From the home office in my fevered brain, the top ten least popular scenery details (if someone replies that they actually have one of these on their layout, my head will explode). Feel free to make the list longer with more of your own ideas.
10. Properly scaled squashed pennies that some kid left on the tracks.
9. Four-leaf clovers to sparingly salt in among the botanically accurate 3-leaf clovers you've already laid down in a meadow.
8. Woman painting her toenails, nail polish color accurate to Mary Kay products released in 1987.
7. Z-scale rivets to be held in bucket of high-steel construction worker figure.
6. Roseanne Barr, O-scale
5. 1934 Nuremburg Rally scene
4. Squashed cow, self-adhesive to attach to front of locomotive
3. Flatcar load: Acme products en route for delivery to Wile E. Coyote
2. Bass-o-matic
And the number one least popular scenery detail:
1. Bedwetting Clinic, Age of Steam
I do think I've seen the Acme delivery to Wile E before. None of the others though.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Let's not forget the carnival scene, complete with the kid regurgitating his cotton candy all over the Scrambler...
Or the track side golf course, with the MRC sound system providing a steady stream of swear words...
This one's a bit dated, but it actually did exist on a local hobby store's layout... The Presidential Motorcade parked in front of the "No Tell Motel" with the secret service guys standing around looking at their watches...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Someone here posted their road-kill, or perhaps track-kill, deer lying in the brush.
I do have scaled down centerfolds from 1967 above a workbench in the roundhouse.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I once sent the owner of my favorite local in pursuit of N-Scale mosquitos to no avail!
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
"Mooners." Bad enough in HO scale, but in G, it's enough to make you blow chunks.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Tom, fingers got the hiccups again?
and what's wrong with mooners?
lvanhen and what's wrong with mooners?
You mean that Korean religious cult? Oh, moon-ers. Never mind.
MisterBeasley Someone here posted their road-kill, or perhaps track-kill, deer lying in the brush. I do have scaled down centerfolds from 1967 above a workbench in the roundhouse.
Seen from a 1:1 scale tourist train, never modeled - deceased antelope hung up in a barbed-wire fence.
As for the centerfolds - I thought this was, "Least Popular..." (IIRC, 1967 was a great year for centerfolds. There were some pretty good Page 3 girls about then, too.)
Chuck (dirty old man modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I've seen plenty of scale dogs lifting their legs next to a fire hydrant. But never seen one squatting over a freshly squeezed dog turd, so that's my vote for least favorite.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
wm3798 Or the track side golf course, with the MRC sound system providing a steady stream of swear words... Lee
Already been done!!!
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lvanhen Tom, fingers got the hiccups again? and what's wrong with mooners?
Whoa, that thread of mine DID get a little repeated, didn't it? My computer hiccuped, I guess.
Just a question, though. What's with the "Sieg Heil" salute from your mooners? Or do they possibly think they're Gladiators, LOL?
I have never seen, or heard mention of, a finely detailed model of a sewage-treatment plant....
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!
There's one in Greenpoint Brooklyn next to a softabll field and a lumber yard. Only the very brave played left field on hot, windless dayds.
I have mooners. My daughter wants a streaker, but I can't find one. Am I still allowed to post here?
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
I received a kit (from my parents!) that made 4 outhouses - no eyebrows raised here. It included a fellow who was to be placed as a stand-up user of the outhouse with the open door, and he was anatomically correct! I'm not a prude by any means, but he went in the junk box (I just can't bring myself to put him on my layout).
When I showed him to my 13 year-old nephew he laughed so hard that I gave it to him. Now the urinating fellow makes appearances on my nephew's layout - usually he's discharging overboard from a caboose.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
rrinker I do think I've seen the Acme delivery to Wile E before.
You're right, on reflection that would actually be a pretty cool touch-- I shouldn't have had it on the list!
Phoebe Vet I have mooners. My daughter wants a streaker, but I can't find one. Am I still allowed to post here?
Believe it or not, I think Prieser makes them. I know they make nude bathers. Maybe one of them is running, LOL!
Walthers has them, but no pics online!! http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=Figures&scale=H&manu=preiser&item=&keywords=nude&words=restrict&instock=Q&split=30&Submit=Search
MRH044wm3798 Or the track side golf course, with the MRC sound system providing a steady stream of swear words... Lee Already been done!!!
That's the most authentic golf course I've seen on a model railroad. Complete with 3 sets of tee markers, hazard markers, etc. On most models, one sees golfers lining up to drive their golf ball into the side of the train or some such.
Just curious, but what scale is that? Also, what is the radius of the curve with the passenger train, and what is the length of the cars? Please don't think I'm being critical; I'm an advocate of small radii, out of necessity.
- Harry
I just noticed the out-of-bounds stakes. Very nice touch, but in real life I hate them. Seems like I should be allowed to hit my ball off the ballast if I want to.
stebbycentralI have never seen, or heard mention of, a finely detailed model of a sewage-treatment plant....
...thankfully!
HarryHotspur [That's the most authentic golf course I've seen on a model railroad. Complete with 3 sets of tee markers, hazard markers, etc. On most models, one sees golfers lining up to drive their golf ball into the side of the train or some such. Just curious, but what scale is that? Also, what is the radius of the curve with the passenger train, and what is the length of the cars? Please don't think I'm being critical; I'm an advocate of small radii, out of necessity.
[That's the most authentic golf course I've seen on a model railroad. Complete with 3 sets of tee markers, hazard markers, etc. On most models, one sees golfers lining up to drive their golf ball into the side of the train or some such.
Thanks for the nice comments. Yes, everything is included : Tee boxes, hole markers, blue, white, red tee markers, elevated green, white and red OB/Lateral Hazard stakes, sand, and water. What else would a golfer want!!
The layout is HO scale. I have three mainlines in a 5x12 foot layout. Not very prototypical, but I like to run trains! The golf course is on the lower left section of the layout.
The three radii are 22, 24, 26 respetively. The Super Chief passenger train pictured previously and the Metrolink cars below are 85' in length and run just fine.
I hope this answers all your questions. Michael
HarryHotspur I just noticed the out-of-bounds stakes. Very nice touch, but in real life I hate them. Seems like I should be allowed to hit my ball off the ballast if I want to.
10.) The out of scale pet rat crawling over your layout.
9.) Three Stooges doing (fill in the blank).
8.) Unruly mob of plastic people protesting them being called "Plastic-Americans"
7.) An operational Yugo
6.) Cat chasing a dog
5.) G scale model of the sinking of the Titanic
4.) 1970's Gas Station Lines
3.) The way out of scale pet cat on your layout
2.) Anything related to CSX.
1.) Your 2 year old on your layout.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....
You know, that's actually not a bad idea - well into the late 20th century, many waste treatment plants recieved tank-car loads of Chlorine - witness this view of a Newark treatment plant (apparently called the Passiac Valley Sewage Pumping Station) - note the tank-car unloading rack in the North section by Wilson Avenue. Maybe model the unloading rack, the pump & control buildings, and partially model/'imply' the treatment tanks in the background/backdrop (this way you won't have to worry about getting scale turds & toilet paper wads right, in case Mike Rowe stops by to inspect your layout).
Railroader_Sailor_SSN-760 1.) Your 2 year old on your layout.
Your 2 year old WHAT on your layout?
As it happens, I have one of the above on my layout.
If you meant 2 year old offspring:
Going back to the original subject - one that I fully intend to model is a sumo tournament in progress, at the outdoor dohyo on the grounds of the five-tiered pagoda.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Naw, the Two year old sandwich is still behind the seat of the car for safe keeping.