Newdays Kiosk miniatures? Are they all 1/450?

[DanMacK]

Hey all,

 

browsing around on Google Japan, I came upon a Shinkansen in 1/450 scale from the JR Newdays kiosks.  A search has since turned up other bits of equipment (Ef55, Cassiopea tail car, and a C53 and what looks like a pair of 20 series blue cars) among others.

 

I know the little Shinkansen were 1/450 scale, but I'm wondering about the others.  Modeling in T Gauge, anything I can find in 1/450 is helpful :)

 

Also, if anyone's willing to part with these little gems, I'd be more than happy to take them off your hands ;)

 

Regards,

Dan MacKellar

[cteno4]

dan,

 

i think these may be the little futura solid plastic capsule toys. ive a few of these. not sure if they are right at 1.450 or not.

 

jeff

[DanMacK]

Jeff, I think I know which ones you mean, and they're not the ones I'm thinking of.  The Newdays ones come/came in a bag with a train car/loco, a piece of plastic with what looks like a sticker for track, and, of course, a Newdays kiosk of some sort.

 

Below is the C53 for example.  I'm not even sure if these are metal or plastic...

[cteno4]

interesting. id guess plastic. any links to other info?

 

jeff

[DanMacK]

A bit.  This series looks like it was from a few years back.  This link has a bit more info on the Shinkansen series - Looks like they had the E1-4.  I also know there was a 0 Series as well.

[cteno4]

dan,

 

link isnt working unfortunately.

 

jeff

[DanMacK]

Try it now :)  Another is here - Needs to be translated.

[cteno4]

interesting, they are smaller than the futura choco egg trains it appears. looks like they were like the trams coming with bottles of tea.

 

http://mitsu-z.blog.so-net.ne.jp/archive/c223224-2

 

http://mitsu-z.blog.so-net.ne.jp/archive/c223224-1

 

http://blog.livedoor.jp/miku861/archives/54855163.html

 

http://miyayume.cocolog-nifty.com/trainbox/images/2008/10/15/081014tsunagaruteppaku01_2.jpg

 

http://pics.livedoor.com/u/miku861/3202204

 

heres a great review of a whole bunch of shinkansen toys!

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/sakapoyosu/tec0goods/index.htm

 

and this is has to be done by someone on a platform. fujisawa station has a newdays kiosk in the shape of a joban line 653

 

http://file.jnr.blog.shinobi.jp/4745.jpg

 

and this one

 

http://file.jnr.blog.shinobi.jp/2513.jpg

 

thinking that papercraft might work well for this with its more blocky appearance and scaling to size.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[DanMacK]

Nice finds!  Yeah...  they are considerably smaller.  I was thinking the Shinkansen might look good perched on a viaduct cutting across a T-Gauge scene.  The Cassiopia, if to the same general scale, would be a good stationary train as well.

 

Next challenge is to find some :P

 

 

BTW, that link of the Shinkansen toys was where I first discovered these things

[cteno4]

yeah they do have good detail for t scale. would make a nice diorama.

 

i regularly look for odd shinkansen toys like this on ebay and have yet to see these. guessing they are on yahoo.jp auctions. since these were not capsule toys i dont expect they will show up from the hong kong or singapore sources that seem to close out things like these.

 

report if you track them down!

 

cheers

 

jeff