WP 3020 wrote: Walthers had a seen from some mfg. I can't remember at one time you could get of a dinosaur dig. They also had a crashed saucer craft. Some times, at public displays, a club member or two will put an out of place item on the layout to see if anyone notices it. Sometimes it is a dinosaur or it might be a M113 APC parked by a mountain cabin.
Walthers had a seen from some mfg. I can't remember at one time you could get of a dinosaur dig. They also had a crashed saucer craft. Some times, at public displays, a club member or two will put an out of place item on the layout to see if anyone notices it. Sometimes it is a dinosaur or it might be a M113 APC parked by a mountain cabin.
The mfr was Busch; I know it's there somewhere, but I can not find it
The flying saucer is on sale
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-1010
They also have "Dinosaur Escape"
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-7636
Alien Arrival
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-7692
Fiat 500 w/ dino
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-48707
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Now, now, HEdward, LOL! Besides, current thought about those loveable beasties seems to think that they weren't 'giant reptiles' at all, but some sort of semi-warm blooded crossover species related to present-day birds, whose evolution would have continued if it hadn't been for that nasty ol' Mazatlan Meteor!
Frankly, I wouldn't mind at all having a pair of Triceratops mowing my front lawn once a week as long as they only charged Union Scale. Just as long as I could keep the Velociraptors strictly in the back yard to scare little kids from coming over the fence into my pool. I mean, "Hey, kids, you've got a choice, drown or get eaten. Go back to the field and play Soccer, okay?"
Actually, I'm thinking of resurrecting a Malcolm II as a 'pusher.' I've got a brass Mountain that just doesn't seem to be cutting it between Deer Creek and Wagon Wheel Gap. Sure miss Malcolm, by golly, but I'll be darned if I'll ask my grandson to return him.
Tom
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!
HEdward wrote:[So you're an advocate for the prototype/rivet counting/must be exact to the day's headline folded on Mrs. Jones' doorstep modelers? My dino is green. Just green. He stands around doing nothing in particular. No interaction with the railroad, populace or livestock. Does this make me some kind of trouble making rabble rouser? Should I quit the hobby now since I don't have the correct giant reptile? I'm right back to being cornfussed.
Getting the headline right is certainly a nice touch! As for the color of the dino: Since no one has ever SEEN an actual dinosaur skin, I suppose a certain amount of freelancing in this area has to be tolerated. But you shouldn't try to stretch it to features which are well-attested in the fossil record, like the number of toes on each foot. Setting a three-toed dino next to your prototypical-to-the-knot-on-the-bellrope locomotive will cause serious modelers to suspect that you're in this hobby just because you enjoy it, for Heaven's sake.
We wouldn't want people to think we're just a bunch of adults playing with kids' toys, now would we?(BTW, that's a wink and a grin!)
-Walleye
Haven't put a dinosaur on any layouts in the past, but I did stick a Sasquatch in the woods of a past layout. Depending on who you talk to that's either realistic or not.
-Matt
Walleye wrote: HEdward wrote:[So you're an advocate for the prototype/rivet counting/must be exact to the day's headline folded on Mrs. Jones' doorstep modelers? My dino is green. Just green. He stands around doing nothing in particular. No interaction with the railroad, populace or livestock. Does this make me some kind of trouble making rabble rouser? Should I quit the hobby now since I don't have the correct giant reptile? I'm right back to being cornfussed.Getting the headline right is certainly a nice touch! As for the color of the dino: Since no one has ever SEEN an actual dinosaur skin, I suppose a certain amount of freelancing in this area has to be tolerated. But you shouldn't try to stretch it to features which are well-attested in the fossil record, like the number of toes on each foot. Setting a three-toed dino next to your prototypical-to-the-knot-on-the-bellrope locomotive will cause serious modelers to suspect that you're in this hobby just because you enjoy it, for Heaven's sake.We wouldn't want people to think we're just a bunch of adults playing with kids' toys, now would we?(BTW, that's a wink and a grin!)-Walleye
I just checked and my only steamer, a 2-6-0, has no rope to it's bell! Now Walleye is going to really let me have it. How will I ever survive in this hobby if I can't get my bells to ring and my M&StL switcher never really existed in the prototype! I'm totally ashamed. Will you all please forgive me? Can I ever be reformed? Wait until my sons want Thomas and Percy on my HO tracks!<--me
Occams Razor wrote: Haven't put a dinosaur on any layouts in the past, but I did stick a Sasquatch in the woods of a past layout. Depending on who you talk to that's either realistic or not.-Matt
Great Northern hired Sasquatch to keep fallen branches clear of the tracks.
HEdwardz wrote:Wait until my sons want Thomas and Percy on my HO tracks!
I suppose accurate, prototypical Thomas and Percy would be OK. Properly weathered, of course.
"Illegitimi non carborundum."
Walleye wrote: HEdwardz wrote:Wait until my sons want Thomas and Percy on my HO tracks!I suppose accurate, prototypical Thomas and Percy would be OK. Properly weathered, of course.-Walleye"Illegitimi non carborundum."
Weathered? Neither of those engines was ever allowed to go a day without a washdown! Proper weathering means being SPOTLESS! Did you know that Thomas has no pistons?
I wonder if we can get DCC controlled facial expressions and computer interfaced speech functionality?
So Walleye, what dino is on your layout?
steamage wrote:Their not exactly extinct, but I have a bad case of THEM! in the Los Angeles River on the layout.
My, my....THEM is in my all time sci-fi movie collection. When I reach for one off the shelf, the better half runs for another room ......
Back on topic; I believe that it's a guy thing that's carried over from childhood. There wasn't a person I knew as a kid who didn't do silly things like Hot Wheel cars and plastic dinos on the train or Aurora slot car layout.
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
There's no place like ~/ ;)
A few notes for previous posters:
Thomas has his pistons and main rods between the frames - not an unusual arrangement in England, but totally foreign to U.S. practice.
Dinosaur colors - until somebody invents a working time machine and sends a color camera back to check, we just don't know. Somehow, I just don't think that anything the size of a bus or covered with armor and spines would need camoflage.
Rapid City's Dinosaur Park. The students at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology used to paint a big 'M' on the brontosaur. With that in mind, I worked up the following three panel cartoon:
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
What? No dragons?
There used to be an exhibition layout that had a tiny 4wheel motor truck under a pet cat's toy mouse. When things got quiet they would zoom it end to end. The effects could be interesting.
I always thought it was from the movie Godzilla, you know when he attacks the commuter train in Hong Kong?
I have a 3" tall robot from the Lost in Space shows (the early ones NOT the newer movie) and I have it popping up at different locations from time to time, but right now I'm waiting on my Bag-O-Zombies to infest my lay out...LOL!
HEdward wrote: So Walleye, what dino is on your layout?
I confess that I don't have a single dino on my layout. But only because I haven't gone there yet, not from any philosophical opposition.
Honestly, my own approach to model railroading is best illustrated by saying that one of the roads I model is the Brasada Spur Line. Prototypically, of course.
"Ilegitimi non carborundum."
Red Horse wrote: I always thought it was from the movie Godzilla, you know when he attacks the commuter train in Hong Kong?I have a 3" tall robot from the Lost in Space shows (the early ones NOT the newer movie) and I have it popping up at different locations from time to time, but right now I'm waiting on my Bag-O-Zombies to infest my lay out...LOL!
Hong Kong? Godzilla is a Japanese creation. Last I checked, Hong Kong was in China. Would be nice to see a Bullet Train zip right past the big lumbering 'Zilla only to have him smash the rails in front of the oncoming train coming the other way.(fictionally only of course, I mean no harm to anyone in the real world)
I've replaced all my horn-hooks with Kadees, so they are now dinosaurs:
As for Zombies, I've got some BLI "Engineers" with very pale paint jobs. Gruesome, if you ask me.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
wjstix wrote:Actually I'd like to use one if I could find one small enough...I have a Sinclair gas station on my layout, many of them had (a few still have) a green dinosaur statue usually out near the Sinclair sign. It was pretty small, maybe 3-4' tall at best so in HO would have to be maybe a Z scale brontosaurus??
See, that's a good use of Dinosaur toys, as it's prototypical - same thing with a giant lizard sculpture on the roof of a Tex-Mex restaurant in Manhattan's East Village (don't remember which), the giant guy holding carpeting off 1/9 in Jersey City, the giant horse (double the real size) outside a riding academy, and not all that far from me, a giant shark mounted on the front wall of an Auto-Body shop (no, I don't get the connection either - it was lying around in their yard for years until they mounted it on the wall). Lots of other examples of this just around the NY Tri-State area alone.So there you go, get your plastic T-Rex, position him in front of a carpet store, add a rug in his shorten fore-arms (Far-Side cartoon: ""Hey, I'm TRYING to pass the potatoes, but my forearms are just as useless as yours!"), and there you go! No more haters or detail police!
So my Sinclair Dinosaur is going to be "prototypical" if I get a Sinclair gas station? Walleye might be able to forgive me afterall. I'm so relieved.
My son, Kevin(on the right in the photo), has a 3" dinosaur who just finished taking a ride in the gondola of our O gauge train. This car has also hosted Testor's paint, various cat toys, balls, marbles, Matchbox cars, Christmas tree ornaments, Cherios, and an HO F-3 shell(the remainder of which was destroyed in an earthquake many years ago.)
lvanhen wrote:I was in the Dollar store yesterday, and after following this thread, I picked up 4 dinos that look close to HO!! Bronto & triceratops are in gons, stega is peeking out of the roundhouse, and T rex is of course standing on top of the RH looking for a meal!!
I love this stuff....that is great....we need pics!!!
twhite wrote: alco49That's what I tried to tell him--I know of at least one found in the Coast Range in Marin County, I believe. He said it was an Icthyosaur and didn't count, LOL! I asked him if anyone had informed the Icthyosaur about that little detail, and besides the Sierra was a flat coast at that time and it was quite possible that all the Cretacous fossils got swept into the Central Valley and buried when the Sierra started to lift. We went on for hours. A musician and an English professor arguing about Historical Geology. You would have banged your head!Tom
alco49
That's what I tried to tell him--I know of at least one found in the Coast Range in Marin County, I believe. He said it was an Icthyosaur and didn't count, LOL! I asked him if anyone had informed the Icthyosaur about that little detail, and besides the Sierra was a flat coast at that time and it was quite possible that all the Cretacous fossils got swept into the Central Valley and buried when the Sierra started to lift. We went on for hours. A musician and an English professor arguing about Historical Geology. You would have banged your head!
HEdward wrote:Hong Kong? Godzilla is a Japanese creation. Last I checked, Hong Kong was in China.
Hong Kong? Godzilla is a Japanese creation. Last I checked, Hong Kong was in China.
Godzilla attacked Hong Kong in the opening sequence of Godzilla v. Destroyah (1995). Can't find a screen cap, but he came out of the water at the end of the runway at the Kai Tak airport, then proceeded to run amok, as usual.
Milepost 266.2 wrote: HEdward wrote: Hong Kong? Godzilla is a Japanese creation. Last I checked, Hong Kong was in China. Godzilla attacked Hong Kong in the opening sequence of Godzilla v. Destroyah (1995). Can't find a screen cap, but he came out of the water at the end of the runway at the Kai Tak airport, then proceeded to run amok, as usual.
HEdward wrote: Hong Kong? Godzilla is a Japanese creation. Last I checked, Hong Kong was in China.
I sit here, with Eddie on my lap, corrected. I must have missed the 1990's.
HEdward wrote:In several public layouts that I've seen(even the motion display at the camera shop that I was manager of)they've had dinosaurs on the layout. I've had a plastic dino since I was a kid and put it on all my layouts as well. Does anyone know why so many hobby shops, public displays and us not so finicky modelers have them? It's kinda weird that these long gone creatures have found homes on essentially technology displays.
Well, let's face guys, to our kids and grandkids many of us are really dinosaurs who probably new Noah.
But seriously, model railroading is supposed to be fun and not work. So if having a dinosaur (other than ourselves) on the layout, where's the harm? Now if you insist on putting on the deck of a model of the USS Nimitz, then I might have a problem with it. But not on a model railroad.
Irv
THEM bugs do get around but you forgot the model airplanes.