Finescale standard

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Finescale standards are model railway standards that aim to be close to the prototype dimensions. Reduction in toylike, overscale flanges, pointwork, etc. In Britain it is particularly used because small British prototypes meant that track gauge is underscale. Modelling to finescale standards requires skill, so modellers usually start with the coarse standards applied to ready-to-run models suitable as toys. Standards are set by modellers' societies.

Examples:

• ScaleSeven (7mm scale, O gauge)
• EM gauge (4mm scale, 18.2mm gauge)
• P4 scale (4mm scale, 18.83mm gauge)
• Proto:87 (HO scale)
• 2mm finescale