Class 800 Azuma

Not as such I do have some other N gauge items, but I'd never seriously considered going N gauge before as they were always very expensive in comparison to OO gauge and N gauge lacks any depth in British Outline range of models.

However now as N gauge is becoming cheaper than OO gauge (even imported goods such as Kato and Tomix) it is becoming more attractive especially as you can pack so much more layout into the same space as OO gauge (i.e. 160:1 as opposed to 76:1).  Of course it will probably mean I'll be going modern image rather than steam, but you can get some nice modern image such as the shinkansen's and other special trains as you know from the real world PlaRail models.

Incidentally the difference in price between this Kato model of the class 800 and the Hornby model of the exact same train is around 1:2 in favour of Kato and I would argue the detail on the Kato model despite being half the size is possibly better than the more expensive Hornby model and the Kato model comes as effectively a full running set (aka track, controller etc) rather than just the 5 car train.  Makes you think doesn't it...  Hornby Class 800