cteno4 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Well i can blame bill for this. he found it and tempted me with it and after a couple of weeks i finally broke down and put in a reservation for one... good thing there are not many trains i want right now! Its a 1/144 model of the Kumamoto Castle complex! the kit even comes apart to show the internal wooden beam bracing and the rooms! Having visited this castle in 1984 i could not resist! really is quite a looker! going to take some figuring to find a place for it in my home layout planning! potentially we can use it in the center area of the jrm layout. its about 16" x 8". will need alot of open space around it as well and moats and mansion, walls... http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://www.mr-hobby.com/kumamotojyou/about.html&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhg8vupott-3y3Qay0t872FYihcQYg HS has it up for pre order for 20% off. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10090055 hs has it listed for march release, but the GSI Ceros site has it listed for oct/nov 2010 in one place, but it looks like end of march is the official date now. it started with an initial release date of nov 2008, so who knows! video cheers jeff Link to comment
bill937ca Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Thanks for the blame!! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 Hey i have to have someone to blame with Dorothy when this finally shows up! you are a good pusher! hey i get the blame for pushing tech on a bunch of friends all the time... thanks for taking the blame, really do look forward to getting this one! cheers jeff Link to comment
bill937ca Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Just in case you are not familiar with where the Kumamoto Castle sits in the city. Leading up to the castle (at about 8:30). Immediately in front of the castle. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 ahh now you know why i bit on this one! hoping to make the castle as a little diorama that i can then plunk down with the streetcar ttrak, the jrm layout and eventually my home layout (and maybe it will look so cool i can sneak it upstairs in the living room for display at times! cheers jeff Link to comment
Mudkip Orange Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 On the one hand: OMG 200 DOLLARS FOR A BUILDING! On the other hand: OMG THAT'S AWESOME! Link to comment
traindork Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 That is very impressive! I may have to get one. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Be very careful, repeated looking at this model leads you to putting in a reservation... i know from experience... hopefully i wont be living in the castle model in the backyard. cheers, jeff Link to comment
qwertyaardvark Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Be very careful, repeated looking at this model leads you to putting in a reservation... *looks in amazement at model* *looks at credit cards' available balances* :repeat: Link to comment
bill937ca Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Be very careful, repeated looking at this model leads you to putting in a reservation... i know from experience... hopefully i wont be living in the castle model in the backyard. cheers, jeff You'll be the only person in your neighborhood with a castle!!!! Link to comment
Guest ___ Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 You won't be able to find the dog for a week. It'll be great, I'll ring the doorbell, and a week later Puchini will make it to the front door. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 30, 2010 Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 UH OH!!!! just got the email from hobbysearch that the castle is in stock!!! wooo hooo, but its going to hurt when the bill comes! good thing was i reserved it during the 20% off sale so that will help with the ems shipping which i expect to be harsh! but i did make 1000 bonus points on it! cheers jeff Link to comment
bill937ca Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 So, now that you will have a castle, will you have a bigger train room? Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 30, 2010 Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 ok i may be living in the castle in the back yard... just got the shipping notice with the ems cost... im still reeling... 12900yen! OUCH! thats like 8kg! i guess getting the 20% + 5% helped some, but that means i spent about 65% of the cost of the item alone to ship it... i best get back to work and earn some money to pay for this now! jeff Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 My record is about 16200 yen for shipping alone. That was a HUGE box which had a 1:150 scale Nippon Maru and a Perfect Grade Gundam 00 Raiser =) Sure was a shock when they finally got the final shipping cost. I was expecting it to be high, but wasn't really sure since the PG Gundam was pre-ordered, and I had no idea how big the box of the Nippon Maru was. Link to comment
bill937ca Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 My record is 7500 Yen on a general order of 20009 Yen. Second highest was 6100 Yen on a general order of 38,750 Yen (with shipping). But that was only 15.74% of the order value. Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Actually, my samurai armour cost a LOT more than 16200 yen to ship... Anyways, getting way too off-topic ;) Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 30, 2010 Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 Martijn, actually you brought it back on topic for me as one idea i have had for a long time for my ttrak modules was to have a park scene with a samurai demonstration going on as well as Yabusame. now with the castle it would be fun to have a demonstration going on there with a big crowd around as well as the regular tourists. figure there could be a small mock battle even or at least a demonstration of infantry and cavalry. its great as in the background area i can use all those tomytec horse carriers! whoo hoo! other things this scene is also going to need: • large parking lot of tourist busses! • lots of tourists • lots of folks taking pictures • would be fun to make some strobe flash effects in some places for the photographers • visitors' center more im sure! have to start researching the grounds around the castle some. you can get a rough view of it on google maps. if anyone has pictures it would be a help! not sure now if its worth the cost, but it is just too cool! cheers jeff Link to comment
bill937ca Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 There's a few photos here. http://noble-scarlet.at.webry.info/200808/article_4.html Link to comment
cteno4 Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 Thanks bill i need to do some poking around. i think i had a link to the plan of the grounds that was on some wargaming site, but need to track down that link. whats going to be tough are the outer walls and houses to fill in. the grounds are pretty extensive and stretch all the way to the river. there is a good 3D of the castle in google earth that should be a good starting point. http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=CRttVN5CyS7OyFIGalQfu0L3NAeXw_rgBh_uk8Q3I0vG_AggAEAEguVRQ_8228wdgyZ6GiYikgBCgAfmw6-4DyAEBqgQYT9ADuoT-VralK98xlPykeIKrd2YP2QfagAWQTg&sig=AGiWqtxWkcn8F2wnnu2s4dslvu55LqYOtg&q=http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory%3Fsynd%3Dearth%26preview%3Don%26cat%3D3d%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmaps.google.com%252Fmaps%252Fgx%253Foe%253Dutf-8%2526output%253Dghapi%2526q%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fearth.google.com%25252Fgallery%25252Fkmz%25252Fkumamotocastle.kmz im thinking i will probably do a stylized scene and not get into trying to make it totally prototypical. the size needed for the whole complex would be huge! cheers jeff Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Martijn, actually you brought it back on topic for me as one idea i have had for a long time for my ttrak modules was to have a park scene with a samurai demonstration going on as well as Yabusame. now with the castle it would be fun to have a demonstration going on there with a big crowd around as well as the regular tourists. figure there could be a small mock battle even or at least a demonstration of infantry and cavalry. its great as in the background area i can use all those tomytec horse carriers! whoo hoo! other things this scene is also going to need: • large parking lot of tourist busses! • lots of tourists • lots of folks taking pictures • would be fun to make some strobe flash effects in some places for the photographers • visitors' center more im sure! have to start researching the grounds around the castle some. you can get a rough view of it on google maps. if anyone has pictures it would be a help! not sure now if its worth the cost, but it is just too cool! cheers jeff I have a DVD that shows a certain school of archery in Japan practicing in armour. There's about 20 of them or something, and they go through a whole routine of how an archers unit would've operated during the various wars in Japan pre-arquebus period. You could base a scene on that, as such demonstrations are still quite common. Here's a (rather crappy) video of an indoor demonstration of the same school (heki ryu satsuma ha), it's not quite as interesting as the DVD I have, but it does give an idea. Interestingly enough, I shoot the same general technique as these guys (I shoot heki ryu insai ha.) Link to comment
scott Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Does it come with the giant flaming samurai as shown on the box? (*Somebody* has to stop the monster lizard....) Link to comment
Guest ___ Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 You know there is an all new Godzilla remark underway for the US for 2012. It's a remake of the original movie that follows the original 60's movie more closely than the 98 remake. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted April 2, 2010 Author Share Posted April 2, 2010 Ok i have created a monster or at least bought one! The castle showed up today and its huge! the shipping box was 70cm x 70cm x 25cm and 8kg! it was packed in a dual corrugated cardboard outer box and then a single layer corrugated box inside that then the actual model box. the model box is almost as big as the shipping box. there is also a separate box with the display stand which is a nice piece of black lacquered wood. Inside the actual model box are 4 long boxes containing all the parts bags. about 6 parts bags per box. there are about 70 sprues of parts! there is also a 95 PAGE BOOK for assembly! each page shows photos of the assembly step along with a diagram for painting and detailing. it also has a small color booklet as a color guide with photos of the actual castle along with pictures of a completed, painted model. this thing is really going to take some time to assemble and paint. since the model can be take apart by floor, you can paint all the interior details like wall mats, tatami mats, etc. these items are detailed into the casting of the walls and floors, but are going to be very interesting to see about trying to paint them! i am almost thinking of printing up sheets that would be wall mats and tatami mats with some patterning on them or maybe textured paper even and sticking them down. this will give them a bit of relief which the actual thing would have and i would rather spend time cutting them up and placing them than trying to paint out several hundred tatami mats! this is not a project ill have done in the next week, maybe not even the next month or even year unless i really want to sit down for a week and whack at it! maybe a vacation is in order that all i do is build the castle! at $350 total i think i want to spend a good long time figuring out how im going to approach this! the cool thing is that in the back of the manual they have all 70 spures diagramed and listed out for sale individually from 200 (small belfry details) - 3800 yen (main base)! so if you muck a part up you can get it replaced! important with a kit costing this much money, very smart! cheers, jeff Link to comment
Bernard Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Jeff - could you post a photo of the size of this shipment, it hard to image the size of it. Link to comment
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