Yes, they know what you all would spend your Lottery winnings on:)
BTW, one of my high school friends helped build the models. He told me most of the scenes are 1/24 scale, and the last shot with the layout is in HO.
The first shots had me wondering what scale this was. Many of the details look too finely detailed for anything in HO. But very nice work and effects all around.
Hey, ya don't hafta win a lottery to have that kid feeling when ya feel like it. Dan
Eh, $1k a day for life, even with half taken in taxes, is significantly more than I make so I'm good.
The larger scale modeling bears a strong resemblence to the work of the guy who makes the dioramas with the 1/24 cars. I've seen a few that have incorporated a bit of a railroad as well. And that one diner looks a lot like the one in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting - also constructed in O scale by none other than John Armstrong where he more or less replicated the painting in 3D models - there is an article in MR about it, sometime in the 80's I think.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I doubt you'd need a lottery win to build that table top HO layout; ain't even DCC.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
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Sorry, my bad.
- Adam
When all else fails, wing it!
I love it! I think this is a great ad.
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All in all that has to be the best portrayal of the satisfaction from model railroading I have seen.
Well done! A+
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Well that ruins half of what I was going to say. Anyways though its an impressive modeling job. It took me a while to realize that the close ups were of the models and not real buildings.
MOH refers to it as "Bob's commercial."
My only criticism is that there's a steam whistle at the end, instead of an air horn. Probably playing on nostalgia. At least the guy doesn't stick an N scale switcher in his mouth the way Jim Parsons did on Big Bang Theory a few seasons ago.
steemtraynI doubt you'd need a lottery win to build that table top HO layout; ain't even DCC.
That is what I lilke best about the ad. The emphasis is not on buying something expensive or ridiculous, it is about having more TIME.
That is something I can relate to. If I suddenly had enough money, I would use it to spend TIME doing what I wanted, just like the man in the ad.
I doubt my layout dreams would change with more money, but just to have more time would be priceless.
Again, great ad. The theme really worked for me.
Exactly. I would probably acquire a larger space so I can build a layout with the same square footage but all on one deck - I don't care to build anything much larger.
The time factore is the big thing. Despite it being plenty of money, I'd probably still work a bit on a contracting bassis, because eventually I would get bored. Occasional part time work would keep me occupied, but on MY terms, and woouldn't seriously cut into the train time. I have no desire for some crazy huge house - just how many rooms can 2 people use? Even if I could afford people to clean it - what's the point of dozens of rooms you don't even go in? Most of those fancy things don't really attract me, I'm more interested in making sure I'm around to build my dream layout and get to operate it for a number of years.