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The New Year’s Festival has Already Begun Up from the inky depths of the basement comes Shōgatsu, my family’s Christmas New Year’s layout! In the intervening months, we’ve collected a couple of TomyTec buildings. I’ve also managed to assemble and decal the various little festival stalls we bought last year. Finally, we’ve added [...]  AkiPla circa 2006 Here’s my current target: A strip mall under Akihabara Station called Akiba Station Plaza, or AkiPla for short (note: Since my trip to Tokyo, it’s become an Ishimaru, a chain of electronics and home-appliance stores). You’ll need to click on the pathetically small thumbnail to see it clearly. It’s plastered in ads, and has merchandise practically spilling onto the street. Not only is the interior lit, but there are lots of little spotlights at the top illuminating…well, what they are meant to illuminate isn’t quite clear. They are directed at the corrugated metal. There’s lots of great modeling possibility in this little scene. I can’t think of a witty title for this week’s Shogatsu post. As you can see, we’ve done up the skeletal understructure—the “subterrain” if you will—for the left half of the layout. Amy wants lots of layers, and she wants the shrine atop the mountain at the end of a steep switch-backed path. [...] I particularly enjoy blogs that document construction projects. Kashirigi’s Yamanote-sen is one of my favorites. He is a fantastic modeler, and his medium of choice is…paper. Even with no room for a layout in his small Vancouver apartment, he’s building one anyway: on a frame built from canvas stretchers, and hung on the wall [...] Step 5: Backdrop and tunnels, part 1 More progress! If I can keep up this rate every weekend, it looks like we might have this done by December! We cut the layout in half to aid transportation and storage. If we hadn’t, the layout would almost certainly have ended up too large to [...] White and red are the colors of the Japanese New Year, Shōgatsu, and (for now) our layout reflects those colors in white and pink foam. Amy and I have decided to name it simply “Shōgatsu”. Anyway, this weekend we have significant real construction! I’ve always been rather intimidated by those 8′x4′ sheets of [...] |
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