Lights, Camera, Action, HD?

I thought it was about time that I gave up trying to take model railroad videos with my trusty Nikon P1 and buy a dedicated video camera. So after hours of searching the Net for camcorder reviews I settled on the Creative Vado HD. The Vado does all kinds of goodies like record video at an HD video resolution of up to 1280x720p. Its pocket sized, hopefully I wont lose it. The Vado has the latest H.264 video compression technology provides unprecedented video quality at ultra-efficient file sizes for the best possible viewing experience. Record up to 4 times more videos, compared to MPEG-4 encoded ones.It has up to 4 hours of HD quality video or up to 8 hours of video at VGA resolution.

The video below is AWESOME for something created on a pocket video camera.










Below is my little video shot on a Creative Vado, yup its in HiDef as well, hope you like it.

My Last Shinkasen

Well hopefully this wont be my last Shinkasen but last night I purchased a Kato 10-222 Yamagata Shinkansen E3 Tsubasa 7 car set from Plaza-Japan an ebay retailer. I wanted the E3 with the red stripe but wouldn't find it online to save my life. So I got the E3 with the Green stripe and the nose mounted coupler. Im not sure what the difference is between the E3 with the Green or Red stripe if there is any difference at all. Im pretty pumped about getting this one in the mail which should take about 4 days or so from Japan.


Update: I lied the E3 will not be the last Shinkasen I get. I plan to get a Dr. Yellow from Microace eventually/


Below is a nice video of the E3 Series pulling in to a station.

100 N scale cars for $16 USD

Yup thats right, 100 N scale cars for $16. I took a stab at that offer and wasn't disappointed. I mean what could you really expect for $16 bucks youre not getting any Kato quality cars or Atlas or Tomytec. What I did get were 100 N scale cars painted in Red, White Silver Metallic Green and Black. There were a variety of styles of cars, from BMW to Mercedes and a Mini Van styled vehicle.

These cars wont win any beauty contests but they will fill the gap when you need lots of cars on the cheap. They would fit any N scale car dealership, parking lot, station entrance and on your N scale roads. Below is a pic I took of my recently arrived 100 N scale cars.

Houston weve got buildings!!!!

In celebration of NASA's 40 anniversary I thought that title up, anyway I think I have enough buildings for a pretty decent city what do you think. Id like to order maybe 2 more residential and 1 more commercial building to round it out.

Dummb trains !!!!!

Not really lol, I finally bite the bullet & pulled the trigger on a Series 251 Super View Odoriko 6 cars set. Aren't we Americans full of metaphors lol, I purchased it on eBay from Plazajapan.I wanted something different, it was the Series 251 or a Narita Express 6 car set. Id like to pick up the 4 car add on set for the Series 251 too.One day I hope to pick up a Narita Express. Below is a picture of the Series 251 Super View Odoriko 6 cars set, aint she pretty.

American buildings on Japanese layouts

What do you think of the photos below, do you think the Blue and Brown DPM buildings would fit in a Japanese themed layout. Keep in mind that the buildings have no details added & would look a 1000% better if they were detailed. Ive switched the buildings up a little to give the viewer a different view of the building arrangement.

Waiting to be delivered

This week I went a little crazy and ordered 5 buildings. I ordered a new 6 floor building in a different style than the other building I have. I ordered two residential buildings to break up the monotony and finally I ordered two of the 23-431 Built-Up 4 Floor Office Building. I got two of the 4 floor buildings because I want to make the current one I have taller.