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.