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What is 4mm scale?
4mm scale in railway modelling terms is the most popular scale.
It is 4mm of the model being one foot of the real thing. This gives a scale of 1:76.
While most people would refer to OO gauge and 4mm scale interchangeably, this is not fully correct as several gauges are available in 4mm scale:
- the most common one is OO gauge
- finescale EM gauge and P4
- narrow gauge OO9
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