December 2018 MR has a very nice article by Gerry Leone entitled " Add a Park in a Compact Space". The article shows how to make a city park scene in a narrow part of the layout between the aisle and the tracks.
My county park is a similar scene which I made several years ago. I made my scene at a lower elevation than the tracks. I included some activities such as a child's birthday picnic party, a volleyball game, and children flying kites. I included a Woodland Scenics kit for a Memorial Park.
My county park is across a highway from the depot. Also, it is across the tracks from a background farm scene.
If you have a park scene, please add photos of it to this thread.
Thanks for looking .
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Heartland: What fantastic work. I admire your scenery and backdrop. Care to share how you made it so realitsic? Adding a park is a nice touch--one that I don't see often on layout. I plan to put something together, but the challenge is figuring out where and not just "dropping it" randomly.
I have never included a park scene on any of my layouts.
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I tend to model industrial centers and countryside. I intend to include an urban area in my next layout, we will see how that turns out to look. Maybe a park will be included by the city planning department of Centerville.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I have a tiny park. Sorry, no pictures available at the moment. It's surrounded by a Model Power iron fence. It's got a short sidewalk and a statue of Robert E. Lee I found at a train show. There's a bench with an elderly couple seated together.
There is a pigeon perched on top of the statue.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have a small "park", more of a picnic area near Black River Tower and the center of town. Not to detailed, but it gets the point across.
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Allan
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We have the Fisherman's Memorial Park in Southport on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
I used to think about modeling my own 1940's-style big band playing a concert in the park. However, as in real life, the park gazebo is ALWAYS too small and the band too expensive. Even if my current layout had room for a park, the cost of scratchbuilding an amphitheater plus purchasing and modifying enough scale figures to stand in for all seventeen (17) musicians could get nearly as expensive as paying the real band!
Hornblower
I have a very urban park based on a real park known as Court Street Square. It is the site of the annual car show.
And the other extreme is a park in the mountains that has a ice rink.
And I use to have a football field with a game going on but that was replaced a long time ago.
Little park at Hopewell Junction on the SLO&W. The town Band is just waiting for the famous Basso, Raymundo Howard, to show up for a concert of operatic classics in the park on a Saturday afternoon..... (Well it is 1925 on the layout, you expected Rap or something???? LOL)
Oh, the roof of the Bandstand has now been painted a more roof like color........
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds?
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I don't have a park scene on my layout, but the layout isn't finished, so I might add one. Our modular layout has a park though.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
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BigDaddyAlfred Hitchcock's The Birds?
Just a couple of hungry crows checking out the trash can, not bothered by folks nearby
Everybody .... Many thanks to all who participated in this thread. You posted some great photos from your layouts.
kasskaboose Heartland: What fantastic work. I admire your scenery and backdrop. Care to share how you made it so realitsic? Adding a park is a nice touch--one that I don't see often on layout. I plan to put something together, but the challenge is figuring out where and not just "dropping it" randomly. Kevin ... You are right about it being good to include a lot of industries which I have done on other parts of the layout. Sometimes however, there is not enough room for an industry, and it is good to fill space with small scenes.
Kevin ... You are right about it being good to include a lot of industries which I have done on other parts of the layout. Sometimes however, there is not enough room for an industry, and it is good to fill space with small scenes.
Kasskaboose.... Thanks for the kind remark. ... The article in December MR would be a good place to start if you want to amake a park scene. ... In general, I try to force perspective with items in the background scene being undersized. The road gets more narrow in the distance. The background is higher thn the foreground. The backdrop horizon is higher than track level. Etc.
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I guess this would be more of a wayside than park, but it's as close to a park as I have.
Mike.
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Bigjim7Really nice work guys. I love the Rock Band and stage with PA' is that Jefferson Airplane jamming, Maybe a Woodstock scene.
Thank you very much. The band is The Stray Cats. They actually have played at the car show. Car show guys seem to like Rockabilly style music.
Don't have a park scene on my current layout, but am looking for a Civil War figure like Mr B's for the new layout. Already have a 105mm howitzer for the newer section of the memorial park. Had both in the original memorial in our town. Planning to have monuments for each conflict like the new park has.
I've played in enough of them, suppose I should have a band too. Some of the bandstands would be pretty easy to scratchbuild.
Thanks to all that have shared their parks.
Have fun,
Richard
Not very big, but you get a nice view of Union Station:
IMG_6325_fix by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Police officer caught a couple making out in the back of their convertible.
Marlon
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