cteno4 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 the galaxy express seibu 3000 is due for release maybe Thursday or friday! finally coming to market! jeff Link to comment
John k Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 the galaxy express seibu 3000 is due for release maybe Thursday or friday! finally coming to market! jeff Gonna watch for it...and pounce if the chance avails itself! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 john, have you signed up for hobby search notice on it? otherwise just keep looking any chance you get in the next day or two a the web page at hs and poppendetta you might also email loco1hobbies and fmodels to see if they have any coming not accounted for already. good luck! jeff Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 they must have hit fmodels, got my invoice this morning! jeff Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 hobby search is now sold out, anyone have any luck there? jeff Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I pre-ordered mine the day it come up on Hobby Search (which means, a LONG time ago :)), and got the shipment notice yesterday. It'll probably be here in about 3 weeks because of customs ;) Link to comment
Densha Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 (edited) Pics of the Toyama trams with Tetsudou Musume stickers: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/blog/130718 They are also doing Tetsudou Musume Nendoroid figures and station attributes for your action figures now. The trams are very cute, but I'm absolutely not going into trams and I'm broke anyway. Edited July 21, 2013 by Densha Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) poppendeta has 10 of the seibu up for order. 1620 yen cheaper than hobby search. not sure if fmodels has any in stock, but my preorder thru them is almost here from them! http://www.popondetta.jp/asp/cgi-bin/shop.php?forward=gds_inf&back_screen=gds_srh&stock_no=571E0101G3F00081 cheers jeff Edited July 22, 2013 by cteno4 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 (edited) oooh mr postman just delivered the seibu 3000 galaxy express! Stunning train and worth the wait! the graphic is really nice on this one as it flows from one car to the next (dont get them out of order) in a very nice fashion with the hair billowing up and down the length of the train. quite a nice looking painted train. we dont have a show until this fall to show it off... jeff ps fmodels was very nice in including the most recent flyers/posters from kato, micro ace and tomytec! Edited July 24, 2013 by cteno4 Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Mine is stuck at customs for now, let's see when they release it... Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 mine was 3 days in customs in nyc. EMS use to just breeze thru customs here, now they sit for a few days here even though there are very few tariffs to consider from japan to here... jeff Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I've had anything from 1 day (VERY rare) to about 3 weeks, usually it's around 1.5 to 2 weeks.. Although, the most recent 2 packages went through quite fast. Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 They must have nothing to do at the customs office.. My Seibu 3000 came in today. Really lovely train, and it even runs like a dream too (not always the case with MicroAce it seems ;)) Now I just need to get a lot of replacement couplers because the gap between the cars messes up the flow of the paint ;) Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 yeah i noticed that, the really do need the close coupling. maybe you got off the security list for showing up in the US saying you were going to a model train show and staying with goofy train guys you never met. bet that put a warning label on you! maybe now they finally believe you, they just thought all those model train shipments were a front, but it must be true if you order something as nice as this! jeff Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Hehe.. I guess telling the customs officer that I was going to visit and stay with people I've only talked to on the internet was maybe not the smartest thing ever.. She did look a bit suspicious after that :D Considering the amount of packages I've been receiving, and the amount of money the customs have made off me on all those packages, I really should get VIP treatment. Maybe I was just lucky.. We'll see how long the next package takes.. Just got the shipping notification from Hobby Search.. Link to comment
Densha Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I think there's just a low amount of packages coming in because of the summer vacation; but maybe not, who knows. I didn't have to wait for the customs for a long time anyways because my packages tend to avoid them magically. But again, we need pictures! Pictures I say! Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 well layout is not set up right now, so they would look like the hs picts. this one will be a tougher one to photograph as its long and the flowing design will be harder to capture on the model due to limited depth of focus. have to try it with a lot of light an perhaps further back, zoomed in. at 8 cars i think this is the longest painted train model yet. jeff Link to comment
bill937ca Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Here ya go, a painted monorail! 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Now only if we had a model of that! Jeff Link to comment
Densha Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 No surprise there considering that the anime featured on the monorail train is shown in that anime very often. But it's quite extensive; they even did the handgrips! Link to comment
Kabutoni Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 :icon_cherry: Look what Tomytec is planning for next year: 3 Link to comment
Densha Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Arigatou Kami-sama~! I already liked your post before the picture was even loaded... when I saw Keihan and Keion I knew enough! :D :D :D Instant pre-order when possible! Now I don't have to get the Platz kits which I was afraid of assembling and much cheaper too!! Hopefully next week my (very delayed) Keihan 600 normal paint and Keihan 350 will come in, will be a great combi! 2 Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 That sure beats having to do your own wrapping =) Link to comment
Densha Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I sure does Martijn. The announcement mentions the kanji for spring right? I hope they will re-release the power units around that time, I may be able to save up for that but I'm not sure. What I wonder about though, there's now two companies releasing the same train. I wonder how they dealt with the licensing. Link to comment
John k Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Man THAT is on my list!!!! I am still very hesitant about applying the decals (hence, havent touched the kits at all) Link to comment
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