Making a layout #11 Curve cant

A continuous curve of 210 angle ( Radius of the inside track = 711mms, outside track = 813mms.) Put some 1mm thin wood at the outside of the curve rails to make some cants there.

Do you find the cant? - maybe a little bit tough to do though :(

Maybe this locomotive above shows it better?

How about this one? The former T.E.E "Gottardo" belonged to S.B.B. Perhaps pictures don't show it good, but the cant made it safer for trains to go through there and also it looks more realistick which I really like.

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Making a layout # 10 - Coloring part 2

Coloring process goes ahead little by little like a snail goes.

The first corner is located at this end, the second cornor is done at the deep end.

Getting closer to the second corner.

I'm planning to put many deciduous trees at this corner so that I made it brown at the ground. It needs a lot more time to color scenery by scenery powder than paints. Maybe it won't need so much time if you just need to color a completely flat 1 square meter, but what I have been doing is to color up/downhills which are very narrow and complicated. You put brown powder along the rails then 3 kinds of green powders ( light green, green and dark green ) around. Sometimes the powders slide down to the bottom which is hard to fix. Maybe I am lucky if I can go ahead 1 meter a day!

But when you do that way, the powders create a tiny bit of uneasy surfaces which make it realistic. Maybe the uneasy surfaces are just around 1 mms but this model train stuffs are 1/80 - 1/87 scale, so if the uneasiness were just 1 mm, it would be 80 - 87 mms for real which I really love to have. That's why I can keep going on inspite of having far sighted eyes which seldom forcus things good lol.......

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Express train "Kitaguni"

Arrived at Osaka from Aomori, long distance more than 1,000 kms. Nowadays "Kitaguni" is operated by 583 series electric cars. Not coaches pulled by a locomotive like at that time.
Picture taken around 1976 at Osaka station.

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Sushi the king of Japanese.

Depends on who you ask, some Japanese say sushi is the king of Japanese food, others would say something else. But if you ask me, I would say sushi is.

For　some of you, it might be hard to try sushi because the toppings are almost all raw fish as you see. So if you don't eat raw fish, it must be a big challenge to try sushi. But sushi contains much protein and few fat. Good for your health.



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Raining? Snowing?

It was raining around my house, wondered if it was snowing at the ski slopes as it looked like snowing.

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Making a layout #9 The 2nd corner.

Keep making the model train layout heading to the 2nd corner after the 1st corner where the mountain house is located.

Brush some water at the surface of the plaster.

Put some bondwater at the both side of rails for brown color powder. I have to do this as quick as possible while the bondwater stay wet. Plaster does swallow water too quick if you don't supply any beforehand so that I need to suply some water beforehand.

I think I have tried some plural ways in turns to do anything! lol..... Masking rails to spray some waterbond. The right side of this picture above is the 2nd corner where I am planning to put some autumn foliage because the 3rd corner would be a crosscountry skiing trails which expresses winter. This 2nd corner should be a prelude for it. The rail ground has been changing the color from green to brown because of the fallen leaves.

Making some areas at the steep hill in the 2nd corner flat to put some trees. Can't find any red, yellow, orange and brown powder in Japan to make autumn foliage. Does anyone know some shops in Japan sell them?

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At this moment they are all broadleaf trees I have. Probably need to put a lot more to make it rich.

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Stay tuned for 06-07 winter season!

They say at this moment there's 20-30cms of snow at the top of Hakuba Goryu ski slope.


Maybe soon it looks like this.

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