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

Bryce,

Those look more like the Daleks from the old Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies from 1965 and 1966.  If you haven't seen them, you haven't missed much. 

Nice find! 

@GG1 4877 posted:

Bryce,

Those look more like the Daleks from the old Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies from 1965 and 1966.  If you haven't seen them, you haven't missed much. 

Nice find!

Thank you Jonathan! These Daleks are from an English Company called "Character Building." They made several other Dr. Who Villains: Cybermen, Weeping Angels, The Silence, Sontarans & the Vashta Nerada to name a few... I like to think the Matt Smith daleks are a tribute to the "classic," colorful daleks as seen in the Peter Cushing movies (Yes, I have seen the movies and I actually like them )

A clip explaining the genesis of these "new" daleks: https://youtu.be/ntKtkOE3DLI

Bryce

Well, it looks like that the Daleks got reinforcements (I received a large shipment of 40+ Daleks, Cybermen, & Zontarans)! Looks like the good Doctor is now in real trouble. These monsters from Outerspace ignore a pullman train passing since the real threat is in the little blue box!

The pushbutton accessory plays this sound file (the sound of the Tardis flying)

Bryce

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Well, it looks like that the Daleks got reinforcements (I received a large shipment of 40+ Daleks, Cybermen, & Zontarans)! Looks like the good Doctor is now in real trouble. These monsters from Outerspace ignore a pullman train passing since the real threat is in the little blue box.

Bryce

The passengers on the train can be thankful that the sworn enemy of the Daleks was there to protect them from e x t e r m i n a t i o n!!!!

Are your Cybermen and Sontarans O scale? 

Greetings from the tunnel interior.

LOOKOUT, FROSTY!!!!!

After an escape from the neighboring zoo, a guest tuba player joins the church chamber orchestra.

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Thank you Jonathan! These Daleks are from an English Company called "Character Building." They made several other Dr. Who Villains: Cybermen, Weeping Angels, The Silence, Sontarans & the Vashta Nerada to name a few... I like to think the Matt Smith daleks are a tribute to the "classic," colorful daleks as seen in the Peter Cushing movies (Yes, I have seen the movies and I actually like them )

A clip explaining the genesis of these "new" daleks: https://youtu.be/ntKtkOE3DLI

Bryce

Okay - I'm a grown man, and the weeping angels still freak me out more than any of the villians!

Here's one that Mitch might like...an unscheduled off load of the giraffe car led to this scene at the station.

Best Wishes

Don

@GG1 4877 posted:

The passengers on the train can be thankful that the sworn enemy of the Daleks was there to protect them from e x t e r m i n a t i o n!!!!

Are your Cybermen and Sontarans O scale?

They are kinda close but as they are toys, they are slightly big and chunky compared to 1/48 figures. I plan on getting more prototypical Cybermen 3D printed in the near future

@jhz563 posted:

Okay - I'm a grown man, and the weeping angels still freak me out more than any of the villians!

Don't Blink! You just gave me a fantstic idea: a Weeping Angel in my cemetery, only those who are Dr. Who fans!

@Don McErlean posted:

Here's one that Mitch might like...an unscheduled off load of the giraffe car led to this scene at the station.

Best Wishes

Don

Don

Are they headed to the zoo?

@Randy Harrison posted:

After an escape from the neighboring zoo, a guest tuba player joins the church chamber orchestra.

Where did you find this figure Randy? I love it

Bryce

@Oscale Trains Lover / Bryce :  Re the giraffe's leaving the train...No not headed to the zoo, they are just going into the Depot snack bar for a cup of coffee!

Don

haven't been on this forum since forever

I've had a number over the years, whimsy seems to be quite popular for visitors more so than the scenery or the trains, I guess it's more relatable to them than the trains.

Lost In Space B9 robot

A polar bear and Ray Lewis

Sponge Bob and company

Zombies

Bumble, Sam The Snowman, Rudolph and Minions

Tardis

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks I must ask: where did you get the Lost in Space B9 Robot & the zombies? I have an unused Jupiter 2 that I can put B9 with and the zombies would make a fun scene for Halloween

Bryce

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

@baltimoretrainworks I must ask: where did you get the Lost in Space B9 Robot & the zombies?

Bryce

I got the Walking Dead figures from Walmart several years ago, they are McFarlane "blind" bag figures meaning you don't know what you get so I did go to Ebay and bought some that were already opened so you knew what they were. They still show up a lot on the Bay as do the prison building sets. The B9 is a Johnny Lightning figure I picked up at a Greenbergs train show in Timonium.

Jerry

Thankfully no one has encountered the Goa'uld as this stargate remains hidden in the forest

I must have been in a funny mood to come up with the large black ant attacking the Bluesmobile:

Don I am sorry but I must correct you.  Them thar are Gee-rafs.  And you need to be watchful, they can cause trouble once off loaded from their railcars.  Just ask Mitch.

@coach joe. Gee-rafts. Well no wonder folks were concerned in the depot. I just thought they was longhorns with long necks -  like “Lone Star “ beer. !!  
best wishes Joe

Don

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Thankfully no one has encountered the Goa'uld as this stargate remains hidden in the forest

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Jerry

Well, I guess I'll have to start re-watching SG1 now, completely forgot about Ba'al. Thanks Jerry!

Bryce

Returning to this thread to show that the Transformers are truly more than meets the eye, they're perfect O scale train car loads too!

Rats carrying slices of pizza down to the subway:

LOL, Arnold

Perfecting the scene:

What fun we have in this hobby. Arnold

At Alan's request, I post here 2 more photos of my rat infested NYC subway station near my Popsicle Stick Yankee Stadium.

This scene,  showing rats carrying slices of pizza down the subway entrance, was inspired by a Facebook post that went viral showing a real rat carrying a slice a pizza down the stairs into a NYC subway:

By the way, this entertaining forum topic was not started by me, but rather by my good friend, Bryce Manz. Arnold

PS: the O scale rats were a gift from my good Forum friend, Malcolm.

Continuing my Trains-formers antics with this one.
"In the middle of main street, the evil Decepticons, Megatron, Starscream, and Astrotrain have landed to plunder the town of it's resources, but the heroic Autobots,  Optimus Prime, Hotshot, and Bulkhead stand ready to thwart their plans!"

Patrick,

I saw the above picture and immediately knew it was from you. RC3R’s were at the Chesterfield Fair this past week and a number of kids who are interested in transformers and trains were there.

I guess you could say it was  “TRANS”formative.

Jerry

Just helping Arnold unload his Giraffe cars at the station near the ball park!

Happy Labor Day

Don

Look out, Frosty!!!!!

Superman protects the city of Christopolis.

Snoopy and his Beagle Scouts take a ride across the harbor.

The Disney marching band parades through the park.

A Democat billboard on the roof of the Trump building.

A Lawyer's Trash Service garbage truck - "Call a Lawyer to take your trash".

Gumby and Pokey waiting for the train.  On the other line, Dr. Who has left his Tardis while shooting trains.

My scratch built frozen ice skating pond has a Zamboni ice smoothing machine with an ad for our local newspaper, The Advocate.  The pond has very strong ice, 1/8 inch thick, that supports the heavy Zamboni.

Charlie

There's some confusion at the grade crossing...

My existing "G" just didn't impress, so after a couple weeks of printing the big "G" (almost to scale) was ready to paint.   Now the only problem is he'll have to go into storage until I get the new house.   

-Mike in NC,

Great posts with fun features on the layouts. Here's some of mine from the GFRR: Grandpa's Funtastic RailRoad. Check out the creature under the dock.

How about the uninvited guest into the camper van?

Or the King Kong-like creatures on the bascule bridge?

Then there's the skateboarder who could not resist a ride in the station!

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All part of the "funtastic" railroad! Enjoy!

Michael

A submarine car with a different submarine, the U505.  This is the preserved submarine at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.  One of the unluckiest submarines to enter service; she was captured by the U. S. Navy.

Freight cars of the Eboracum Novo Centralis, Latin for "New York Central".  With Lionel style numbers.

The C. D. Pigeon jewelry store.  Sounds like a real - and well known - Chicago jewelry store, C. D. Peacock.

Here is a Homemade Lionel 6407 Flat Car with an Homemade Fat Rocket.  This homemade rocket can hold a homemade Mercury Capsule but NASA would never transport the rocket with the Capsule attached.

But since Lionel transported the Mercury capsule on the rocket we can too.

Charlie