Yukio Inami (manufactured model railway)

Last Updated March 7, 2024

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Inami Yukio (Yukio)
Model railway production

Fiscal 2023 Selection (28th term)
Lives and works in Kanagawa Ward

Born in Tokyo in 1951
In 1976 Joined Inami Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Inami Railway Model Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

It expresses a model that leads to the real thing in a reduced world.

　"I try to take care of the feeling that the model looks genuine, like a model. Make it with a good balance while making subtle arrangements. "It is most difficult to express a model that leads to the real thing in a reduced world," says Inami. Because the width that can be expressed expands, I strongly feel the goodness of the size of 1/45 size of a real railway vehicle while manufacturing, and I want to protect the goodness of a large scale. In addition, railway models have major elements of collecting, seeing, making, and running, and playing, and I want to be a place to teach how to make and tools, especially because I want to support making.
　We are also focusing on activities that convey the technology and appeal of railway models, such as participating in the “Japan Railway Model Show” held every year in Tokyo.

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The work of Yukio Inami Meister

We manufacture railway models (mainly made of brass) such as steam and electric locomotives from design to completion. Taking advantage of the size of OJ gauges [1/45 size, rail width 24.0 mm] and O gauge [1/45 size, rail width 32.0 mm] which are considerably larger than the typical railway model N gauge [mainly 1/150 size, rail width 9 mm] and O gauge [1/45 size, rail width 32.0 mm], we are responding to meet various requests from customers who want to reproduce the same structure as real. Based on accurate machining such as lathes, milling, pressing, shirring, ballboard processing, etc., we perform assembling by soldering and screwing, etc. We propose new expression methods for each product while gaining hints on processing methods from other industries such as medical device manufacturing and optical equipment manufacturing.

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Work Scene of Yukio Inami Meister 2

After graduating from university, in 1976 he joined the Inami Manufacturing, run by his father, the predecessor of the Inami Railway Model Manufacturing. Beginning with subcontracting railway models for overseas markets, since around 1985, he has been producing orders for original products mainly for Japan and selling parts.

Model railway by Yukio Inami Meister