Making a layout #12 Arcade walls

I started making one of structures from Canada - arcade walls.

First of all, I needed to cut some wall for tenants out. But anyway it's plastic, it tends to look white when I cut some off. I needed to file there to make it calmer.



Making a tenant. Very tiny stuff, have to stop breathing lol...


Mirinda!! When I was a kid, mirinda was popular as well as fanta, no idea when it disappeared.


One done. This arcade wall itself is 8cms tall, maybe okay for some unelectrified railroad to go underward but not enough tall for some electrified railroad when some locos, traincars with some pantagraphs go underward. Need to put some more extra height. I have to do 4 more centimeters on it.

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Hakuba Goryu ski slope is getting in business for 06-07 season!

The upper area Alps-daira gerande will be in business from tomorrow ( Dec.3rd 2006)


Snow has been falling a bit harder since this evening, they say it will be colder than usual tomorrow. Be careful not to catch a cold.

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Tadami line diesel car in early ' 80s

Traveled around Tohoku region by myself in the autumn of 1980 or 1981


I don't remember at what station I took this picture. I thought it was no problem even if I wrote it down where at the backside of the pic because I thought I would not forget... I was young lol.. Nowadays I often forget what I just did some moments ago, so it's hard for me to rememeber things of 1/4 century ago.
But I remember it must be in 1980 or 1981 because I escaped lectures of college to travel there. After I got back to the college, self-indroduction speach was going on at the Spanish language class. I didn't know that, I just expected it would be a normal class. I was not ready, everyone else spoke where they lived, what club activities they joined etc , I just spoke about the travel around Tohoku instead which caused a problem.
The Spanish language teacher who was a giant Spanish man suddenly got upset to ask me

"Gamera63, why did you escape the class only for the travel?"

............

Very hard time.

I took his class in 1980 and 1981 which I never forget.

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Hard time....

A CD-ROM which has some backdrops in it. One of the items that arrived from Canada the other day but....

Everything is described in German which I don't understand!!

I even don't get which is the installer in the CD-ROM.
I e-mailed the maker in Germany to ask which is the installer and if they provide an English explanation. Hope they reply in English, not in German!



Tried to paint the leaves in yellow to make an autumn faliage tree. But after I got back from lunch, it just looks like light green. Where the yellow has gone? Perhaps it's impossible to paint the leaves....


I put some leaves at a tree for the 2nd corner to see how it looks.

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The distribution of atmospheric pressure

At this time of the year, a lot often there's a high air pressure at the west, a low air pressure at the east of Japan. That is a typical one in winter which brings tons of snow along the Japan sea. Snow came down lower and lower of the mountains.



They say it'll be very cold around this coming weekends.

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Scenery of Germany

Made one of structures which got here yesterday from Canada. It's a small one, just needed 30 minutes to make.


I saw this kind of towers at some old castles along the Rhein river when I traveled around there in '80s. Now I let the DB103 loco work to pull some T.E.E color coaches to run beside the tower. I plan to make a small river at this side, hopefully could put a rustick rock like the Lorerie there.

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Something from Canada

"Love letter from Canada!" - Long ago, this song was popular all over Japan. Structures I ordered got to my place today, yay!

They pack stuff very carefully more than I expected. The buffer stuff are colorful. They are all white in Japan. This package left there in Canada PST time zone 4 days ago (Nov.24 PST - Nov.25 JST). I think this is quick, isn't it?


This is what I had waited for. A set of arcade walls to set under the elevated railroad. They had one in stock but I need two, so they told me I had to wait for roughly 2 weeks but it took 4 weeks for them to get ones in stock. I've been learning things in model train world goes this slow!
This arcade wall looks very much toyish, I almost shouted out "It's like a toy" but exactly it is. lol... I almost acted a comedy talk by myself. :o


Luigi's pizzeria. I want to locate this kind of thing in my layout which looks really busy with full of people, praying people in Japan recover their spirits again.


Tables anc chairs. Would like to have them at the open space around the station to express how spirited it is.


Coloring layout also goes ahead slowly fron the second corner ( autumn foliage corner ) to the third corner ( cross country skiing trail ). I have to have a gradation from chest nut color to white somewhere on the way. As this track is hidden by a guard, maybe I will do this later.
They say it might be snowy or rainy from tonight, I'm getting less and less time for making layout. Feels as if I were an elementary school kid who doesn't finish his summer break homework at the last day of a summer break.

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