A new train modeling addiction has taken root in my head that I will explain in more detail in a future post and video. But today I take my 1st steps in a bigger journey, by building the ジオラマくん N scale 25-917 mini diorama kit by Kato. From what I was told it has everything you need to complete the kit so let’s see how close I can get this thing to the picture on the box. This is my first kit since the miniature PlayStation.
Unboxing ジオラマくん
Inside the box, we have the dioramakun book I’ll check out later, the base, foliage, paint, glue, rail, instructions, and a few other things. Looking at the instructions it seemed easy enough to follow though everything is in Japanese.
Beware of Trees
My years of building Gundam figures are finally coming in handy. or was it? I made so many mistakes and became so frustrated building this thing but I learned so much. I have never worked with a kit with so many tiny pieces and I damn near gave when it came to cutting out these things and the trees, the damn trees – I learned the meaning of patience with those things.
Even with all the mistakes and poorly followed instructions, it started to come together little by little and my motivation returned once it started to take form. painting stuff, working with the putty-like thingy and applying the grass were easily my favourite parts.
It took me 5 hours
In the home stretch, I finished the papercraft train which will be a placeholder until I get a better one. Then added the additional bits and pieces and voila the diorama was complete. It took 5 fricken hours but I honestly would do it again, maybe I might but with actual model trains next time.
Please rate my completed diorama in a comment below or @Jamaipanese on Twitter and feel free to give me tips and pointers.
