Next up, the vertical signboard

Complete with 3D-printed figurines...

... and a nice wooden bench.

The top floor is the music studio, with a nice glass roof.

Each storey is lighted individually, using small light boxes.

The decals have been designed in my preferred vector graphics application, Affinity Designer.

The building next to the construction site will be a Dance School, inspired by the Tokyo Dance Haiyu & Butaigeijutsusenmon School building in Shibuya.

I started with the old Tomytec 143 Modern Hi-Rise building.
(https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10340738)

The trucks and vans are from

• Tomytec The Truck Collection Sagawa Express Truck Set
• Kato 23-651B Toyota Hiace Super Long
• Tomytec The Car Collection Basic Set N2

The side door of one of the vans has been cut open and the vans have been fitted with custom made decals.

I decided to rebrand and expand the small truck terminal (Tomytec 069-2 Modern Truck Terminal). The expansion is done using Greenmax 2187 building kit, which is extremely flexible and easy to customise.
This is the first stage of the construction.

​Two years and five months ago, I managed to control a Tomytec bus by using an electromagnet under the road. I am now happy to report that I have finally been able to move the modules of the main street, bus interchange and Iwasehama station to the layout. All the wires for the bus control blocks, the hundreds of LED lights, the signals and the tracks are connected and everything seems to work fine. Well, not everything. There are still so many things to improve. These buses sometimes seem to have a mind of their own!
Next (major) step: finish the tram layout, and make sure that trams and buses don't collide! For that, I'll have to teach the Raspberry Pi Python application controlling the buses to talk to Rocrail! Interesting challenge.

The bus stops when the electromagnet is powered, then restarts when I switch off the power supply.