The great monkey escape of 1949
Gary
Not permanantly......but I will set one up from time to time for the photo....especially if it involves a Forum member.
Take Care!
Frank
zstripe....especially if it involves a Forum member. Smile, Wink & Grin
I would not know whom you mean
On the "serious" side, funny scenres permanently set up might get "old" quickly", therefore my layout stays "sober"!
Nice Lions
Can't have any privacy. The bear has a different idea
Nice Mel
I had tons of silly "easter eggs" humorous scenes all over the layout. They were all very hard to see, and many of the "jokes" were pretty obscure.
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My favorite was a scrapped Tiger tank in the metal yard. It was a well done scene, and if you did not know the design of the Tiger, you never would have been able to pick out what it was.
Actually, scrap yards are great places to hide the remnants of the Axis powers from World War 2.
There is a good bit of a destroyed Panther tank in this load.
I have had bears sitting inside offices, a billboard for SLURM soda pop, dinosaurs in the woods, etc, etc. I love these scenes. I see them when I look and chuckle to myself. Others need to look hard to find any of them. John Allen did it, and that is all the permission I need to have fun with my railroad.
I like humour in the scenes.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
LION wants top build platform 9 3/4.
Him will build it at the Lenox Avenue station. The Lenox wall will be painted on a window screen. The 9 3/4 platform is on the other side of the screen and when the lights on that platform are lit, the screen disappears and the Hogwarts Express becomes visible.
Least wise the plan that is.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I have plans for some things referencing family members. One I already have the kit for, and I doon;t even need to make custom signs, it has the right name already.
I would also like to place various Pugs in different places, but the only place I have found an HO pug is the one that comes with the Preiser "fat people" set and I am not buying 10 of those to get 10 Pugs. Sort of an anachronism for my 50's era anyway, they weren't a popular breed in the US in the 50's. But I have 2 and probably will have more, my lovable little goofballs plus they have no ability to jump on the layout. The one will, however, eat any freight car she can get a hold of.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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On the Bootbay Railway Village layout, we do have a few of these scenes, police behind the billboard, the WS "Wash Day Getaway" scene with the dog getting in trouble with the laundry. Women seem to find this one funny
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Not intentionally.
One of my loading dock doors way in the back of the layout is Mom's Robot Oil.
Then...
Finally, the names on my streamliner passenger cars are Gov. William Lepetomaine, Hillary Rodham Manson, C. Montgomery Burns and, for the dining car, Alferd G. Packer.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
There was a request in the "Show Me Something" thread asking for a girl covered steam engine...
Well, I had to oblige—
Actually, PRR DID do a photo-shoot with a lady gracing the front of a J1.
gdelmoroThe great monkey escape of 1949
Reminds me of the monkey scene on a small display layout at the now gone Caboose Hobbies in Denver.
The first notice was one chimp that looked very out of place, then another, and another. Then a pattern of chimps creating all kinds of havoc across the city scene, one tracking spilled red paint, another leaving footprints in wet cement. Eventually I found the zoo truck that was in an accident.
Jim
On the store layout in (now gone) The Happy Hobo in Tampa, Florida there was a farm that raised "long cows & tall chickens" that was a reference to a recurring theme in the Far Side comics.
I am going to need to letter a tank car for Mom's Robot Oil.
A bit of whimsy on the layout can be fun. Somehow those Creature Features monsters seemed more real back in the 50s.
Regards, Peter
I'll see if I can find some from previous shows!
gdelmoro The great monkey escape of 1949
Every morning I have to clean gull crap off my quarry equipment.
Funny like a clown or funny strange? There is a giant insect attacking the city... but its only a movie being made.
Lone Wolf and Santa Febut its only a movie being made
Oh no... the extra 519 is being attacked by a Martian Tripod! Orson Wells warned us, and we ignored the warnings! This is what we get!
And... Its NOT a movie being made... RUN!
In the "Prototype for everything" department, there's New England Pest Control in Rhode Island.
MisterBeasley In the "Prototype for everything" department, there's New England Pest Control in Rhode Island.
Sorry, off topic, but that's a real nice looking Comet MisterBeasley!
Thanks, Peter
MisterBeasley One of my loading dock doors way in the back of the layout is Mom's Robot Oil. Then... Finally, the names on my streamliner passenger cars are Gov. William Lepetomaine, Hillary Rodham Manson, C. Montgomery Burns and, for the dining car, Alferd G. Packer.
Shouldn't Sal Monella be a poultry dealer?
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Fun with a Schnabel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgpmHNums_4&t=90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdmNBtnlpQ
No I don't have a funny scene of yet. I was planning on hiding the gang individually of Scooby-Doo.
If I was going to have a unique scene it would be on the layout for a short time. (Like it said earlier it will be old quickly).
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Mine are not obtrusive and the grand kids love when they find one. Only have 2 or 3. The Monkey car is the largest and most obvious.
I have a few comic scenes on the SLOW. Since it is always Saturday, August 15, 1925 on the layout which is during Prohibition, old Uncle Albert has to make the main ingredient for the Sister's Tonic (which is quite popular I've heard). One day he was found shaking and screaming up along the trail back to the house.... He swore he saw a pink elephant over in the woods by the still!
My favorite is the one of the poor switch tender trying to move one of those Caboose Industries thingies....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Most of my businesses have silly names, many of the type you have to say out loud before you get the joke (e.g. Hugh Jass Big 'n Tall Clothing). Though my layout operators may get tired of the goofy names, I find they draw in layout visitors who are not at all into model trains. Once they discover one goofy name, they suddenly find themselves looking for others which, in turn, causes them to discover all kinds of things they wouldn't have noticed otherwise. At this point, the layout is transformed from, "That's cute" to "Wow, I had no idea!"
Hornblower
Lots of people like to have Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe, Attorneys. Instead, I may have the law firm of Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe. Not only all members of my all-time favorite band, but way back when the album came out and they just used their names instead of coming up with some sort of band name, I always thought it sounded more like a law firm.
And then there is the abominable snowman from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer helping Santa hand out presents at the ski lodge which has been decorated for Christmas.