Just for Fun - What full sized 1:1 scale items are on your layout?

Interesting concept.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but the Mary statue is from a snow globe that my daughter gave me.

Mostly my feet and knees..............

@Mayor Magoo

THIS is exactly what I mean. I thought small statues would be a good option. What a classic scene. good stuff.

@Joe Fauty

Too funny, I was waiting for someone to say their cat, but your response is just as good.

I have a friend who uses plastic cutlery for headstones.

I have rocks from our yard in places and have used samples of artificial grass for flowers and gardens. How about a part of a license plate frame for signage.

Ray

A Nakki cat.

I haven't done this yet, but what about an empty coffee can with decals and possibly painted to be an oil or water tank.

Caps on tooth paste tubes painted silver can be garbage cans.

The tops of very tall weeds or grass can be sprayed with adhesive and then Woodland Scenics Green Blend can be sprinkled on it to make trees:

Took the plastic center reels of Pitney Bowes postage meter tape

and stacked two sets together, added cardboard disc for top and

dowels for piping, and made storage tanks for my Lionel pumping Oil Derrick

I'm making the stoves for my blast furnace from  discarded 5 inch Christmas ornaments placed atop 2 quick cook oatmeal canisters.  An easy build but each stove takes 6 months to eat all the oatmeal!

I used this piece of actual rail as an anvil for small parts. Now it is a bridge abutment on my layout.

Water towers made from Japanese toothpicks glued to toilet paper rolls

Water pipes made from bendable straws.

Coal from fish tank gravel

Milk storage tanks made with 11/2" plastic pipe

A corrugated hut made from the cardboard Panera Bread Restaurants places under their sandwiches.

a conveyer made from a CD and it turns on an electric clock motor.

Roof vents made from caps for wire shelving ( I Think that's what they are? )

A water tower made from 2 CD"s and polystyrene.

Cool, lots of great stuff here!

I believe SIRT [Steve] on this forum used Chicklets gum as flour sacks and stacked them on 1:48 scale pallets.

Empty centers from Scotch tape can be painted & used as freight loads.

Took a Statue of Liberty figure from a ball point pen, made a base of a couple of medicine bottle lids and a sewing needle box and am ready to paint the central statue for Liberty Park.  I will also have a golf tee for a water fountain or bird bath.

I'm collecting a lot of things to use later:  a plastic container from something I don't remember will become a quonset type storage building, several plastic trays from cookie packs look like perfect hot houses for a garden supply / nursery, and many other things that are yet to be repurposed but have wonderful shapes to use for something.

Gene, that is truly ingenious. Who woulda thought?

Drink straws as conduit to hide wires

Key chain fobs as kegs

Juice drink tops for roof vents.  On far right of roof, the chimney stack is a leftover end of a bat I picked up at the Louisville Slugger factory.

To the left of the tunnel, a rock as a ...um, rock.

There is a rock on the narrow gauge upper-level of the layout.  it moves from place to place as I modify/improve the scenery.  It is a pretty rock, otherwise unremarkable.  Its unique nature is that is a genuine piece of ballast from the 1:1 NG RR that inspired this portion of the layout (the mining town of Marmaros) and also my love of real trains:  the Frisco Silver Dollar Line at Silver Dollar City.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I haven't done this yet, but what about an empty coffee can with decals and possibly painted to be an oil or water tank.

A friend works for the local (to him) transit agency and has gotten some spin-on oil filters like those on your car but much, much larger; about 14" x 5" or so. I asked him to get me a selection of them (obsolete as they are for buses that the agency has retired; oddly the agency will retain parts long after the bus series has been disposed of) to make into liquid storage tanks. After re-painting, they shall serve quite well.

I have a large crate ofArizona pink granite that I plan to use some time, somewhere.  The most attractive colors and patterns you can imagine and there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of acres of them right in my yard for free.

The smoke stack is a plastic nut.

Peter

@Ron H posted:

I used this piece of actual rail as an anvil for small parts. Now it is a bridge abutment on my layout.

I think I win !!!!

Scrap metal load.

Scott