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A Terrific Layout with Instructions by a Japanese Modeller


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How he transforms his traffic lights, RR crossing lights is a work of art. He is one of those modellers that it is hard to separate the actual scene from the model. Nice find.

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Good stuff. Interesting to see he's using the Tomix module system.

 

Yeah, both Kato and Tomix make these, and they seem like a good system. I'm thinking about trying to make a small layout (large diorama?) on a 900x600 mm module base.

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Good stuff. Interesting to see he's using the Tomix module system.

 

Yeah, both Kato and Tomix make these, and they seem like a good system. I'm thinking about trying to make a small layout (large diorama?) on a 900x600 mm module base.

 

Excuse my lack of education but, can someone give direct me to pages showcasting these modules?

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Thanks,  :) but I wanted to have more informations on the Tomix and Kato module system. It's the first time I read about them so I was wondring how they look like and what was their content.

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Cracking layouts the lot of them :grin, to be honest most of them have given me some ideas of what to have on my layout when I get round to doing it. I will have bi-level tracks for more varierty of operations such as a Shinkansen line and a local line.

 

Cheers

 

Ash

East Midlands

United Kingdom

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Been digging through old posts again ...  :grin

 

Here he shows how to put lights into a tomytec building:

 

http://www.kinet-tv.ne.jp/~psy_sai/make_06.html

 

He mentioned aluminium foil tape, so I thought that is a good idea, I looked it up and about the only online store I found is this:

http://aeroparts.com.au/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=23&products_id=169&zenid=5617a56762cc4444f7a33750771987eb

 

but AUD$100 for a roll of tape?  ???

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CaptOblivious

Been digging through old posts again ...  :grin

 

Here he shows how to put lights into a tomytec building:

 

http://www.kinet-tv.ne.jp/~psy_sai/make_06.html

 

He mentioned aluminium foil tape, so I thought that is a good idea, I looked it up and about the only online store I found is this:

http://aeroparts.com.au/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=23&products_id=169&zenid=5617a56762cc4444f7a33750771987eb

 

but AUD$100 for a roll of tape?  ???

 

Maybe in Oz it's expensive, but here in the US, it's pretty cheap, about $10/roll at most:

http://www.google.com/products?q=aluminum+foil+tape

 

Of course, I bet you could probably use regular aluminum foil and some white (PVC) glue to achieve the same effect cheaper.

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It sure does look real. Did he use Unitrack/Fast track, you can hardly see the joiner. His ballasting is very neat not a speck out of place. The only thing I would like to see is touches of weathering around the layout.

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Martijn Meerts

Looks like fine track.. What I think is a shame though, is that you can clearly see the nails he used to fasten the track, or the holes where he didn't use nails.

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He's definately using fine tracks. And I don't car so much about the nails or the lack of them. I'm quite sure that in real life you can oversee the "problem".

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