New lighthouse to take center stage on layout...

That's beautiful and should look great on your layout.

That's cool. Should look great on the layout.

Lighthouses, along with grain elevators, railroad stations, coaling towers, mine shaft houses, and castles in Europe, are some of the interesting architectural structures I look for and photo while traveling. If you have a seacoast layout, that should look great!

It'll look great as long as it has a purpose.  It needs to be placed in such a way that it serves a navigational purpose.

Jon  

I want to hear the foghorn on that bad boy.  Pretty neat piece.

Very nice, Michael!  Please share photos after you place it on your layout.

Very cool!   I look forward to pics of the lighthouse and island.

Very nice structure!

please keep us posted

Wow! Really nice!

banjoflyer posted:

I thought I recognized this post. I'm glad I was able to offer a suggestion you liked!

It'll be very impressive!

Mark

Thank you all for the responses. Thanks Mark, for the link.  My LHS had those in a while back. Or they might have been another version knock-off. The other cool thing about my Hatteras lighthouse is that it was purchased in Hatteras village under the Shadow of the real thing on Cape Hatteras. 

Ok - now you've got me thinking creative.  Thank you for that.  I see a harbor scene with a tugboat, your lighthouse on the point of an isthmus like land structure,  a pea soup thick fog created by what I don't know, dry ice maybe, a lonesome foghorn, a rotating beacon of light, and... Where does the train come in?  A classic small steamer backing into a siding with a couple creaky reefers or boxcars on a rough track next to an old, weather worn wharf.  Silence, except for the foghorn and train sounds.  Not even a barking dog.  The milkman hasn't even started his route yet.  The smell of the sea... The sea...!

And I've only seen the ocean once, for about five minutes.  I like it!  Enjoy, cheers,       BK

OK! So where is the beach?

Be careful jdaddy - a post like that could get this cool thread deleted.  I don't mind it myself, but there are some who frown on anything of that nature.  I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.  I'm just happy I got to use the word wharf in a sentence.  To each his own.  Back to the awesome lighthouse model.

Actually, my LHS has some young lasses walking who are clad in bikinis. I will put a few at the base of my lighthouse.

William 1 posted:

...... a post like that could get this cool thread deleted.  ....... there are some who frown on anything of that nature. 

That's funny. He's joking, right? So which way to the lighthouse?