Making a layout #14 Soldering some terminals.

Soldered some terminals to destribute electricity from a switching power pack.


If I were good at it, maybe I connect each and every block by bronze line or something but I feel it kinda troublesome so that I soldered them by cut rail.
Electricity will be provided through those terminals to each and every structures with lamps to create night scenery.

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Making a layout #13 Autumn crump foliage

Found some autumn crump foliage at Hobby center KATO website.


All the 4 colors are packed together. :o


Anyway tried to improve the 2nd corner. Some are green, some are red, some are yellow etc. Maybe I had better put only autumn foliages there, but usually many colors of trees get together in moutains, so this is not bad, I guess. What you think?

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When I woke up this morning........

Larch trees around my house were covered with snow.


Woke up by some noise of snow-removing cars for the first time this season. Kinda special noise for winter morning.

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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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