Some great gags and ideas here
I am planning to have a red english sports car parked next to a telephone booth. The suited man inside will be chopped down to give the impression he is taking an elevator down.
Geared Steam wrote:Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpghttp://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpg
Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpg
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpg
GS, I love that shot. It is now my desktop. Thanks for making my day!
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
I've got a HO Herbie that will find a home eventually on the streets of my layout. Perfectly complimenting my tribute to the Mouse.
All businesses and locations are connected in some indirect in-joke way, such as Elias & Co. Dept. Store, Dinoco Gas and WESAYSO Logging and so on.
Autobus Prime wrote: Geared Steam wrote: - Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday? GS:I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick.
Geared Steam wrote: - Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?
- Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?
GS:
I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick.
Obviously not a NASCAR fan. The "Car of Tomorrow" is now the standard NASCAR racer, and it still bears a passing resemblance to street legal. (It also has a V8 with four-barrel carburetors - the 'Car of Tomorrow' with Grandpa's Dream Engine!)
Modeling challenge - model a pig unit loaded with NASCAR haulers. If fuel costs keep going up, we may see it in the prototype.
Chuck (NASCAR fan modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
fiatfan wrote: Geared Steam wrote:Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpghttp://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpgGS, I love that shot. It is now my desktop. Thanks for making my day! Tom
That is the best thing I've seen in a long time.
One of the members in our modular club has a naughty scene behind some bushes, only visible if one knows where to look - a farmer getting amorous with a sheep!
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
I didn't do it but during the last op session one of my crew added some 'passengers' to one of my cab forward steam engines...
I still haven't figured out who did this (though I've a couple of suspicions).
Regards,
Charlie Comstock
There's something funny about the name of this factory...
or maybe it's just my imagination.
BCSJ wrote: I didn't do it but during the last op session one of my crew added some 'passengers' to one of my cab forward steam engines...I still haven't figured out who did this (though I've a couple of suspicions).Regards,Charlie Comstock
Now THAT is good clean fun!
Classic!!!!
I regret that I am unable to recall the name of the Kansas (or Missouri) model railroad club to give them credit for the following bountiful harvest scene:
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
1. Near HO Scale Star Wars figures including Darth Vader, Han Solo, Storm troopers, jawas etc and an Imperial walker having a battle in a back alley and on some rooftops in my city scene that uses the Bachman Spectrum buildings as well as some other DPM and Korber buildings. Makes an interesting scene. Because it is in a back alley it is not distracting but gets a good laugh when it is spotted.
2. HO Scale Trans Am driven by the "Bandit" being chased down main street by NY's Finest in their Chevy Caprices.
3. HO Scale firehouse with rooftop tennis court and players.
John R.
steamage wrote:Remember the old 1950s movie THEM! With the ants in the Los Angeles River. I have the LA River with ants.
Now, YOU'RE my kind of guy! Better yet, have an old ATSF wooden boxcar in the yard with the door ripped off and a little decal saying: "For Sugar Loading Only."
That's still a WHOPPER of a good 'Big Bug' movie!
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!
Well let's see. I have a Preacherman dragging toilet paper on his foot and a cat chasing it.
And I have a piano being loaded with a buckboard--and the ticket clerk watching the fun.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
And I got Mongo And GW.
Up until last Thanksgiving, I owned a vitamin store called Vitamin Connection.
I got alot of funny things planned for my layout. Unfortunatly unless I tell you the connection the humor is lost.
My latest advent is from the song Convoy.
In my town park scene im going to have the 11 long haired freinds of Jesus having a prayer session or what ever in front of their chartreuse mini bus.
Many of you probably know of my planned Red light district.
And given that my "other" hobby is being an all out Trekie I am sure some one from the Starships Enterprise, Voyager, or Deep Space Nine will be making an appearance on my layout. Right now I am thinking of the scene from the book "The Making of Star Trek" which shows William Shatner and Leonard Nimy having lunch in a cafe that was on the lot where they shot star trek. They are in full make up. Figured I might recreate that scene.
Another one that I am working on is a passenger train full of little green space aliens. But alas I am having trouble finding the right little green space aliens. I don't really like the ones that come with Busch flying suacer. And the ones that I have found that have the look that I want are too big to fit into HO scale passenger car seats. Might have to go scultp my own.
these are some of my gags.
James
tomikawaTT wrote: Autobus Prime wrote: Geared Steam wrote: - Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday? GS:I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick. Obviously not a NASCAR fan. The "Car of Tomorrow" is now the standard NASCAR racer, and it still bears a passing resemblance to street legal. (It also has a V8 with four-barrel carburetors - the 'Car of Tomorrow' with Grandpa's Dream Engine!)Modeling challenge - model a pig unit loaded with NASCAR haulers. If fuel costs keep going up, we may see it in the prototype.Chuck (NASCAR fan modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
That brings back my plans of a NASCAR road course running across a the mainline. "Racing the train???"
As a transfan, and an owner of the Tyco 86 Transformers trainset, I plan on recreating Mount Saint Hilary (the volcano the Ark crashlanded into) with a spurline. *Insert obligatory "scene is more than meets the eye" joke here*
As Dad spent some time out of state, we had stories we told to keep us awake on the 2.5 hour trip to his place on the weekends. We played the truck as a train, and now we're playing the cast of regular passengers into their day lifes
Modeling an homage to the Madison Incline. Not funny
have a boxcar sticking out of river on end of fishing line=Funny.
-Morgan
Fw:
Be sure to have some Blackrock gas stations, too, then. :D
I run a Packers train every now and then... It's only od, since I model the 70s, and the cars are based on the team in the early 2000s.
I have a camaro with it's wheels, bumpers, and windshield (was wrecked, but used it for parts for another [model trains and real cars aren't the only things I do that to]). I plan to get some styrene blocks and make them look like cinder blocks.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Autobus Prime wrote: Fw:Be sure to have some Blackrock gas stations, too, then. :D
I forgot about him.
Good topic Metro.
The Hobby shop that I visit has a real nice layout and in one scene is a dough-nut shop with a long line of cops waiting to be served and up on the roof out of all the wathfull eyes of the law is a bandit complete with sack over his shoulder and the black mask on.
I already have 1 on my "layout in progress", and it is in the office of my Military Motor pool building, I didn't want to build a typical office interior so I put a two person personal sub in the office, you can't see it until you get on eye level with the windows and look in.....LOL, so far you are the only other person who knows this little secret......oops, and everyone who reads this....dang it!!!
I plan on doing more, in my "seedy side" of town there will be many, "back alley deals" a car up on blocks and stripped, some funny graffitti on the alley walls, a few steamy silloettes on the buildings window shades only seen at night after the lights are turned on in the tenament and I'm even thinking of a roof top biker party and we all know that with that set up, anything is possible.
So I say sure, have fun, go nuts, you can be subtle or outragious, I know I'm going to be!!!
My darn spell check went to bed early tonight.....the wife was tired!
I still have this figure of a dog, leg up ready for the fire hydrant. No real layout yet to place it.
Walthers sold their Oscar shortie passenger car complete with interior and shower with girl.
I might make a Dr Who police box... maybe if I can find figures to match.
Lets see I have a couple. I have a kitbashed heljan Brewery Kit which is now the I.P. Freely & Sons Bath Fixture Plant ( I've yet to kitbash or find some porcelin thrones for the loading dock ) I have a near HO scale Chewbacca that's sitting in an outdoor cafe, and I've set up a small donut shop using the Walther hite castle restaurant which has at least 15 plice cars parked in it's lot and out back I have the Woodland scenic Chain Gang enlarging the parking lot.
Rob
EmpireStateJR wrote: 2. HO Scale Trans Am driven by the "Bandit" being chased down main street by NY's Finest in their Chevy Caprices.
The Bandit wouldn't be caught dead in New York!
Here he's being chased through a field by the Georgia State Patrol!
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
dinwitty wrote: I might make a Dr Who police box... maybe if I can find figures to match.
You ought to be able to find something to fit The Doctor...aren't they on the 9th or 10th Doctor now?
I need the phone box. My Life-Like phone booth doesn't look quite right, so I never painted it. It's sitting right behind Elwood and the Blues Mobile.
trolleyboy wrote: Lets see I have a couple. I have a kitbashed heljan Brewery Kit which is now the I.P. Freely & Sons Bath Fixture Plant ( I've yet to kitbash or find some porcelin thrones for the loading dock ) I have a near HO scale Chewbacca that's sitting in an outdoor cafe, and I've set up a small donut shop using the Walther hite castle restaurant which has at least 15 plice cars parked in it's lot and out back I have the Woodland scenic Chain Gang enlarging the parking lot.Rob
Funny stuff! Especially the chain gang!
Got pics?
Some great scenes here! I especially liked the guy trailing the toilet paper!
Here are some of my scenes, some are permanent, others I set up for photos to post elsewhere:
Some quiet "reading time" is interrupted by a barking dog:
Wow, didn't know the old parts were that old!
"Musta taken a wrong turn somwhere!"
Wow -the little people have discovered their world ends in the harbor!
"But officer, the pole just jumped out in front of me", the lady driver says:
Damsel in distress:
(Click on photos to enlarge)
Interesting how these things tend to settle into themes: race cars; movie characters; aliens; adults only...
On my layout we have two of the above. My son came across a near N-scale NASCAR racer at a model train show. Since we already had two police cruisers there is now a Dukes of Hazard style police chase going down the long highway on one side of the layout.
On the opposite side of the layout we have this group of railfans who showed up one night and who don't seem to be in any hurry to leave.
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!
Maybe I'll model one of these.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6-klM-3jU
NOTE: Video is not dirty or inappropriate in any way.