cteno4 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 dont remember seeing this one come up on the kato site before and HS has not picked it up, but plaza japan has it. its a cute painted pocket line tram for a chicken ramen product. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120825338371&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_1948wt_1126 http://www.katomodels.com/product/nmi/pocket_line.shtml bit pricier than the plain pocket tram, but this one looks a lot less toy like to me painted like this than the plain green one. on second thought i think maybe i remember seeing a picture of his earlier in the year, maybe in one of the trade show blogs. the fog of age... cheers jeff Link to comment
Mudkip Orange Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 dude... i NEED one... Link to comment
bill937ca Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Is that Tweety bird on sushi? Link to comment
Hobby Dreamer Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Maybe its the angle on the Kato site, but the track separation seems wide on the curve.. .. and a tight curve approaching to make the station stop... Link to comment
cteno4 Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Is that Tweety bird on sushi? no tweety bird on noodle soup. plazajapan actually translated ramen into chicken soup! jeff Link to comment
cteno4 Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Maybe its the angle on the Kato site, but the track separation seems wide on the curve.. .. and a tight curve approaching to make the station stop... yep thats the unitram curve it swings from the 25mm spacing on the straight to 33mm in the middle of the curve so it does do a wide swing and i think that angle just magnifies it. jeff Link to comment
Krackel Hopper Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I think someone on here posted a Kato release poster that showed this, but the picture was so small I couldn't tell it was a "painted" tram.. I just thought it was the Pocket Line tram in a different color.. I'm pretty sure I need one.. (in the background) RapitBunny - "Is that baby chicken eating ramen? Awww.. I want it!" Link to comment
cteno4 Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 actually i think its more the baby chicken is served on the ramen! its always a bit quirky when the advertising mascot is the thing you are eating... i broke down w/in about 2 minutes of seeing it at plaza japan... may sell off the old green version. jeff Link to comment
westfalen Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 They actually don't look too bad, amazing what different paint will do. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Yes, the original have a sort of not real look and feel, but the new paint job somehow makes them quite realistic now. Always interesting seeing different things like this flipping modeling things between unreal and real like this. Jeff Link to comment
rpierce000 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 They are goofy looking little things aren't they. If you guys want to buy a bunch I would knock 10% off the price if you can get an order of 5 together. Bob bob@bob@bttrains.com Link to comment
westfalen Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Last night I was looking through my photos from last years trip and realised I rode the chicken ramen monorail while I was in Osaka. It's a real paint scheme after all. Link to comment
cteno4 Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Cool, thanks! The tram looks almost like the monorail in shape... Jeff Link to comment
Nick_Burman Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Last night I was looking through my photos from last years trip and realised I rode the chicken ramen monorail while I was in Osaka. It's a real paint scheme after all. AFAIK the chicken ramen tram did have a prototype, if I'm correct it was in Nagasaki. There is a small pic of in in a photomontage on the Introduction Forum, I'll look it up later. Cheers NB Link to comment
bill937ca Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Here it is in Nagasaki. http://photozou.jp/photo/photo_only/370003/66050938?size=1024 Link to comment
Krackel Hopper Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 So when is Modemo going make this Nagasaki prototype? After that, will Greenmax/Fujimi do a monorail release? If only.. Link to comment
Nick_Burman Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Here it is in Nagasaki. http://photozou.jp/photo/photo_only/370003/66050938?size=1024 Thanks Bill. Saved me an awful amout of searching... Cheers NB 1 Link to comment
quinntopia Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I have to see that Tram looks fantastic in that livery! :grin Link to comment
westfalen Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I've really got to sit down and look at all my photos from my trip last November. I was just putting some of my video onto DVD for a friend at work when what do I see trundle past my camera in Kagoshima? These things are everywhere. 1 Link to comment
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