[ About Mr.Opaku ]

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Opaku

A man born and live in Japan with pseudo-samurai-heart and fish-like-face.

+ My family name is Sonobe, means Parker.
+ My most favourite vehicle is THUNDERBIRD 2 of International Rescue.
+ I love to draw train graphics (side view). At first, I've developed the program to run my train graphics on my webpage.

[ Railroad scenes in the top-left frame. ]
+ No.218 : Station at my birthplace.
+ No.295 : Subaru 360 - the first automobile of my father.
+ No.589 : My first toy train in 1964.
+ No.102 : Trauma in 8 years old.
+ No.227 : Paper train in 10 years old.
+ No.155 : Osaka Expo 1970 when I was a primary school student.
+ No.8 : Chuo line - I lived near the railway in puberty.
+ No.217 : Motorcycle tour to northland just after mom's death in 1979.
+ No.1282 : Toyota SERA - the cheap gull-wing coupé , my car in 1990's.
+ No.42, No.383, No.1431 : BOBABU - my family cat. (Spring 1999 - XmasEve 2013)

+ No.58 : Sonim - my favourite lady singer.
+ No.1288 : Seung Yeong - my favourite lady singer in KARA..
+ No.1266 : Kristanna Løken - my favourite actress.
+ No.1429 : Nounen Rena - my favourite actress.
+ No.79 : My process to draw rolling-stocks.
+ No.345, No.596, No.811 : My process to paint scene pictures.
+ No.491 : Tarot cards designed by me.
+ No.103, No.444, No.933 : I love ancient Egypt.
+ No.503- : Hakkenden - the legend of eight dog samurai , the most favourite classic novel.
+ No.631 : I'm on a diet....failure....rebounded. But I re-try and now succeed it by low carbohydrate method.
+ No.801 : My favourite trains.
+ No.885 : My favourite THUNDERBIRD.
+ No.980 : I love Sushi.
+ No.1376 : Models from my favourite anime " Girls und Panzer ".


Factory of the Train Kit

2000 - 2017
PowerMac G4 with noisy blower like an electric locomotive.

+ Graphite color, the slowest 350MHz clock, classic MacOS8.6, with 17" CRT display.
+ PowerMac had very long life, but CRT had been dead.
+ Pen : Wacom Favo.
+ Software : Photoshop 5.5.

2016 -
Windows PC by Mouse Computer.

+ White body, white keyboard, white mouse, and black 23" monitor by iiyama on black desk.
+ AMD CPU with Intel SSD. Is it Intel Inside?
+ Pen : Wacom Intuos Art.
+ Software : Photoshop Elements 14 / Painter Essentials 5.

Also checked on Mobile Phone.
2019-
Huawei P30.

+ Before P30, I used a cheap low-spec Android phone.
+ Please view railway scenes on Mobile Viewer. >> QR code.
+ No.1593 : Tram in Huawei's R&D center Ox Horn Campus.


Opaku's Other sites.

site name		language	mobile	description
	Hakkenden Hakuryu-Tei since 1996	Japanese only. Closed English pages in 2012.	A little friendly. liquid layouts.	A fan site of "Hakkenden" - the greatest samurai novel in Japan written by Kyokutei Bakin in early 19th century.
	Opaku-dou (Residensia de Opaku) since 1997	Japanese only.	Friendly. responsive web design.	My monologues. The Train Kit starts as one of the contents in this site.
	Opaku's 3D world 1998 - 2017	English only.	-	3D by VRML. (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Closed. - VRML plug-in is terminated on Chrome and Firefox.
	Opaku's Roulette since 2015	English. And a litte Japanese.	Unfriendly.	Simplified Roulette Game with JavaScript. Another gate of No.1161+ scene.

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