Wakarimasen

[Terangeree]

Hello,

 

No diagrams, for the layout uses the track from a Tomix starter set and is just an oval.

 

Roughly three feet long and two feet wide, it has two scenes: a village on one side (3' x 18") and cliffs, a couple of bridges and a couple of tunnels on the other.

As we have a 17-month-old child, the layout is fully enclosed with perspex viewing panels to keep little fingers out.

 

Buildings are a mix of Tomytec plastic and free paper (card) models downloaded from the Internet.

 

The setting is vaguely reminiscent of Tottori.

 

 

[cteno4]

Terangeree,

 

Looks very fun, nice work! Great you can protect it for now. Soon maybe you will have a good helper!

 

Please post some more pictures, couldn't make out any of cardstock structures, always interested to see what folks do with those!

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

[Terangeree]

Have almost finished the scenery on the mountain side of the layout (900mm x 150mm approximately (3' x 6")) today. It still needs some minor details, like a railway line, a bridge over the river, water in the river, trees on the hills...

 

And baby-proofing.

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The village of Juichitani needs some more buildings &c. before satisactory completion, but it is rather more advanced -- as can be seen here:

 

 

 

 

So far, the best paper building is the narrow, reddish-brown Izakaya. The others need more practice before they're presentable.

 

Japanese car and truck manufacturers provide free patterns for paper models of their products. These two are from Mitsubishi:

 

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[cteno4]

Thanks! Nice little layout. Like the vertical scenery in the back scene, great way to make the train disappear for a bit.

 

Nice paper crafting. The vehicles came out very nice. I've been meaning to make a few busses and trucks to test them out on the club layout as folks rarely get closer than a couple of feet away.

 

Thanks for getting this up and keep us posted on progress.

 

Cheers

 

Jeff

[kvp]

For the paper cars, a good trick is to get a piece of scrap wood and file it to the general shape of the model, so the paper can be glued to the wood. This makes them nice and solid and the wheels can get some thickness. (just paint the wheel bumps and the underside black) Another trick for paper buildings and vehicles is to cut out the windows and glue them onto clear plastic sheets. (sadly some UK manufacturers still produce commercial rolling stock this way, they just use vinyl instead of paper)

[railsquid]

(sadly some UK manufacturers still produce commercial rolling stock this way, they just use vinyl instead of paper)

 

Out of interest - which ones?

[kvp]

Graham farish in N scale. Their newest suburban coaches turned out to be nothing more than printed clear shells without any 3D details on the sides. It's a surprise as their newly constructed mk1 cars and 4cep emus use normal european detail level and construction methods. It's much worse quality than my ancient 1972-1974 maerklin Z cars. (which are at the same detail level as any tomytec train collection set with all extras installed)

[Terangeree]

Thanks for the tip re: paper cars, kvp. I'm finding that my quinquagenerian fingers are not quite agile enough to fold and glue a kei car in 1:150 scale.

 

 

 

[Terangeree]

I can't quite figure out how to model rice paddies...

[tossedman]

You could try this http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10222626 or this http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10222624.

 

Cheers eh,

 

Todd

[cteno4]

Good threads here

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/topic/6663-rice-paddy-again/

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/topic/2625-rice-planting/

 

And an article on the jrm site

 

http://japanrailmodelers.org/pages/modelingjapan/ricefields.html

 

Tomytec paddies are a little underwhelming for me...

 

Jeff

[Terangeree]

Thanks for your advice, all, about rice paddies.

The mountain side of the layout is now baby-proofed. The mobile 'phone camera is very good at taking pictures of whatever is reflected, though.

Both scenes will be lit by a strip LED attached to the inside top frame. One of them is already in place, indicated by the electric cable that's sticking out of the top.

 

[Robert46]

For the paper cars, a good trick is to get a piece of scrap wood and file it to the general shape of the model, so the paper can be glued to the wood. This makes them nice and solid and the wheels can get some thickness. (just paint the wheel bumps and the underside black) Another trick for paper buildings and vehicles is to cut out the windows and glue them onto clear plastic sheets. (sadly some UK manufacturers still produce commercial rolling stock this way, they just use vinyl instead of paper)

Will be nice if there is the tutorial with pictures... :)

[katoftw]

Don't you think you are overdoing the baby proofing?

[Terangeree]

No

 

Edited December 31, 2015 by Terangeree

[Terangeree]

My wife and two of my children are Japanese, so the last day of December is occupied mostly with Osouji.

But, during a break, I found an online paper model of a local bus -- so it is now built and parked in the bus stop beside Juichitani Station's main building.

I am in Brisbane, Australia. As I said, it is a local bus, so I believe the passengers are more than a little bit miffed to find that they are in Juichitani instead of Indooroopilly.

 

 

 

[Terangeree]

Late on New Years' Day (due to a family afternoon trip to see the Japanese Gardens in Toowoomba, two hours' drive west of here), I started on the rice paddies and put a papercraft barbers' shop (courtesy of Toshiba's Japanese website's "childrens' section") into a corner that is only just visible in the foreground.

 

 

 

[Terangeree]

More work done. Some ballast laid and some catenary poles in the Ikea Gorge, and an experiment with white glue for the rice paddies...

 

The village scene is still under construction.

 

 

 

 

 

[Terangeree]

Found a farmhouse that's nearly suitable for the site The free paper model (probably designed to be used for a child's school project) includes a printed interior for both floors. Used my wife's suggestion to simulate a mature rice crop by using some artificial grass mat we had going spare.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 4, 2016 by Terangeree

[cteno4]

Very fun! You have been at it here! I had seen an article on using artificial turf for rice paddies and tried to track Dow some samples here, but to no luck. Looks like you could also cut out small bits for large grass tufts.

 

Jeff

[Terangeree]

Jeff, the artificial turf came from Daiso.

[cteno4]

What did it come as? Here to get the stuff you have to buy it by the yard and it's usually an order item. Couple of them are available as door mats, but those were not suitable for modeling. The person who wrote the article had gotten a pile of samples from someplace that had a great variety to cut up ans experiment with. Local places around here had little or no samples to even look at, just some pictures in a brochure... There are some online places I may try but I hate to ask for the free samples when I won't be ordering s putting green from them!

 

Jeff

[Terangeree]

Never having been to the US, what you have in shops there is a mystery to me.

We got the artificial turf in a small mat, about 12" x 12" in size, from the equivalent to your dollar shops (Daiso is a large Japanese 100円 chain, with some antipodean branches here. I think their closest branch to you is in Los Angeles).

[cteno4]

Ah never seen it in our dollar stores. Not seen it in small bits save for door mats here and that's usually it's too tall for n scale use.

 

Only place we usually see the lower stuff is for large area coverage.

 

Jeff

[katoftw]

Any dollar shop or hardware store will have it.