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

[SL58654号]

This wonderful lot of 36 old issues (in great condition) of とれいん "Train - the international model railroading" arrived yesterday. I love them for the voluminous quantities of railway models and real locomotives of all kinds and all sizes featured, that come from differing countries, in each issue all under one cover. Japanese rail fan publications are highly cultivated if you ask me. Reading Japanese is much fun with these. I got this lot for only 3500 yen. 
I love the detailed drawings and full-color paintings featured as well. Every issue is practically a love letter to foreign railways of the steam age and Japanese railways both old and new. Emphasis on old. I could be wrong, but I don't think even Continental Modeller is as well-rounded. 

 

Next weekend, I'm going to be driving at my neighbor's live steam garden railway! Look forward to that! 

 

[MrLinderman]

Another AMIAMI box arrived this weekend... they just seem to turn up 😅

 

Overhead masts

TN couplers, but i bought the wrong ones, didn't research properly but will keep them incase i ever get some freight locos from Tomix as they will be useful then, i now know what ones i want to convert the JR 225 from Tomix so will grab those another time

I wanted to get some additional cars for my current fleet so got the 3 car additional set for my Yamanote Line Kato loco (now 7 cars total) & 4 car additional set for the JF 225 Series (now 8 cars total)

Also found some facebook "finds" over the week for two more locos, the E233-0 series (3 loco set) and the E233-3000 series (4 loco set) both of them also have the Kato decoder installed and tested so they are ready for DCC when my DCC-EX arrives, as I got these before the AMI order I also nabbed the 4 car additional set for the E233-3000 series, the one with the additional up/down car, so its now a nice 8 car setup, couldn't for the life of me find any E233-0 series additional sets for sale that didn't cost a kidney so I'll either wait for a re-release or it will remain a dedicated 3 car setup.

Tried out a few of the Tomix buildings also, i like them and its neat how they are sectional so installing some LED's inside shouldn't be a problem.

 

My "little" testing layout is starting to get busy, plenty of plastic kit works for me to do now, also got enough parts to "complete" the engine shed section so that is not sorted

 

Next up is:

DCC-EX

Finish of the plastic kit parts

Lots of testing and working with DCC-EX and EX-Rail 🙂 

 

Then its time to work on the big shed and get it ready for the main layout

[bc6]

I've always wanted to get an F-Toys firetruck and I finally was able to do so. I built the ladder truck in under and 1/2 hour as there was no painting or gluing needed. There were minimal parts and good instructions so it was easy peasy to put together. After I assembled the firetruck I posed it with some other vehicles like a TOMYTEC bus and truck and an Atlas car. It looks spot on I may buy another fire vehicle if I can find one. 

[Lessigen]

Not many pics this time because I forgot to take pics before unboxing. Inspired by someone (i.e. @MrLinderman) I also wanted to try out TOMIX's FineTrack system and eventually DCC-EX so I also impulse-bought a Starter Set and some track sets from PlazaJapan. I always wanted to get the FineTrack Rail Yard since I love seeing yards full of passenger trains.

 

Here's what I got:

- TOMIX 90172 EF81 Twilight Express Starter Set

- TOMIX 91016 FineTrack Rail Yard Track Set

- TOMIX 91025 FineTrack Sidetrack Set (Pattern B)

 

So far I'm torn between the two. I love the variety of FineTrack and all of the small doodads that come with it but Unitrack is so much easier to work with and I like that the Unitrack turnouts are powered by default where I assume I have to finagle with powering the FineTrack turnouts (I will look into this further as I just set the track up). I have a few Unitrack/FineTrack conversion pieces on order for the summer so I can compromise between the two.

 

I may also get some Woodland Scenics Incline Starter Sets in the next order as recommended by some forum members as I would like to get something a bit more flexible than the Unitrack piers...

 

[MrLinderman]

4 hours ago, Lessigen said:

Not many pics this time because I forgot to take pics before unboxing. Inspired by someone (i.e. @MrLinderman) I also wanted to try out TOMIX's FineTrack system and eventually DCC-EX so I also impulse-bought a Starter Set and some track sets from PlazaJapan. I always wanted to get the FineTrack Rail Yard since I love seeing yards full of passenger trains.

 

Here's what I got:

- TOMIX 90172 EF81 Twilight Express Starter Set

- TOMIX 91016 FineTrack Rail Yard Track Set

- TOMIX 91025 FineTrack Sidetrack Set (Pattern B)

 

So far I'm torn between the two. I love the variety of FineTrack and all of the small doodads that come with it but Unitrack is so much easier to work with and I like that the Unitrack turnouts are powered by default where I assume I have to finagle with powering the FineTrack turnouts (I will look into this further as I just set the track up). I have a few Unitrack/FineTrack conversion pieces on order for the summer so I can compromise between the two.

 

I may also get some Woodland Scenics Incline Starter Sets in the next order as recommended by some forum members as I would like to get something a bit more flexible than the Unitrack piers...

 

Sorry for being an influence 😄😄

 

Very easy to convert turnouts into electric, just needs the Tomix 0107 motor driver, its a simple clip in replacement if the rear cover

 

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