Wondering if anyone has an aircraft carrier represented in their layout? some folks have ship models or backdrop images as part of a waterfront terminal. Would be cool to have lead edge of a carrier flight deck protruding from the wall/image of carrier at sea launching an air strike against land targets. Trains rolling out hauling military vehicles or fuel or big guns. Could be WWII themed or other imaginative era
p51 posted:Which explains how there can be layouts with a runway just longer than the fuselage of the plane trying to take off from it.
We modelers regularly re-write the laws of physics.
Jerry
Garrett76 posted:Wondering if anyone has an aircraft carrier represented in their layout? some folks have ship models or backdrop images as part of a waterfront terminal. Would be cool to have lead edge of a carrier flight deck protruding from the wall/image of carrier at sea launching an air strike against land targets. Trains rolling out hauling military vehicles or fuel or big guns. Could be WWII themed or other imaginative era
I have been to several Naval-themed museums in the last few months and I can’t recall if it was on the USS Midway or the Pensacola museum, but I saw a 1/48 scale WW2 escort carrier model, which was very impressive and massive, of course.
Here’s a WW2 Japanese one in O scale, under construction:
How would you work a railroad in to launching aircraft at sea ?? There is artistic compression in model railroading. A WW II Jeep carrier that was built on the hulls of small merchant ships and, maybe, LSTs???
p51 posted:Garrett76 posted:Wondering if anyone has an aircraft carrier represented in their layout? some folks have ship models or backdrop images as part of a waterfront terminal. Would be cool to have lead edge of a carrier flight deck protruding from the wall/image of carrier at sea launching an air strike against land targets. Trains rolling out hauling military vehicles or fuel or big guns. Could be WWII themed or other imaginative era
I have been to several Naval-themed museums in the last few months and I can’t recall if it was on the USS Midway or the Pensacola museum, but I saw a 1/48 scale WW2 escort carrier model, which was very impressive and massive, of course.
the SPAWAR model range out on Point Loma uses 1:48 scale, brass models to aid in placing shipboard communication antennas...
sometimes when a ship class is retired, the model shop will super detail some of the ships and they wind up in commanders' offices or meeting rooms. the ones i've seen have kept their brass finish.
fyi... carriers are about 1000' long.
cheers...gary
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Carl Orton posted:First off, be advised that I'm into TOY trains; fully appreciate the scale works of art, but t'aint me.
Enclosed is a pic of my old layout with airport. #2 son painted the rwy on a section of roofing shingle many years ago for an even older layout. It's crude by artistic standards, but HE made it, so I include it. (he flies for United Express today; and #1 son is an air traffic controller, and I built my own full sized airplane, so we're kind of into it...).
Note the rotating beacon top center of the pic. Out of sight is the rotating radar antenna, and a new addition to my new layout is the control tower. ...
good example of doing it right...
there are many other valid airport markings, but you got the essentials. for the runway designation, (hopefully your camera in the picture was pointing in the general direction of magnetic north), the numbers should relate to the closest 10° (for runway 3, your final heading should be ~30° where 0/360° = magnetic north (always runway 36, never 0)). L & R designations are used for parallel runways. of course, the other end of the runway will be the opposite (180° off) direction so the difference between the same runway numbers will almost always be 18.
at night, rotating beacons will identify different airfield types...
to explain the illustration a little more... civilian airports will alternately flash green and white while military airports alternate between one green and then two white flashes.
runway marker lights are always white. taxiway lights are blue.
fly safely! ...gary
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jim pastorius posted:How would you work a railroad in to launching aircraft at sea ?? There is artistic compression in model railroading. A WW II Jeep carrier that was built on the hulls of small merchant ships and, maybe, LSTs???
Maybe a seaplane catapult to surprise your visitors? Well, there are rails involved........
Pretty cool but I was thinking about one of those subs with a hanger on the deck. Not too popular with the tourist rade though. You could have rails up to the dock.
overlandflyer posted:Carl Orton posted:First off, be advised that I'm into TOY trains; fully appreciate the scale works of art, but t'aint me.
Enclosed is a pic of my old layout with airport. #2 son painted the rwy on a section of roofing shingle many years ago for an even older layout. It's crude by artistic standards, but HE made it, so I include it. (he flies for United Express today; and #1 son is an air traffic controller, and I built my own full sized airplane, so we're kind of into it...).
Note the rotating beacon top center of the pic. Out of sight is the rotating radar antenna, and a new addition to my new layout is the control tower. ...
good example of doing it right...
there are many other valid airport markings, but you got the essentials. for the runway designation, (hopefully your camera in the picture was pointing in the general direction of magnetic north), the numbers should relate to the closest 10° (for runway 3, your final heading should be ~30° where 0/360° = magnetic north (always runway 36, never 0)). L & R designations are used for parallel runways. of course, the other end of the runway will be the opposite (180° off) direction so the difference between the same runway numbers will almost always be 18.
at night, rotating beacons will identify different airfield types...
to explain the illustration a little more... civilian airports will alternately flash green and white while military airports alternate between one green and then two white flashes.
runway marker lights are always white. taxiway lights are blue.
fly safely! ...gary
Well, like I said, he made it many moons ago - like when he was 9. He's the professional pilot today, and I'm a private pilot, so we know the correct markings, but I'm not going to toss-out his childhood endeavors. The layout for which the rwy was created had the rwy at the correct orientation, but now 3 is closer to 9!
And, I really don't want to tear-apart my Lionel rotating beacon to make it green/white! I guess they figured the red would look cooler to hobbyists of old.
