Kato will make in N scale Series HB-E300 “Resort Shirakami” (Buna (beech) consist)

Just like the Aoike (blue lake) consist already released as a scale model by Kato, it is in service, furnished with large windows, observation and event spaces as a sight-seeing train on Gono line. As part of the tour by “Train Suite Shikishima”, this train is operated sometimes with the tour guests aboard. It has emerged in 2016 as the newest model among series HB-300. Different from the other models, this model has the headlights modified into LED and it is now equipped with two HID lamps.

Kato will reproduce the beautiful train body as a scale model with the gradated beech tree patterns in the fine details. The train will stand out when it is run on a diorama or displayed as a collection item.
The wide windows for the tourist train allows looking into the train. So it will make more fun if you place figures in the train to reproduce the inside crowded with tourists

Together with “Resort Shirakami” Aoike (Blue Lake) consist, you can represent the landscape with Gono line.

Composition of Trains

Features:

● HB-E300 series "Resort Shirakami" (Aoike organization)

・Refreshing paint color with shades of blue, difference in silver texture of car body, crew door, passenger door, car body with a feeling of openness of large windows, Accurately reproduces mechanical roof coolers, ventilators, whistles, antennas, power storage devices, former air reservoirs, exhaust pipes, and underfloor equipment.

- Head / tail lights are lit. Reproduce the difference in the color of the headlights.

- The molding color of the glass is dark green.

・"All car designation / Resort Shirakami" is printed on the side display.

- Expressing large windows and interiors unique to resort trains.

- HB-E300 series "Resort Shirakami" (beech formation)

- The car body designed with the beautiful gradation of beech trees, symbolized by the name of "beech formation", is accurately reproduced.

- Head / tail lights are lit. Reproduce the appearance that the HID lights (white) around the headlights are two lights, which is different from the Aoike formation. All three lights are lit like the actual car.

- The front part of the leading car is reproduced with a dummy coupler for the coupler with a cover. The color is reproduced in dark gray like the actual car.

- The chair in the car is reproduced in brown.

- Reproduce the "ORAHO counter" inside the car No. 3. Reproduce the window blocked by the wall of the counter.

・"All car designation / Resort Shirakami" is printed on the side display.

- Accurately reproduces mechanical roof coolers, ventilators, whistles, antennas, power storage devices, former air reservoirs, exhaust pipes, and underfloor equipment.

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