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Little Shunters First Scratch Build Being a generation X kid, I have had to work across Imperial and Metric all my life and got into trouble enough times either passing the wrong socket or wrench over.  I decided to create a excel spreadsheet where I could simply enter the real-world sizes into the calculator and through the magic of excel formulas everything would calculate into the right HO size for both measurement systems.  Armed with the knowledge from my previous post  Where do I go now?  and  how to cut and use styrene  I got to work  measuring three times and cutting once. All of a sudden, I had a heap of styrene bits all over the desk and so back to measuring again to recheck, we will call this rookie mistake number one . After I sorted out all my styrene into groups, I got to welding each piece together, now this where old school modelers can have a laugh as my pieces started to fall over and break apart, w elding the styrene turned into an e...