What did you do on your layout today? (N scale)

[Tony Galiani]

Not sure if this belongs here but thinking the moderators can move it if necessary.

 

Taking Jeff's advice, I have been working on some scenes to get practice and improve my skills.  I have some T-Trak modules that I want to complete but have been nervous about messing them up so this is a test run for some scenery.  It didn't quite work out but thought I would post anyway.

 

I thought I would do a test diorama with a Hokkaido scene - one of the small, wooden platform stations.  But as I was doing this, it become clear that I had not ordered the best size of flock and ground cover.  This is way too coarse but rather than totally start over, I shifted gears a bit.  Rather than waste one of the wooden platform kits I have, I changed the scene to model one of the stations that had been removed.  I had seen a video where some railfans had traveled to different stations on the Soya Main Line and took pictures of the derelict sites and the trains passing by them.

 

I temporarily placed a couple of my otaku photographers and their vehicle by the area where the platform had been removed and took a couple of pictures.  Now back to the drawing board so to speak - I need to reorganize my ground cover supplies and probably order a few more packs of the finer flock.  Also need to review my method for gluing the scenic cover down.  I used spray adhesive but it dried glossy on the areas that I ended up not covering.  I then used cheap hair spray on the added layers of flock - seemed to need quite a bit - and "unscented" really isn't unscented (though the smell went away after it dried.

 

Anyway, posting some pictures.

Ciao,

Tony

 

[b.nice2000]

I've been using the web and Google Earth to find interesting Japanese modern city buildings that I think I might be able to make into a 3D print.

 

Any suggestions, with pictures, more than welcome.    🙂

 

Edited November 28, 2023 by b.nice2000

[lighthouse]

Yesterday night, I was able to set the streetmarks an my T-Trak module...

 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2023 by lighthouse

[b.nice2000]

Made an absolute mess cutting down some styrofoam at the far end of the Mt FooGee layout.

 

 I found 4 more temples I must have bought ages ago, so have to find somewhere to put them.  🙂

[cteno4]

For the first rough cuts and shaping a scalloped steak or bread knife works well with little eps dust created. Keeping humidity higher also tends to keep the static cling down some on the dust. But it does get everywhere!

 

jeff

[b.nice2000]

Shop Vacs are a blessing ! 🙂

 

Couple of sections still to do...  wait for a cooler day when I don't need the big fans on !  😉

 

 

Edited February 26, 2024 by b.nice2000

[Marcin]

[Dashworth87]

Tried to crowbar In a helix onto my layout. 
 

so far so good.

[nscalestation]

Over the past couple of weeks I finally finished a long vacant Kato office building, including adding some interior detail and lighting to the bottom 2 floors.  Before and after photos shown here.  A more detailed explanation on my blog:   https://tokyo-in-nscale.blogspot.com/2025/01/finishing-kato-office-building.html

 

 

 

[nscalestation]

Over the past week or so I have been finishing up a grade crossing scene on one of my modules.  The crossing gates are from the TomyTec set 114-3 that I picked up last month while in Japan.  Here are before and after photos.  I normally only glue down the motorcycles and bicycles, then set the other vehicles out when setting this up for an exhibit.  Got one of those coming up in April.

 

 

[nscalestation]

Another building finished.  This one was from Green Max set 47-6.  This one became mostly a financial services building with a bank on the ground floor, a stock broker, an insurance office, and a real estate office on the upper floors.  The one exception is a takoyaki izakaya on the 2nd floor, a place for all those salarymen to go after work.  The signs on the front are all from the kit but the ones on the side I made on the computer.  There was a little triangle space left to one side so I made that into a little park.

 

Here's a before and a couple of after photos.

 

 

[nscalestation]

Just finished a pair of Tomix corner buildings that I had started in 2011.  Below are before and after photos of one of them and a pair of after photos of the second one.

 

 

[cteno4]

Amazing what a coat of paint does to the tomix colored plastic buildings! Love the yakitori shop. You need a pile of customers on the street.

 

Jeff

[nscalestation]

4 hours ago, cteno4 said:

Amazing what a coat of paint does to the tomix colored plastic buildings! Love the yakitori shop. You need a pile of customers on the street.

 

Jeff

Thanks Jeff.  Yes everything looks better after painting.  More people will be added, there are currently about 80 on this module

[nscalestation]

Just finished up one of those Tomix Pachinko buildings.  Link to post on my blog: https://tokyo-in-nscale.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-tomix-pachinko-building-part-2.html

 

 

[Khaul]

It is a rainy afternoon here in Sydney. I came by to see if I can get my motivation back. I can see fantastic stuff happening in JNS forum! Many of the old time members are still here, and there is a lot of new people.

 

Update: I got some motivation back :-), I put together an Inglenook puzzle on my desk, too easy with Unitrack. I am glad to see how well my DE10 still runs. I am think of putting that on a 1m x 25cm base adding quite a bit of detail and even a low background scene. 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Khaul