Yokohama's Minato Mirai District

[acsisedh]

I am building an N Guage set and want to model the port area around Sakuragicho station.  I am looking for a model of the Landmark Tower, Marine Tower, and anything that would pass for Chinatown.  I am also looking for something similar to the Red Brick Warehouse.  So far I have come up empty.  Does anyone have a suggestion?

Edited September 27, 2015 by acsisedh

[kvp]

The Landmark Tower is 296 meters tall. That is nearly 2 meters in Nj. If you are really determined, then larger buildings have to be scratch built, either by you or an architectural modeling company.

 

Here is a papercraft version, you can actually scale up to N scale and build yourself:

http://www.papercraftsquare.com/yokohama-landmark-tower-free-building-paper-model-download.html

(for strength, you could use a styrene or wooden frame to make the paper structure more rigid)

[bikkuri bahn]

In n scale all those disparate elements will be huge space eaters. I assume you want them as background scenery. Scratchbuild to a smaller scale with paper and photo overlays to get the effect.

[acsisedh]

The Landmark Tower is 296 meters tall. That is nearly 2 meters in Nj. If you are really determined, then larger buildings have to be scratch built, either by you or an architectural modeling company.

 

Here is a papercraft version, you can actually scale up to N scale and build yourself:

http://www.papercraftsquare.com/yokohama-landmark-tower-free-building-paper-model-download.html

(for strength, you could use a styrene or wooden frame to make the paper structure more rigid)

Thank you.  I think a smaller scale would be appropriate.  I downloaded the file and will give it a try.

[cteno4]

Acsisedh,

 

If you get into doing more of these papercraft buildings there are a number out there of Japanese buildings as well as pretty generic high rises that could fit in. I fiddled with these some a few years back to do T scale buildings (1/450) and they work well as at that scale you would see very little detail depth. If jus just do the right bits with as second layer it really fools the mind's eye well! PM me if you want some more of these PDFs (I've download a bunch of the free ones over the years that are no longer live links). There are some inexpensive commercial PDFs of very Japanese 5-10 story buildings at 1/150 you could scale down as well. There are a few threads with more on papercraft models, here is the main thread.

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/topic/5438-papercraft-models/?hl=papercraft

 

Cheers,

 

Jeff