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Metro B: deposit

metro B

Today I was at the 7° floor of the building where I work. The windows are in the front of the deposit of Metro B. You can see even 2 different kinds of wagons used in the past times, the wagons of Metro A converted to Roma_Lido, and those who rails today on Metro B. If you like trains you can enjoy this view like me.

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Interscambio

Yesterday the fun-fairs and today a fair about model railways: Interscambio. And tomorrow a tournament!

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A typical periodic market for model railways inside an hotel hall. Well, this is a school, but it is the same.

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You can find used and new models, together with a little mix of cars, tanks, action figures and even some painted Napoleonic 28mm.

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Here some resin vehicles in HO (1:87) about public transport of my city.

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They aren’t the modern ones but I like the feel of the past. I haven’t a car, so my movement around the city is all by public transports. So I’m not nostalgic about cars but about buses, trams and metros!

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You can find a lot of stuff for your landscapes, but they are all in the wrong scale. But what can you do with these beautiful building if you have 15mm or 28mm soldiers? The only possibility is for your plastic soldiers, but they are 20mm (1:72) or 22mm (nowadays tall 20mm…) and HO (1:87) is too small. TT scale is 1:100 and compatible with 15mm, but you cannot find it around.

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My friend Paolo Blasi is building a huge set for his game Meka. All his giant robots are in 1:144 scale, so the ideal for a landscape is the N scale (1:144) railway kits! He has bought a lot of Japanese model kits in N scale and more are inside his projects. You can find all this in his blog Roninclan (see the link on the right side).

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In the upper photo you can see parts in N and HO scale. Among them bins and cars, like a N scale Fiat500 and Ape. I have got a surprise for my friend game…

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Here we have a circuit in Z scale (1:220). You can put a lot of railways inside a 100x60cm rectangle. Very useful and handy. And this specific circuit is controlled by a dedicated touch-screen with infrared sensors.

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Something a little bigger in H0 scale. Not for your kitchen…

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The convoys are very long, like the real ones. Lights inside wagons and smoke from chimney-pots. But the diorama is based on the Tirol landscape, typically for a model railway. We are in Italy instead and I hate to see these people green shorts dressed and these wood houses. But the makers of railway kits are almost all German and we can find only kits with a Tirol feel…

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