Kato Hobby Center kit?

[Kingmeow]

I know this is a big ask but I was wondering does anyone make a kit of Kato Hobby Center in Tokyo?  I'm thinking about building a Japanese themed T-Trak module and perhaps have the Kato Hobby Center as the point of focus.

 

(If not, Kato should make one!  😁)

[bill937ca]

Well to start the train parked out front is a Keikyu 230 series.

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keikyu-268-kato.jpg

Keikyu 230 series EMU displayed at the Sekisui Kinzoku headquarters building

 

Kato currently offers a model of Keikyu 268.

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10812205

[MeTheSwede]

I think The Keikyu 230 series and appropriate signage is kind of what makes the building recognisable, so maybe the exact look of the building itself isn't that important?

[bill937ca]

This the second Kato Hobby Center building #268 was outside of.

 

First (?) Kato Hobby Center.

https://www.etrain.jp/shoplist/shoplist.cgi?field=57

 

https://pbase.com/atsf_arizona/image/102794094

 

https://pbase.com/atsf_arizona/image/102794096

 

Kato had weathered #268 just for us!  Now #268 is fully restored.

 

https://pbase.com/atsf_arizona/image/102794302

 

The Kato 23-210 Industrial Building could be a double for the earlier shop.  Maybe the prototype is the original building.

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10003187

Edited January 7 by bill937ca

[Beaver]

18 hours ago, bill937ca said:

Well to start the train parked out front is a Keikyu 230 series.

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keikyu-268-kato.jpg

Keikyu 230 series EMU displayed at the Sekisui Kinzoku headquarters building

 

Kato currently offers a model of Keikyu 268.

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10812205

 

There is also a (Green Max?) pre-coloured kit of an actual 230, which has at various times been on sale inside.

[Beaver]

Ooops, mistake; 268 is one of the 230 series cars. Duh, The kit in the link is the kit I saw on sale. Duh.