Cat Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Long-time modeller and new to Japanese image model railroading. I've been gradually collecting B-Train Shorties over the years with an eye towards building some T-Trak modules. Current plan is to start building later this year, doing an N scale urban layout that can also do double duty as a terrain board for playing tabletop miniatures games (Kaiju, BattleTech stompy robots, Girls und Panzer tank battles, etc.) 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Welcome Cat, glad you found us. Btrain shorties are a good one to suck you in. Very fun and easy to play with in limited space. Ttrak is fun as well to not have to dive into a larger layout project and to play with others some easily. looking forward to what you come up with! have you seen Nick Yees little Btrain layout? Quite fun. http://japanrailmodelers.org/pages/modelingjapan/btrainshorty-pt1.html cheers jeff 1 Link to comment
Cat Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 Thanks Jeff, Yes, I have seen that; it's lovely work! We're currently sketching out ideas for a 6'x4'3" layout (2x3 17"-deep modules) which would be a good size for tabletop gaming with standard T-Trak mainline running along one edge and can also connect a 7th 17" module to the mainline with a small fiddle yard and a transfer table for when we're just playing trains. Hope is that we can bring this to both gaming conventions and model railroad conventions. Link to comment
DanielMackay Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Welcome, Cat! You've just found the rabbit hole. Lots to learn and be amazed by here, products and people both. 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Cat, sounds cool, look forward to seeing this! Great double purposed like, crossover can also happen this way. jeff 1 Link to comment
miyakoji Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hi Cat, welcome to the forum! 1 Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Welcome Kat! BShorties are really cute, and because of their smaller size, it is possible to have a 16car shinkansen in a limited space! Glad you found us! Enjoy yourself here! 1 Link to comment
Cat Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 11 hours ago, JR 500系 said: BShorties are really cute, and because of their smaller size, it is possible to have a 16car shinkansen in a limited space! Our big train will be the super cute 9 unit Cassiopeia. Recently purchased sets A, B, and C from Rakuten Global Market; just got the shipping notice yesterday. Link to comment
ChapterPeter Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Hello, Cat! Welcome to the forum! 1 Link to comment
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