The prime mover of the tiny pink world of Shukuzu blogs about his creation. The nascent layout holds promise, and the writing is brilliant. Read it.
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The prime mover of the tiny pink world of Shukuzu blogs about his creation. The nascent layout holds promise, and the writing is brilliant. Read it. Here’s a guy on the cutting edge of modern model railroading. If designing and building your own DCC booster and command station doesn’t establish your model rail electronics creds, I don’t know what does. Lately, Steven’s been experimenting with using the Arduino platform, and churning out some really interesting proof-of-concept circuits for automatic control [...] I’ve heard from a few people now that they like my wishlist if only because it has a small list of places to buy Japanese model trains. With these comments as inspiration, I have created a dedicated page (linked to in the menu up above) to indexing all the sources I have found. Right [...] クモハE230? ホキ800? オロネフ24? Japanese rail cars are classified using a katakana coding system. The following two links will help you crack that code: Wikipedia’s guide to the katakana and Plaza Japan’s excellent guide to rail car nomenclature. Stevenh has designed his own DCC booster from scratch. How cool is that? Better yet, it works with a PC, and he has several for sale. Best of all, he uses his custom booster to drive Japanese trains. Enough said. You owe his site a look. Although my interest lies squarely in modeling Japanese N-gauge—1:150 scale—others desire something…smaller. Much smaller. Like T-gauge—1:450 scale. At this scale, one real meter is very nearly a scale half-kilometer! You could model an entire city in the space of a large basement, without the usual sorts of “selective compression” one would normally need. T-gauge [...] 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 [...] People who model H0 gauge think we N-gaugers are nuts for working with something so small. N-gaugers likewise think Z-gaugers as nutters. Well, now Z gauge people have a group to wonder about: T Gauge. T Gauge is a new scale being pushed by Eishindo, currently the only T manufacturer. Scale is 1:450 [...] If you haven’t seen the blogroll to the right, I might as well point it out to you now. I select sites to list there based on their helpfulness to the new Japanese model railroader. One of the most helpful of these is Tomix N Gauge Track and Japanese N Gauge Trains, run by [...] |
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