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Jul 13, 2019
Great for some purposes
These Outland models are great for some purposes, and I give them a 5 for those purposes as given below.
Pros: cheap (price), easy kitbashing, good looks in background scenes, good scaling, unique
Cons: cheap (plastic material), 3D printer markings, not good in foreground scenes of layout
Beginning with the cons, these are lesser quality than the Kato, Tomytecs, Walthers or Fallers of the world so those are not fair comparisons or expectations. They're not even as good as those Bachmann/Plasticvilles that are eternally everywhere. The plastic is somewhat flimsy and its colors are not the best. Up close (within a foot) you can see the lines from the 3D printer or whatever produced these so I don’t put them in the front scenes of my layout. Some had printed cars that did not look good, but others had nice plastic cars with separate tire pieces that looked fine. In general, their vehicles are not recommended. There are no instructions, but you can figure them out easily between the pictures and common sense.
On the plus side, the flimsy plastic is also flexible and easy to work with as far as bending or cutting for customizing of the kit itself or to use with other projects. Other model producers like Bachmann have thicker plastic that glues better but is hard to cut and sometimes cracks during kitbashing. I used part of a roof top from the Outland mall for a helicopter landing pad, and it was easy to cut and drill it for sizing and installing chase lights. I also plan to use the Gundam? house for a motel, and it will be easy to install a Miller Engineering sign on the roof and hide the circuit inside. Parts can be painted and glued with normal modeling materials although these materials don’t work quite as well as with higher quality plastics so you may need to hold and dry longer. The parking lots look great to use with other buildings on my layout that don’t have lots.
I purchased all N scale: the Gundam house, 2 railroad girder bridges (single track), the shoppting centre/mall, parking lot, ticket/guard booth, scenery boat/dock and pipe construction/work site. I still plan to purchase 2 more parking lots, another mall (to make into a grocery store), the park/plaza scene and the basketball court. The scale is fairly good such as parking lot line spacing for instance, and dimensions in listings are always accurate. I haven’t seen some items anywhere else such as the construction pipe work site (included a plastic hole in the ground) nor basketball court so some are unique. I have these a foot or so back from the front edge of my N scale layout that goes back 3 to 4 feet, and they look fine.
I recommend buying a parking lot to see for yourself what I’m talking about, and you can always use that somewhere “as is.” If you like that, then order more. I also like to occasionally buy a scale lower for distance perspective so I may get a Z scale parking lot for my N scale layout so it looks to be in the distance. You may want to try N scale items if you have HO scale. I believe you will be very happy as long as you don’t expect the same as Walthers or Tomytec or Kato or Faller.
Jun 14, 2016
Updated Godzilla
2 of 2 found this helpful If you like the old Godzilla/Rodan movies with pre-historic monsters crashing through modern cities, then this movie is the same idea with better special effects. It has several good storylines with humans vs. monsters, individual characters facing their fears and even some technological twists and turns to make it interesting. Perhaps a little violent and scary for young viewers but, like those movies of old, doesn't take itself too seriously.
Jan 10, 2013
Great interactive touchscreen for teachers and students
3 of 3 found this helpful This monitor is a glorified touch screen like on your cell phone or music player or game screen that you hold in your hand only this one is too big for one person to hold. I have purchased four of these to upgrade technology at our school. Our teachers and students had limited exposure to interactive projectors, but these monitors have advantages over projectors.
Monitors like this are brighter and don't have bulbs to burn out. The person at the screen does not create a shadow to work around as when standing between the projector and the screen and, while both need calibrated (touching points on the screen in order for the screen to sense a touch where it "knows" the point is displayed so as to align the touch point with the display point) this monitor needs far less calibration and often none at all even after moving it from one room to another.
All four worked perfectly right out of the box even though three were purchased as "used" or "refurbished," and one of those three had a big four inch scratch on the screen (fairly and accurately documented by the seller). The point is that one had been roughed up a little and still works fine so these are hardy and reliable. One monitor had a "dead" spot in the center of the screen such that you would be drawing with your finger horizontally from one side to the other and the line would stop drawing about 1/3 across the screen and then become visible again about 2/3 across the screen. Thanks to SHARP support who answered my request for help from their website within a day (no formal support agreement here, just helping a customer using their product). Anyway, just needed to check the plastic coverings around the screen edges where the glass screen meets the outer edge case to press more firmly in place so that one of them was not blocking the infrared sensor.
You need a computer to run these. We are using laptops running Windows 7, and the Sharp driver and programs have all worked fine. There are three programs: a driver program, a Pen Software program which runs one mode like a standard whiteboard that you can write on with an included pen or just use your finger and a second mode that is an overlay to any other screen you can display on your computer and then write (annotate) over that like displaying a picture of someone while using the overlay to draw a mustache and glasses on them, and, finally, a Program Launcher program which displays program icons like on your windows background screen that you can touch on the Sharp monitor to run the program rather double clicking it with your mouse. You can plug a VGA and sound cable or an HDMI cable for the video/audio from your computer (you must provide) and a USB cable (comes with monitor along with power cord) to connect the "touch" features to your computer. I have not tried this with Windows 8, however, I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assitant which did not flag the Sharp software as incompatible although it flagged other programs on my laptop.
The monitor works with Windows programs like Internet Explorer such that you can scroll through web pages with your finger by up and down movements and go to links on web pages by just touching them with your finger. So, it is all very intuitive for teachers and students who learn quickly and love using these.
I highly recommend this monitor. One drawback is that it may not have as many "canned" lesson plans and curriculum like some products made specifically for educational use