Let’s see some Fun/Silly/Fanciful things around the Layout

The Easter Bunny is on his way

RSJB18 posted:

The Easter Bunny is on his way

I love it Bob! Very Clever

Bryce

The closest I have ever gotten to "funny" or "silly" on a layout, has been making my interpretation of a Rosebowl/ThanksgivingDay-type parade, right down the middle of a village street. I felt the large figures you see used here were a fair (but likely silly? Fanciful?) representation of the huge floats which have characterized such parades thru the decades since I lived on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, right behind the Natural History Museum, where the floats get inflated early in the morning of the day of the parade, and everybody in the neighborhood, and plenty of tourists,

congregate to watch the phenomenon unfold.

Moonson,

What a great representation! All you need is a marching band and you’re good to go! 

Bryce 

Oscale_Trains_Lover/ Bryce, Thanks very much for your approval.

And yes, the parade needed a band and got a couple drummers (well, sort of,) some of which can be seen here along with a Benz-limo with Santa and a few other characters aboard you will likely recognize, having a good ol' time of it...

Silly is my stock-in-trade!  ;-) 

Mitch 

From a corner of my layout.

Moonson,

Your level of detail is astounding! Beautiful layout.

Mitch,

I love it! 

Dick,

That's great!  

Bryce

Homie Clowns enjoy hanging around the power plant.

Winston likes to hang out on top of the coal bunker.

Brilliant Tom!

Giant snake checking out dinner.

PRR Camel back

 Water tower buffalo

Mrs Santa Clause...... Mrs Fay Clause...

Santa's Fe

How about my Coors Light  Loop!

The caped crusaders hot on Joker’s trail!  Who knows what celebrity is about to pop out of the window? 

rjsmithindy posted:

The caped crusaders hot on Joker’s trail!  Who knows what celebrity is about to pop out of the window? 

I like it!

Here's an idea for a variation on that scene.

As I recall, when I originally saw that scene, even as a 7 or 8 year old I could tell that it was filmed by having them walk on a flat surface with the camera turned sideways.  (At the time, I had no idea how funny that show really was!)  So, lay the building on its back, so that they're walking on a level surface, and see how many visitors get the joke.

                     had an alien invasion...

Bill T,

Run forest run! 

Adriatic, 

I am laughing way too hard at the PRR camelback  

James,

I love it! You just gave me a great idea and it involves the Bud Iced Penguin… "doo-bee, doo-bee, doo" 

Rob,

Most excellent! Where did you get those figures? I think my layout could benefit from the Caped Crusaders  

briansilvermustang,

I see that I'm not the only one who has aliens invading his layout! haha!

Bryce 

Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Rob,

Most excellent! Where did you get those figures? I think my layout could benefit from the Caped Crusaders  

I found them through eBay. They are Heroclix game pieces and are perfect for O gauge. You can find almost any super hero and their villain counterpart.  You will need to carefully remove the figures from their game base.  They can add some fun to your layout. 

Bryce, fun thread!

Is the yeti a Bigfoot painted white, or is Bigfoot a yeti painted brown?

Don

Well, here's another nice kettle of fish you pickled me in!

dmestan posted:

Bryce, fun thread!

Is the yeti a Bigfoot painted white, or is Bigfoot a yeti painted brown?

Don

That's his other brother Darrell 

I was going to follow up with space silliness tonight, but hit on Halloween's file by accident, so there ya go.

Here you go:

-Greg

I was just searching an old portable hard-drive for pics for another thread and came across these pics.   My son was 8 (he's 18 now) when the pics were taken and he had lost all interest in trains except for military ones.  He also loved (and still does) all things Godzilla (chalk it up to being on the autistic spectrum).   I went down the basement one evening to relax after coming home from work only to find this on the layout:

I don't have any pics (all lost when an old pc crashed) but over the years up to 2 yrs ago when I tore down my old layout, I'd periodically find a sniper on building roof, artillery barrel peeking out of a tunnel, or a parade of tanks running down main street.   Good memories!

-Greg

The scrapple must go through! 

Here's Sylvia Siamese and Norma Bates Kitteh giving a couple of chums a tour as Fortescue waits for the commuter train with some out of towners... 

Mitch

Heres my BeetleJuice sitting on top of an old passenger train..

Over sized for sure and goofy...

Rob,

Thank you for the info!

Don,

They are cousins on the bigfoot's mother side!

Greg,

Love the vast collection of Godzilla figures. Him holding the subway car is perfect! 

Dave,

I have not had scrapple in a long time, now I'm hungry! 

Mitch,

I think you need to raise the height of the platform's room so Fortescue can have some shade too! 

Brian,

I wont say his name (2 more times and we are in a world of trouble haha), but it looks superbly silly! Excellent!

Bryce

Todays installment... Another member actually caused me to dig some of my favorite figures of "Super Heroes" out of the yellow plastic sand pail in the closet before this thread posted; but you guys wound me up and put me in gear 😜

This is fun, silly and fanciful because that is me making the basket......

......and those who know me, realize that the only way I could do that is with an 8’ step ladder.......

Peter

Putnam Division posted:

This is fun, silly and fanciful because that is me making the basket......

......and those who know me, realize that the only way I could do that is with an 8’ step ladder.......

Peter

I'm in the same boat!

I'm glad to see you are doing well, Peter. 

-Greg

Putnam Division posted:

This is fun, silly and fanciful because that is me making the basket......

......and those who know me, realize that the only way I could do that is with an 8’ step ladder.......

Peter

Hmmm...no way he could be wearing a bow tie 

Lou N

It seems like that a dinosaur escaped from a top secret government facility...

He has had enough "fun" terrorizing the town, time to bring him back!

Oh Greg Houser....my sides ache after seeing Godzilla rampaging thru the NJ HiRailers layout....and the smoke helped.....very nice smoky effect...

The alien green pics are another very kool effect...

Good to see Peter chime in....long may you run!!!

It was a slow day in late 1949 when two shifter crews decided to play tug-a-war.  The B28, a USRA 0-6-0 design, seems like the best bet to win.  But the old A4, "Old 13", the largest production 0-4-0 made, still had some fight in it.

The firemen are ready to give the signal while a trackman will judge the winner.

Well, Old 13 won which surprised everyone but the big A5's crew. 

After turning Old 13 to start work, the two crews waved at each other in a show of good sportsmanship.

I thought it was kind of neat when our cat was sitting by the Esso sign with the tiger on it.

Lionlman posted:

I thought it was kind of neat when our cat was sitting by the Esso sign with the tiger on it.

Obviously related.   

Mitch