My Japanese N Scale Diorama - NEW Dinning Table Layout

[cteno4]

Sammy, wonderful! Kudos! Great way to display all those vehicles, but of course not enough busses! I’m disappointed...

 

cheers

 

jeff

[JR 500系]

17 minutes ago, cteno4 said:

Sammy, wonderful! Kudos! Great way to display all those vehicles, but of course not enough busses! I’m disappointed...

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

Haha thanks Jeff! 

 

There's a separate cabinet for those ~  😛

 

Will be posting more when I get around designing how I should 'display' them, though it should somewhere be close to this  😛

Edited May 23, 2020 by JR 500系

[JR 500系]

On 5/16/2020 at 2:34 AM, Pauljag900 said:

Nice work Sammy👍👍👏👏👏

how about a running video soon? It’s been far too long buddy😂😂👍

 

Haha sure buddy!

 

Had a little run over the last weekend... My fav PTE rail again, Odakyu!

 

Odakyu 3000 series 

 

Odakyu 20000 series RSE

 

Parked into the yard ~ Techno inspector was among the 3000 series ~  🙂

 

 

 

MSE meets EXE 

 

 

 

 

 

Odakyu 1000 series RED

 

Probably at Odawara station?  🙂

 

 

[Pauljag900]

Superb sammy👍😀and I bet you ve still got about 5,000 you can t fit on!😂😂

[Pauljag900]

Thank you Sammy,made my mid morning coffee even more enjoyable👏👏😂😂😂

[gavino200]

That looks awesome Sammy! I'm gonna have to build one of those some day!!

[JR 500系]

Another run on Takahashi town since we got some time and it has been a while since i ran some trains so... 

 

It's Kintetsu time!

 

The Blue Symphony is really beautiful!

 

Gotta love that head mark!

 

At random Kintetsu station? 

 

And my first attempt at another edit video:

 

Parting short of the Fire Station ~  🙂

[bill937ca]

On 2/16/2019 at 2:57 AM, JR 500系 said:

 

 

Do you guys think I should have fences in-between the tram tracks and the walking street? Looks pretty dangerous to me ~  😛

 

I'm a little slow on this.  Generally, you'll find a buffer lane of (usually) parked cars. But there are places where trams run along the curb like much of Lisbon. And yes, big trams. In Japan trams tend to be alone in the middle of street. (There probably is an exception somewhere--watch it bite me!!)

Edited May 17, 2021 by bill937ca

[inobu]

On 8/10/2020 at 12:21 AM, JR 500系 said:

Another run on Takahashi town since we got some time and it has been a while since i ran some trains so... 

 

It's Kintetsu time!

 

The Blue Symphony is really beautiful!

 

Gotta love that head mark!

 

At random Kintetsu station? 

 

And my first attempt at another edit video:

 

Parting short of the Fire Station ~  🙂

From now on, I'm going to put out one or two people and call it March 2020..........gotta paint the masks on as well.......

[JR 500系]

It's official. I'm moving!

 

Hence, i would not be making any more progress on Takahashi town.... It will also face the axe very soon.... 

 

But, what is brighter, i get to build a NEW layout! Exciting! This time, i get more space as well!!!!   🙂 

 

I will miss running trains on Takahashi though, there are several months before the axe and the move, so i guess i'll try to run more trains now ~

[cteno4]

Wow! Great you will have more room for trains in the new place. Sad the old layout will go away, but most of it wasn’t glued down, correct, so you can probably salvage most everything from it.

 

uh oh larger place means more storage which means more trains and busses! At least the busses don’t take up as much space. Now you can do your big bus terminal and holding hard!

 

cheers,

 

jeff

[Madsing]

Will you keep the idea of building the layout inside/under the dining table, or do you have other plan?

[JR 500系]

16 hours ago, cteno4 said:

Wow! Great you will have more room for trains in the new place. Sad the old layout will go away, but most of it wasn’t glued down, correct, so you can probably salvage most everything from it.

 

uh oh larger place means more storage which means more trains and busses! At least the busses don’t take up as much space. Now you can do your big bus terminal and holding hard!

 

cheers,

 

jeff

 

Haha yeah great memory Jeff! One thing i'm glad, i kept all of the usual book cases when i was 'compacting' to reduce the boxes to fit into my current 'one storage cabinet'. With the new room, i have like 5 of those!!!  😆  U know what that means!! 

 

The bus terminal... well, it will depend on how i will rebuild the room. hopefully i will have a larger table, so i can then use the current display cabinet to display the bus terminal and buses ~ I was also pondering on the idea of a bus display shelf, much like the train one i have ~ THAT would be fun wahahaha

 

12 hours ago, Madsing said:

Will you keep the idea of building the layout inside/under the dining table, or do you have other plan?

I am thinking to combine the current dinning table with a spiral up to join into another table for a larger space. As for covering from dust, i will need to refrain from the glasses... They are getting heavy as i age and i dont forsee myself to be able to lift 20kg per glass much more in the near future...  😞

[cteno4]

Sammy,

 

id say design your tables to fit what you want for the layout. If you are not using the glass top (yes those are a huge pain to move around and like you said will just get worse with time) then the old table base may not suit your new layout well. Helixes are a pain and take up a chunk of room as well. Maybe think sectional on the layout where it comes apart into modules every 4-6’ so you could move it if you move or break apart if you need access to back areas or under for wiring.

 

looking forward to seeing the new room grow!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[JR 500系]

It is with great sadness, Takahashi town has been DISMANTLED and DEMOLISHED on boxing day, 26th Dec 2022.... 

 

 

Here's one FINAL arial view BEFORE it goes.... an almost 2 over years of constant construction to reach this stage... 

 

 

It's all gone, within 5 hours... 

 

 

 

The only take away is the table... onto a new and hopefully larger layout!

 

 

The display shelf is going as well... one last look at all its glory....

 

 

Before it goes back to its original state 

 

 

I really like this display rack, so i'm cracking my head to dismantle the silicon and detach it from the wall. It HAS to follow me, i love it so much....

[railsquid]

Moving to a new place, like a spare hangar at Changi Airport?

[bill937ca]

A spare hanger might not be big enough for Sammy's buses!!!!!!!   😁😁

[Sean]

Ah, its always sad to see a great layout dismantled for a move. Hope you get a new one set up in the new place soon!

[JR 500系]

3 hours ago, railsquid said:

Moving to a new place, like a spare hangar at Changi Airport?

 

haha more like a new bus interchange perhaps !  🙂

 

2 hours ago, bill937ca said:

A spare hanger might not be big enough for Sammy's buses!!!!!!!   😁😁

 

Yap we have this intergrated transport hubs in Singapore that are multi-storied so i guess that should suffice ~

 

2 hours ago, Sean said:

Ah, its always sad to see a great layout dismantled for a move. Hope you get a new one set up in the new place soon!

 

Indeed... It brings a tear as i took it down... and yes there will be a new layout, hopefully one that is larger! I'll need to see the space that i'll be given though, subject to the local planning authorities approval 

[MeTheSwede]

A new and possibly larger layout sounds exiting. I expect to see more room for buses on your new layout. Or is getting a Shinkansen line priroritised?

 

Reading through your layout thread was a quite inspiring thing to do after finding this forum. I wonder, after the table layout has come to an end, do you still think the track plan chosen for it was the ideal one for you under the specific space constraints, or is there anything you'd do differently today?