Your Layout Vignettes

This is one very cool thread.  I just love all these neat scenes!

Here is another of my favorite vignettes from my layout - unfortunately it is in a hard to see spot in a corner my my layout.  Lucus Doolin was the character Robert Mitchum played in Thunder Road.  On my layout he did not die but used his ill-got gains to open a garage catering to moonshine runners and hot rodders looking for as much extra speed as they have money to buy.  

There is a lot going on in the photo above, including Lucas talking to Phillip Marlow at the left about giving his old Ford coupe some new life, but my favorite part is in the photo below.  There is a Lights4Models welding kit under the green Ford coupe, which flashes a blue LED very realistically.  They are welding on a set of headers, you can see those for the other side of the big Cadillac engine inside sitting on the ground with the glasspack mufflers and other pipes for the care. Those tiny headers were rather a challenge to scratch build, but it is one very cool scene. 

One that I like.

Joe B.

Like the bridge, Alan. Looks like another great design by the architectural firm of "Arthur Deco and Associates". Is that a kit or a scratch build?

I guess this counts as a vignette:

The Original:  Edward Hopper "Approaching a City"  Oil on Canvass, 1946:

my attempt at modeling it:

One of many...

Matt:  thanks!  The bridge/viaduct is from TW Designs.  They make it in both double and single portals / spans.  Very nice model and it went together easily.  Painting is required...

Alan

Here's a few......

Oh yeah!!! This is a great idea, and very well done.  

I have Vermeer's Little Street on my list of projects to model, but when?  Who knows.  

City traffic under the "EL".....

Alan

May I take your order please..??

Alan

The morning sun rising over downtown....

Alan

My head exploded when I saw this one. I mean, these are all amazing but how on earth did you get the water to look like that!? It's got ripples! The only thing missing is a fish jumping out. . .

Scott..thanks for the compliment.  It took me months to get each ripple in that scene....well, OK....I'll fess up....  The "water" is actually glass that I ordered and had cut to size for the harbor area on the layout.  It is known to many modelers as "shower door glass".  It comes in a variety of patterns, some having more ripples than others.  In my opinion it is a full proof way of modeling large areas of water economically...and my harbor area is includes almost 14 feet of water....I mean glass!

Alan

Thanks.

Alan,

the rising sun and shadows effect is really well done!

I feel like mine are more of the "vinaigrette" type scenes after seeing the above!

Greg

 "Hey....help me build this thing before it melts."

  Close to sunrise......

Thanks Mark...we are on our way out the door this late hour as I told you on the phone but I wanted to take the time to thank you for all of the nice and encouraging words you give so many people here on the forum...  We will talk via phone tomorrow...I look forward to it!

Alan

Alan,

I am happy to be of encouragement.  I love to be able to give encouragement.  It is something I am able to give back to all the nice folks on the forum who have helped me in my move from HO to O Gauge 3-rail.  I have been thrilled with this forum and OGR magazine.  As I move forward in the hobby, I want to share what I learn.

Free Donuts at Midge's Cause A Public Safety Dilemma

Fill "er" up!!

Alan

It is dark under the "EL"....

Alan

Heading for the yard... and home.

Waiting for one thing or another....

I love irony and puns.  don't beat me up for this, guys!

The kid to the left wants to get in to look at all "the good stuff," but the owner watches thru a peep hole in the door and only lets adults in.

One of the best threads ever!

always find this type of thread very enjoyable

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And yours are some very nice close up shots!  Great everyday activities!

Fish stories!

Here are two of our favorite TV detectives, Christopher Foyle (Foyle's War) and George Gently (George Gently).  In their respect series, both love to fly fish, and according to the plot lines, they both working in London in the late 50s.  So . . .

Just upstream there is another fishing expedition.  Mama is teaching junior how to fend for himself . . . 

That is just an excellent shot.

I'm not real serious here.. but "Sarge" is

A stolen bath! Brake man breaking the rules in one of those fancy cast iron tubs on its way to "The Olde In and Out Plumbing Supply"

"I was reaching to drain it, and fell in" he says.

It sits on a siding right near the water tower now. On closer examination, turns out some of this cars id numbers have been sloppily painted over by some "vandal" and it has been "lost" here for over a year.  

The milk has arrived at the cheese factory.....

Alan

Gotta take a rest...whew!!

Alan

Almost missed this thread.  Great modeling.

I think this is from the 90's.

Maybe a few more:

 Heading out for a weekend of camping on the 4th:

A treacherous part of the trail:

But a nice place to rest on the other side:

Ole Henry has been strumming and singing up a storm since striking the Mother Lode:

Jim

Jim,

Since the rifles are just sitting there sooner or later you're going to need to add the banditos from Treasure of the Sierra Madre! Surprised they are not there already with the gold sitting out in plain sight like that!

Lee,

while not working in London, Frank Cannon used to fly fish in some of his episodes.  Could he be fishing around the bend?

I like Mama Bear fishing for her cubs.

when I build my next layout, I want to include my dad fly fishing.  He really liked watching Cannon.  He is still an active fly fisherman at age 84, and loves to see photos of the big Mallets that used to run a half mile from our home.

The Superliner arrives in the station as the sun sets....

Alan

THAT is funny!