Little People

Why is that guy taking a nap in the bleachers? 

Because he was up late last night watching a game under the lights that went into extra innings:

Here is the Field of dreams team I bought from the Choo Choo Barn around 1995 for $150:

Just like in Field of Dreams, my guys are tired of practicing. They want to play another team.

Does anyone else have an O Gauge baseball team my guys can play a game with? Better hurry up and show me before we all disappear into the cornfield.

Shoeless Joe

While waiting to hear back from you, I got my closer warming up in the bullpen:

I took this photograph in front of Gate #4 at Yankee Stadium and caught these people scalping tickets:

Very nice thread Arnold!!  I like your LP scenes and stories that go with them!

I agree that LP really bring a scene to live!  Here are some of my LP folks.

trumptrain posted:

Very nice thread Arnold!!  I like your LP scenes and stories that go with them!

I agree that LP really bring a scene to live!  Here are some of my LP folks.

There's a lot going on here, Patrick. I particularly like the chain gang with the sheriff, the country and western music band and the wedding.

Notice the cute young couple sharing an ice cream soda in this Deparment 56 Diner:

This guy seems to to be an expert at relaxation!

Santa Fe VA posted:

These guy seems to to be an expert at relaxation!

 

He may be tired from shoveling so much snow lately.

"Old McDonald had a farm, E I E I O":

Here we have some real hard working little guys:

I'm particularly pleased about the background. Beyond the track is my feeble attempt at making a water stream, consisting of mere light blue paper. However, in this picture the fluorescent light above is reflected on that light blue paper giving it a hint of rapids (with a little imagination).

Back to baseball:

Notice the fans are sitting in the left field stands at Yankee Stadium (again with a little imagination). The yellow left field foul pole involved very advanced modeling: a soda straw painted yellow with acrylic paint and glued in place using a dab of Elmers Glue. 

Those are the correct dimensions of Yankee stadium down the left field line (301 feet) and straight away left field (402 feet) when Don Larsen pitched a perfect game in the World Series in 1956. I was 5 years old then and if you look carefully you can see me sitting in the stands.😀

Yes, little people do add life to a layout. Good point, one I ascribe to enthusiastically. When they are present, it makes a statement. When they are absent, a statement is made as well.

FrankM

These little people made a killing in the fast food market

Because this little people didn't stay home

This little people served pure beef         This little people served......some 

This little people went Wheeeee aWheeeee Wehee!; right past them all for good old home beans.

Moonson posted:

Yes, little people do add life to a layout. Good point, one I ascribe to enthusiastically. When they are present, it makes a statement. When they are absent, a statement is made as well.

FrankM

Love your exceptional scenery including its little people, Frank.

Sometimes a scene with not to many LPs tell a story. Here it is Saturday morning, most are sleeping in late, a few people driving on a humid summer morning to work, pick up supplies, or just a morning drive in their convertibles. The corner Ice Cream shop is open and already has a customer who is enjoying the morning and watching the cars go by. At the Sinclair Gas Station, full service, Joe Oaks is filling the tank of my dads new 56 Ford. Joe has an antique he's been working on for months, hoping to get it ready by August for the coming festival. Behind one can see the Agar refrigerated cars going to the towns new plant site, Agar Ham processing plant. Its a time, place, and repeated over almost every weekend in a small town I grew up with.

josef posted:

Sometimes a scene with not to many LPs tell a story. Here it is Saturday morning, most are sleeping in late, a few people driving on a humid summer morning to work, pick up supplies, or just a morning drive in their convertibles. The corner Ice Cream shop is open and already has a customer who is enjoying the morning and watching the cars go by. At the Sinclair Gas Station, full service, Joe Oaks is filling the tank of my dads new 56 Ford. Joe has an antique he's been working on for months, hoping to get it ready by August for the coming festival. Behind one can see the Agar refrigerated cars going to the towns new plant site, Agar Ham processing plant. Its a time, place, and repeated over almost every weekend in a small town I grew up with.

 

Another story teller. Enjoyed the story about your people, Josef.

great thread

...more examples of little people doing stuff...

..and places with an absence or scarcity of them making their own statement on a layout...

FrankM

FrankM, your work also makes a statement in itself. Just tremendous work!

I noticed the title of this thread and thought, hmmm..... I didn't know the Roloffs were into model railroading. :-)

Moonson posted:

...more examples of little people doing stuff...

..and places with an absence or scarcity of them making their own statement on a layout...

FrankM

Awesome little people and scenery, Frank. Great use of color in your pictures.

Here are some more li'l folks doin' stuff...

A few of my (mostly) prewar little people waiting for the train.

So I don't have a lot of people yet. So here's some of them and some interlopers.

Bob

Hurry and wait..... always time for a game of checkers though

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Back to baseball:

Notice the fans are sitting in the left field stands at Yankee Stadium (again with a little imagination). The yellow left field foul pole involved very advanced modeling: a soda straw painted yellow with acrylic paint and glued in place using a dab of Elmers Glue. 

Those are the correct dimensions of Yankee stadium down the left field line (301 feet) and straight away left field (402 feet) when Don Larsen pitched a perfect game in the World Series in 1956. I was 5 years old then and if you look carefully you can see me sitting in the stands.😀

Arnold,

Sorry for the flash.  Larsen's autograph of his first pitch to Gilliam.   Hanging in the pool room.  Mickey and McDougald are blocked by Yogi and Pinelli. 

I'd love to do a Yankee Stadium on the table layout.  No more room, no chance.... 

Jerry

Here's a few scenes on my layout.  AZgary

Now this guy is so cool:

Here he is waiting patiently for his best friend, the Automatic Gateman, to pop out:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Now this guy is so cool:Here he is waiting patiently for his best friend, the Automatic Gateman, to pop out:

He is a Lilliputian and his best friend is named "Gulliver". 

Little people love this diner which is a very busy place:

Here's a close up of the sailor hanging out at the Coke machine:

This guy is gonna grab a quick cup of coffee and then hop on the trolley before it leaves:

Now this guy waving to us looks to me like he could be a politician. Don't believe a word he says:

I love the people, all shapes and sizes!

After seeing the Fisher-Price, Lego and other non-traditional toy people populating these great layouts, I just had to re-post a picture of the few people currently populating my temporary loop of O gauge track from a couple of Harry Potter topics on this forum.  I call this vignette: Trouble on Platform 9 3/4.

Cheers!

Alan

What do you mean, I ain't little, I'm a giant!

Now this guy in the tree house is definitely little:

Little people:

Big bird:

Now, what if I could get 100 of those birds, what could I create?

Think about it, it would be awesome. It would be:

A scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds!

Scary!

More little go-inz on...

FrankM

Moonson posted:

More little go-inz on...

FrankM

What absolutely beautiful scenery, little people and pictures.  I absolutely love them. If and when I grow up as a model railroader, I want to be like you, Frank! 

Arnold

Frank M,

   Can you please advise me as to just where you purchased your western riders, I would love to have them for my layout also.  The are simply fantastic, I have seen them no where else but in your pictures.

PCRR/Dave

Little WWII US Army Special Forces Soldier Riding his Military Engine.