What did you order or the post deliver? (Japanese N Gauge)

[katoftw]

You've had the rest, now try the best. Hello JR West!  :laughing3:

Edited March 5, 2016 by katoftw

[JR 500系]

Uh oh, I'm delving into JR West Limited Express territory.  But they're so sleek and clean looking!  Needed something contemporary for a little change of pace.  :)

 

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Welcome! Is that the 287 Kuroshio AKA Rice cooker face?  :)

[ToniBabelony]

 

Finally got my commercial version of the Big Henschel in! This is for a 6.5mm gauge SeaRails PowerMAX! and fits the frame perfectly!

 

 

I've disassembled the kit and have it now simmering in IPA (isopropyl alcohol, not the glorious beer type) and will be infused with liquid CA (super glue) to increase the bodystrength during and after assembly. This material (acrylic polymer) is porous, so this is the best way to improve the quality.

 

Later this coming week, I hope to receive a test print of newly designed freight cars in SLT printed polyamide. A material which is rough, but cheap. IMO a good alternative for building up a reasonable fleet quickly. I'll also order a new batch of minuscule magnets for the couplers to go with these cars, if the printing results are satisfactory.

 

[railsquid]

The post delivered this British Mk2 coach the other day:

 

 

I don't normally post non-Japanese stuff here, but as keen observers will note, this coach from another forum is actually on tour around the world and has made it to Japan.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Nice to see it turn up in the Far East 'squid... I had this being top and tailed by a pair of DD51s on Kanjiyama last September. I seem to remember the local railfans getting quite excited then as well!   :D  

[cteno4]

The post delivered this British Mk2 coach the other day:

 

 

I don't normally post non-Japanese stuff here, but as keen observers will note, this coach from another forum is actually on tour around the world and has made it to Japan.

Very cool! Maybe we need an around the world tour of a JNS train! Then do decals on the side for the world tour list like a rock band tour!

 

Anyone interested? I could donate an appropriate train. Members participating would just need to pay the forwarding shipping to the next person.

 

Jeff

[cteno4]

A hobby link Japan box showed up with a pile of tool and hobby bits from the last sale

 

Tamiya masking tapes from .4mm to 1cm

Stretch mask

Reflective mirror film (not on sale)

Deer

Monkeys

Micro chain

 

Plus a box with kiha40-1000 karasuyama line and Btrain express tsubame also on 50% off!

 

Jeff

[Welshbloke]

The post delivered this British Mk2 coach the other day:

 

 

I don't normally post non-Japanese stuff here, but as keen observers will note, this coach from another forum is actually on tour around the world and has made it to Japan.

 

That takes me back - I have an old Farish Network SouthEast MK2 which I bought almost twenty years ago, it has had new sides thanks to Electra Railway Graphics (who I suspect made the ones in your photo?) I converted it into the lone MK2D first open that carried NSE livery, as it was originally a MK2C FO in the same scheme.

 

Strangest part? I managed to get another one in the same livery brand new old stock from the same shop a couple of years ago! Unfortunately it was the last one he had.

 

As for what I've ordered, four boxes of Tomix pantographs from Modeltrainplus and a Tomytec TM-18 from Plaza Japan. That's enough to fit all my remaining Tomytecs with scale pantographs and motorise the yellow 105 Series. I'll take a photo of the latest additions when the pantographs arrive.

[serotta1972]

Welcome! Is that the 287 Kuroshio AKA Rice cooker face?  :)

 

It is the the 287 with the blue stripe.  Come to think of it, yes it does look like a rice cooker. Is that what it is affectionately known or you just made that up? I recall some other train being called a microwave face too.  Hmmm, maybe that's my next focus - trains that look like kitchen appliances.  Now I want the one with a red stripe too.

[railsquid]

Very cool! Maybe we need an around the world tour of a JNS train! Then do decals on the side for the world tour list like a rock band tour!

 

Anyone interested? I could donate an appropriate train. Members participating would just need to pay the forwarding shipping to the next person.

 

Count me in, as long as it's N scale ;)

 

 

Nice to see it turn up in the Far East 'squid... I had this being top and tailed by a pair of DD51s on Kanjiyama last September. I seem to remember the local railfans getting quite excited then as well!   :D  

 

 

 

:D

[Pauljag900]

Very cool! Maybe we need an around the world tour of a JNS train! Then do decals on the side for the world tour list like a rock band tour!

Anyone interested? I could donate an appropriate train. Members participating would just need to pay the forwarding shipping to the next person.

Jeff

Count me in too Jeff,

Paul

[ToniBabelony]

At this point, things are very slowly getting out of hand (pun intended).

 

[HantuBlauLOL]

got my first Amtrak today.

 

 

damn this thing is really big.

[railsquid]

Goddammit, the EF58s are breeding.

 

 

This is what happens after a glass of wine or two when you check Yahoo Auctions for bids ending soon...

[beakaboy]

I love the colour schemes! Mine is the brown eye (Kiwi slang) model. I actually hated the look of these and the other earlier electrics from photos I had seen, but once I had seen one running on a local layout , I was impressed with all those wheels and how smooth they are. Now I find the early electrics more interesting than the later models.

[railsquid]

Yup, they definitely have a nice livery. Very smooth runners too, not at all bad for about 3,000 yen each (albeit unboxed). Though I must say I was disappointed in the Kato EF57, which has the same wheel pattern but the leading trucks derail very easily as they don't seem to have enough weight (the MicroAce EF57 doesn't have that issue). I got hooked on older electrics after picking up an Endo EF57 for 1,000 (!) yen (evidently from old unsold stock), it must be about 40 years old and is slightly overscale and the roof is arching slightly (mazak rot?), but it oozes character. Only problem is with the brown livery is that it's tricky to photograph.

[Davo Dentetsu]

Goddammit, the EF58s are breeding.

 

 

This is what happens after a glass of wine or two when you check Yahoo Auctions for bids ending soon...

I like to think of it more as a pleasure than a problem.  :D

[Suica]

My first package from Buyee arrived. A bit expensive on the shipping but overall worth it for me.

 

MicroAce 485-3000 series Hakucho full set

Edited March 10, 2016 by Suica

[railsquid]

Berlin... that reminds me...

 

 

Not Japanese, but all except one sourced in Japan. The last set arrived the other week... Vollzug! (well sort of).

[Suica]

So jealous, railsquid. You have no idea!

[railsquid]

My reward for living in an ex-KWV WBF apartment (Ohne Bad! Mit Ofenheizung! Und Sanierungsbedarf, dringend!) between 1995 and 2000 overlooking Bhf Warschauer Str. ;) Wish I'd had a digital camera back then...

Edited March 10, 2016 by railsquid

[ToniBabelony]

I should still reward myself for living in an ex-KBE (Koeln Bonner Eisenbahn, now SWB/KVB) station building...

[Sascha]

Berlin... that reminds me...

 

 

Not Japanese, but all except one sourced in Japan. The last set arrived the other week... Vollzug! (well sort of).

Where did you get them from? I have been looking all over.

[railsquid]

Where did you get them from? I have been looking all over.

 

One from Ebay Germany (the most expensive one), the others from Yahoo Auctions Japan, where there are some 2nd hand European bargains to be had :D

[JR 500系]

A parcel was dropped off recently with more reinforcements for buses and trucks ~

 

 

And something that is NOT N scale, HO scale or rather not even a train related...

 

 

 

Diver City Odaiba comes into mind, so I thought Takahashi town should have their own version, in gold!  :)

Edited March 11, 2016 by JR 500系