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

[bc6]

@katoftw Thanks Im looking forward to painting it and adding some couplers to it

[Kingmeow]

Another Plaza Japan order.  A group purchase with two other club members.  Crazy fast delivery as expected.  Order placed Sunday (I doubt they were open) and it was delivered the next week Monday.  So really Monday to Monday to US east coast.

 

 

[Kingmeow]

Oh forgot.  Free gifts included with order.  Fan and eraser.  I'm taking the fan to the next train show and look fashionable and be the envy of the crowd.  🤣

 

 

 

Back side.

 

Edited July 30 by Kingmeow

[katoftw]

I got that fan about a year ago. My wife claimed it right away.

 

I have a few of the erasers hanging on the fridge door.

[RS18U]

I have a couple of the erasers as well, but no fan.  Unless someone in my family absconded with it 🤔

[Kingmeow]

I suspect that your order has to be big enough, size wise, that they can fit the fan in the box.  Order more!  🤣

[RS18U]

13 hours ago, Kingmeow said:

I suspect that your order has to be big enough, size wise, that they can fit the fan in the box.  Order more!  🤣

My first order included a Kato starter set, so plenty big enough for a fan.  But I have been trying to keep the costs per order to less than $200 CDN so maybe I do indeed need to spend more!

[bc6]

The letter carrier delivered this unexpected 3 car Kato Green Liner to me which was cool to recieve. 

[lighthouse]

New stuff from J-Scale... 😁

 

[mags_minibuilds]

My B-Train Shorty obsession is on the rise again and this is my impulse buy from Mandarake that arrived a couple days ago. Last summer I visited the Mandarake store and bought two surprise box B-Train Shorty cars. The boxes were opened so I saw it came with two faces and I thought it was a complete car train. Not until I came home, I realized it was a leading car and you pick one of the version of faces to use. To my surprise, 14 months later the middle car of these two trains were still available so I had to pick them up.

[Cat]

Hmm, Shorties — good haul!

[tripel7]

My Tomix JR 485:

 

 

 

 

 

Runs very smooth too!

 

Gotta say it kinda makes me crave another bonnet hooded JR train from the same family, but maybe a different model, something with a dinner car maybe?🤔

[Cat]

Hmm, JR 485, still the train of the future! ❤️

[cteno4]

4 hours ago, Cat said:

Hmm, JR 485, still the train of the future! ❤️

Yes for sure! It was probably around 67’ that a ship captain friend of my father brought me a small pile of travel and local brochures and stuff from Japan and one had a 485 picture on the front and I clearly remember thinking as like a 6 year old, “Now that is futuristic!” The curves and lines are one of the rare times where vehicle design surpassed us car design at the time that was all the rave. 485 has such nice lines and curves, simple and clean.
 

All my dad’s ship captain friends and mom’s international friends and friends that traveled extensively use to bring stuff like this for me from all over the globe, it was way better than xmas and birthday gifts! I wish I still had all that stuff.

 

jeff

[KateM]

A pretty big packet from RGR ❤️

      

 

Most of the box was filled with Casco cases - 10 cars B, 6 cars/Kato inserts, spare ones, and mats. Bought up most of RGR's stock as I wanted to get the older version of cases to match what I already have. The new version of cases is going to be slightly larger (although inside dimensions stay the same) and have a label pouch in a different place. This Casco blog post has descriptions and comparison photos if you're interested in all the changes. Old case product codes start with YP while new ones start with CS.

 

The only trains included were the new Rhätische Bahn freight cars (attaching all the stakes took forever!) and the new number of panorama car. Also got Dresden T4 set to showcase at the Tatra modeltreffen in Prague later this month. Last but not least, a JR Tohoku bus to add something more modern to my Tohoku bus collection.

 

Also got quite a few TN couplers for Tomix Kiha 141, MicroAce Kiha E130, and MicroAce Maya 34-2000. Maya got one Shibata and one knuckle coupler to simulate its double-headed couplers so it can run either behind a DE10 or at the end of a passenger formation.

 

The packet also included a Tomix Shiki 1000 which was immediately visited by my cutting knife and modified into a camera car. Currently configured to stream low-res over wifi for testing, might switch to recording onto SD card instead in the future to get better quality.

    

[cteno4]

Excellent @katem! I had thought of this way back when I got my first 2.4 ghz camera that had a wired camera like that but never got around to it and it went into a car hidden. The benefit with mounting on the shiki is that the camera mounted on the front truck should stay more on track and not end up doing those wide swings you get when you put the camera in the body of an 18-20m car, especially on tighter radiuses.

 

jeff

[bc6]

Today I got a few items from RG-ROKKO, I got another Casco bookcase for my Koki thankfully I beat Katem to it lol, I also got a few Kato and GreenMax parts for projects.

I can't help myself but I got another Aru Nine passenger car kit and some GreenMax bogies to go with it. Kind of related I got a Mook on soldering brass trains which is usually on HO scale kits but I thought It may apply to N scale kits. Finally I got a Kato D51 498 which is my first Kato steam engine I think it'll make a nice engine to pull those Aru 9 passenger car kits. I also picked up a Kato EH200 which I really like for some reason, They go great with Koki so there's that now to order another decoder for the EH200.

 

@katem Nice haul I'm happy I was able to get a Casco bookcase for my Koki and you didn't buy them all up lol. That Shiki is nuts I would have never thought to use one in a million years as a camera car. Can you share the design of the camera system please, Im pretty interested in all wireless cameras, especially for N scale. 

[mags_minibuilds]

@bc6 I am very intrigued with the Mook soldering book. Is it mainly tips/advice and are there many photos? How many pages is the book and did it add a lot of weight to your package?

[bc6]

@mags_minibuilds The Mook is really cool It is a step by step blow by blow color pictorial of how to assemble brass HO trains. There are color pics from end to end. They show you proper soldering techniques and tools to solder with, The page count is 111 color pages. I was pretty shocked myself lol, It couldn't have been that heavy several ounces at most.

[mags_minibuilds]

@bc6 Sounds cool, I'll put that on my wishlist!

[Giugiaro]

This arrived last month, but I couldn't show this sooner on the forum, between work and getting paid for other people's orders only now could I settle down and write in the forum.

 

The big box has plenty of stuff from my club members, between track, trains and decoders. The remaining is my stuff, including an Odakyu 10000 HiSE that couldn't make it for the late June shipping, a pack of overhead wire masts, the V12, V13, TV1 w/ LEX Tram and TV4 track packs.

 

With this, I have most of the Unitrack lineup, a starting sample from the Unitram catalogue, and all the Japanese trains I wanted. (At the time of writing, the JR Class 273 "Yakumo" lacks a launch date).

 

 

 

 

[Sascha]

Got me a 0-Series from Tomix, and a Tokyo Metro 01 Series from Yahoo Auctions, with lights installed. Was waiting for a newer version of the Tokyo Metro Train, but after waiting 10 years I gave up hope🙃I'm always impressed of how well they take care of things. The train is in mint condition, and runs smooth.

[bc6]

Today I got a delivery of containers, parts and Kato powered chassis from RG-ROKKO.

 

 

[Little-Kinder]

On 8/14/2024 at 3:33 AM, Giugiaro said:

This arrived last month, but I couldn't show this sooner on the forum, between work and getting paid for other people's orders only now could I settle down and write in the forum.

 

The big box has plenty of stuff from my club members, between track, trains and decoders. The remaining is my stuff, including an Odakyu 10000 HiSE that couldn't make it for the late June shipping, a pack of overhead wire masts, the V12, V13, TV1 w/ LEX Tram and TV4 track packs.

 

With this, I have most of the Unitrack lineup, a starting sample from the Unitram catalogue, and all the Japanese trains I wanted. (At the time of writing, the JR Class 273 "Yakumo" lacks a launch date).

 

 

 

 

Wow you managed to find the TV50 starter set at a decent price?

[tripel7]

Just managed to snag KATO v11 for 100e from a german store, I think a shop owner underestimated the size of the box, and just wanted to get rid of it 😏