Your Layout Vignettes

Grandma....can we buy some candy in the store..??

 

Alan

A busy day in the harbor.....

 

Alan

A sunny day at the Pittsburgh Zoo

 

Eateries.  I have four eateries with little vignettes.  

 Pie in the Sky is a British TV series about a detective who loves food and opens his own gourmet restaurant.  They don't have sidewalk dining on the show, but I wanted this sidewalk scene. 

 

On detective street is Kahboessan Indian with all my British detectives.  That is DI Jack Frost and George Toolan and his trashed Ford Sierra in front, and Inspector Lynley and Sgt. Havers to the left.  The name of the place (Cowboys and Indian) is a pun on the detectives, the TV rouge cop often portrayed as a "cowboy" and the favorite cuisine of British detective shows, every other one of which has a scene in an Indian restaurant: 

 

The best chop house in town is at the Premier Hotel.

 

And of course, out near all the used car dealerships is the only place in town to get a really first class breakfast. 

Izzat an Allard?

This thread just keeps getting better!

 

Peter

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I guess this counts as a vignette:

 

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

 

 

my attempt at modeling it:

   

Brilliantly done!

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing the painting. Nearly a religious moment!

Back a few decades, John Armstrong created a vignette based on Hopper's Nighthawks painting: Model Railroader January 1989.

Someone was able to obtain the vignette after the layout was torn down following John's death. Anyway, along with Coming into the City, I'd love to be able to recreate Nighthawks.

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Yes it is!  Good eye.  That is John Beresford Tipton III, richest man in the world, driving his wife (Veranda Turbine) home after dining at the Shiny Diner!

To paraphrase (or perhaps quote) the Joker, "Where does he get all those wonderful toys?"  

The original and my interpretation:

 

Pete,

Your interpretation looks great!  Very realistic!

Wow, this is truly awesome.  It is not obvious which is real and which is Memorex.  Fantastically well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great thread, Scott.  Thanks for starting it!

 

Day is turning to evening, but Main Street remains busy...

 

"Lined up perfect and ready to dump..!"

 

Alan

Picking up the afternoon's papers to deliver -  me and my friends back in the '60s.  

Alan,

Is the rotating coal dump operational?

 

I worked for a power company back in the '80s and '90s.  One interesting thing was when I went to a power station on top of a mountain in West Virginia and had to service controls at the coal yard.  I had the opportunity to watch their rotating coal dump in action.  Quite an interesting operation.

 

That is an exciting part of your power station, that many modelers don't include.  I like it.

Hi Mark....

 

Yes...it does operate.  I recently added the rotary coal dump to the power station scene...

 

Thanks,

Alan

Under the rotary coal dump the workers keep the coal directed toward the under ground conveyor which transfers the coal to the power station.....

 

Alan

Looks like the snakes have become the dominant species there Walt!
Can't wait for Walt's World 2014 to begin. (After the summer of course

After evading the snakes at the Pittsburgh Zoo the Rapp family made it in time to join the other family members for a July 4th family reunion at North Park

 

- walt

 

 

 

 

Alan,

your workers sure are "super clean" and not dirty at all shoveling all of that coal.

You all have done such magnificent work!
Jim, loving your trail, but I don't think you could get me on that wooden bridge!

Good point Roger!

When I worked in the power station, my nickname was Mr. Clean.  It wasn't because I was big and strong and had a bald head, which I was none of that.  It was because I seemed to be able to keep the coal dust and fly ash off me better than most others.  Yes, I still got dirty, but not like some.  On the other hand, I did not shovel coal.  You are correct, I probably would not have been Mr. Clean then.

I've always wondered why Lee only runs conventional. I'm going to guess that if I had a layout that rich in detail PLUS the streets action I would also run conventional. Just watching everything in motion -- basically a living interactive diorama -- would keep me entertained for hours.

 

And he hasn't even posted the 77 Sunset Strip scene yet. My personal favorite!

 

Cottage country resort hotel , FusionFiber with basic ground covers

 

 

 

New location with static grass application on FusionFiber.  Partially done scene.

 

by wsdimenna, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

Yeah, its one of my favorites, too.  Here it is . . . 

 

Veranda Turbine has just arrived and Kookie is walking up to park her Dual Ghia for her.  Dean Martin has a G&T already in his hand for her, and John Wayne . . . well, John Wayne is just being John Wayne.  

If you're not getting too bored with mine, here's another.

 

My daughter is a pharmacist and my daughter-in-law is a dental hygienest so this Lionel Pharmacy was a natural buy, along with the Miller Pharmacy sign and the toothpaste sign.

 

The figure in blue/green in my DIL.  The one in white is my daughter.  Both were made by Trainsformations.  Boy do I miss Marcie!

 

- walt

 

 

4 pages and still going strong!

 

Our intrepid motor journalist caught some nice shots of various vehicles around the layout awhile back.

 

Sam,
Yes it is going strong.  It could be as long lived as 'What did you do on your layout today'

Your photo journalist got some shots of some mighty nice cars and trucks.  Not to be outdone, the trains are great too!!  I like Matthews as well.

Around the RR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 4th....a great day to be out in the water!!...row, row, row your boat...

 

Alan

The NYC #10 goes out on a night time run....

 

Alan

I have some rail fan's taking picture's of a Western Maryland coal train going by and other thing's around the layout .

 

Guy  

Guy,

I do love WM steam!  Great job!  The loading and unloading scenes are great!  Also, it looks like the checkers player in the suspenders is in a real fix!  Great work!

Old Elmer the conductor--standing on the "front porch" of the grimy ALCo RS--hurries Charlie his engineer and Butch his brakeman to quickly assemble their unit coal train.  Why?  Because the faster they get that done, the sooner Elmer--whom as you can see hasn't missed many meals--can run walk across Main Street to grab a sandwich (or three) from Samuello's before they leave town!

 

More scenes from the Mohawk Valley RR store layout project Jim Policastro and I built.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just before the picnic: