I am a bit late jumping in here. I wanted to add a photo of the layout I set up this Christmas season but I can't seem to add a photo to the reply and have it show in the reply. I have tried "insert photo" and only the link shows. The help feature didn't help. I get the result below.
Thanks for posting your layout pics!
Merry Christmas!!!
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Video of this year's tree and the trains racing around it.
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I used to have other Christmas videos up on YouTube with the Lionel trains, but they were pulled because they had music added, which YouTube claimed copyright infringement.
Kevin
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Penny Trains There's also a Ju52/3m hanging in a corner above the postwar layout in my bedroom. I converted that one to a pseudo airliner by adding paper seats, partitions, a galley, etc. and gave it Lufthansa decals.
There's also a Ju52/3m hanging in a corner above the postwar layout in my bedroom. I converted that one to a pseudo airliner by adding paper seats, partitions, a galley, etc. and gave it Lufthansa decals.
I'm sure you sleep much better at night knowing "Tante Ju" is hovering overhead watching out for you!
Christmas layout in 2009
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Led to this in 2012
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Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Wow, Fokkers and Zeppelins! Becky, you've got excellent taste in aircraft!
Penny,
As usual. Very nice. Very cool!
Regards, Roy
Got airspace?
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Disneyland
Becky, you are absolutely remarkable. Thanks for sharing.
Swede
Speaking of paper models and how they don't last very long, here's a list of what's new, what's been rebuilt, repaired or enhanced in my soon to be unveiled 2014 Disneyland layout.
Frontierland:
New Orleans Square:
Bear Country:
Adventureland:
Fantasyland:
Main Street USA:
Tomorrowland:
Other:
Just a few things.
Ok, understood. I like doing things once, & moving on to something else. I've poked around hobby shops, craft stores, & train shows but they either have plastic picket style fencing for a house, wrot iron style for a church, or if you get into the nicer resin or brass stuff- they have what I want, but it's $10 - $12 for a 6" or 8" section & that's just going to be crazy stupid money for the amount I need to go all the way around that building so right now I've got nothing. If I bought that stuff I'd be upwards of $60 for a fence & that's not realistic for me.
That's the real secret now isn't it? That paper models don't last? But that's also one of the biggest benefits in my book. It gives me the chance to do everything over and since I've learned new and better ways of doing things each time, the replacements always look better.
If I could get it to work, I would print on styrene sheets. So far I haven't found an inkjet that could handle the job.
BUT, there are inkjet transparencies. If you built a model in a 3D rendering program like Metasequoia or Blender, then unfolded the model parts using Pepakura and printed them on transparencies, you could spray paint the parts after they're cut out and get much closer to the look of painted steel.
Roger that. I made a station base for my double stop station that I just finished painting & I can't find any commercially made railing that looks nice around it. Yours is excellent, but I'd like something in either metal, plastic, or resin so it's more durable. My stuff gets unpacked & packed up a lot & I'm affraid paper won't hold up to the process.
Penny Trains I drew up the fence pattern on a paintbrush program and then printed it on green cardstock. I also try to do that with windows wherever I can. Walls and roofs are easy enough to draw by hand but when it comes to redundant parts you can't beat computer made. Generally speaking, the standard gauge buildings average around 95% made from 65lb cardstock. Most have foamcore bases and some have corrugated cardboard backing for the walls. But other than light fixtures (many of which I made myself out of things you wouldn't expect to see a light fixture made out of) flag poles, flowers, or metal details, it's all cardstock. Becky
I drew up the fence pattern on a paintbrush program and then printed it on green cardstock. I also try to do that with windows wherever I can. Walls and roofs are easy enough to draw by hand but when it comes to redundant parts you can't beat computer made.
Generally speaking, the standard gauge buildings average around 95% made from 65lb cardstock. Most have foamcore bases and some have corrugated cardboard backing for the walls. But other than light fixtures (many of which I made myself out of things you wouldn't expect to see a light fixture made out of) flag poles, flowers, or metal details, it's all cardstock.
Due to multiple tip overs perpetrated by our feline bad actors, this year it's G gauge and the old standby, a simple circle around the tree..no mega elaborate temptations. My back from bending over to put the trains back on the track several times a day, nixed any inspired ideas I had, which is fine inasmuch disassembly should be a cinch.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Too early yet, Becky. Here's a little SG under the tree from Christmas past.
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Since it's my 50th trainaversary this year I might set up what little American Flyer i have in tribute.
Bruce
Penny, what did you use for the green fence with the cross hatch pattern around your station plaza? Is that all hand cut paper?
Great layouts Becky, and I love that F4U "Corsair" parked at the airport. Looks like Pappy Boyington's in town for the holidays!
These Christmas layouts are fascinating. I know I would have a hard time taking them down. I think I would be tempted to leave them up all year.
Karl
Here's October's child:
I have to admit, of the 3 layouts I do at Christmas, this one is the most fun to build and operate.
The gateman pops in and out, the beacon goes round and round, the milkman does his thing on a dedicated track, signals flash, the banjo wig-wags, whistles, horns, smoke, choo-choo sounds and the endless droning of an oil pump working away at the rear of the layout really gets my blood flowing!
One of my favorite sections of the layout features one of my favorite Plasticville structures: the Turnpike interchange. This is a modern issue version as is the motel acting as the motor lodge component of my Howard Johnson's complex. The HOJO's started life as a damaged 1960's issue Plasticville schoolhouse.
At the other end of the layout is another of my Plasticville favorites, the Airport administration building. Again this is a modern issue with clear plastic and vellum added to the windows to create a more uniform glow. The lights surrounding the "tarmac" are from diecast airport playsets. The hard to miss Polar Express roaring through on the viaduct is a modified postwar 2-6-4.
Merry Christmas Plasticville style.
The land was cleared today so Disneyland construction can begin as soon as I do this and that and that over there and a few things I forgot to do and repair this and embellish that and....well, you get the idea.
Here is one of my past layouts before we moved to where we live now. I will post up pics of this years Lionel set up as soon as i get it up and running. Mike
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome
CB&QHO HO HO now things are starting to look good. very nice layout for the holiday any grandchildren to share them with?
Nope. 45-SWF
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