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Thanks so much everybody!!! This community is awesome! [tup] I've done some research in the last days, bought 3 smaller books and visited the LHS. My LHS seems geared towards christmas tree trains and 50-100$ complete setup packages. So I have the feeling I may do most of my shopping online. They do, however, have the essentials. And they are pleasant folks. I'm starting to feel bad for quizzing you all so much, but always when I have things nailed down I'm coming up with more questions. Here a re-cap where I'm at: - N-scale (sorry you HO'ers! I have size constraints and I need to be mobile in the next few years). - Kato Unitrack seems nice but I may take the plunge and lay my own track. I've starting looking at some layouts and I have a few ideas. - Era II, German WWII theme. - Loko & cars: Wdlgln005 has some specific suggestions, I can come up with something there. Sounds like this should be no problem. i) Vehicles? I found two here: http://www.discounttrainsonline.com/N-Scale-Vehicles-Boats-and-Planes-Roco/N_VEC_625_1.html (walters has the same ones too) ... which is probably sufficient, but somewhat limited selection. Anybody find anything else? HO has nice Tiger tanks... and really slick AA. j) Buildings? I found a few that would probably make an approximate fit. Bavarian stuff, really (I'm from the north, so really not down my alley, but hey -- I'll try not to be too picky;). It's looking a little grim military building wise, I'm thinking tents and barracks. I'm open for suggestions. k) Figures? I found no N-scale German soldiers whatsoever. :( I hope I'm missing the obvious ... I even glanced at wargames but I'm not so sure if there is a good fit. I'm flexible though. l) Planes? I found an awefully expensive one at walters: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/326-19002 I was more thinking about something like the above tanks for 5-10$. Plus hopefully something more popular, like the Messerschmitt. m) Here some links where I'm planning to do my shopping: http://www.discounttrainsonline.com http://www.nscaledivision.com/ and http://www.woodlandscenics.com/ is nice, but I don't think they have anything for my Era. http://www.walthers.com & http://www.reynaulds.com/ are fine too, but a tad bit expensive. Any other suggestions? Note: Most of the above stuff I don't have the time and money to put in right away. But I want to make sure that I'm making descisions today that I won't regret later. For example: I think I'd make it myself vastly easier to just build a modern German railway. The ICE is slick. But yet, Germany WWII is just such an interesting time period. But if it looks like I'm setting my stakes too high I may back off and go modern. I've had much better success finding in HO what I need. But I can't sacrifice the gains I have for N (in my situation, of course!). cheers, Philip
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