possibility of separate projects in both "OO9" and "HOe", I find the incompatibility of the two to be readily evident.
As an example if one places a Peco GVT carriage on the same track as an EggerBahn 4-wheel balcony ended type, that the roof heights and body widths are similar does not disguise the fact that the one is 1/7th bigger and the other 1/8th smaller.
CP
I think a lot depends on the 009 and HOe stock in question. An Eggerbahn coach in the same rake as a Peco FR bug box looks fine, but marshaled with a Peco GVT 4 wheeler it looks too small. But then again, a Peco FR bug box and a Peco GVT 4 wheeler makes the bug box look small, although the bug boxes are small anyway.