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God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Becky, your layout is very impressive. I always enjoy looking at layouts depicting other parts of the world as it adds variety to the layout themes we normally see. I also like the Batmobile.....but unfortunately I now have the Bat Music running through my head.
Karl
How cool! I love it!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Penny Trains Mopeds may be a preffered method of transportation in Thailand, but I don't know about Hudsons!
Mopeds may be a preffered method of transportation in Thailand, but I don't know about Hudsons!
That's a nice and very unique layout, Becky. But the car is a Buick.
Wow..the colors make for some real eye candy, and the setting is so out of the ordinary..I think it's terrific. I especially like the lighting...
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Coolest car ever built! (chicks dig the car!)
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
lol that is beautiful! Very colourful! The first thing I noticed tho was the Batmobile, my most favourite vehicle.
A few pics of the summer version of my 4 by 6 foot bedroom layout. It's constructed as a series of landscape modules that are lightweight and easy to store, with the largest fitting inside the O31 RealTrax oval. The base is Luan plywood painted dark green which also looks good with the winter version of the layout which features all Plasticville buildings. The palm trees, Wat (temple), train station and a few other buildings are cardstock creations of my own design, while the apartment building, hospital, small platform and pedestrian bridge are Plasticville. There's also a K-Line 7-11 since 7-11's are proliferous in Thailand.
The big attraction in town ought to be the 2 steamers pulling into the Chonburi station, but they're not! Instead, it's the 1966 Batmobile on display at the station platform! The car is a Hotwheels 1:50 scale model while the American Flyer Atlantic is a 300AC and the just visible 8506 0-4-0 Pennsy switcher is a Lionel MPC product.
The gardens are filled with palms, plumeria trees and flowers of many varieties. I kept the construction simple so it would compliment rather than contrast the bright and beautiful trains. So mountain paper and Lychen are used extensively. The flowers and flowering trees are silk and plastic "Picks" from craft stores. The figures are 1:50 scale.
The postwar freights wend their way around the ovals while adventurous worshipers climb the path to visit the golden Buddha.
Slightly blurry as it may be, this last pic gives you an idea of what the total layout looks like. The Plasticville hospital is out of view behind the leg of the bed on the front right corner. Also not seen is the 5 foot bamboo tree that stands above the layout. However you can see the mountain at the center rear which acts as it's stand. I constructed the mountain by first bending a sheet of galvanized flashing into a tunnel. Then, I installed a heavy cardboard tube in the center of the top for the bamboo tree to slide into. Next came tunnel portals cut from 1/16" styrene and hot glued directly to flanges I made in the steel. The mountain itself, which looks more like a volcano, is newspaper, duct tape and finally mountain paper. The bamboo tree is decorated with paper lanterns and the 2 dozen good luck charms I collected on various trips to Thailand.
Scattered about town are many of the things that remind me of my visits to the tropical paradise which is Thailand. However it's important to note that not once did I ever knowingly catch sight of a train while I was there! Buses, mopeds, motorcycles, cars and tuk-tuks were the only methods of transportation I ever saw! Which is a pity because Thailand has some beautiful old steam locomotives!
So I'll say Sawasdeekha from my tropical paradise and try not to look out the window and see the snowflakes!
Becky
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