Is anyone modeling in On18?

Hi Gil - I'm not (yet) actively modeling in On18, but just received a package from Backwoods Miniatures with their diesel kit and three wagons.

A note - they have two O-9 (British designation - hyphen optional) engine kits, but one of them requires you to buy the Kato power chassis from them. I already had several on hand, and also their price is 2-3 times what you can get it for out of Japan - see Hobby Search and request SAL shipping: registered if you're nervous, but most people have no problems with the plain SAL. Plaza Japan on eBay is another option, but they're (usually - maybe not for this) a bit higher.

There's a few other On18 producers out there if you search for them. There's also a Yahoo group, but not a lot of activity.

Check out this video if you want to see a gorgeous O-9 exhibition layout, with a very innovative build / display style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLLFxrQ_ZM

Charles

I use the gauge for a mine tram, purchased a critter body and some mine skips from one of the designers at Shapeways and a motor block from Kato.  I have a little back-and-forth circuit a friend gave me to control it.  This is all on a module for our club's HO/On30 modular layout.  I don't have all the kinks worked out yet.

I'm curious to know if anyone here actively models in On18. It would offer the convenience and novelty of O-scale narrow gauge using readily available N-scale track and loco mechanisms. It would make a great side-show for an O-scale layout, or as a stand-alone layout. Perhaps it has more following in European countries.

Ace,

I had picked up some of the Kato 11-103 mechanisms to possibly build a operating mine trolley but so far they are in the project box. I wonder what is available for On18?

Cheers,

Sean

Maybe the magazine Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette has sources and info on this, but if you were at a Narrow Gauge Convention  (I think they are going to be in Maine again in 2016), you are probably familiar with it and its sources?