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Old 10-07-2022, 03:25 AM
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I have a general idea, but I haven't decided the details yet.

If the project will be successful in 100% perhaps it will cover the area of 0,6 m by 3 to 4 m. But maybe it will end as half this size, I don't know yet.
Please find the (slightly updated) sketch attached.

I made few temporary arrangements of my models of buldings and took photos as well as collected many Google Street Views and photos of real villages, towns and cities streets and only when I finish all the "must be" objects (many of the "must-be" items like hospital, schools, city hall, public transportation facilities, one or two industrial workshops, LPG tanks for central heating, few village huts, a buddhist temple, a castle donjon - and much more - are still not done) I will try to plan the location of these building groups on the planks, and only then I'll be able to start designing of the roads network and decide if I will made everything as a flat terrain or will I add few hills and river+bridge(s).
And later on I will made the remaining buildings to fill the gaps.
And, finally, I shall supplement the diorama with much more figures, cars, poles and lamps, streetlights, trees and farmlands and other non-paper small details.
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Old 10-07-2022, 04:02 AM
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Andrew, so many jewels!
I love the kabuki-za, it's beautiful.
Keep up the good work!
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Old 10-07-2022, 06:32 AM
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Thanks a lot!!!
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Old 10-08-2022, 01:31 AM
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Small tall apartment buildings

A pair of tall buildings adopted from the famous free set of Akihabara crossroad, scaled to 1/300 and enriched with few details.

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Old 10-08-2022, 09:11 AM
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The third small tall building

This is the smaller (not so tall) version of the net of my previous Akihabara models (#75 & 76). You can see them on the last image, all together plus #96 and one more older (#77) by Takekawa-san.

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Old 10-08-2022, 02:28 PM
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I still can't believe what I'm seeing going on here. It's making my head spin.
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Old 10-09-2022, 03:52 PM
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So, dear Philip, fasten your seatbelt and take a look at my sawmill factory here! :D

Well, maybe this complex is not so resplendent for this forum users because it contains much non-paper items. The flat truck has side poles made of steel wire and of course all wood is made of wood (the birch branches and the toothpicks with cut-off ends and matches sticks - the longest wooden elements are nearly 4 cm (1 1/2 ") long). And of course the complex is rather simplified, comprising of an old workshop, now playing a role of a small office, and a new big sawmill hall with an external bag filter structure. This hall has been made with no computer/printer. The complex can be expanded by storage halls for timber and planks, a scales and a new office and equipped with forklifts and a crane with a grapple, so maybe later I will add a piece or two.

The inscription in katakana over the gate indicates that the owner of the sawmill is Takakatsu Construction Materials Co., the really existing company. The design of my main sawmill hall and bagfilter annex was based on one of their buildings.

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Old 10-10-2022, 01:14 AM
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Daruma dolls shop

A very special kind of shops in Japan are shops with different kinds of dolls. For the Japanese some kinds of dolls are far more than simple talismans, colorful gifts, theatrical puppets or traditional toys. It regards especially Daruma which represent the buddhist saint, Bodhidharma. The buddhist missionary monk called Bodhidharma is worshipped in China and Japan, but especially for the Japanese he is one of the most popular patrons and that's why the simplified, armless dolls with the image of his face, known as Daruma or Tatsuma, can be found in nearly every home and company building throughout Japan. Buying one and painting one eye to him while praying to the saint (the dolls are sold with white "empty" eyes) will bring you luck and help you solve a problem or complete a job that requires a lot of persistence. After the problem is solved or job finished, you can thank Daruma and paint the second eye to his doll. But for the next year or the next difficult task you shall buy a new Daruma doll, and that's why the number of these dolls is as big as the population in Japan and the shops and temple stalls selling them are never in danger of bankruptcy.

I came up with a funny facade of the doll's shop that makes the whole building look like a huge Daruma doll. The composition of the face features is one of the typical, so the face shall be easy recognizable for all the Japanese.

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A little addition to the sawmill facility
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Old 10-12-2022, 03:39 AM
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You are a genius! All these small buildings are illustrations to a great and interesting journey through Japan. It reads like a picture book. I really love the crane. One tiny but important detail you still may want to consider installing on the sawmill (see the picture of the actual mill: The dust cyclone on the roof of one of the buildings. Without a dust cyclone a sawmill will likely blow up sky-high one day....

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