>>10952446
Check out Halling for Euro stuff, Bachmann has the Brill Trolley too, but it is not that great.

How much clearance do I need for a bridge crossing over a line in n scale?

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>>10952798
I could draw some simple blueprints up if youre interested. Its all 3/4 x 3 pine board and the trim is just some 1 1/2 L trim pieces. Ill post it when I draw it
>>10953034
Im thinking of adding those LED strips. Before I put it together I should have taken the router and cut notches in the shelves for the strips to sit in. I thought of using a picture light, but i think having it illuminated outside the plexiglass will just make the plexiglass reflect the light and it wouldnt look good. I would like to add some lighting though.

Also, picrel is my new to me purchase. I really like the Athearn Special Edition sets. They has a set with a GP38, SW1500, bay window and a cupola caboose, semi truck and trailer, boxcar, covered hopper, and intermodal car painted in Athearn colors. Just got the GP38, and the hopper and intermodal are in the mail. I just think its real fuccin neato

>>10951239
As a fellow NYC collector, what I've done, and what you can reasonably get is:
- Kato Heavy Mikado. The P&LE had them and Kato even makes them in NYCS lettering. If you'd prefer an actual NYC lettered Mikado, get an unlettered Kato or a Broadway Limited and do it yourself. I've got pictures of NYC Mikados and not all of them were H-10s. You can get pretty damn close to one of the 18xx numbered Mikados by relettering a Kato or BL.
- Bachmann's USRA Mountains, especially the heavy Mountains, make decent but imperfect stand-ins for the L1 Mohawks specifically, what with their 4-axle tenders. It's not perfect: you'll have to move the bell off of the smokebox and mount it to the boiler, but it's better than shelling out hundreds for a brass model that doesn't run. I've also been brewing up ways to attach a Bachmann Hudson tender to a heavy Mountain to give it the more traditional 6-axle NYC-style tender you see on the L2s and later.
- Bachmann USRA 0-6-0. The NYC's Chicago Junction used them. Just be sure to renumber it.
- Life-Like's 0-8-0 are basically near-perfect replicas of the U-2 and U-3 series 0-8-0s.
-Life-Like again: one of their 2-8-4s could be relettered and turned into a decent B&A stand-in.
- While not perfect, a USRA Pacific is a decent enough stand-in for the NYC's 43xx numbered Pacifics. I've got a picture of one, #4398, coming out of State Line Tunnel in Canaan and my Model Power Pacific is damn near a dead-ringer for it.

Not all of them are perfect. Some are decidedly less than perfect. But you know what? I've learned to make due with what I can. I love my shitty "L1b Mohawk". I love my Kato Mike. I love my Bachmann Consolidation. And as for what I can't make due with? I would kill for an affordable, reliable Niagara in N. The closest I've gotten is figuring I could probably kitbash a Bachmann Santa Fe 4-8-4 together with a Con-Cor 6-axle tender to make the world's shittiest NYC #800. But that would just be stupid, wouldn't it?

Why do resellers on ebay think throwing "Vintage", "RARE", or "L@@K!!!" In their title makes what theyre trying to selling somehow worth double market price? Im a big Blue Box collector, and while there are some BB items that are actually rare, the Special Edition sets arent really worth that much. I saw some guy trying to sell a Blue Box BNSF Dash 9 for 250 bucks because "These are getting hard to find". Is it a mental illness? Im not really bitching because I usually can find what im looking for from sellers who actually are reasonable or at train shows, but it baffles me that someone on ebay would rather keep an item up for sale for double market value than to actually be able to sell. It seems like resellers dont know much about models and just see an old box or "special" and think it must be worth a ton of money. Thoughts or am i just being autistic?

>>10955298
Okay but what's specifically bad about it

>>10955200
>When I think a game is awful I drop it.
Imagine never having finished a shit game purely out of spite

>>10955189
i understand your frustration anon but you must recognize you are on the autism website after all, most of the anons i see here are just spergs who dont wanna be publicly shamed on social media

>>10955566
>most of the anons i see here are just spergs who dont wanna be publicly shamed on social media
You mean this board or this thread

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>>10955046
here is your (you)

>>10952924
Theres something just criminal about trapping import figures in their boxes not enjoying all their higher end engineering and articulation.

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These fuck heads will never need to be an inbox collector if they made a museum and charged to see them physically. Unless they are investors...its as safe as keeping money in a mattress when there is a fire. If collecting is more fun than the toy, they don't play with toys,

>>10951383
I have like a third of my collection in boxes. Not because I specifically want them in the boxes, but because I have no room to put everything out somewhere. Also there's 4 things I don't want to open because they were the last figure gifts my grandmother got for me before she passed away.

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>>10951795
I GET THIS - have stuff I ordered that is going to be resold because I found it second hand, loose at a better price AND got the MOC cheap, so I can make back the resale even after fees.

A good example is I bought the Jimmy Olsen mint at auction at the VERY low end of what it sells on EB ($14.99); I bought five things from this guy, so postage was priority, or $18 for the lot ($4 per). But then I bought the figure used from another auction (again, with shipping at $9 for 3 toys or about $3) for just $5, and I decided I didn't really need to pay an extra $10 for the stand so I'm going to sell the mint on card version. It usually sells for $30, and I can be patient till I get that price.

I just haven't had the time to finish unpacking from moving last year and needing to buy a display case/shelf unit, etc.

>>10951883
>>10951895
>>10952018
>people charging premium ... because it's NRFB
Yeah, me too somewhat, but I'm NOT buying or paying FULL RETAIL just because something is in a box, unless there is no other option (one of the No Way Home unmasked Garfield Spider-Men for example, just because I didn't feel like waiting for prices to drop, but I still got it below the scalper retail on EB and even the scalper retail on Crapazom).

>>10952400
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All the stupid cunts buying the same shit cause they think it will be valuable are going to be in for a surprise in 10 years together.

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Looks like bootleg Ianas have been cracked down on Amazon as per Daibadi’s updates.

>>10953007
No update on that supposed Pinkle reissue?

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>>10953008
Torin is definitely shaping up to be a must-buy for me, fucking love that shit.

>>10954461
>pic
That's literally the first thing that popped into my mind when I learned she had literal finger guns.

>>10954281
Not yet

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>>10947886
Me and my buddy threw this together for ablut 80 bucks in 4 hours, but we were fucking off and werent in a rush to finish it. Its pretty easy to built your own cases. The trim is spaced off the shelves by a little bit more than the thickness of the plexiglass and the trim piece on the left is held on with small magnets. If you have access to some basic wood working tools, just build your own

>>10951247
oh this is lovely anon

I actually like it a lot better than a shelf. my only worry is pissing off my apartment complex drilling holes in their walls.

>>10953938
Go to the hardware store and get some spackle. That will easily fill any holes you make when you move out, just squirt it in the holes and level it off with your finger.

>>10953938
Im also an apartmentfag, but fuck em. Like>>10954066 says just spackle the holes when you move out. Youll be alot happier if you build what you want rather than trying to find something commercially. I spaced my shelves out 3 3/4 inches which is plenty for my trains, but if youre doing figures then you would probably need to space them out more.

>>10951247
>>10953938
>>10954066
I agree with all this. I think you can do it for less than $80.

You might also enjoy trying to find someone with the tools who needs help with some other different skill (you're a good cook, you're a good accountant and can do taxes, etc.) and you can barter parts of the job. Things like painting is something any idiot can do but you might need the right tools to at least cut the wood.

Most stores are closing by next weekend, so anyone wanting to look needs to do so by then, but a lot of the toys left are not crap you are going to want unless you luck into it at a location. I'm going to see a movie this evening and have to stop at a print shop on the way so going to leave an hour earlier and hit two stores by the print shop.

>>10943259
Im sorry gramps, but you are mistaken. Shoplifting under $900 of merchandise in CA is now an infraction. An infraction is NOT a criminal offense. Its the same as a parkint ticket. Look it up if you dont believe me. Not a crime. Have a nice day.

>>10940240
>When companies blame Covid what they're really blaming is unchecked capitalist greed driving inflation. Everyone raised prices during the pandemic because they could and never dropped them again.
In case this isn't bait, let me ask you this anon. If companies can set whatever prices they want, why don't they just sell everything for 1 million dollars so they can make as much money as possible? If you answered "because nobody would pay that much" you are correct, that is the first step in understanding supply and demand. There was more supply of money due to stimulus checks, government blowing money on random crap, and money printer brrrr-ing shenanigans in general, so people who would previously not pay 1.25 for their doodads are now willing to do so. It's not going to "go back down" to 1.00 because that money is still in circulation. If you dont want inflation to happen stop printing money

>>10942367
>>10940556
>>10940568
I'm glad there's some other anons with brains here and this place hasn't been fully taken over by redditors just yet

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>>10940556
>>10940568
>>10953821

>>10953814
>because that money is still in circulation.
If you think people still have any of the $2-5K they got in 2019/2020 and it wasn't spent on groceries, rent, utilities, or non-necessities, you aren't paying attention to the absurdly low saving rates in the USA, the amount of revolving credit debt in the USA (highest on the planet by far), etc.

tl;dr you're too stupid to breath and be taking up valuable real estate, son

>>10954914
>not liking cherry red during atmospheric reentry
pleb

I was just thinking, since Bandai made the GM Command Guinea Pig team version, which is from Missing Link. Could that maybe lead us to a Guncannon Mass Production Type, since it was in that story too?

>>10954971
I could dig that, if it didn't also randomly have gold parts. You're stretching real hard.

>>10954981
I know
its just one of those horrid recolors they pump at times that for some reason, go up higher in price despite looking so shit

Fuck my better judgment, the Arcadia VF19kai is actually pretty nice. Really like the candy red look, I can't tell how much is bare plastic vs painted on gloss but texture wise it's very pleasant to handle.
That said, there's some douchey design choices like a hidden peg locking the gerwalk hinge to the wing root which is unprecedented to me coming from the YF19. Also it's just overall a stiff cunt out of box, but now I'd really love to see the mass production F and S models reissued.
On top of that, I did get a VF171EX with it which is kinds funny as the 171's design still has enough of the original 17 in it as to work as a companion piece to the 19kai.

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>>10949897
LMAO wtf?

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>>10953524
I dunno lol

>>10953524
He lost his hand in the war

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>>10954014
That's one terrible sniper...

>>10954023
It was intentional; wound one so the others have to leave cover to help. Nasty stuff.

>>10954010
They relaunched Barbie as these squat little pegs. There is a larger set that had these as well.
I'm not sure why they did the change. New Barbies that were compatible with the Mega Monster High girls would be dope.

>>10953848
people said it will be a 20 figure pack and the previous one was giga produced

This guy is on sale on Amazon for $43 and I'm really tempted. Ido llove Godzilla.

Anyone know if it's good?

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>>10955025
I forgot my picture

>>10955025
>>10955026
I don’t have it but here a few reviews:
https://youtu.be/_iOCnA31z-A?si=7p0d9SJcv4C5K7RG
https://youtu.be/EEjnjw7dXD0?si=YM0Bo-zW5sZj14nv
https://youtu.be/peGsGBrLmKk?si=td2cnPAehFVnnWEg

I wish I could trade my fuckin in-box blaze for a mephiles. haven't found him yet and probably won't

>>10954603
Okay commie, just increase those prices while cutting out more plastic just to fuck us over

>>10954492
yeah i had a few on display for a few months before they started buckling at those shit knees
Mecha Sonic is still fine obviously and my movie Knuckles
Everything else I had to put away

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Zoom zoom zoom

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>>10955010
>and some tiny trading figures
Unfortunately, that's the best you can get, for some reason Yokai are too niche for articulated figures. The best I can suggest are:
Figma Table Museum Maruyama Okyo's Yurei-zu for a classic looking japanese ghost
KT Project Takeya Style Jizai Okimono Gaikotsu for a multi purpose monster skeleton
KT Project Takeya Style Jizai Okimono Gaikotsu Musha and Figma Table Museum Human Body Model if you're a fan of the Seven School Mysteries
Also there is the upcoming MAESTRO UNION Syuten Douji if you want a stylized oni
Just take into account most of these aren't easy to find and/or are a little pricey.

>>10954905
Lmao, Junkman you fucking retard.

>>10953712
He won, /toy/spammers lost.

>>10954905
Nice fake screenshot, do you have an even blurrier one?

>>10954905
stop doxxing poeple
MODS

>>10954905
Why are Retroblasting fans posting CP?

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>>10954899
I guess maybe he’s like a master or something lol I don’t know.

>>10954902
This is what I’m getting for 5 and a quarter after tax and it’s block tech which isn’t bad from what I’ve seen.

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>>10954902
I've not seen those anime guys, but they look real cute. Reminds me of this Godzilla I passed on. But not really my style of a thing to keep. But for five bucks that's a great looking parts pack.

>>10954778
I like how this is turning out and I hope you get time to build that boardwalk up. I need to go buy actual wood and build my table maybe this weekend but you know how it goes. I hope there will be some vampires lost boys style hidden somewhere on the boardwalk.

>>10954087
I nvm, it got archived, looks like nobody bothered making a new one.

>>10954087
It gets hijacked by some mentally-ill guy and no-one else has the good sense to ignore him so it became unbearable.

>>10954530
Nice

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I want some more 1:18 scale historical figures so badly. WWII is great but I mean like medieval, American Revolution, Napoleonic Wars and WWI. I’d love gunpowder era but you’d have to keep costs down to allow people to collect enough to form a line.

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