Sunday Scenic Showcase 12-23-2012 Christmas Edition

Alan,

Thanks for starting the thread. Your layout pictures always look great. Here is a model I constructed for a foreman that just recently retired from the company I work for. One of his past jobs was as a lobster fisherman. With that detail in mind, I created this tank with a lobster theme.

Alan Graziano

Those are great jobs and shots. That lobster tank is sharp. The illuminated city really brings it to life. Merry Christmas.

Wow both Alan's as always your photo's are a wonderful site to see, thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your families.

This is a Berkshire Valley drugstore kit I'm working on for a fellow forum member.

It's in the beginning stages, very nice kit, but maybe it's me I'm finding the instructions to be a bit confusing. So I'm using my past carpentry skills to get by, and seems to be going well so far.This Drugstore will also have a full finished interior.

Alex

Great work, Guys !!

I posted a shot of Woody a month or so ago. Yesterday I decided to begin the "restoration".

I started by disassembling ............... and then ...........

"It slices, it dices"...........

Vulc.....I have a couple of those Woodies....can't wait to see what you are going to do.

Alan

Me too, Alan. Me too.

im liking that lobster tank

I added a couple LEDs to my Atlas O Station Platform.  I'll take it off the layout and paint the benches and give it some more detail.  It was a good test run on adding lights.  They are held in place under the roof with hot glue so I can make adjustments.

Very nice Tmack! Those white LED's remind me of the Mercury vapor outdoor lamps that you see in parking lots, malls, factories, etc.

Nice work guys.

Vulc love the woody.

ALAN, THE LOBSTER TANK AND BUILDING LOOK GREAT!!!!!!!

AA, Your previous layout pictures still are a favorite of mine. Great Work!!!!!

Nice work everybody.  Alan nice city scene.  Alan G. that is some imagination you've got.  I like how you supported the lobster and how you used the little pizza box supports for tables.  I've always looked at those things and tried to figure out how to use them.

Joe

OK. This year, referencing the parade on Thanksgiving Day in NYC and the "MiracleMile" holiday parade in Chicago, I decided to get pretty fanciful by crafting a Holiday parade of "floats" and by jazzing-up community buildings and the local foliage. Here's the result...

This is me in super-playful mood and really ready for Christmas...

Nice job Frank.

Joe,

I supported the lobster by grinding the tail flat and glueing it to the tank roof with crazy glue. I added three angle suppourts on the underside to the tank shell.

I cut about 3/8 inches off each leg of the pizza tables to give them a scale height of 30 inches.

I will post some pictures tomorrow of the Dentist office tank I just finished.

Alan Graziano

That lobster tank is crazy fun. 

Monsoon----the Parade is such a clever idea.  It Looks Awesome.  Might have to steal that for next year's holiday layout. 

looking good everyone

Thank you, Alan and Santa Fe Va. I much appreciate your support.

I had wondered if I had gone too far with my whimsical playfulness, but then, this past New Years Day, I saw the Rose Parade in Pasadena,Calif. and realized I was decidedly conservative in my crafting of my parade, compared to the floats in that extravaganza. I guess what I heard some fella say many years ago, "You can never over-do Christmas" is true, if you grant yourself the freedom to be playful and to celebrate, huh.

Frank