Has anyone gotten the book "N Gauge Layout Collection"?

[Mister Gee]

It's written by Kunihiko Ikeda. It consists of 25 layouts using Kato track and 25 layouts using Tomix track. I have to say it's exactly what I needed for layout inspiration. It's very well illustrated and everything I could think of is explained for each layout. Anyone have thoughts on this book?

 

Edited June 22 by Mister Gee

[cteno4]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Did I say YES!? 😜

 

It’s mentioned a lot around the forum when folks look for inspiration for small to medium sized layouts, it’s the best book I’ve ever seen for layout planning inspiration. His sketches are wonderful and work really well to stimulating your imagination. He does lime every other layout in Tomix finetrack and Kato Unitrak so you get both sides of the coin. The track plans are fun and even ones with a lot of track he manages to make room for buildings and scenery bits so it does not get into a spaghetti bowl.

 

i believe it’s out of print currently, but still around in shops new and used but the prices I’ve seen are much higher than when I got it like 6 or 7 years ago. It may take some snooping around to find at a reasonable price shipped to the us. He published some ebook additions to the book and they were on Amazon for a while but not buyable outside Japan. There are some workaround to that, but not sure if they are still around.

 

its a great book, probably my favorite model train book.

 

jeff

[Mister Gee]

53 minutes ago, cteno4 said:

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Did I say YES!? 😜

its a great book, probably my favorite model train book.

 

jeff

Jeff - I couldn't agree more! I got a pretty good deal on it from someone in Japan on eBay (think I paid $40 shipped). It's exactly what I was looking for.

 

John

[cteno4]

John, 

 

cool! Sounds like a good price I think I paid close to that several years back with Amazon.jp new. I think you’ll love the book. It’s fun to just pick up and flip through now and then. His perspective sketches just get my brain churning fast. Very enjoyable.

 

jeff

[Gunzel]

There is a series of their layout plan books available for Kindle on Amazon in Australia:

 

https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/池田-邦彦/author/B00U84ZO1I

 

And I just tried changing the domain name, seems they are available for Amazon US as well:

 

https://www.amazon.com/stores/池田-邦彦/author/B00U84ZO1I

 

Whether these are extracts from the original book referenced above or more I'm not sure. 

 

There's also a narrow gauge book:

 

https://www.amazon.com.au/Narrow-Gauge-Layout-Modeling-Japanese-ebook/dp/B07QV1M6MT

 

And a HO scale book (not on Kindle though):

 

https://www.amazon.com/鉄道模型を楽しむ本-HOゲージ小型レイアウトの作り方/dp/4416306148

 

[cteno4]

Nice kindle editions are back on Amazon.com as well now! May have to get some. Digital is not quite as nice to leaf through though.

 

jeff