Your Layout Vignettes

Cleared the snow on the AbbyRoad crosswalk I see.  Nice Christmas decorations.

 

I will see if I can post photos of my two temporary versions of planned towns, set

up to test space and arrangement of buildings.  Arsenic Springs is a desert mining

down with a Conquistador history, and Coalforest is a company town largely owned

by Brannem Fuel and Forest, which operates coal mines and logging ventures. Early prospectors found bones and well rusted armor at the Springs, which is now fenced

off, and water is piped in from mountain snowmelt.  Mining now is in spurts and starts, with gold a secondary metal to copper, zinc and, with WWII clouds gathering, does not know it has a strategic metals boom in its future. Coalforest is in a dead end

box canyon (like Telluride), so trains are often uncoupled down at the junction

and backed or pushed up the canyon.  Beyond mining and logging, high country

ranching ships out stock trains. (tonight I was just get photos f Arsenic Springs

on here)

 

Picked up a hunter figure. Not good news for the Deer!

Nick excellent scenery.  I hope it is doe season.

Colorado,

Nice scenes.  I hope the Arsenic dealer isn't selling to a couple of old maids who have a brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt!!  

My Dad, me, my cousin, and my uncle in his '54 Buick, downtown to pick up Coca Cola at the General Store.  My grandmother drank six a day (and was still rail-thin all her life) and my uncle made sure they picked up two cases every Saturday.  

 

 

Had trouble pulling up the right photo files for Arsenic Springs last night, have better photos for it I may post later,  probably operator error, so let's hope better luck with Coalforest. It is 1 October , 1940, during "morning rush hour", such as it is in rural small town Colorado. The aspens have turned on the surrounding slopes, and snow

has returned to the overshadowing peaks.

Seeing more wonderful scenes this past week.

 

Here's some more from my layout.

 

Paul - Love the scene of all the guys taking a break on the loading dock.

 

Art

Find the Baby !

Church scene; funeral & wedding.

Still 2010: the first year I made my drivein scene:

- walt

 

 

 

More 2010:  I love night shots!

 

Am I boring everyone yet?

- walt

 

 

Not by a dam site.   (Has anyone modeled a dam of any size?)

 

I really enjoy your night scenes with the effects of properly placed lighting . proper colors of lighting, and proper intensity of lighting.  It's an effect I could never master in the years I was heavily into HO.

 

Now I'm starting again with Marx toy trains it isn't as important on my layout, but I still like it on yours and some of the others.

Boring? Not by a long shot. The magic of a layout is enhanced when the lights go out and the layout is left to the small lights integrated into the layout. Your scenes are done well using the nighttime lighting which makes them more interesting. 

She didn't get the ticket

 

At night this joint pops up on the seedy side of town.  Visit the "Pink Flamingo" gentlemen's club and let your imagination run wild!  The lights flash over the fancy dancing ladies, and you can enjoy a cold drink at the bar. If you're lucky enough you can take the tour upstairs to one of the VIP rooms!  Ok no more for you guys!!!  I have to keep this G rated....no closeup pics! Lol

Still 2010: the picnickers stay late!

- walt

 

Oh, come on, just one peak in the upstairs windows?

csam- Your bridge scene with the Santa Fe and the boater below is great looking! Very realistic water works.

To some of you better modelers: come on now, you need to pitch in to help keep this thread alive and moving!! 

 

- walt

 

still 2010:

 

The station agent is giving a friendly wave to the pusher crew on the passing D&H coal train...

 

I hope some tinplate vignettes are acceptable

 

Very acceptable - quite nice.  Tinplate has is own, very nostalgic charm

Moving on to 2011

 

2nd year for the drivein - I just like the way this picture came out so I'm using it.

 

- walt

 

Yes, I get it - it's NOT Halloween quite yet.

 

- walt

 

Out with the old, in with the new

 

a test picture to see details and improve them.

AG

Absolutely acceptable.
I don't have any tinplate but it has it's very own visual wow factor that I really like. There's nothing better in a holiday layout.

Pow wow of the suits.

 

Thinking of ways to fix something that isn't broke!

Papa3rail,

 

That is a great vignette of the small market in the shadows of the great bridge.  Very good use of space on your layout as well.