In Jokes and Gags

[philnrunt]

   I remember a fellow who had a nude HO scale picture of his ex-wife in the picture window of his ex-house, he would point it out to suitable subjects at train shows.

   Steamage and twhite- if you add a recording of the noise the ants made and have it coming out of that sewer entrance, well lets just say- feets don't fail me now! Great scene!

[jfallon]

One of the industries on my layout is a scrapyard with a large pile of horn-hook and plastic knuckle couplers.

[PA&ERR]

NOTE: Video is not dirty or inappropriate in any way. 

Then why bother watching it?

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself!)

-George

[lvanhen]

Some place I have a White Water Real Estate, Bill & Hillary prop. and a Simpson & Bobitt Knives & Cutlery.

[METRO]

Another thing I intend to do, is put in a headline ticker board on the offices of the newspaper in the urban part of the layout.  On it will read "Interport Budget Doubled" (Interport being the name of the freelanced government-owned belt line around the metropolis.) 

Right in front of the building will be parked a brand new Porsche Cayenne Turbo modified into a Hi-Rail with the Interport Logo on the side.

Cheers!
~METRO

[twhite]

Well, in thinking about it, there is ONE 'in' joke on the Yuba River Sub, it concerns a little restaurant/uh--"establishment" outside of Sierra City across the North Fork bridge called MA'S PLACE that is pretty popular with the loggers and miners of that area. 

In fact, I have the mayor's teenage son pulled over by Officer Kolstad just as he was thinking of frequenting that particular establishment (while his high school buddy drives slowly by in his yellow '48 Ford convertible), and Ma herself leaning on the porch looking on, chuckling to herself thinking: "This kid should be at football practice". 

You see, it's early afternoon, and the place isn't even OPEN yet, so about all the Mayor's son could have gotten would have been a Coca-Cola, anyway. 

Ah, nothing like growing up in the California foothills!

Tom

 

[miniwyo]

One of our club members is pretty heavy into the political humor....

He has, Honest Willes Used Cars, W.J.Clinton Proprieter.

The Al Gore Memorial Forest (Which Has been completely clearcut by logging)

2 office buildings Sharing a wall, One has blue trim and AC, the Other with Grey trim and all the windows open. Each with a sign, The Mason Building and the Dixon Building. He also has a figure at a Sinclair Station sitting in a chair. His Father In law used to own a Sinclair Station and sit in a chair outside it.

He took business cards from a local business, glued them back to back, cut the logo and name out, and turned it in to a sign for a building.

An out of the way point on the river, Viewable only by people of adult heigth, with skinny dippers. 

 

I am planning on a Construction site, and modeling all the guys I know on it. As well as painting and decalling equipment for the Contractors we use.

Also The UP some years ago buried a Tank Car full of Peanut Oil in the desert out here after a derailment. Well, on my layout, the Tank Car was not buried deep enough....

My Aunt, Who is a horrible driver, will have been in an accident somewhere on the layout.

I may attempt to make a Cloverfield type Scene, with the people runnng from a monster, one shooting it with a video camera.

I was thinking of a Rodeo Scene too.... Complete with Rodeo Clown, And maybe a rider hanging by the seat of his pants from the Bull's Horn

 

[MisterBeasley]

Here's the Strumpet Brewery:

The slogan at the top reads "Nothing Goes Down Like A Strumpet."

[cbq9911a]

I've got a couple:

Headache Hammers

G. E. Neric and Company

Madonna Della Ferrostrada Cathedral (literally "Our Lady of the Railway"), a take on Madonna Della Strada, the church on the Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus.

Canine American Pet Foods

Karol Wojtoyla Community College.  Named after the Archbishop of Cracow and Polish Patriot who "disappeared" in October 1978 (but lived another 28 years as Pope John Paul II).

Condemned Edison - like Commonwealth Edison and Consolidated Edison.

Penguin Tuxedo.

Tarjhay Department Stores  

[wjstix]

And I got Mongo And GW.

 

You gotta fatten up that Mongo, Alex Karras was around 250-275 lbs. in his playing days.

[trolleyboy]

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?

Rotor

 No no pictures yet, the layout's not finished enough yet to be photogenic ( not that it will win any prizes anyway LOL )

We used to do all sorts of wierd and wonderfull things on a club layout I belonged to as well.During open houses we handed out a sheet to the kids comming in with fifteen or twenty funny things to look for while they were in,the parents got a bigger kick out of that as well,

At one point on the  club layout we had a window washer clinging to his washing rig with his feet dangling a bucket was attached to his one foot ( approx on the tenth story of the building )Lots of small stuff like that, we had the preiser crate on an old athearn 40 foot flat with the large green octopus tentacles coming out,we also had a "party car " another old Athern 40' flat with benches and kegs mounted on it along with some of the towns notables

Rob

 

[Flashwave]

- 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.

 

I managed to forget 2, of which I've forgotten one again. One focused a video of a car in an industral road, with Streetrunning or at least a roadside spur. Fred qwould sit in a car with a hardwired Turnsignal, and would suffer every start of the workweek by being made late from a tramn less than 50 feet from his office. His name is Fred. (Which was an unintentional joke in and of itself) And we'd end every video with "Happy Monday!"

[lvanhen]

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. 

I've got one of those!!  It's a Bachmann - I don't think it runs anymore - never ran well to start with - too light - too short - & God only knows what's inside for a motor (I never bothered to look!)

[Anonymous]

I've seen some old car converted into a  "Ma and Pa"  track inpection vehicle.  Doubt the BN would do that though....

[Packer]

I have an HO VW minibus, maybe I'll get another one and try that.

[Anonymous]

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. 

[stebbycentral]

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.

[Railphotog]

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)

 

 

 

 

[Rotorranch]

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?

Rotor

[Rotorranch]

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.

Rotor

[Rotorranch]

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

[trolleyboy]

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

[dinwitty]

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.

 

[Red Horse]

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!

[Flashwave]

Fw:

Be sure to have some Blackrock gas stations, too, then. :D

 

I forgot about him.

[Packer]

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.

[Autobus Prime]

Fw:

Be sure to have some Blackrock gas stations, too, then. :D

 

[Flashwave]

- 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.

 

[Master of Big Sky Blue]

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

[SpaceMouse]

Up until last Thanksgiving, I owned a vitamin store called Vitamin Connection.