The Introduction Thread...

[rc_dude]

9 hours ago, MeTheSwede said:

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Maybe this is what you are looking for?

 

 

Thanks. I tried doing that and the front part just won't budge. I'll try it again this weekend.

[rc_dude]

On 9/6/2024 at 12:35 AM, rc_dude said:

Thanks. I tried doing that and the front part just won't budge. I'll try it again this weekend.

 

On 9/5/2024 at 2:53 PM, MeTheSwede said:

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Maybe this is what you are looking for?

 

 

Finally able to do it. Felt like it was going to break. Thank you.

[MeTheSwede]

3 hours ago, rc_dude said:

Finally able to do it. Felt like it was going to break. Thank you.

 

I can totally relate. I haven't been picking apart my rolling stock much, but when I've done it, I've often felt the same.

[cteno4]

Yeah that is always the problem. Worst the first few times you open cars! But with practice and experience it gets a bit better, but never really leaves totally! 
 

jeff

[Kaputnik]

Hello everyone,

 

my name is Kaputnik from Germany and I mainly collect Japanese N gauge model trains. I have been a fan of Japanese railways for a long time, but ever since I saw a model railway layout in Kyoto station on a German TV show called Eisenbahnromantik, I was bitten by the model railway bug. As a child, I had a small Minitrix layout, but it eventually gathered dust in the basement and was dismantled. Two years ago I decided to build a new and larger layout so that I could run my trains. It consists mainly of German buildings, but also has a Japanese part. I would have liked that to be bigger, but Japanese buildings were hard to come by here in Germany at the time.

 

The photo shows the Japanese part of my layout featuring the Huis Ten Bosch 783 Series Limited Express (Micro Ace A3665).

 

Edited October 26, 2024 by Kaputnik

[tossedman]

Welcome to the forum. Your layout looks great. You’ve come to the right place for everything Japanese in model railroads. 

[Wolf]

Welcome aboard!

[cteno4]

Welcome Kaputnik, glad you found us. Looks like you have the bug! Nice layout, please start a topic on it in the layout forum, we always love to see how folks do their layouts! 
 

cheers

 

jeff

[Damo Jr.]

HI Kaputnik, welcome!   I have only just discovered Eisenbahnromantik on Youtube and they have some great stories on Japan rail.

[miyakoji]

Hi @Kaputnik welcome to the forum!

[lighthouse]

@Kaputnik Welcome!

[jingpeng]

Hi everyone

My name is jingpeng but unfortunately I'm not Chinese 😉

I 'm collecting slowly rolling material from Great Britain and France, but since now 2 years I'm fascinated by China and I've started to collect a small Chinese Roster in N scale.

SS6, SS6B, DF4B, DF4D and a "modern" SS8.

I'm waiting my retirement to have time starting to build a small modular chinese layout

[cteno4]

Welcome Jingpeng, glad you found us. We have a small but growing group of folks here getting into chinese trains. Careful you may also catch the bug for japanese trains as well if you hang around here too much.

 

Please start a topic on your modular layout, we always love to see what folks are doing.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[miyakoji]

Hi @jingpeng welcome to the forum!

[jingpeng]

Thanks all for the welcome.

I'm a bit of a geek and it seems difficult to convert to DCC Japanese rolling stock, but I must admit that 10 years ago I was very tempted to start collecting Japanese models.

My layout will be using Kato track and I've also ordered a KHI 6K locomotive. So a bit of Japan technology is in my future project.

[disturbman]

Hi @jingpeng

Welcome aboard! Always nice to see a fellow modeller fascinated by Chinese trains and models.

If you want to go into building a Chinese layout, you will likely be interested in Minicity buildings. They haven't made a lot yet, but they will likely slowly expand their offering.

Edited 4 hours ago by disturbman

[BigEd]

New to this forum. I started off collecting Japanese N scale back in 1997, then just about all I saw (including UK and continental), then American N (largest part of my collection now), then I ran into financial problems and sold my Japanese collection to a Dutchman, and then I started to slowly replace my Japanese N again the last 10 years.

The good thing about JNR N scale was that I got to know Kato and to this day it's my favourite! Most of my US locomotives are Kato in Union Pacific and Amtrak flavour - some others too. They qualify of the craftsmanship and the running ability always stuns me. 

As it is I have a small layout in a room built with Kato Unitrak except for the glass bridge across the window. You can see some videos on my channel and there's also a link to some photo's on my own forum. Please visit - I need all the motivation to complete my layout so I can Njoy my trains more! Yes, I have way too many trains for my layout...but I try...

https://www.youtube.com/@edwardkeown9824 

Njoy!
Ed from Cape Town

South Africa

Edited 5 hours ago by BigEd

[miyakoji]

Hi @BigEd welcome to the forum!

[cteno4]

Welcome to the forum Ed, glad you found us. Keep at the layout. Maybe start a topic here on the layout and add some updates as you work on it so folks can give you some encouragement and ideas here.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[jingpeng]

6 hours ago, disturbman said:

Hi @jingpeng

Welcome aboard! Always nice to see a fellow modeller fascinated by Chinese trains and models.

If you want to go into building a Chinese layout, you will likely be interested in Minicity buildings. They haven't made a lot yet, but they will likely slowly expand their offering.

I've seen these buildings, but the interesting ones, for the years I want to model, are quite difficult to find right now

So, I've started modelling my first parts to print them out in 3D

 

 

[disturbman]

I can imagine. This is really still only the beginning of railroad modelling in China. It will take years for before many eras are covered properly.

I personally was quite interested in and fond of some of the first railroad related buildings they made as they had definitely a very mid-20th tinge to them.