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Unusual Layout Themes?

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Posted by maxman on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 5:28 PM

Petticoat Junction might be interesting.

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Posted by MapGuy42 on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 4:31 PM

Someday I hope to do a turn-of-the-century Rock Island shelf switching representation of River City, Iowa, from The Music Man.  Lot's of fun vignettes.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 3:40 PM

RRRR - Rat Room Rail Road
Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles

There is long time member in here working on the Rock Ridge. 

His ID is spacemouse, his name is Chip.

Mike.

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Posted by York1 on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:51 PM

Trevor, I'm about halfway through the video.  That's a neat program!

York1 John       

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Posted by trevorsmith3489 on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:11 PM

A TV series here in the UK challenged teams of modellers to make a layout in three days.  

The organisers set "themes" for each layout, some of them rather unusual.

An example

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vs52d

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:19 PM

I have not done this, and I do not think any of our regular forum memebers have.

I do love seeing fantasy trains. All of my fantasy modelling is for wargaming.

Lego trains are great for fantasy operation.

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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Unusual Layout Themes?
Posted by RRRR - Rat Room Rail Road on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:15 PM

Has anyone created an unusual layout theme such as something based on a movie or novel?  How about fantasy such as medieval, steampunk, or sci-fi?

I am very curious if anyone has attempted a layout or portion of a layout that is absolutely not prototypical. 

There was one I saw that based their design on North to Alaska and Paint your Wagon.  Are there others?  Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles or even crazy stuff like a train going through Middle Earth! 

Work Hard!  Train Hard!


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