heyy guys i was going thru some stuff and i found popsicle sticks. well i pasteled them with green grey and a light shade of black and i made a cemetary. it looks really really good. is this a god idea or what? [:)]
Its a good idea but the average headstone isn’t as big as a popsicle stick in HO scale. That is unless some rich dude’s wife blew a bunch on a giant headstone, lol.
Actually it is a great idea. If you trim off a little on each side and make it more to scale they would look perfect. I’m going to try that latter on today. I’ve been dieing to put a grave yard on the layout for awhile now, lol.
Keith,
Assuming the Popsicle stick was 1/8" thick, that would become ~11" in HO scale. I would think that very plausible. Nice idea. [tup]
Tom
tstage, thats what I was thinking. They are a little to wide but thats easily fixed with a good sharp knife. Its a lot better then paying for the Woodland Scenics ones.
Dave,
I’ve seen some pretty wide headstones - course, not with as rounded a top as the end of a Popsicle stick. I think it’s a terrific idea though.
Tom
I AN’T DYING TO GET INTO THAT
i doubt it’s a ‘god’ idea …it might be a good idea though
sometimes typos are funny [:)]
A stick from a corn dog might be more the right size.
You could also use them to make a cemetery. (think about it–then check with Mr. Webster!)
I agree with tstage that many (if not most) headstones are usually rectangluar, and few (if any) as curved as the average popsicle end (in HO, at least - you might get away with it in O).
If you are modeling the 50s or later, a decent sized urban/suburban area, you may want to make the cementary a small, near abandoned (well, full at least) private cementary, as you can see several examples from this page http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/cemhome/cemhome.html - here’s a particularly good link from that page: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/queenscems/morequeens.html.
Modern (and not so modern) cementaries tend to be rather large, and I am sure you do not want to use valuable layout estate on a huge field of scale headstones.
Unless you are going for a ‘boot hill’, which I remember the 1970s MR layout tour articles showing every single old-west and narrow-gauge layout having one…
Yes, some headstones are indeed cemented. [:-^]
That is definetly a cool idea!!!
Small cemeteries can be made using leftover small pieces from the HO RIX Vintage Highway Overpass and pieces of HO roadbed. The small pieces from the Rix overpass look like graves. I have a small cemetery by a church on my HO layout using these pieces.
Heck, you can even buy small HO cemetery kits:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-6049
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/785-131 (On Sale Today!)
Plus plenty of tombstone assortments (yeh, that sounds a bit callous) are available from different manufacturers (yeh, OK, TA462 turned that idea down). Although I dare say you’re idea of wooden popsicle sticks (suitably narrowed and sanded thinner, as suggested by TA462) would work well for old westerned ‘boot hill’ grave markers (like… Billy Clanton’s, as seen here: http://clantongang.com/oldwest/boothillgraveyard_graves.html).
Hmm, a small cemetery put into an urban context (like the link I supplied in my post above) would make an interesting detailed scene - you could model it in good shape or decrepit depending on the era and the socio-economic makeup of the surrounding neighborhood… Must check if there are any such cemeteries in Northeast Philadelphia…
I agree. Trim some with a sharp knife, others with a bit of sandpaper. You’ll have a varied collection in no time. Don’t forget those flat, on the ground markers, too.