Colossal Mantis Attacks
"Run for your life!"
"Scream!"
Relax. It's only a movie.
"Cut. Cut! Honey, acting is acting like you are not acting."
"Scene four take 23. Lights, camera, action!"
The making of Colossal Mantis Attacks movie.
Coming to theaters May 17
Colossal Mantis Attacks San Bernardino Santa Fe Amtrak Metrolink Station. A work in progress. Made from a kit by AMT Ertl. Starring running figures by AMT Ertl. Featuring Film Making Crew by Preiser.
Model Railroading is fun!
j......
p.s. Show me your film crews, or your monsters.
That is just awesome. What a great way to include whimsy and still be prototypical. Nice work.
Well, as they say, there's a prototype for everything:
This one is in Providence, Rhode Island.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Is the mantis DC or decoder-equipped?
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
This is hilarious. Good show, sir :)
Julian
Modeling Pre-WP merger UP (1974-81)
Billwiz That is just awesome. What a great way to include whimsy and still be prototypical. Nice work.
Thank you!
Is this a take on the 1950's sci-fi classic (B-movie), "The Deadly Mantis"? Now, if I could find an HO scale Rodan, Godzilla, Gorgo or Ghidrah, I'd be set!
Marlon
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So it's you that makes those crazy fake looking billboards you see on Ebay once and awhile?
Mike.
My You Tube
Good show!!!!
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Awesome.
Medina1128 Is this a take on the 1950's sci-fi classic (B-movie), "The Deadly Mantis"? Now, if I could find an HO scale Rodan, Godzilla, Gorgo or Ghidrah, I'd be set!
Yes this is old school scifi. I think they also make giant spider and giant scorpion scenes.
mbinsewi So it's you that makes those crazy fake looking billboards you see on Ebay once and awhile? Mike.
Yes. I made them for myself for the businesses on my own layout but since I went and did the work I figured I might as well let them be available to others. The Ski Area sign is the most popular. I painted the figure by hand.
Oh if my old Dungeons and Dragons GM buddy in Syracuse could throw some of his monster mini's on your layout, that preying mantis wouldn't stand a chance against his hord of undead, bug bears and dragons! His hobby was painting and collecting minitures for old fashioned pen and paper D&D and he was quite talented.
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Hi Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Looks like job for the man with a can of Mortein.
love it this the proof model railroads are fun
Now if I can work out where to put the lit Tardis I have all will be well.
wonder if any one does little green men in HO?.
There are time's when you just can't be serious to have serious fun.
regards john
There is an alien scene with a UFO crash which I think is made by one of the German companies, perhaps Busch.
Some Dungeon and Dragon players have very nice detailed layouts of their mythical world for their figures to play on which are similar to model railroad layouts.
I could never stray very far from reality when I play so I like to keep it as real as possible.
Bigfoot is real, right?
Or is that just another movie?
Serious but not too serious.
j..........
I found you on Ebay, LWolf, and I have to admit, that ski lodge sign does look good, and I can see why it sells.
Nice work!
Very well done! (And not Godzilla, which has been thoroughly overdone!)
'Attack of the alien monster' SF is now REALLY old school. It had been supplanted by 'my tech can beat your tech' a long time ago. Now the latter is coming true (hack of the day...) and the authors (including moi) have moved on.
As for monsters and/or film crews, when I start installing figures around Tomikawa one of the first will be both of the above - a squirrely gaijin with a camera in one hand and a clipboard in the other. Any resemblance to the SF author identified above will be purely deliberate - just 52 years (plus) younger.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Very funny.
Lynn
Present Layout progress
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Found it, from the prototype for everything department: Movie poster from the 1950s.
p.s. Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you all got a kick out of it. See you in the popcorn line.
I actually have one of these Mantis models. It used to be on my layout, too, attacking giant spiders on a farm. My farm scene was near a factory on my layout that made "questionable" products. I tried to make mine DCC but I couldn't get the bugs worked out.
I have a serious problem with mice using my layout for a playground so I've put out lots of D-Con. A few years ago, a mouse succumbed right in the middle of the street in one of my residential scenes. It reminded me of one of those 1950s sci-fi movies where insect and rodents grew to enormous size due to being exposed to radiation.
Lone Wolf and Santa FeBigfoot is real, right?
A eight foor tall, 500 lb bipedal with high intelligence? The Packers need a nose tackle.
Dave