Has anyone here modeled "great art" on their layout? For example, building Hopper's Nighthawks Diner, or an old farm on a hill against the backdrop with a girl in a plain dress nearly prone in foreground field grass looking at it (Wyeth's Christina's World), or a country scene like van Gogh's Landscape with Cart and Train? I'd love to see pictures if anyone has done anything like this.
I'm asking because of Bruce E. Vincelette's recent, and very interesting thread, The Accidental Railroader, about the art in model railroading. Texas Pete posted a thread there to a terrific website of vignettes - more art than model railroading but all based on model railroading and trains. Incredible stuff.
Anyway, that thread set one hook too deep this time. Originally, I thought of doing "art"vignettes rather than "detectives" on my layout. Don't regret my decision, but . . . it will take a month or two to get to it given existing projects but I am going to do the building pictured below. It is Vermeer's The Little Street, but it will be modeled with all the windows open, and in each, the girl with the pearl earring, the lacemaker, the geographer, the kitchen maid, etc. My wife (a poet) loves the idea and wants to help. Lighting, more than anything else, will be a key. Not sure how i will tackle that - that and the building ought to be fun!
