Hi everybody ! Great day today as my wife will soon be home after her second knee replacement surgery .Everything went well. I will be re-focusing my energy for awhile now to help to nurse her back to health.I am planning to spend the time I have now concentrating on storyboarding and a little research.The "Once upon a time.... diorama is going well but I have changed my mind again and am going back to the original concept of a movie set.I think that it is better to tell one story well than get things too confusing for the viewer.I know that it seems that I can't make up my mind, and your right about that, but that is the fun of doing this in real time rather than presenting a competed piece and then pretending that I knew where I was going all the time.Cheers ! John.
Once Upon a time.........
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I am a man of few words but lots of pics
I quit drinking beer because the download was taking longer than the upload !
The HO layout will be behind the stick and the backdrop will be along the fence line.
I will be adding a small HO shelf type layout to this build and I plan to reposition all the HO buildings there along the track.
As a kid I always loved the story of Gulliver's Travels.
I kinda like this model within a model idea for a theme park.Finishing Morton's car with just furniture would be a little boring for kids I imagine but seeing another locomotive on display would be more fun.Walt Disney did this in his theme park and it was a hit with the kids both young and old.
I am planning 3 different modules for this piece.The G scale part will be finished in detail and weathered like an old abandoned movie set or ghost town.The HO scale part will be a removable module of an old west town and modeled to look like a model,in other words not as detailed or lifelike.The N scale part will be an add on module, fastened to one side of the perimeter, but I haven't yet decided which one.It will be an operating ,shelf type, old west train layout made to look like a G scale train(in real life) with G scale figures wandering through it.There will also be a old west movie poster area and a G scale area for a couple of fake horses.The horses will be hollowed out to look like paper mache ones with a sign nearby saying "Don't feed the horses",fake horses were often used as props in old west movies.
This piece has now evolved into a theme park idea (circa 1960's) It is a fantasy piece using lots of artistic license.( but isn't that what movies and models are all about,a suspension of your own disbelief ?) The core story is still about the Italian director Sergio Leone and his love of the western genre and it is dedicated to his memory.
This is the start of a HO old west model town that I am doing as a theme park in this module.
Hi Zak ! thanks,I am building the indoor portion first and then move outdoors later on.That's the dream anyway and thanks for the info. Cheers ! John.
Howdy,
Only thing I might add...Since you are in your 70s..Im 67...I would suggest that you build an elevated RR. about 2 ft off the ground..gets kinda tuff with the knees and bi-focals at ground level when one is trien to re-rail the crummy..
...Man...your model making is really cool...
Regards,
Zak
Keep On Railroad'n..............
Hi grims! actually it is a homebuilt RR car,highly modified from a Backmann and made up to look like the car from the opening scene from the movie "Once Upon A Time In The West".
I want to try something different with this diorama by adding some audio/visual stuff myself.This time the storyline will be presented in a little different way.Instead of step by step pictures accompanied by an audio text as planned by the museum ,this time I plan to do my own .Just a few short years ago this option was not available to me but with all the miniaturization of electronics today and the relatively cheap price I think that it could quite easily be done.These two saloon boxes will be used to house the electronics and diorama lighting equipment.Facing outwards I plan to install either slides or scenes from the movie itself with good quality miniature speakers,if I can get permission to do so from the copyright holders otherwise I will have to come up with a plan 'B'.It will be a donation to a museum for educational purposes or for my own private use so maybe I will get lucky.Plan 'B' will probably be to contact a few individuals that I see on You Tube and get their permission to use their videos and music.Sounds like fun,something different for a change.
Sorry for the double post ,I am still trying to post bigger pics.
This is a photo of a old west building that I an using for reference,very simple construction.
I am doing a modified version of this.
It is an old railway car as depicted in the opening scene of the movie "once upon a time in the west" I will post more pics of this later.
I see some sort of curved roof in the bottom of the picture is that a dinner or a home built RR car ?
When I read about the evils of drinking I quit reading.
Due to circumstances beyond my control I will be posting my stuff here on the GR forum.Why ? it's complicated ! Cheers John.
looks great im takin notes being a newbie at this
Ed
Thanks Svein , Cheers! John.
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