Hi all
1/2 Ferrero Roche Easter chocolate box and a couple of plastic plates would be cheaper
for a flying saucer.
Better still the pyramid shaped one for aliens to go with it some Games Workshop
plastic Necron Warriors.
Dont forget the movie camera crew so it doesn’t look to weird
regards John
Keep an eye out for bottle tops as well - some fabric softeners and other liquids have strange-shaped caps that could become a HO or N UFO with a little careful paint and detailing (add some landing struts from styrene sections, spray it silver, maybe add a door and a ramp too). Cost would be pennies compared to the Busch model.
I’ve used Epic (the smaller Warhammer 40K) tanks as N scale car loads before now - if you buy the little whitemetal Imperial Guard tanks and stay clear of the outlandish ones they don’t look unrealistic. Plus the whitemetal is useful ballast for light flatcars!
Resistence is futile you will be assimilated[:D]
Ok so its wrong for Necrons, more Bugs but it works for me
I have used bits of skeleton warriors and a Millisaur
before now on a model railway.
regards John
Personally, I would only put something like that down on the layout for laughs once; I don’t think that a permanent UFO fixture would go over to well with the club. Besides, UFOs rarely stick around for very long …
but seriously, it’s always good to have at least one piece of silliness on the layout, no matter how serious the rest of it is, whether it’s a naked guy standing on a street corner, or a dinosaur pulling a freight car, a bit of goofy helps remind us that this is, after all, FUN.
At a show I saw an O/tinplate modular layout where one of the members had a whole module of Warhammer stuff - very cool! If the hobby can’t be fun, why bother?
Here, and I thought I was nuts for wanting to having my online alter ego (a shoulder cannon toting werewolf) stalking through the treeline on my layout.
It’s not too unusual an idea–an On30 layout of some sort might provide good background for a WH40K battlefield. I’m sure that there are industrial trains of various sort in the dark future of the 400th Century . I played WH40K in the early 90s, had a custom army of bolter-armed “Snotling Smartboyz” and home-brewed vehicles until the advent of Codexes and “official WH40K approved only” army lists.
Any sort of scale science-fiction models should be suitable for silly placement on a model railroad layout. The “Micro Machines” series Star Wars miniature people figures are actually pretty close to HO.