03-21-2012, 10:44 AM
If you're going to have physical cars actually appearing and being photographed and operated on another layout, I don't see how you can get around the scale or gauge issue. On the other hand, you could certainly have an N gauge circuit and an HO (or any other scale) circuit, depending on interest. And if it's just two guys exchanging cars, so be it.
I'm wondering if a good approach might be to do it starting as a pilot project, adopting what works and not adopting stuff that doesn't. If it's two guys starting out, that's fine, they'd begin to get an idea of what works. (For that matter, if guys in the UK, Germany, or wherever wanted to participate, I don't see an obstacle -- you'd just have to work out what the best way would be to ship, declare the stuff for customs, and so forth.)
I'm wondering if a good approach might be to do it starting as a pilot project, adopting what works and not adopting stuff that doesn't. If it's two guys starting out, that's fine, they'd begin to get an idea of what works. (For that matter, if guys in the UK, Germany, or wherever wanted to participate, I don't see an obstacle -- you'd just have to work out what the best way would be to ship, declare the stuff for customs, and so forth.)