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domino

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disturbman

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This is a helluva layout! You guys are going to have some fun once you'll be starting running trains on it! Gosh! I'm jealous jealous jealous!

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cteno4

cteno4

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Yes it should be fun to go over and play trains there! he has a nice basement in the house for just this train room like this along with a tv so we can watch train videos at the same time! he also has a unitram loop and some ttrak modules so will be lots to play with!

 

he is not having them do much scenery in the rural end and thats what he will putter on and slowly develop with structures (natural process, right!) and also he will be detailing all the street scenes. he plans on lots and lots of people! this is the guy that put walls, desks and people inside his kato buildings on his unitram layout! INS may come after him for bringing 10,000 chinese figures and another 1000 tomytec ones for the foreground!

 

cheers

 

jeff

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cteno4

cteno4

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some more custom high rises on ebay

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-contemporary-ART-MUSEUM-5-floors-/140422673276?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b1d7f37c#ht_500wt_896

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-office-14-story-skyscraper-/140422669787?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b1d7e5db#ht_500wt_896

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-office-6-story-high-rise-/140422671574?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b1d7ecd6#ht_500wt_896

 

cheers

 

jeff

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cteno4

cteno4

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another interesting custom. looks like might be atlas high rise walls with corners added.

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320557156141&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

 

others

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140423810482&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140423813139&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

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cteno4

cteno4

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My goodness some of those custom jobs go for a pretty penny. Wow!  :confused2:

 

well when you figure how much time must go into scratch building some of these or the cost of parts from smaller buildings it can add up very fast!

 

some more

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140426985927&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-SKYSCRAPER-32-floors-free-shipping-/140425386040?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b2015838#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-Marriott-Hotel-6-floors-high-rise-/140424912496?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b1fa1e70#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-SKYSCRAPER-27-floors-tall-/140424914735?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b1fa272f#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-7-floor-building-downtown-office-/140426988257?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b219cae1#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-5-floors-your-downtown-scene-/140426990323?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20b219d2f3#ht_500wt_1075

 

cheers

 

jeff

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quinntopia

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I wish the photos were better, and had more close ups so you can get a sense of the construction quality.  The quality, or at least the appearance, of these buildings seems really inconsistent.  Some look awesome, others like real amatuer jobs.

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inobu

inobu

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There are two aspects, Modeling and rendering.

 

Most of the buildings I see are rendering more so, than modeling. I think detail is the determining factor between the two.

 

Inobu 

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cteno4

cteno4

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Inobu hit it here, many high rises models are just rendered, in that the gross level details are there, but not at a very fine scale details (although some high rises dont have much in the way of details.) true modeling really brings out the details well and thus when up close it really pops. rendered buildings can work if they are in the back and you are only seeing them from a distance on the layou. Also partial obstruction of your view can do interesting things as the foreground detail can trick the eye into translating some of it to the background objects, but at times you can get it doing the opposite of a large contrast popping out!

 

here is an interesting gross level detail you can add to your high rise!

 

http://www.crookedbrains.net/2007/06/discovery-building-shark-week-discovery.html

 

cheers

 

jeff

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cteno4

cteno4

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more ebay

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300452682886&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_791wt_834

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310238810529&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_791wt_834

 

he also has some other interesting strip malls scratch built for sale

 

http://shop.ebay.com/ansky98/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340

 

 

cheers

 

jeff

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cteno4

cteno4

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Ok got a new installment from Curt on the progress of his layout with CMR. its getting near completion! he wrote up a little update article and i added more pictures to his photo gallery. going to be a very sharp layout!

 

http://www.japanrailmodelers.org/pages/modelingjapan/curtlayout2.html

 

http://www.japanrailmodelers.org/photos/kurtslayout/index.html

 

cant wait to go over for the christening! finding an n scale bottle of sake to break across the bow of the first shinkansen run may be a challenge!

 

cheers

 

jeff

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cteno4

cteno4

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more highrises on ebay

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-SKYSCRAPER-building-19-FLOORS-NICE-DETAIL-/140438168438?pt=Model_RR_Trains#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-high-rise-7-floors-/140438165745?pt=Model_RR_Trains#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-scale-building-high-rise-9-floors-office-hotel-/140438164036?pt=Model_RR_Trains#ht_500wt_1075

 

cheers

 

jeff

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bill937ca

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Not exactly skyscrapers, but these are from Auhagen, a German producer.

 

http://www.auhagen.de/inhalt/cms/front_content.php

 

http://auhagen.de/inhalt/cms/front_content.php?idcat=82&idart=96&xtc_catid=47

 

#14466, 6 floors.

 

http://auhagen.de/inhalt/cms/front_content.php?idcat=82&idart=96&xtc_catid=49&xtc_pid=15419

 

#14464, 5 floors

 

Apparently Euro Train may be the only distributor in the US. These are N scale,although TT seems to be there focus.

 

"Euro Train Hobby inc. specializes in HO and TT scale train models and accessories for model railroading manufactured in Eastern Europe, such as East Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and countries of former Soviet Union. I, as the founder of the company, started my collection of model railroading about 25 years ago with TT scale from Berliner TT Bahnen. That is why it is familiar to me and I will try to supply to U.S collectors as much of European TT as possible."

 

http://www.eurotrainhobby.com/index_cat.php/cPath/95_96?osCsid=7d3rl3q0mannup05rs44lhavg7

 

Two multi-story houses for $18 doesn't sound too bad.

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quinntopia

quinntopia

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Thanks for posting this Bill!

Not exactly skyscrapers, but these are from Auhagen, German producer.

I picked up the 14464 kit ("2 Wohnhauser") when I was in Paris this summer.  Haven't put them together yet (too busy with other projects this summer!), but it should be interesting to combine these two to get a 7 or 8 story apartment out of them.  Also, I believe Scaper discovered that these are actually older kits from a now-defunct manufacturer out of the old East Germany (I want to say the firm's name was "Velo") which explains why these are so different from Auhagen's other buildings, and don't seem too contemporary!  If memory serves, one of his massive skycrapers is built from these older "Velo" kits now being made by Auhagen.

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cteno4

cteno4

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more from this guy on ebay

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300462403860&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_839wt_834

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Urban-Firehouse-/300460321579?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item45f4d4ab2b#ht_856wt_834

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Office-Building-/310246693576?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item483c24dac8#ht_791wt_834

 

too bad his photos are usually washed out and hard to see how he models these.

 

jeff

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