Sunday, January 14, 2007

Making a layout #22 A river and a lake

Now time to make a river and a lake.Made an upper stream by Woodland "Realistic Water" provided by KATO.


Water Effect. Looks pretty white, but it gets almost milky white when you leave them for 1 day. Water Effect is to express waves etc at the water surface.





Making the bottom of a lake by some plaster sheets. Cut some 4mms thick board for the lakeside to stop water.



Trial for water gradation. Lake Aoki looks like green but Azusa river looks like blue.

Looks different when you put some realistic water there.

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A wheel cleaner

Improved the wheel cleaner which a regular poster to our J-blog presented me.

It seemed that electricity didn't reach the rails, so I added a wire around the red arrow to improve it. It works but a function to control motor cars' direction doesn't work now maybe because of this improvement. But anyway it now cleans wheels, yay!

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Tip of a soldering iron

Replaced it.Actually I have seldom soldered anything, have learned that tips of soldering irons are articles of consumption. They say we had better put some solder at the tip after getting rid of everything by wiping there so that the tips could not be oxidized.

Rail cleaning car at work

When it comes back, it looks like this.

Messy!!!!!!!!!

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Metro in Madrid '82

Metro in Madrid when I traveled around Europe in 1982

I wondered why train cars of subway in Europe were smaller than ones in Japan inspite of people there were bigger than Japanese. Same in Athens and Paris. Additionally I found that seats in Metro in Paris were what we called "box seats" on which people sit face to face having the window on their side. When I got on a metro in Paris, I had to turn a handle at the door clockwise and when I got off, I had to turn it counterclockwise!! It was a big culture shock. Perhaps there were no "rush hours" there.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Candles in the igloos.

Not completely sure since when I do this.
Press some snow to make an igloo to put a candle in it to make fire. Candles are fantastic, never get bored when I look at them burning. I make fire at them when the sun sets praying it gives some warmness to all the living things in this snowy icy land..........

Icicles

Icicles have grown up, time for me to drop them off! Actually it's danger when you drop them off by poking them because sometimes they fall down from the roof when you do that. You relly need to be careful to keep some ways to escape. At the surface touching the roof is completely frozen, what if that frozen ice attacked your head?

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