Salmon Roe???

What's that you say what does salmon roe have to do with Japanese N scale. Well you'll have to stick around to find out lol.

Building GREENMAX JR103 Commuter cars a pictorial article

On the JNS forum it was suggested that I write an article on how to assemble a GM kit. Be warned that I'm not an editor by trade and this will be pretty rough and mainly a pictorial guide. GREENMAX is a Japanese company and the instructions are always printed in Japanese with illustrations that usually help but can be confusing. You can use services like Google Translate to translate the directions into your language. For the article I will be using English since that is my default language. The Package This is just one of many sets that GREENMAX sells its kits in. Kits are sold in one, Two, and Three car kits both painted and unpainted. Usually the box has a representation of the finished product on the box however that can be misleading so don't count on that as an accurate description. I almost purchased an unpainted kit when I wanted a painted kit. The boxes below are the latest GREENMAX JR103 kits that I've assembled. Be advised the photos do not portray the complete assembly process as this article after I've assembled the kit. If you have any questions feel free to reach out on the JNS forum username BC6.

Heres are some videos of modelers building GM JR103 in a slideshow format and another one here. Heres a well-documented guide on installing a decoder in a GreenMax JR103 motor unit. 

Prior to copper strip installation

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Copper strips installed

Covered copper strips

Underbody kit to be installed

Installed body kit

Preparing for roof vents

Holes drilled for roof vents

Roof vents installed 

 

Today another goodies box showed up from RG-ROKKO

I got some more JR103 cars from GreenMax but in a different style in Orange and Green. I doubled down on some TOMIX Koki and got some new ONE containers from 

The smallest delivery yet.

Yup that's it 8483 an underbody kit for my GREENMAX JR103. 

I wanted another JR103 with pantographs so I built one kind of.

It seems GREENMAX doesn't sell single cars with pantographs so you have to make your own. Lucky for me I had spare pantographs, I drilled some holes then added the pantographs and a spark arrestor to the roof. I scratched the roof a little so I'll need to touch up the roof a little, I may add some piping to the roof in the future, I don't think it came out too shabby if I do say so myself. 

Another deliver from RG-ROKKO

 

HI-TECH HTC 100 Train Controller

 

RG HAUL # 2 2024

 

My KoKi Collection