Looking for building recommendations (suburban / residential) to fit this tight space.

[Sheffie]

I have a gap in my layout that's maybe 40cm long and 8-9cm wide. On one side is a road (white unpainted foam in pic), on the other, a railway line. On one end is a little apartment complex, on the other, a bus stop and the back side / end of a railway platform. (The exposed pink foam will be a grassy area with a long line of cherry trees running along the back wall of the platform.)

 

 

I am looking for recommendations for buildings that will fill this gap. This is not supposed to be a large town, so I don't really want anything more than a few floors high. I would consider small businesses and shops, although they would be facing the rear of the layout, so it would really be a waste to get anything with an eye-catching facade. This is why I am thinking that apartment or other housing, or even low-rise office buildings, might be best.

 

My problem is that I don't know which models / kits would fit into the ~8cm available space. This isn't clear, when shopping online.

Edited April 10, 2021 by Sheffie

[katoftw]

Houses. Leave a gap in the middle of the houses for a kids park/palyground.

[bill937ca]

The small Greenmax houses (2137, 2600, 2593) are 45mm x 45mm at 47mm high. You get three  in the prepainted structure packages. Thera are six in a structure kit. 

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10667160

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10624334

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10190735

 

Greenmax 2136 and 2137 introduction.   http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/blog01/archives/65352

 

Tomytec houses.  W 40mm D 50mm H 60mm

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513026

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513027

[bill937ca]

There are also Tomytec  Contemporary Apartment Buildings that are a bit larger.  Cm 10 W x 7 D x 9 H.

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10543119

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10626531

[cteno4]

@bill937ca where did you post the little residential block you did for a similar little strip/corner of one of your layouts?

 

jeff

[bill937ca]

49 minutes ago, cteno4 said:

@bill937ca where did you post the little residential block you did for a similar little strip/corner of one of your layouts?

 

jeff

It is in my Kamakura thread.  It uses Tomytec houses of similar dimensions as above.  

 

Edited April 10, 2021 by bill937ca

[railsquid]

3 hours ago, Sheffie said:

I have a gap in my layout that's maybe 40cm long and 8-9cm wide. On one side is a road (white unpainted foam in pic), on the other, a railway line. On one end is a little. I would consider small businesses and shops, although they would be facing the rear of the layout, so it would really be a waste to get anything with an eye-catching facade. This is why I am thinking that apartment or other housing, or even low-rise office buildings, might be best

 

Happily a big feature of railway lines in Japan is "rear side of row of low buildings facing the railway line", so just the space for an ad-hoc lineup of small buildings along the lines @bill937ca suggested. Another cheap space-filler would be the classic Tomix 3-house set.

[Sheffie]

Thanks for the information, everyone.

 

I have ordered two of the Tomytec 4-storey contemporary apartment buildings https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10626531 which I plan on editing somewhat. I don't think the hi-rise car storage is really going to fit in an environment where most of the people are expected to use the bus or walk to the railway station.

I also ordered one pair each of the Tomytec Narrow Houses A4 https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513026 and B4 https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513027

It's a shame that more of those series aren't available. The other colours and styles look quite nice, and I would have got more if there was more variety available.

 

I considered the painted Greenmax kits (https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10667160 etc.), but I'm not sure I want to spend time worrying about putting them together properly. It's still possible that I will order one, but they seem a bit expensive compared to the others.

Edited April 11, 2021 by Sheffie

[gavino200]

2 hours ago, Sheffie said:

 

I have ordered two of the Tomytec 4-storey contemporary apartment buildings https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10626531 which I plan on editing somewhat. I don't think the hi-rise car storage is really going to fit in an environment where most of the people are expected to use the bus or walk to the railway station.

 

 

That's probably fortunate. The hi-rise car storage thingy is a real PITA to assemble.