I am currently building a baseball stadium from foam board, random pieces of stuff and a Lionel PNP light tower. I have players from Scenery Express. Does anyone have tips to share?
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My friend Patty built this for the Carnegie Science Center. The people in the stands are Q-Tips.
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My son and I recently added a racetrack to our table in a similar way to what you are thinking. The few hints I have are:
- don't be a crazy about scale, just doesn't work
- use seated people packs for insides of passenger cars for fans
- look at woodland scenics chain link fence etc, they have good stuff that is easy to use
- search online for stands and signs you can use that are prebuilt
-be creative, use things from other hobbies, the "wall" around our racetrack is fence for slot car track that I found on an auction site. For your idea I'd look for old electric baseball stuff (use to be a version of baseball like electric football) you might find some cool things to use.
Search the forums, I have seen a bunch of baseball stuff on here, I think Arnold Cribari posted one baseball stadium he did I have seen that was great, here is one other thread with ideas:
Building a baseball field and stadium.. | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum (ogaugerr.com)
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Your racetrack is awesome! JohnA
Terry,
Check out this thread started by our esteemed colleague @Arnold D. Cribari:
Fenway Park in O Scale? | Arnold D. Cribari
And, in particular, an amazing model of Ebbets Field, found within it:
And away we go! | Simon Winter
Mike
@ArtsModelTrains posted:My son and I recently added a racetrack to our table in a similar way to what you are thinking. The few hints I have are:
- don't be a crazy about scale, just doesn't work
- use seated people packs for insides of passenger cars for fans
- look at woodland scenics chain link fence etc, they have good stuff that is easy to use
- search online for stands and signs you can use that are prebuilt
-be creative, use things from other hobbies, the "wall" around our racetrack is fence for slot car track that I found on an auction site. For your idea I'd look for old electric baseball stuff (use to be a version of baseball like electric football) you might find some cool things to use.
Search the forums, I have seen a bunch of baseball stuff on here, I think Arnold Cribari posted one baseball stadium he did I have seen that was great, here is one other thread with ideas:
Building a baseball field and stadium.. | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum (ogaugerr.com)
I remember seeing a similar racetrack at Train Fest in Milwaukee. They had a mechanism below the track that towed the cars around the track, wish I knew how that was done.
Ray
