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Thread: The Beautiful (OO Scale) Game
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Bob Two-Owls
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I recently re-discovered the wonderful game of Subbuteo and although I am still learning (my grasp of the rules is pretty shaky) I have fallen back in love with the OO scale game and in turn the 1:1 scale game. With two fully painted teams recently off the workbench I can now re-live the wonderful East Midlands derbys of the early 1970s and when I finish Leicester City I will have the full triangle of rivalry - Derby County, Notts Forest and the Foxes.
Do any other shipmates still play or have fond memories of badly painted players snapping off at the ankles?
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Horseman Bree
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And here I thought "OO scale" meant a disproportion between track and rolling stock!
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Bob Two-Owls
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The teams were always marketed as OO scale, presumably so the fans could get to the game on a Hornby football special.
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Sandemaniac
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Ah, but do you have the Dukla Prague away kit?
AG
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Sioni Sais
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I remember a group of us setting up a tournament in 1990 that ran for a few months. What we spent on a pitch and teams was saved by buying booze to drink in, rather than down the pub. It was realistic enough with referees who brandished yellow and red cards with abandon. Sanctions usually involved buying beer or wine.
It was a matter of pride to utilise the most obscure, gaudy but authentic team's kit possible.
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betjemaniac
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Originally posted by Horseman Bree:
And here I thought "OO scale" meant a disproportion between track and rolling stock!
Very good.
HO (3.5mm:foot) is obviously better than 00 (4mm:foot), but we somehow got wedded to the latter, giving a slightly bizarre narrow gauge appearance to "standard gauge" locomotives when viewed end on....
Ahem. I'll get my anorak
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Horseman Bree
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The whole point was to be able to us HO track, but with bigger models of the English trans, so they would scale up to be roughly the same size as the Americans.
Plus, of course, you could run (two-rail) Hornby, etc., with North American trains. One of my first serious kitbashes was the conversion of a Hornby Castle to what it might have looked like if built in Canada. Looked fine, but the ridiculous flanges derailed it at almost every switch.
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Imaginary Friend
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Just a brief Hostly note to point out that this is a thread about Subbuteo, not about model trains. If you want to talk about that, then I suggest that The Circus is probably not the right place.
Thanks.
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Baptist Trainfan
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You will have noted that I have been a Good Boy and not taken part ...
My son had a second-hand Subbuteo set which he bought at a school fete, around 1990. We used to crawl around the floor playing it. The players' legs were not very strong and easily broke, I think they were made of polystyrene. We did buy one or two teams new, and they were better.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Some of the older teams I have tend to be a bit fragile so I have stopped playing with them and just collect them for the sake of it. The new replica "heavyweights" that copy the 50s-70s subby figures play really well and I don't have to worry about breakages. There is something of a schism in table football circles though, the more modern versions have flatter bases and "slidey" play, the more traditional game has more curve to it as well as slides. Heavyweights curve beautifully in the hands of an experienced player whereas the modern bases slide half the table length with a moderate flick. Slidey play seems to cause fewer breakages but isn't as much fun.
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Sioni Sais
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I haven't played for a while but the ability to make figures swerve was always reckoned to be the ultimate skill.
And it absolutely, definitely has to be a clear flick with the end of the finger. None of this shove-ha'penny style pushing with the side of the finger.
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Sir Kevin
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EARTH TO POSTERS HERE: the beautiful game is British Premiere League football...
See the thread. Video games are for people with too much time on their hands!
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
EARTH TO POSTERS HERE: the beautiful game is British Premiere League football...
See the thread. Video games are for people with too much time on their hands!
Subbuteo is as far removed from the Premier League as a video game can be. It is an incredibly subtle game involving great dexterity.
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