I'm going to make a Vicki Vale advertisement on a billboard. Promoting her tv show, or radio show inspired in the Arkhamverse video games.
I didn't know if the superheroes exist in this universe. If the superheroes did exist can you imagine Superman insurance for your business or house. Or any other super for that matter.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Billwiz Overall, I'd probably do a more realistic take, just very run down, and include "Crime Alley". More of a George Sellios overweathered approach, but as you left town include "Stately Wayne Manor" (I'd have to go Batman 66 there), Metropolis would be very clean, new, with iconic Daily Planet. But the Burtonverse Gotham would be pretty awesome.
Overall, I'd probably do a more realistic take, just very run down, and include "Crime Alley". More of a George Sellios overweathered approach, but as you left town include "Stately Wayne Manor" (I'd have to go Batman 66 there), Metropolis would be very clean, new, with iconic Daily Planet.
But the Burtonverse Gotham would be pretty awesome.
Both sound awesome - let us know if you build it!
Work Hard! Train Hard!
RRRR - Rat Room Rail RoadThat would be amazing! Would you do the gothic Gotham ala Tim Burton, or something else?
Overmod SpaceMouse ... made a layout based on the cartoons and illustrations of Roland Emmit. For those unfamiliar with Rowland Emett... you have a treat in store. Not only are his drawings delightfully dotty, he has additional fame as a builder of fantastic machines. I confess to having modeled a 3D version of one of his better contraptions, a trenching machine reputed to do "the work of three men and a boy". Can you guess how many people were required to operate it?
SpaceMouse ... made a layout based on the cartoons and illustrations of Roland Emmit.
For those unfamiliar with Rowland Emett... you have a treat in store. Not only are his drawings delightfully dotty, he has additional fame as a builder of fantastic machines.
I confess to having modeled a 3D version of one of his better contraptions, a trenching machine reputed to do "the work of three men and a boy". Can you guess how many people were required to operate it?
Definately very whimsical! Super detailed and delicate - that would be an interesting build!
SpaceMouse... made a layout based on the cartoons and illustrations of Roland Emmit.
Overmod York1 One idea was to imagine a railroad 100 years from now. Monorails? Elevated HSR? Also, what will stations and buildings look like? There is always the IFW Dresden model of superconducting maglev, conveniently in model form:
York1 One idea was to imagine a railroad 100 years from now. Monorails? Elevated HSR? Also, what will stations and buildings look like?
There is always the IFW Dresden model of superconducting maglev, conveniently in model form:
Wow, that is pretty amazing, especially the horizontal track! But I am sure that I would make a complete mess of things if I was working with that material!
Billwiz I have posted this idea before. I’d love to do a Metropolis to Gotham City. One pristine, the other run down. In between is Smallville. And, of course, all the appropriate characters.
I have posted this idea before. I’d love to do a Metropolis to Gotham City. One pristine, the other run down. In between is Smallville. And, of course, all the appropriate characters.
That would be amazing! Would you do the gothic Gotham ala Tim Burton, or something else?
Overmod, that's pretty neat! Of course, my home supply of liquid nitrogen is running low, so I probably won't be able to model this anytime soon.
York1 John
York1One idea was to imagine a railroad 100 years from now. Monorails? Elevated HSR? Also, what will stations and buildings look like?
trevorsmith3489 A TV series here in the UK challenged teams of modellers to make a layout in three days. The organisers set "themes" for each layout, some of them rather unusual. An example https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vs52d
A TV series here in the UK challenged teams of modellers to make a layout in three days.
The organisers set "themes" for each layout, some of them rather unusual.
An example
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vs52d
Yes, I watched the series and it was pretty impressive - it was great to see some of our model railroad experts like Kathy Millatt involved and helping promote the hobby!
pt714 groundeffects I remembered that MR did a "what if" story for a small railroad located on the moon and found it in the MR Archives. It was in the April 1978 issue (pages 87-90) titled "A lunar railroad you can model" and was a "look at futuristic modeling". I wonder if anyone used this article as a basis for their railroad? Jeff I just checked, and am pretty sure that was exactly the inspiration for the one I linked above. Phil
groundeffects I remembered that MR did a "what if" story for a small railroad located on the moon and found it in the MR Archives. It was in the April 1978 issue (pages 87-90) titled "A lunar railroad you can model" and was a "look at futuristic modeling". I wonder if anyone used this article as a basis for their railroad? Jeff
I remembered that MR did a "what if" story for a small railroad located on the moon and found it in the MR Archives. It was in the April 1978 issue (pages 87-90) titled "A lunar railroad you can model" and was a "look at futuristic modeling". I wonder if anyone used this article as a basis for their railroad?
Jeff
I just checked, and am pretty sure that was exactly the inspiration for the one I linked above.
Phil
Phil, thanks for the link! It is a cool idea!
davidmurray Broadway Lion no longer has that layout. I have no idea about pictures. He no models NYC subways.
Broadway Lion no longer has that layout. I have no idea about pictures. He no models NYC subways.
That's a shame, I would have really loved to see something so outside the box - I think something going through the Shire or the Mines of Moria could be amazing!
davidmurray Broadway Lion had a Lord of the Rings layout. Set 30? years after the final battle. Perhaps he could reposst about it? meow?
Broadway Lion had a Lord of the Rings layout. Set 30? years after the final battle.
Perhaps he could reposst about it? meow?
Now that is something I want to see!
Back here on Earth, one of my personal favorites is John Ott's Miskatonic RR, late 19th-century freelanced from history and details in H.P. Lovecraft's stories.
Yes, his layout is amazing!
I came across this video on another site a while back. A layout based on Disney's Big Thunder Mountain ride:
https://youtu.be/Wr3d_wJW0d8
-Peter. Mantua collector, 3D printing enthusiast, Korail modeler.
I love the imagination on display in fantasy layouts. There have been a few Martian/space themes I've seen over time, some of which were really convincing-- I think some time ago on this forum there was someone designing a Martian layout with his son. The one that stays in my memory, because of the backstory and effective modeling, is Rich Erwin's Mines of Xenon layout (the blog has lots of other layout projects, too, worth poking around.)
Petticoat Junction is easy - in HO anyway. The Tyco/Mantua 10 wheeler that was around practically forever has the offset spacing between the second and third driver axle.
In fact, way back in 1966/67, Tyco sold a Petticoat Junction set, with the loco and cars!
http://tycotrain.tripod.com/tycotrainsredboxtrainsets/id20.html
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Dangit Lyle, wipe your feet when you leave the outhouse!
Didn't know he was in Paper Moon, too. Pretty funny interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-zSd_uq8Q
trevorsmith3489A TV series here in the UK challenged teams of modellers to make a layout in three days. The organisers set "themes" for each layout, some of them rather unusual.
I've seen videos of three incredible layouts, all British BTW, but not from the above challenge. And they certainly didn't take 3 days to build. The first was set in 1945 in a German industrial city. The place was bombed out, but the infrastructure was intact, because the Allies wanted to use it. In fact, the British had taken control of the railroad, and operated with a hodgepodge of equipment, American, British and German.
The second was from the Warleigh Model Railway Club who made a layout based on the cartoons and illustrations of Roland Emmit. There's the milk train where the engine pulls a car with a man milking a cow. The dining train is parked in front of a resturaunt forming an out door cafe. But all the engines and cars and figures are whimsical--think of a British Dr. Seuss. It's very popular at train shows.
And the last, is a recreation of the scene in Saving Private Ryan where they are taking a town and a sniper has them pinned down. Although the layout is a full functional model railroad. It's modular, in that there are two 4 x 12 ft. sections seperate, but representing two different stages of the assult. War games clubs play games on these two layouts.
Although my RRRR layout was inspired by Blazing Saddles, and I give a nod to the movie, it is in fact, a serious operations based layout. It has it's own story line based on the timber magnate Randal "Rock" Ridge, who threatened to locate his mill in Ft. Bragg if the town of Degnar's Crossing didn't change the name of the town to Rock Ridge. Although the focus is operations and serious railfanning, I am prone to whimsy...
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Ringo58Just finished the episode. Looks like a great show! I wish we had something like that over here.
I thought the same thing -- why couldn't it be done here? Maybe it could be sponsored by some companies working with some model clubs.
Just finished the episode. Looks like a great show! I wish we had something like that over here. All my ads were in french. Not sure what that was about
I have had a layout only two years, but I've already started thinking of making wholesale changes to what I've done.
One idea was to imagine a railroad 100 years from now. Monorails? Elevated HSR? Also, what will stations and buildings look like?
I'm not real imaginative, but I think it would be fun to try some different things.
maxman Petticoat Junction might be interesting.
Petticoat Junction might be interesting.