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

[bill937ca]

Kato components to build a carbarn for my Unitram layout. Another victim of SAL. Shipped October 19, arrived December 16th.

 

20-016 Open Pit Track 186mm

20-174 R150-45 curves

20-172 R183-45 curves

23-300 Long Engine House kit

 

But alas there is no room for this on my current tram layout.. May be later.  

 

Edited December 16, 2017 by bill937ca

[EH500 (12)]

18 hours ago, gavino200 said:

 

Do you have a picture of all your EH500s together?

EH500-4    -  EH500-5

EH500-18  -  EH500-22

EH500-27  -  EH500-60

[Pauljag900]

I ve always been in to the passenger Trains myself,no particular type or area,I just buy what looks nice and my layouts just get made up as I go along,but I m starting to take more and more interest in the freight trains,and these all together look superb👍👍😀

[gavino200]

2 hours ago, EH500 said:

EH500-4    -  EH500-5

EH500-18  -  EH500-22

EH500-27  -  EH500-60

 

Total insanity. Awesome!!!

[Fenway Park]

Excellent 

 

[Fenway Park]

Kiha 04 Tomytec on order. I cannot make sense of HS site as to the power chassis I need.

 

Any ideas?

 

[Pauljag900]

What’s the item no for the kiha buddy..

[Pauljag900]

just so I know I m looking at the right thing,or the link to it will do

[bill937ca]

10 minutes ago, Fenway Park said:

Kiha 04 Tomytec on order. I cannot make sense of HS site as to the power chassis I need.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

For this Kiha 04 HS mentions 11R which would be the TM-11R.    http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10311057

The chassis required is clearer on this PDF poster.  http://www.tomytec.co.jp/diocolle/items/pdf/newitem_20171213_05.pdf  Just above the chart.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10508872

[Pauljag900]

There ya go,bill knows his stuff😂😂👍👍

[Kiha66]

Nariichi found me a forgotten EF30 in his shop, right as I bought one off Buyee!  Guess I can double head now!  I may pull the drive gears and motor connections from the second loco, so I dont have to worry about converting them both when I run on DCC.  Sadly it turns out that the series 50 coach set wasn't actually in stock, so I'll need to find that someplace else.

[serotta1972]

Is this what you're looking for?

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10351719

[Kiha66]

Thanks, but I've been hoping for the 50 version (http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10300121).  The 51 variant is for Hokkaido with double windows.  Seems Buyee has some of the single cars bundled together, so I may go for some of those.  

[Philphil]

I'm right on the verge of jumping deep into shinkansen territory with two JR East E4 sets, but I'm just a bit bothered by the fact that they're 1:160, rather than 1:150 like the commuter equipment I currently have. Let me ask you guys this, when you have a shinkansen sitting next to a piece of 1:150 equipment, is there a big noticeable difference in size?

[Gryphr]

7 minutes ago, Philphil said:

I'm right on the verge of jumping deep into shinkansen territory with two JR East E4 sets, but I'm just a bit bothered by the fact that they're 1:160, rather than 1:150 like the commuter equipment I currently have. Let me ask you guys this, when you have a shinkansen sitting next to a piece of 1:150 equipment, is there a big noticeable difference in size?

 

While I don't have Shinkansen I do have European Trains which are 1:160. So far I haven't been able to notice any real size difference compared to 1:150 scale Japanese trains. I think you'd have to take a millimeter scaled ruler to them to see it :D

Edited December 18, 2017 by Gryphr

[railsquid]

1 hour ago, Philphil said:

I'm right on the verge of jumping deep into shinkansen territory with two JR East E4 sets, but I'm just a bit bothered by the fact that they're 1:160, rather than 1:150 like the commuter equipment I currently have. Let me ask you guys this, when you have a shinkansen sitting next to a piece of 1:150 equipment, is there a big noticeable difference in size?

 

Not really. You don't often see Shinkansens close to "normal" trains anyway (except maybe on the Yamagata and Akita lines) and even with the scale difference the Shinkansen cars (particularly the double-decker ones) are still larger all round, so unless you get all neurotic about it (or get silly and couple 1:160 and 1:150 cars together), the difference doesn't stand out.

[Fenway Park]

20 hours ago, bill937ca said:

 

For this Kiha 04 HS mentions 11R which would be the TM-11R.    http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10311057

The chassis required is clearer on this PDF poster.  http://www.tomytec.co.jp/diocolle/items/pdf/newitem_20171213_05.pdf  Just above the chart.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10508872

Hi Bill and Pauljag900,

 

Thanks for your help. I will put an order in with HS  for the chassis and a trailer kit for these two. 

 

Best wishes 

 

Malcolm

[Fenway Park]

EF30 arrived today from Nariichi from his Super Sale. Bargain at £29 and even having paid HMRC and the Post Office their cut, I am very pleased with the loco.

 

Headboards for 4 named trains included.

 

Excellent service from Modeltrain Plus.

 

Malcolm

 

 

[NXCALE]

Sort of retro modelling as these two old (and super cheap) controllers arrived quite early.

I dont think I will do much with those for the moment but I was just curious to run some tests.

 

Tomix 5001 Power Unit, 2 x Tomix 5002 Control box and Tomix 5504 Power Unit

 

Cheers!

[bill937ca]

46 minutes ago, nxcale said:

Sort of retro modelling as these two old (and super cheap) controllers arrived quite early.

I dont think I will do much with those for the moment but I was just curious to run some tests.

 

Tomix 5001 Power Unit, 2 x Tomix 5002 Control box and Tomix 5504 Power Unit

 

 

 

Some additional info for your Tomix Control Systems:

 

http://www.trainweb.org/tomix/control/tomix_control_systems.htm

 

http://www.trainweb.org/tomix/control/tomix_control_systems2.htm

Edited December 19, 2017 by bill937ca

[NXCALE]

3 hours ago, bill937ca said:

 

Some additional info for your Tomix Control Systems:

 

http://www.trainweb.org/tomix/control/tomix_control_systems.htm

 

http://www.trainweb.org/tomix/control/tomix_control_systems2.htm

 

Thank you bill937ca, the website has good info. Cheers.

[EH500 (12)]

As I already said, I got lucky on ebay again. 

 

 

I also got these carriages with the EH500 but I have no use for them.

1x Kato 4084 SaShi 581 (But Iam quite sure it says SaRo 581-33 on the carriage itself)

2x Kato 5017 OHaFu 13

If someone is interested drop me a message.

 

[gavino200]

Some new Tomytec buildings. And a Greenmax catalog. Planning on stepping out of my Kato comfort zone.

 

 

[JR 500系]

1 hour ago, gavino200 said:

Some new Tomytec buildings. And a Greenmax catalog. Planning on stepping out of my Kato comfort zone.

 

 

Tomytec buildings are a cheaper alternative to Kato ones, and come in a wide variety for different needs!

 

GreenMax & MA models are niche and nice, but costly and feels rather plastic as compared to Kato or Tomix models.... But they only make certain models so...

[JR 500系]

Cause one can never have enough buses: