Halloween Village

[spankybird]

We wanted to share with you our Halloween Village project. This was a recycled xmas layout. As you can see it was painted white with cotton glued on it for snow. (BTW, this was my wife’s before I meet her).





After removing the cotton, we set it up on our table



Then we lay down the track – 027 that we had left over from our main layout



Then we placed our building to see how we wanted to arrange them


We use this piece of cut wood for marking out our road ways





Our next step was to plug any unwanted hole from the old layout. This was done with plaster cloth. The we painted small sections at a time and as the paint was still wet, we applied our ground cover





Then it on to the next area



If you noticed, I used a lot of newspaper to protect what I didn’t want to paint.



Now it’s time to paint the roads. I used Flat Black



And then its time to add the kids









And of course the TRAIN

[Bob Keller]

Great job. Let me guess: You run K4s and Tuscan w/pinstripe F3s with sedate gold lettering "TRANSLVANIA Railroad" on the side?

[Dr. John]

Very nice, Spankybird! Are your buildings Lemax? I was looking at their Halloween village at Michael's yesterday.

[lionelsoni]

One could also model the B&O&O. The layout design would have tracks running every witch way.

[spankybird]

Sorry Bob, didn’t think of the K-4 or the F3, maybe next year. And we do have both.

Dr. John. Some of the building are Lemax from last year. The Haunted House is Dept 56 and a couple of the others were from a local chain called Marc’s. Those were only $2 or $3 each. I had to add my own lights to them.

tom

[spankybird]

Look who is running the Train







tom

[highrailjon]

Spanky, Jason and Freddy ain't got nothing on you!!!! Great shots!!

[spankybird]

Look who has come to town now!!!

[ChiefEagles]

Tom, great job. You are an expert photographer as well as layout builder. Good work. Thanks for sharing.

[dougdagrump]

Tom, One of the guys yesterday was running some gondolas with witchs and ghosts riding in them mounted on wire, kinda looked like they were flying over them, but the coolest part was that they were illuminated with little battery powered blacklights that he had gotten at Michaels. They were riding behind the club's camera car so when it went thru the tunnels they really showed up on the TV monitor. [8D]

[daan]

What a great eye catcher. You really know how to build what's in your mind..

[Anonymous]

Spankybird:
Your Halloween Village layout is what this great hobby is all about. Your pictures go to prove that one doesn't need a massive basement full of trains to have fun! Thanks for posting. You gave me some inspiration.
BillFromWayne
www.modeltrainjournal.com

[spankybird]

We pick this up over the weekend

[Anonymous]

Nice pics!! The reaper in the engine is a nice finishing touch.

[dougdagrump]

Looks like the old "MunsterMobile". [8D]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Tom, thanks for the ideas. We were considering doing something with our garden railroad and you gave me some ideas.

[laz 57]

Great layout Tom,
Where on earth,or under the earth, did you get the Munster Mobile and Grand Pa's Casket dragster, pretty neat stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laz 57

[spankybird]

Hi Laz 57,
I am glad you liked it.

Grad Pa’s casket dragster was made by Johnny Lighting a few years back, in 1/43 scale. They actually made 3 different ones, the gold, red, and purple color. I missed the purple one. The Munster Mobile is also Johnny Lighting, but in 1/87 scale, I couldn’t find one in 1/43 scale, but its for the kids, so close enough.
tom

[ChiefEagles]

Tom, glad I do not have to ride your railroad line. [;)] WOOOO!!!!! My wife would love to though. She is having fun with all the spooky movies on TV and then she will switch to Christmas.

[jonadel]

Tom,

Your work is absolutely "Spooktacular", way to go!

Jon

[locomutt]

spankybird,
Man that's great! Both CherokeeWoman & I enjoyed the photos,and the
Grim Reaper at the throttle was a good touch.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!![:D][8D][tup]

[spankybird]

It’s finally here

To see a quick video of the Village, click on the link below

http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/goodbeans35/lst?.dir=/My+Documents/Halloween+Village+04&.view=l

I would like to thank all of you for the kind words.

tom
ps. added video link [8D]

[csxt30]

[#ditto] Tom, on the "Spooktacular"!! If Hollywood sees your work, you'll be a millionare!!! Great work!!

[Anonymous]

Great job. I got to see the original casket car at the the chicago auto show recently, if I knew how to post a picture here I would. It's at the volo auto museum in Volo, Illinois. This is a great variation on the same old christmas layout. That starts the old brain perking, Easter train, 4th of July train, Columbus day train etc, etc. John

[Anonymous]

Tom your house must be one big work of art, you have everything ,your the manI. If i ever need something , I know who to call. amazing

[Buckeye Riveter]

I would still like to know what you are going to do for St. Patrick's Day next week.

[Anonymous]

Excellent Work Tom, Regards Steve

[underworld]

Hey spankybird, Real cool! It's a bit like the project I'm working on. Keep up the good work.

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[spankybird]

We have had a couple of e-mails about our Halloween Layout, so we dough this thread up.

[;)][^]

tom

[Anonymous]

Who's buying the Lionel Transylvania set?