New products from all the manufacturers
A number of exciting new releases were announced over the weekend at the 49th All Japan Model Hobby Show …
‘Enoshima’ gets a new Freeway
There have been more changes made to Enoshima, in time for the Newcastle exhibition this weekend …
Kato announce ‘Unitram’ system
After the surprise announcement of their release of the Toyama City Light Rail Transit ‘Portram’ at the Matsuya Ginza exhibition last month, Kato have made the big announcement at JAM2009 of a track system to suit …
more new buildings on ‘Enoshima’
With the arrival of more new Tomytec houses, there have been more real estate changes !!!
New buildings for ‘Enoshima’
The release of more new buildings from Kato, Greenmax & Tomytec have forced many changes to the real estate landscape on Enoshima !!!
New Tomix ‘Wide PC’ rail system
Tomix have announced their new rail system, for tentative release in July …
Preview of new Tomytec items
At a recent Tomy sales meeting, the following new Tomytec & Tomix items were shown and/or announced …
New Kato stuff
Kato have announced a number of interesting new releases in the last week or so …
Tomix vs. Kato E233-1000 model review
Having the unique opportunity to compare these two items side by side, I decided to write a review and make up a scorecard …
Second anniversary !!!
January 2009 is the second anniversary of this Blog, and considering the amount of time I have had to work on it, I am rather pleased with it’s progress …
Enoshima is going to Japan !!!
As probably everyone knows, Enoshima is IN Japan, so while that title may sound stupid, what I mean is that it is being planned that my latest ‘N’ scale Japanese model railway layout ‘Enoshima’ will be attending 2 exhibitions in Japan later this year. Full details follow …
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Tomix N700 Shinkansen model review
Well I finally got rid of my Kato N700 set and replaced it with the Tomix N700-3000 version that had just come out when I was in Japan in December …
‘Enoshima’ pictures
I have finally updated the ‘Enoshima’ home page with pictures taken from the latest exhibition ….
New Kato “Orient Express”
In December, Kato will release a model of a non-Japanese train that ran in Japan !!!
New Kato model
Kato have announced a rare ‘new’ release, as opposed to another previous model variant, repaint or set reconfiguration, for release in November …
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