Sorry for the image being a rip of Toaru Railgun.
I tried to watch Railgun, but had accidentally fallen asleep... and when I woke up, it was 2am... Fully missed the episode...
I'm hoping to see something else tonight, I just hope I don't fall asleep again...
Anyway, good evening. Kapinozuka here.
The Keisei Railway airport train, [Skyliner].
It's the train that lnks Keisei Ueno and Narita Airport, familiarized to those who frequents Narita airport.
The Keisei Skyliner is a train that doesn't stop on many stations.
And this Skyliner is going to be released in B Train!!
B Train Shorty Keisei Electric Railway Skyliner Type AE100 (4-Car Set)
This item was only sold at the Keisei railway station shops or internet orders,
but Hobby Search is also going to deal with these too.
So I went a step ahead and built one here.
I had Tomeko-sama take the construction example photos for us.
From the Narita Airport, the kit lets you make a formation of 1st, 2nd, 5th and 8th cars!
Just be careful of the positioning of windows and doors when constructing.
The window parts for the 1st car do not fit the 8th car body.
(↑I can strongly state this, as I have tried it...)
You should be fine building this, as long as you keep the above in mind.
The interesting part of this is the front face bit.
There are two types per box...
Left: Lead car parts
Right: Rear car parts
They reproduced the headlight cover open and closed states!
Such detail!
In another words, by swapping the face parts,
you can recreate the formation bound for Narita or for Ueno, whichever you like.
Plus, the part has been made with the joint along the driver's door, so the joint line doesn't stand out very much.
The stickers included are direction plate for both ways, car number, train number, Skyliner logo, K'SEI group logo,
and the 100th year anniversary head mark, there are quite a bit packed in there.
but it didn't have direction plates for morning liner and evening liner, a bit disappointing!
Oh and this year, apparently the new Skyliner is scheduled for début!
The rival company, JR East has also underway with the upgrade for their Narita Express from series
253 to
E259 as well.
It looks like this year will be a year of change regarding access train to Narita Airport.
But yeah, there have been a few
B-trains related to the Keisei
line, but with the Skyliner's arrival, the quality of collection will surely improve.
I sincerely wait for your pre-order.
By Kapinozuka
~Today's trivia~
The reason Keisei AE100 series has an emergency exit near the face...
is because there were plans for it to run on Toei Asakusa line!!
For the Keisei rapid line running directly from the Toei Asakusa line to Narita airport and Haneda airport,
a very dynamic plan had been resting on this AE100, but this didn't quite happen due adult reasoning...