https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110196686424627494872/albums/6039042453694604865 Here is an album of photos on a quick scene I made of the start of a city center main intersection, using these buildings. these buildings are all assembled and fully decorated except for signage, but there is a peel and stick set of self adhesive Japanese labels, but you could easily create your own on a printer and using self adhesive peel and stick labels if desired. These buildings though fully assembled can come apart as they are not locked or glued together, but there is nothing to stop you from gluing them together if desired. The base plate has a grove for a lighting wire to pass under the wall it you do not come from below. Rokuhan does have a building lighting system using two types of LEDs one in orange range to reflect incandescent lighting, and one in blue white to reflect fluorescent or halogen lighting. It is a modular system and connects to accessory socket on Rokuhan controllers. Each individual LED is wired and has a plug to plug into a junction board which has a socket to daisy chain other junction boards and to plug into necessary socket. All plug ans sockets are polarized so it is just plug and play the plus and minus are all taken care of. Due to modular construction those who like to modify things to create their own building now have a set of building blocks to start with. Rokuhan building lighting parts A016, accessory power terminal strip cost about USD $9.00 in Japan A017-1 white LED with cable and plug for terminal strip cost about USD $6.00 in Japan A017-2 amber LED with cable and plug for terminal strip. cost about USD $6.00 in Japan
They have been available in Japan for some time now, but they are not on the Intermountain site yet and their first showing in North America was at the National Trains show in Cleveland last week end. I got a bunch from Rokuhan after Cleveland Show ended. I do not know what pricing Intermountain will put on them but in Japan they cost about USD$ 13.00 each at Hobby Search. Intermountain says they have a 2 orders coming but no idea what is in each of them, and they said they were planning to carry stock so it would be available to dealers from stock between shipments. After I got home and began examining them and hearing Rokuhan saying they were having complaints from Japan that these were not Japanese enough for some modelers in Japan, I can now see why that might be as with different signage they could easily pass for American buildings from early to mid 1900's . So I quickly started doing arrangements on the back of my mouse pad to represent black top and came up with the one I photographed.
