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Maybe her or the HXD1D will be this week (re)release. As far as I know, the DF7 is still a couple weeks away from release.

Does your GE4/4 have only two speeds? Stop and speed of light? With my standard pack, it is very hard to control. Feels like it has a cap in it.

You actually dug in to the lightboard area? That sucks that you are having to fix that.

I think it was mentioned earlier, but I too am worried about being able to motorize. I bought one that cannot and some of the advertisements do not include that info. If they showed all sides of the box, I think it might state it. The bandai site no longer includes B-train.

My attempts at disorganization... The rest of my stuff is in boxes in the loft.

Well time to get back into this! My wife and just got back from almost a month in the British Isles, the longest holiday we have ever done so we learnt a lot. For example: Plan some downtime about half way through a long trip, some days when you don't have to set the alarm, there are no entry tickets to worry about, no specific trains to catch. We really only had a single day off (most of the time was on a coach tour) and it got pretty tiring. I was aware of this concept before but this last month really brought it home, especially to my wife. Try to pick overnight stops where you can be there at least 2 nights. Sure helps with managing the trip. Fortunately the London part of our last trip was like that, making London more enjoyable. Pack light, and wash cloths as you go. Which means hotels with laundry facilities. Generally we have done well on this in Japan, but in the UK none of our hotels had coin laundry so we spent time (and money) at a launderette and washing in the sink. So based on these I will be re-evaluating our trip a bit, with a focus on where the break will be.

Yeah that would make things much faster! Might even etch some dado joints! Actually a friend just got a nice little cnc cutter that takes about 18”x18” so this might be a good little project to play with making some nice exact pieces and some dado and rabit joints easy in very thin Baltic birch. Could even etch the shelves into the back board. As i get older i am enjoying smaller woodworking projects and seeing what is little cnc can do is making me like that as well as a lasercurtter! jeff

Sounds like you need that laser cutter Jeff! 🫣 Todd

@disturbman I actually decided to preorder an second cr400 bf-z as future gift to someone. Honestly can’t find better gifts at those prices. I want the upcoming hxd3d as well i saw mentioned.

Hello Friends Just a little Fluff update If you read this thread you will know i love to collect Lyddle End Items I have over 100 now ,collecting since 2010 Because this line went out of production around that time,sourcinghas been difficult. You end up paying as much or more than when they came out One of the items that has alluded me was the Little post office I always(try) and but them mint,so it took awhile but after 15 year hunt i finally snagged one ,never taken out of the box,from USA of all places Regards Brett PS Going to have a much better update soon.

I had the idea of making the trays out of some nice thin wood so that i could maybe make a holder to put a few on the wall or just stand on a bookshelf for display, then flip horizontal for storage stacked. Main issue is separation of layers due to the winder stems sticking out. But i could make the outside box of each layer have a recessed underside to cover over the winding stems sticking up on the layer below. Thing with a display shelf like that is it needs to be very thin and clean and gets to be some work. In the mean time i will probably just slice up a bunch of corrugated cardboard and get out the hot glue gun to make some better storage and storage. jeff

SL Yamaguchi Trip Report 4 After three days of cycling from Nagasaki along the rugged coastline of western Kyushu, we’ll be arriving in Karatsu. After cycling 219 km and climbing 3,000 meters, we’re about a third of our way to Hiroshima, our final destination. We’ve passed through a patchwork of picturesque fishing villages and terraced rice fields cascading into the sea. We are cycling through UNESCO World Heritage area. Along the way, I stopped and chatted with a friendly 92 year-old who was busy weeding along the narrow country road. It was her contribution, she tells me. I hope to explore the town of Karatsu and maybe do some trainspotting as it’s our rest day in Karatsu.

True, but since I have 3 more of these boxes (didn't get around to build inlays for them though...) it would be a lot of book cases. Not sure my wallet and storage space would like that too much, haha.. but I agree. It would be so much more neat. Go for it. Sounds like a wonderful side project. Gonna eat up even more time for the hobby 😂

Wasn’t aware of diorama box. Their platform furniture, escalators and elevators look good too.

Just ran across these at Sakatsu. These are from DioramaBox, they are stamps to make road markings. Cool idea. Could ink with paint of desired color with a small roller. Stamp mark edges actually might give a good effect of the sprayed edges of regular road markings. Might be hard to get the lines lined up between stamps but putting some guide markings on the ends could help. A number of pictures over at Sakatsu and a video that talks a lot with bullet points but very few pictures. DoramaBox has a few other interesting details. jeff https://sakatsuglobal.com/search?type=product&q=Road+Stamp https://dioramabox.official.ec https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-eY610wGaW4

You guys are killing me. I can verify that the 20% is applied at check out (when you click on the discount code). Tony

I need to create some storage containers like that for the several hundred mini capsule plarail windups ive accumulated over the years! But want to store them sideways so i can see them and put them in sets. jeff

Ahh but you are good sir. Your's fits so nicely on a bookshelf.

This is not going to end well! 🤣

Beautiful work and documenting it for others!

Since my Microace DD50 3/4 in Early March, I started to invest more in Diesel. Those are my newest buys. DD51 39 DD51 41 DF50 60 DF50 65 DF50 43 DF50 47 Kiha58 575 / Kiro 28 21 / Kiha 28 2360 / Kiha 58 573 are from Tomix, I put them into a CASCO Case. They will get soon suplimented with Kiha 20/25 DMUs. 😄

Have experienced a few more intermittent failures to run since detailing. I have concluded that it’s the contact clips that fit to the light board, 4 in all. I had to fettle a little more and crimp the clips slightly. The motor wires are extremely fine so some gentle persuasion was required. I will continue to monitor this but otherwise i may have to solder the contacts. Kato HO locos can be plagued by this issue as they design everything as push fit which means you don’t always get a secure contact.

@Kamome Thanks. Something i will look into.

Hi, Recently is made this little shunting layout just for the fun of it. Plan was to use Peco code 55 track and turnouts and run a dcc shunter on it. All rolling stock can be uncoupled by unsing of some magnets. All turnouts and uncouple magnets are manually operated. More info about the Inglenook can be found here: https://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html The baseboard measures 30x120cm and this is the trackplan. Placed all the rollingstock to give an idea about the dimensions. Some slots had to be made for the magnet uncouplers. An example of these uncouplers can be found here: . Each track of course needs a kind of bufferstop at the end (how do you call them when these trains don't have any buffers🙂). The Tomix bufferstops can easily be removed and glued on the Peco track. Here you can see the knobs for operating the turnouts and uncouplers. The little toggle switch is connected to a DCC_EX (Arduino Mega) command station and sends the shunter forwards and backwards. More info in the desciption of these videos The Inglenook in action. Made a unique card for each wagon, these cards can be randomly placed near the tracks. First move here is to send the red Koki 200 with the ONE container to the right place. Next is the green tanker (Taki 1000) and so on. André

Thanks for your assistance Junech.