Inspirational Scenery & Layouts

[Kamome]

Marunouchi anyone?

 

https://youtu.be/YAiu_I-CloQ?si=Xwp_-RSFgKS3Zf6c

[cteno4]

Wow, real pro modeling!

 

interesting using the cob filiment LEDs. They are wired in series and I’m assuming 3v cobs that must be like 90v to power that and low current to not have it blinding. I was thinking of using the 3v cobs for station lights under platform roofs running perpendicular to the roof like those boxes you see running across the platform roofs in some and then just connection them all up in parallel and each with a limiting resistor. But using higher voltage with series and a current driver may be much simpler to dim. But with the parallel I could use large value resistors and then just vary the voltage to set the brightness. Hmmm.

 

jeff

[Khaul]

Inspirational, in a JR Shikoku way.

 

[bill937ca]

N Gauge Diorama of Hanshin Kobe Sannomiya Station

 

Will be on display at the  Sannomiya Railway Festival 2025
In addition to the newly created Hanshin Sannomiya Station, several past Hankyu dioramas will be on display!

April 29 (Tue, public holiday) – May 5 (Mon, public holiday)
Kobe Hankyu, Main Building 9F, Event Hall
Free Admission

 

 

Edited April 12 by bill937ca

[Kingmeow]

How do these folks typically build such a thing?  😲  Fancy CAD and a nice laser cutting machine?

Edited April 12 by Kingmeow

[UnfinishedKit]

Watching some of the cityscape videos it’s a mixture of kitbashing commercial stuff, 3D printing and good old fashioned scratch building. 

[Tony Galiani]

Impressed as always by Cityscape's work.  I noted that he filled in the traffic lights with black rather than a color for each lens.  Wonder how that looks when the display is set up and if this is a technique worth copying?

Tony

[bill937ca]

16 hours ago, Kingmeow said:

How do these folks typically build such a thing?  😲  Fancy CAD and a nice laser cutting machine?

The full video which he will post later shows this stuff.

[Khaul]

Seriously? This guy is does the most amazing things I have ever seen.

 

[Ekiben]

Kousan Mokei has done it again. I've recently been daydreaming about building my first T Trak module and out comes this video. Although it's a single-track diorama, I think the scene could easily be modified into a T Trak module. When I say "easily" I don't necessarily mean easy for me! 

 

 

[Kamome]

Those Daiso cases make great little diorama projects. There's a flat one like the video shows and a half-raised version which allows track or other scenery elements on 2 levels. 

[cteno4]

@Ekiben if you dont have a lot of other ttrakers around you, you can always just do a little loop or point to point of small modules with a single track on small wooden canvases which you can get at the local art supply or craft shop inexpensivly. No worries if the track overhangs some as it helps separate the different scenes and lets you even wander the single track around the table with bits of track between modules and moving the track around on the modules as best suited for the scenes [ttrak usually is the opposite with track really fixed and linear and track placement and module size really takes president over the scene].

 

BTW ttrak was started from a model train mag editor presenting using A4 sized pieces of plywood [available at many stores] into mini railroad dioramas. Lee Monaco saw the presentation while they were trying to bring n trak to japan and realized it was just about 310mm long and a small modular system could get based on this and ttrak was born.

 

jeff