High Rise / Skyscraper building kits ??

[quinntopia]

Just added a new topic on this as well, but I spotted at least one each of the Atlas kits at a hobby shop in Seattle:

http://www.northendtrains.com/home.shtml  Only $35, which seems very reasonable compared to what they go for on eBay!

[cteno4]

another interesting high rise on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300360049565&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1018

cheers

jeff

[Bernard]

That is the first time I ever saw a pool on a high-rise structure. It's a nice model.

[cteno4]

you actually see it in hotel design. stayed in ones that have the rooms in the high rise section then a lower section in the back for facilities, conf rooms and then the pool on the roof of it. always seems odd to look down like that onto the pool... dont know if its common in japan, have seen a lot of tennis, volleyball and badminton courts on the roofs of japanese highrises!

cheers

jeff

[mbloes]

That is the first time I ever saw a pool on a high-rise structure. It's a nice model.

This is a photo of the pool at the top of the Park Hyatt in Tokyo (the Lost in Translation hotel).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2455107432_246a084ab4_b.jpg

  It is on the 47th floor and is possibly the nicest pool in the world.  Although it is indoors, it is under one of the huge glass pyramids at the top of the building.  Do a search for it on flickr as there are some amazing photos of it.

[cteno4]

another atlas looking high rise kitbash on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310177825379&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_825wt_777

cheers

jeff

[nik_n_dad]

We've been starting to see some of these in n-scale.  If one takes the time to paint & weather, they look awesome.  We haven't built one (yet)

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/

catalog link:  http://cmrtrain.com/CMR_kits_2009D.pdf

[cteno4]

We've been starting to see some of these in n-scale.  If one takes the time to paint & weather, they look awesome.  We haven't built one (yet)

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/

catalog link:  http://cmrtrain.com/CMR_kits_2009D.pdf

one of the jrm members is having these folks construct his home layout and just is starting to get some buildings built by them. he is going to start a series of small articles on the layout construction on the jrm site soon, ill keep you all posted. the pictures of the first building i saw looked fantastic. curt is then going in and going to detail and put people w/in the buildings as well as hyper detail the exteriors with lots of signs and such to make it really japanese! he has supplied them with photos of the actual buildings he wants to model from the area he use to hang out in when he was living in japan a while back.

cheers

jeff

[CaptOblivious]

We've been starting to see some of these in n-scale.  If one takes the time to paint & weather, they look awesome.  We haven't built one (yet)

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/

catalog link:  http://cmrtrain.com/CMR_kits_2009D.pdf

one of the jrm members is having these folks construct his home layout and just is starting to get some buildings built by them. he is going to start a series of small articles on the layout construction on the jrm site soon, ill keep you all posted. the pictures of the first building i saw looked fantastic. curt is then going in and going to detail and put people w/in the buildings as well as hyper detail the exteriors with lots of signs and such to make it really japanese! he has supplied them with photos of the actual buildings he wants to model from the area he use to hang out in when he was living in japan a while back.

cheers

jeff

Indeed! There are some images of the first of their buildings for the layout here:
http://cmrtrain.com/current.html

Very impressive.

[quinntopia]

Impressive indeed.  Wow.  I had to scroll down a bit to get past the American/1950's stuff....but the 'scroll' was worth it.

[disturbman]

I'd love to be able to do the same... :drool

[cteno4]

here is a very interesting custom hack of the atlas high rise. great use of the material to come up with a much more interesting looking building than the standard boxes!

cheers

jeff

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110486678988&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_4895wt_959

[quinntopia]

here is a very interesting custom hack of the atlas high rise. great use of the material to come up with a much more interesting looking building than the standard boxes!

Wow, that was a cool bash on that building!  And it went for $177!  That's quite a premium from the original retail for these kits!

[domino]

Just found this web site, i love the N scale building, so i have already orderd the Galt and the Stump Tower,

Will post pic when i have received and build them.

http://www.lundestudios.com/nscale.htm

Here is a youtube video of the kits
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/67kRdHbusdw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/67kRdHbusdw</a>


domino
Brian

[quinntopia]

An incredible Osaka station on Yahoo Japan.  Wow.

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e97352184

[qwertyaardvark]

Whenever I get bored, I do stalk the buildings section of Yahoo japan and save the pictures of buildings I find interesting, in case i ever get into scratch building highrise/skyscrapers and want to replicate the buildings I saw online.

I know this might hurt hearing for those who have plans concerning Tokyo station coughJRchiisaicough as much as it hurt me not being able to buy it at the time, but I remember seeing a complete N-scale Tokyo station building on Yahoo auctions a while back. It was *very* impressive as it was scratch built, but the shipping of said model would have been outright prohibitive. x_x

[cteno4]

hey thanks for the tip, thats a great place to look for ideas for structures and techniques! amazing how many different scratch builds there are up there on yahoo.jp for highrises! hey but its japan! couldnt have a good japanese city scene w/o one!

cheers

jeff

[quinntopia]

Whenever I get bored, I do stalk the buildings section of Yahoo japan and save the pictures of buildings I find interesting, in case i ever get into scratch building highrise/skyscrapers and want to replicate the buildings I saw online

Qwerty...I do the same thing!  The more you study these photos, the more the techniques they use start to become apparant.

I just bid on a building using Shopping Mall Japan, but didn't win (outbid by 500Y at 5am PST so its gonna be tough for me to win without watching closely) as I kind of want to get my hands on one (specially the buildings that at least a couple of guys there seem to make) to see what their method is.

[Scaper]

Not much joy here with larger buildings, just the old atlas buildings. they are now horribly expensive when the do pop up on ebay.

there is the heljan/kibri hospital/apartment high rise that is listed as HO, but if it is each floor is about 5.5' tall! maybe for little people, so works well with N scale to get good sized walls. the first floor is more HO scale with the doors.

I have seen a couple of chaps on ebay with various scratch built large sky scrapers but few really great quality.

there is the chap of flickr with a lot of high rises he has kitbashed. not sure how many are actually his as he has had some of dougs photos mixed in there in the past, but a great resource for ideas from various kits. warning if you go this direction you get into some big bucks fast with the number of kits you will need to buy to start tricking out buildings! dpm, tomix, kato, and greenmax can all be kitbashed larger

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55063726@N00/collections/72157612768739708/

finally you might think of scratch building your own. the cool thing about many modern skyscrapers is they have little in the way of external details. if you start with clear or tinted acetate for the walls then apply small strips of styrene and/or scoring with a matte knife vertically or horizontally you can create the main external details you need. the atlas kits only external detail is small scores in the plastic. this approach is a lot cheaper than trying to kitbash kits! if you use this technique in the back and then some kitbashed in the foreground it will help mask less detail maybe in a scratch built behind.

cheers

jeff

Jeff,



 I'm really tired of people trying to lay claim to the work I've done. Not one of these buildings Doug has done, though certain people have done their best to discredit me and my work it's really sad. Thankfully I have met some amazing people and friends such as Jerry on here, who also knows that not one of these photo sets on this page is Doug's work. Crazy. I've been building my models since middle school. I'm currently 39 years old and live in Victoria Canada. I love the hobby and love meeting new people like Jerry, and others people I've met on other forums. It's an awesome hobby and not once have I spread discontent or nasty comments to anyone. I follow a belief of helping each other out and this is why I share my photos with everyone. I'm not at least offended by someone asking me where I get my models, or how I've built them. It's been a fun venture and really it's only been in the last few years that my knowledge of modeling and architectural knowledge has really grown.



Here's an over all view of most of my city models, though there's a lot that aren't photographed an hardly any of my factories, industrial and steel production models are photographed either. This is just the table where I'm storing most of my models While I'm adding to them. I'll be building my layout in the next few years. I'm thankful for people like Jerry and others who have helped me a lot and in return I'm thankful I've been helpful to him. In turn both our layouts will benifit greatly from our co operation as well as the co operation we've experienced with other enthusiastic urban modelers.



Here's my main photo models...currently :D Again not all are in this photo.
Also there's a lot structures in this photo that need finishing too...so sad...so much work...but it's fun right! :D


Here is my latest model I've built. It's a kitbash of a model power building and the store frontage from a DPM Merchantile kit, with a Kato office building interior, and a Walther's Roof top kit for air conditioners etc. I did the weathering with polyscale paints, and used card stock for blinds, and blair mills signs.





Anyways cool forum this is. I'll keep active..Jerry nice to see you on another site buddy! :D I've got a lot of reading and browsing to do in the next week!



Cheers all, Bob

[quinntopia]

Bob, I always love looking at your photos!  I have to say, that new "Vero" (?) building looks really great...even amongst a lot of other great buildings! 

[quinntopia]

finally you might think of scratch building your own. the cool thing about many modern skyscrapers is they have little in the way of external details. if you start with clear or tinted acetate for the walls then apply small strips of styrene and/or scoring with a matte knife vertically or horizontally you can create the main external details you need. the atlas kits only external detail is small scores in the plastic. this approach is a lot cheaper than trying to kitbash kits! if you use this technique in the back and then some kitbashed in the foreground it will help mask less detail maybe in a scratch built behind.

cheers

jeff

Jeff...I was just thinking about this post-but couldn't remember where it was-earlier today.  I think it was this feedback and sites like Bob's that really inspired me to attempt bigger things!  Thanks Jeff!

[cteno4]

Bob,

doug has claimed that some of the photos on the site were his, i took him at his word on this, but should have verified it myself before doing the post about it, sorry. doug has gotten photos nicked and reposted in the past as he has been posting photos of buildings he built for a long while, so i just took his word for it. i know others have posted my photos on their sites w/o credit so i can understand the issue. sorry i dont want to get into the middle of that so i have edited my post to remove that comment. wrong on my part to do so in the first place, ill let you and doug straighten this out.

Your buildings are great! wonderful expansion of the smaller stuff into some real cityscapes! when i get more time i really want to get into going higher with the buildings like this!

cheers

jeff

[Scaper]

Jeff, thanks for your reply, I admit there are some of Dougs on a photo set in on my flickr account but not on this link. It's seprate. It's also titled, N scale photos from around the net. There's a few of his, photo of sales on Yahoo auctions, other sites etc. I post a comment that these photos are not mine. In fact this is where I've met a lot of my n scale buddies. The link above though is completely my work with exception there is one photoset in there that is called buildings that were sold on Japan Yahoo Auctions. I believe Jerry just bought a building off there. Grrr so jealous hahahaaha. I am still waiting my reply from that website by the way.

That all said it seems we are at oposite ends of the spectrum right now. I'm trying to build or buy some smaller lower density buildings for my city. I just sold off a large 25 building lot of buildings on ebay. Old ones I had made when I was in high school. I was unhappy with the over all quality of them. So I sold them and now I'm looking at rebuilding some of them from new kits. And I've just found some new artitec buildings I've fallen in love with. But they are only facade kits so I'll have to build the rest of the building for them.


Jerry here's a large photo of my Vero high rise.



I just inquired about buying more of these buildings in a lot. They are now sold by Auhagen and come with different balconies. But I can use the tops from the old models I didn't use and make a completely different looking high rise with them.

as the old vero kits looked when I got them... I'd use these tops as I have two of them.



Thanks again for the compliments Jerry and Jeff.

[Toni Babelony]

Wow! Those are some truly impressive models! I guess this kind of urban modelling is one of the more expensive kinds there is.

[cteno4]

Bob,

Ok now i see where all this came from.

Reposting of others photos even if you put info up to address that does get many folks upset, so i can understand where doug's problem started. I have had my stuff used else where w/o folks asking with and with out credit and it does irk me some. I just tend never  to do it and only link to other places or if really necessary i ask permission to use something from someone else site an give lots of credits and a link to pay back. that just makes sure i never get into a problem situation with anyone.

i realize not everyone feels the same way about the net and content put up there. i come from a multimedia production background so rights, credits, use, etc has always been a really important issue with my work and those i work with so i tend to be very careful about it.

your work is wonderful and given me many ideas on doing tall buildings. really want to do some kitbashing like this in the future when i get some time!

have you gotten into doing any scratch built glass wall type high rises?

cheers

jeff

[cteno4]

just a cross post of an older high rise development...

http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,2568.0.html

cheers

jeff

[quinntopia]

I just inquired about buying more of these buildings in a lot. They are now sold by Auhagen and come with different balconies. But I can use the tops from the old models I didn't use and make a completely different looking high rise with them.

Bob, really? Auhagen makes these now?  Do you have a link?  I never heard of 'Vero' so like seeing what they have out there!

I really like seeing the 'original' balcony, re-painting those really helped the model a LOT.  The orange/yellow balconies were way too plastic looking!

[cteno4]

Bob,

hey it would be great if you could point out a few of the kits you think give you the best bang for the buck to do larger apartment and office buildings walls like this. the only one i know of that give a good amount to work with is the Heljan hospital building. the vollmer and faller kits dont give many stories to work with.

this is great stuff to think on!

cheers

jeff

[Scaper]

Jerry,

 These are the same kits as those old Vero Kits. I read somewhere that Auhagen was Vero but I'm trying to find that out. I ordered a Catalogue off The net this week. Jonathan sent me an email on it. Where there were some N scale high rises offered back in the day similar to CMR's todays.



I'm looking at ordering 17 of these Vero kits. I'm getting quotes from various sellers to see the best price I can get.

Jerry I found this building on ebay yesterday I'm just waiting to see if the seller will ship it to Canada. I noticed that you have one and I've been looking for it for a long time. The seller says this is a Vollmer kit but I have no info on it.



Do you have a product number or manufacture of this kit?

Cheers, Bob

[Bernard]

Scraper - Welcome to the forum, I too agree, you're models are amazing!

[Scaper]

Thanks Bernard, I'm still learning but getting better all the time. It's funny buildings I built two years ago I thought were so awesome, I look at now and say to myself...dang.... I wish I had known this or that...now they bother me. But that's the growth of modeling right! :D Anyways thanks for the compliments. Anyways I look at some other's work with that ...Wow.... That's so awesome!!! and inspire to as good as that. So I appreciate the compliment but I'm not there yet by any means.  hahaaha.

JEFF.. I missed your post I most apologize.

For the best bang for the buck kit bash... You're going to laugh but I'd say model power kits. They are so cheap.. I mean like under 8 bucks a kit. They can be really easy to bash and you can make some amazing models.

Here's a couple that I got... One is made by my buddy Jonathan I bought off him cause I love it so much and the others were some I built like wow... 12 some years ago so mine are not that good as I knew nothing about modeling at the time..but they'll still give you a great start.
Here's my model power set.. I'm going to do some more of these soon.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55063726@N00/sets/72157615571585875/

[Scaper]

Also the tomix 4044 buildings are easy to bash and are cheap.

And some of the coolest kitbashes are the DPM structures. I'm going to be doing some more of these as well. I won't spill the bag on what I'm planning on doing but I'll keep you posted.
Here's my one dpm kitbash.. I made a major blunder on the top but it's not glued down so I'll fix it this year and add a fourth section to it too.


Check out what Jonathan made of this building in HO Scale... This is Awesome!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45970544@N03/4385109441/in/photostream/

Anyways there's a few starters for cheaper readily available kits to tinker with. My advice with the model power kits. For some reason as soon as you glue the windows in those kits the wall want to bend on you. I always reinforce the back of these walls with pretty thick styrene strips running in both directions. Just make sure you give your self enough room to glue windows in...

After gluing the next wall piece on I then ran strips horizontally as well. My walls on my Model Power/ Pola buildings now are flush all my old ones warp and bend. I'd suggest doing the same with the new lunde buildings as well. All my old lunde building walls warped too.

[Mudkip Orange]

Yeah dude, crazy realistic.

[jappomania]

 
Hi Bob ! ....
I don't find words for your work so...
you are a Master Builder
in Italy to make a similar work I need building license, paing house tax etc...

BRAVISSIMO!

ciao
Massimo

[Bernard]

Bob,
That interesting about he Model Power Kits, the manufacturer is located in a town not too far from me. I used to go there and purchase defected kits from them.
Question: The houses that they make are pretty much European in design, would that look work on a Japanese layout? Or what revisions would you do to make them work?

[Scaper]

Ahhh right a japanese layout! I'm thinking North American...sorry. I did a 4 hour quick bash tonight on a Kato 23-434A building that would work well for a japanese layout. Well part of the buildings anyways. I was bored of my Tomix bowfront building project so I pulled out two old bases from these models as I used the upper floors for a future detailed skyscraper project. I thought I could make an interesting building by ripping these apart painting them and detailing them up for selling on ebay.



I used an extra unused roof part of the KATO 23-431A Kato office building for the balcony I had to cut it up. I find so many uses for the unused base kits of my kitbashes. Anyways This was a freebe for me cause I had extra parts. I still have to glue to the upper two floors down but I'm going to wait as I cut holes in the floors for lights so I won't glue it down for some time. Now that it's done I'm not sure if I'll put it on ebay. I may keep it! :D Funny hey.

Some minor detailing... I rushed this one..it took me exactly 4 hours to do..

[cteno4]

hey the new start houses may also provide some interesting wall sections and detail parts for some high rise kitbashing...

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10104416

cheers

jeff

[Bernard]

I would love to see what Scaper does with this kit!
I like the Starbucks coffee shop....but does that mean you to have one on every corner of your layout?

hey the new start houses may also provide some interesting wall sections and detail parts for some high rise kitbashing...

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10104416

cheers

jeff

[quinntopia]

Bob/Scaper:

Do you have a product number or manufacture of this kit?

No, mine is, in fact, a bit different I think.  Looks like the same top, but the one in the photo you show looks like an HO Scale ground floor? I saw another kit on eBay that made it appear that this was part of a larger Kibri station complext...which makes sense given the large clocks on mine.  I'll see if I can find the auction for this (since ended but may have the details you're looking for).


JeffCteno4
Have you checked out these Aoshima kits?  I don't think they're particularly cheap (and they're LARGE, so shipping from HS was a beast!), but their very nicely done...lot's of pre-paint etc...  There's two to a box so you can combine one kit for 8 stories.  I'm in the midst of combining 4 of them for a 16 story apartment....

[quinntopia]

hey the new start houses may also provide some interesting wall sections and detail parts for some high rise kitbashing...

I just got notice from HS that mine are on their way!  I think I ordered 3 boxes... I know that seems awful high, but like in the prototype, I'm running out of land and need to go UP!

Just to warn everyone, Bob/Scaper is a BAD influence!!!     Once you start hanging around with him, your buildings start getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger!!!!  Ahhh...the gold old days when I thought my Tomix 4018 was a BIG building! http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10009834 

[quinntopia]

Here's one of those Heljan kits on eBay right now.  I couldn't find these for a long time, but this has to be like the 5th or 6th one on ebay in the past couple of months
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270541451460&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[cteno4]

quinntopia,

check with your lhs and see if they can get these kits, i got them through leestrains.com last year. they are listed as HO, but really are n scale on the floors.

yes i have two sets of the aoshima apt buildings. was thinking about doing a double high one with one set. there are a huge gob of parts in them! they also wall off each apt internally so you can light just a few of the apts nicely! just have to do a little fiddling in the stairwell connection between the two kits of you go higher.

cheers

jeff

[quinntopia]

yes i have two sets of the aoshima apt buildings. was thinking about doing a double high one with one set. there are a huge gob of parts in them! they also wall off each apt internally so you can light just a few of the apts nicely! just have to do a little fiddling in the stairwell connection between the two kits of you go higher.

Sorry Jeff! Didn't know you had this already!  I should have known better!

You are right about the parts...I've spent this entire Saturday doing almost nothing but clipping sprues, trimming sprues, and gluing.  So far, I have all the balconies done...which is a lot.  Since its 20 stories tall (2 kits, so 4x5) that's 80 balconies, each with separate floor/railings, so 160 pieces to cut/trim/glue!  Then there's the railings...another160 or so of them to cut off.  This thing is a time beast!  I make myself feel better by looking at some of Bob/Scaper's photos for inspiration!

I agree, kind of cool how they set up the interior for lighting.  That should make it a very solid building as well!

[Scaper]

I bought 3 of those star buildings. I'll see what I can do with them. Has anyone else bought the Star House? Weird looking model for sure. I'm not happy with the over all look of quality but it should make for a different shaped structure which will be nice. It'll just take some modifiying I think to make it look somewhat realistic.

Funny comment about Warning about me! hahahaa.  too funny.

I ordered 2 of those aoshima apt buildings I should get them this week. My plans are to build taller versions of these. I'm not sure how high I will go with them. I was shocked at how expensive these were to ship. Crazy. I also ordered 2 of those Tomix station kits for  using as a base for a highrise building. I'm excited to see what you guys come up with these buildings. I'm not sure about this building as I've not started it yet but I can tell you I can feel your pain. I'm in the middle of a Kibri apartment bash...waiting for more parts.

Here's 144 Balconies... I had to pick sand clean up all the old glue and flower planters off them..grrrr.

[cteno4]

the star houses are in sal as we speak, so ill know in a week or two what they look like in person.

hopefully aoshima will continue with this series at a good clip!

btw aoshima owns Hobby World. kind of odd a model company would own a whole hobby shop like that.

jeff

[quinntopia]

I think it would be great if Aoshima continued along these lines!    From what I can tell, this is their only N gauge structure.   I really like their approach to this model.  Even though its footprint is not dramatically bigger than a lot of other models, a lot of thought went into it.  I'm relieved that I'm almost finished!  Its amazing how many 'little' things it takes to 'customize' these buildings (and all I'm doing is simple stack of 4 of them on top of each other).  The stairway thing was the most obvious challenge, but I think I have that fixed now...maybe photos by this weekend! 

As for the 'star house' from "Tramway"...it'll be interesting to see if we see more models from them as well.  I agree with Bob (and likely a lot of others) that it will be nice to have something with a bit of a different shape to it.  This one is going to take a lot of detail though....  I just checked and it just cleared customs in San Francisco and is on its way! Woohoo!

[cteno4]

I think the star house is actually aoshima a well, as its listed at #2 in the series. we will see when we see the box! the kit style looks very similar to the first aoshima apartment buildings.

cheers

jeff

[Scaper]

Jeff the starhouse was listed as being made by Tramway.

This Kato department store is selling for more than brand new kits. It seems if you list something as a skyscraper it sells for crazy amounts on ebay these days. :D

As for those Grand Hotel kits I've got three of them right now in boxes. I'm going to make an addition to my Hospital scene. I'm glad I bought them last year. I got them from an online business in Quebec Canada for 32 dollars each. They have been selling for over 90 dollars on ebay for unbuilt boxes lately. Just crazy!

I've almost finished my Tomix Bowfront building too. I just needed to add some interiors to the second tower. Jerry Helped me with some of the detailing ideas on this model.

Cheers Guys, Bob

[cteno4]

Jeff the starhouse was listed as being made by Tramway.

I know, but i remember something that i saw when it was first announced that made me think its actually aoshima behind it. also its listed as #2 on the series coming out just after the aoshima apt blds that were listed as #1. I think aoshima may be looking ofr a brand to put the train stuff out under. hw (aoshima) actually lists it as Dauphin for the manufacturer. they did some importing of the german combo trams (hiroshima and nagasaki). the first apartment building by aoshima was released under the brand Skynet on HW that curiously also does some small two axle trams... hw only lists some N and HO train model kits under Aoshima directly. so something odd is going on.

cheers,

jeff

[Scaper]

Something odd is going on! hahahaaa... funny.

 Well if anything is encouraging there's a #1 and there's a #2...so soon there'll be a #3 and 4 

 Jerry I finally found one of those Vollmer station kits unbuilt #7510 Funny there were several differen versions of this model. The guy was selling a lot of them. This is the one I bought.... Cruddy Shipping costs but it's the first one I've seen in 2 years still in a box.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220565162990&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Here were a couple of his other kits he was selling.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220565162591&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220565163333&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Cheers, Bob