New micro layout that also fits into an IKEA Billy bookcase

[cteno4]

Or on a small folding table doing a rectangle of modules  into a larger loop with two 180 modules sideways at the ends. I’ve often knoodled on a more random single track module layout more like bendtrack or your setup that is more a sectional layout of a long skinny loop that wanders a bit. Basically what mini onetrak ended up but smaller scale. There is something satisfying about a longer skinny module with more random track on it that the straight thru Ttrak concept.

 

jeff

[MeTheSwede]

My next building is a kitbash/scratch built family home made to fit a small plot. For this one I wanted to do a house that incorperates a type of garage that I find very typical for urban Japan.

 

I cut out some wall bits with windows from a Greenmax kit and then cut the rest of the walls out of styrene sheets to make the building fit the available space. Then it was a matter of glueing, painting, adding details and weathering.

 

 

 

 

And here it is, the family home with the slightly too small garage:

 

 

 

 

[cteno4]

Buy your new car, drive it home and Oh crap!

 

jeff

[Cat]

But you got your permit to buy the car because you proved you had a parking spot for it!

[MeTheSwede]

22 hours ago, cteno4 said:

Buy your new car, drive it home and Oh crap!

 

jeff

 

That's why I stick to bicycles! 😆

[cteno4]

51 minutes ago, MeTheSwede said:

That's why I stick to bicycles! 😆

Then the bike is sticking partway out of the closet…

 

jeff

[Beaver]

On 10/15/2024 at 3:24 AM, Cat said:

But you got your permit to buy the car because you proved you had a parking spot for it!

 

As far as I understand it, the authorities do not always check very thoroughly, or indeed at all, whether the spot is actually suitable for the car........

[Kamome]

It’s less of a thing these days with a shrinking population, but one of those well-documented things that used to happen. Perhaps some areas of heavily congested cities still maintain the practise but with the large amount of Mercedes G wagons and imported Toyota Tundras I see these days, I doubt the local police have a big enough measuring stick. 

 

@MeTheSwedeI’m more concerned about the frivolous parking of that blue Suzuki Hustler. By Japanese standards, they’ve practically parked in the middle of the road. 

[MeTheSwede]

5 hours ago, Kamome said:

 

@MeTheSwedeI’m more concerned about the frivolous parking of that blue Suzuki Hustler. By Japanese standards, they’ve practically parked in the middle of the road. 

 

Parked? I think that's a self driving car. Or possibly it's driven by an under average height little old lady.

[MeTheSwede]

On 10/15/2024 at 7:44 PM, cteno4 said:

Then the bike is sticking partway out of the closet…

 

jeff

 

I've solved the bicykle parking problem.

 

I've even got spare room for another bike!

 

 

[MeTheSwede]

This week I experimented with adding a backdrop before taking some pictures.

 

 

 

 

It's not a real backdrop, but something more real. Let's call it a temporary set up "3D backdrop".

 

 

 

 

 

 

A close up of the "back drop street".

[brill27mcb]

Looks like a tram layout to me!  😉

 

Rich K.

[MeTheSwede]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:07 PM, brill27mcb said:

Looks like a tram layout to me!  😉

 

Rich K.

 

Oh no!

It seems I missunderstood and thought it was a shunting layout. 😉

[MeTheSwede]

 

 

I had a gaming friend over and he was greeted by a shunting puzzle. A train arrives and it's cars has to be spotted in the correct places as shown by randomly picked cards. Cars already present on the layout has to be shorted before being pulled out the same way the first train arrived.

 

"This shouldn't be too hard" my friend said just before a sleepy bus driver almost drove into the runnel and got stuck across the rails while trying to turn around, thus severely limiting the lenght of the yard lead!

 

 

 

 

The hook from the sky was kept busy, as we ramped up the difficult from first 10, then 11 and finally 12 cars!

 

 

 

Remembering which cars were parked inside the locomotive shed turned out to be a bonus challenge.

 

 

 

It seems that 13 cars should be possible, but we'll try that another day.