Your Layout Vignettes

I actually discovered that, properly organized, a cup and a paint brush are pretty dang good at spreading ballast, particularly around a railyard where you want it between the rails not just alongside them, etc.    I did about ten feet of my 300+ feet of track with a ballast king, then the next 250 with a cup and brush, and the rest - it's where you can't really see the lack of ballast,  so I didn't do it.

Some new ones in keeping with the holidays.  GN 978 in route to the North Pole with material for Santa's work shops. Off loads perishables from the Pacific NorthWest at the Logistics hub destine for the towns Christmas celebration somewhere near the north pole..

 

0100L GN 978 has just pulled into the station.

 

 

Too much Christmas cheer.

 

 

  We have 2 hours to unload three cars

 

  Just once, It would be nice to unload before midnight.

 

 

 

there is snow some where

 

Fabulous! A perfect blend of Holiday whimsey and realism! OMG, and even scale minature Christmas lights on the house!!!!!I really, really like and am inspired by this work and by your imagination. (You must be a fun and very interesting person to get to know and to socialize with.)

FrankD

Frank, Thanks, but give credit to lionel for the lights on the building.  They did a great job with the piece. the figures are prieser and the tree was made using the furnace filter method with lights from one of our sponsers evans lighting. Candy cane pieces are real. Made the mistake of over wetting them and got the runoff in the second photo.

These are nice scenes. I've never tried snow on my layout - probably won't this year, but it makes for a nice holiday feel, I must admit.

Hilarious!!!!  I may have to steal use that line

 

walt

When I posted my vignettes I never expected to get any likes. All are from members  that I respect, follow or have layouts that are great.  Today I am checking my emails I got a like from the King of layout vignettes Lee Willis. Must of finally done something right in Lee's eyes. Thanks Lee  

Quite a lot actually.  It was really good!

Here is one from the layout....

 

Alan

And another.....

 

Alan

Taxi anyone...??

 

Alan

Taxis and hotels go together, both in the real world and on toy train layouts.  Nice picture.  Like the shadows a lot.

A couple of my "taxis"

Spence - Looks like the ones I have seen in Glacier National Park.

 

Art

Here is a lake scene that I like.  The guys in the boat are having way too much fun.

 

Art

 

 

Here is one of the more realistic rivers that I have seen.  Note that the modeler is using a real photo to make it as accurate as he can.

 

Art

 

 

Picture on my friend Stan's layout.  He has a great SuperStreets operation.

 

Art

Here is a different view.

 

Art

 

 

A busy yard scene on a friend's layout.

 

Art

 

 

I love the way that this road is on a diagonal.  I think it adds a lot to making the scene stand out.

 

Art

 

 

If it wasn't for the bench work, I would have been hard pressed to tell the difference from real vs layout. I would like to know how he did the water effects to create the scene.

Yes, I have seen photos of them!

Art,

Stan's Super Streets look great.  He has blended them into the streets very well, like Lee Willis recommends.

I just wonder you I could do it 6 feet off my bedroom floor. its so tight i can't get the whole span in a picture.

A contrast between seriousness and fun:

 

 

 

 

Peter

I like that, Putnam Division.  

 

I put all my buildings and etc. back in place  this morning and will suspend my work on the layout for the rest of the year and just run trains.  That included putting back all the detectives on Detective Avenue.  

 

So now back in place  is my favorite vignette on the entire layout - front and center on Detective Avenue.  In the lower left, Inspector Morse looks on as Sergeant Robbie Lewis (Inspector Morse, 1987) shakes hands with Inspector Robbie Lewis (Lewis, 2013) as his Sergeant Hathaway takes a picture of this folded-temporal-dimension moment for posterity (whichever direction in time it may be in).  Both cars are the correct model and color for the series and the year, as is the Volvo across the street (Simon Templar, The Saint). 

 

Yes, that is a huge contrast.  Great layout.

When I asked him, he used several layers of Envirotex Light.  The surface was made perfectly level and he used real, finely shifted sand on the shores.  The reflections on the surface of the water is from the backdrop which is like real life reflecting the sky.  You also see the trees reflected in the surface of the water.  I think he nailed it.

 

Art

I don't know that I ever posted in this thread but thought it was time. I ran across this shot I took while filming outside with one of the modules. This is On30 (O Scale) narrow gauge for those that are not familiar with my stuff.

 

Sometime when filming, I shoot stills to see how the framing looks, I just happend to see this one while cleaning out some files at lunch.

 

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The Superliner has arrived!

 

Alan

A night scene in the channel....

 

Alan

Another....

 

Alan

The PRR monorail (yep!) is departing from the underground station that serves the Highrise Hotel and the South Station....

 

Alan

That dummy left his sports car right in the middle of the traffic!!

 

Alan

I like this scene....

 

Alan

The taxis are busy!

 

Alan

Another.....

 

Alan

The big "Rock" is pulling into the yard....

 

Alan