Building a 26 x 75 cm N-scale layout for IKEA Billy

[Cat]

"It turned out the little building houses a tempura restaurant. At least the sign I found says so."
 
That's what the ninjas want you to think.
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[cteno4]

We had a wonderful Kaiseki style restaurant here in dc for a very long time, sadly closed just pre covid. It was tiny, sat maybe 16 people in this tiny below ground basement space, with 2 hr meal and 2 seatings. Very reasonable price, but we could not figure how they could make money on such a tiny customer base and only a single turnover a night. They seemed to have a lot more cooks and wait staff than needed even for a multicourse Kaiseki meal. The going theory was there was a back room for ninjas and yakusa to eat with a secret back door! The restaurant was just a front to have the cooks and staff on hire.

 

jeff

[MeTheSwede]

The drawback of using thin foamboard as a layout base is that I won't be able to realistically model the basement empire full of yakusa and ninjas. I might need to do something about that. 🤔

[Cat]

You could show them piling out of a van...

 

[MeTheSwede]

As soon as Tomytec releases that three-wheeled vehicle!

[cteno4]

And add some 3d printed ninjas…

 

kind of feels like ninja roller derby meets Benny hill.

 

jeff

[MeTheSwede]

I got some catenarey poles up so now the EMU I was gifted can operate in the town.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't remember there being bird droppings on the catenery poles when I unboxed them. 🤔

 

 

 

What are those birds up there? Pidgeons?

[bill937ca]

Small nit pick. That is a Tokyo Toden tram.  It has no couplers, therefore can't be MU and runs solo. It is a high floor tram route probably because of the politics of no street loading trams.

Edited September 8, 2024 by bill937ca

[MeTheSwede]

I was so focused on not using the word "train" that I didn't think about what I put there instead. 😆

[Beaver]

Electric trains and electric trams are both called densha, so it is fine. I get the impression this leads to many Japanese people not knowing or noticing the difference between railways and tramways.

[MeTheSwede]

 

This 電車 has tramways written on the side of the vehicle, so I think I'm going to call it a tram. 😃

[brill27mcb]

It has the drop-down end platforms to facilitate street-level loading, so it's definitely a tram by anyone's definition. Bill can explain the Japan-specific differentiation and rules about street-level and station-platform-level loading. I think I have seen it spelled out here on the forum in the past.

 

Rich K.

[bill937ca]

Looks like Nagasaki 207.  😁 Perhaps a beer tram.

[cteno4]

Beer + Trams = good

 

jeff

[bill937ca]

Particularly in Japan. Just step up a table down the center of the aisle.