Halloween 2017

Looking good Gilly!

 I am almost done but not ready to show off yet.

 In the meantime, the Halloween loco has taken a familiar train for what will likely be a very different ride!!

  I'm nearly done buiding cars I suppose. Here's what I have, the consists differ slightly position wise; but I swap things around often.

Train.#1 .."Mist-fits"

#2 is "Skeletons in Casey's Death Closet" 

(thats his ICRR 382 )

#3 " Erie Horror ; The Big Double Feature"

Jaws

 And "Graveyard Shift"

Yea, Im not sure if the big bat is attacted by the cotton or this 

#4 "Next Stop Topeka"

(Blain's destination in the Dark Tower series, the cover inspired the skull faces)

The of my rope 

Honorable mentions and things come to pass..

R.I.P 

"Franken-trolley"... Or "An Electric Funeral" 

The Commodore's Ghost  or The Death of Marxism  

Crazy Ate   IC, tanked; plowed ?   

Showing off at the dock

Watch While I Moon You ! 

Still need to add finishing touches tonight.  Here's a peek.

jhz563 posted:

Still need to add finishing touches tonight.  Here's a peek.

 

Looks great.  How much foam board did you use (not including the base layer)? After seeing your build, I want to try to build some mountains/hills on my layout.  I'm not sure if I can get by with a single 4x8 (1in thick) or if I should get two. Thanks

JD

JHZ563, I've been following your build thread and looking forward to seeing a video of your masterpiece up close and in action.

I like everyone's Halloween layouts  !   

To the Original Poster , thanks for posting this subject & showing us your steps to the final layout .

JD2035RR posted:

jhz563 posted:

Still need to add finishing touches tonight.  Here's a peek.

 

Looks great.  How much foam board did you use (not including the base layer)? After seeing your build, I want to try to build some mountains/hills on my layout.  I'm not sure if I can get by with a single 4x8 (1in thick) or if I should get two. Thanks

JD

Not knowing how much you want to build, I would start with 1 each of the 1" thick and 2" thick sheets.  I bought 2 of the 2" ones and 1 of 1".  I have more than half of a 2" sheet left and about half of the 1" sheet.  If I was starting again from scratch I would add a second 2" layer to the base so it flexed less when moving it around.  Also if you are going to build a tunnel, make sure you can access it. My whole mountain top comes right off.  I refuse to build a derailment area i can't reach!!

ogaugeguy posted:

JHZ563, I've been following your build thread and looking forward to seeing a video of your masterpiece up close and in action.

"MasterPiece"??  I wouldn't go that far, but I appreciate your support. This is my first go round at actually making anything near a finished piece. Hopefully it stays together long enough to see a few seasons.

Who makes the grave yard fence 

Spook-tacular 

  If you stick with acrylic craft paint, even plain old white Styrofoam works for carving on ( stryofoam doesn't like most paint's chemicals)

E.g., these two buildings (attachment) are the bottom of an old Rivaarossi kit's box; plain white styofaom.

Pennywise11788 posted:

Who makes the grave yard fence 

Found it at Walmart in the craft section by accident.  Was unpainted.  Way over scale for O gauge but hard to argue about for $2.

Happy Halloween! Great pics on this thread.

Here's our pumpkin carved by Mason (age 9) and myself.

Not that most people on this side of the pond will know what it is

Have a safe Halloween folks

Nick & Mason

Looks good Nick,

Here are the ones carved in our house last night.

Boo the way, when's the big reveal? Are you going to treat us by showing your H display in action or trick us by having it dissapear into the nether world before we see it?

ogaugeguy posted:

Boo the way, when's the big reveal? Are you going to treat us by showing your H display in action or trick us by having it dissapear into the nether world before we see it?

Hopefully this afternoon, but likely after trick or treaters come through.  I was wrapping up attaching final power leads at 11:30 last night and was told, in-no-uncertain-terms, to quit screwing around in the garage and go to bed!  

I have now learned that building a project like this is alot like those hot-rod shows you see on tv;  you get to basically build the whole project, then tear it apart to paint it, and then build it all over again!  Also when you tell your wife that I just need to finish wiring this up "real quick", and it turns into 45 minutes or over an hour because of whatever reasoning that always makes wiring take 4 times as long as it should, she will not be amused, cause after-all, real quick in the rest of the world is 5 to 7 minutes!

Since I am on the subject of lessons learned,

1. Glidden gripper is great stuff to keep foam held together

2. Old school insulated rail wiring for accessory activation means sparks at the wheels.

3. If you leave little dc powered lights on the island in the kitchen, a three yr old will assume they are toys and hide them all over the living room.  You will only find half.

4. Hitting anything with spray paint late in the evening is a bad idea.  It will stink up the house no matter what.

5. Keep all the new Halloween items in one place, even when cleaning up.  

6. You can actually paint with a spray bottle and watered down latex paint, but remember to send the first several squirts a different direction, water droplets in the paint look weird.

7. budget 4 times the amount of time you think you need for simple wiring.  It will likely still not be enough.  If it involves soldering upside down at night, forget it, (curse yourself for evening considering such a dumb idea), -and just go rummage around the parts bin for a terminal strip.

8.  Put the accessory instructions back in the back so you can find them later - seriously!

9. Hot glue will go right through ground cover - and it does burn your fingers!

10.  Michael's craft store will sell out of everything you actually want at least two weeks before Halloween.

I am sure I will have several other lessons after this night is through.  Stay tuned for final pictures, video.

I ate the pumpkin.......and a neighbors 

  I think I just made what might be the most disturbing Halloween car ever 

I wouldn't even mail it tonight  ... ...   

Allright here’s your treat.  Now get off my lawn...!

I am not really into holiday trains per-se.  Albeit right after Lionel's Polar Express came out I put together some cars from parted sets with a MTH RK PM Berk.  The PS-2 with proto-cast can funnel the movie's sound track.

Any way when recently getting a New Haven EP-5 in McGinnis paint, said this could make a neat halloween train.  Combined with McGinnis era painted box cars, the LionelJack-O-Lantern car, and Halloween Transfer Caboose.

Was going to embellish with this stuff.  Some in open box car doors other crawling all over.

Well maybe next year, if.

Well we’re out out of candy, so the lights are out an the garage door is closed. 

You asked for a big reveal, so here’s a great video shot by Mrs. Z

Here are some various stills looking around 

Building this and sharing it has been a spooky good time.  Good night all - and try not to get bit by anything you don’t want to be !!

Awesome job!!

Great job by the OP and all others.  I'm just making it in before the witching hour and the end of the day.  Here are the photos of my layout this year in which didn't get finished until today.  First O Gauge layout at the new residence.  The YouTube video can be seen at Halloween 2017

Adriatic posted:

  I think I just made what might be the most disturbing Halloween car ever 

I wouldn't even mail it tonight  ... ...   

 

 

 

 

 

Can I see it now?

Thanks for sharing your build. I enjoyed it!

jhz563 posted:

Adriatic posted:

  I think I just made what might be the most disturbing Halloween car ever 

I wouldn't even mail it tonight  ... ...   

 

 

 

 

 

Can I see it now?

Nothing fancy; sick e-mail sent 

I'm thinking pantographs using a couple as pans might be interesting for next year.

Adriatic posted:

I'm thinking pantographs using a couple as pans might be interesting for next year.

Did you say pantographs?  Here is a natural!

The McGinnis paint scheme screams halloween as posted earlier.

Adriatic posted:

  I'm nearly done buiding cars I suppose. Here's what I have, the consists differ slightly position wise; but I swap things around often.

Train.#1 .."Mist-fits"

                 Adriatic, are you switching to a bigger scale for this Halloween...

My former partner in junk art is going to love this shot