The great monkey escape of 1949
Not permanantly…but I will set one up from time to time for the photo…especially if it involves a Forum member. [swg]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
I would not know whom you mean 
On the “serious” side, funny scenres permanently set up might get “old” quickly", therefore my layout stays “sober”!
Nice Lions
Can’t have any privacy. The bear has a different idea
I have a young boy sneaking a peek over a fence at the girls at a swimming party.
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I almost forgot my Albert Hitchcock Psycho House.
Nice Mel
I had tons of silly “easter eggs” humorous scenes all over the layout. They were all very hard to see, and many of the “jokes” were pretty obscure.
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My favorite was a scrapped Tiger tank in the metal yard. It was a well done scene, and if you did not know the design of the Tiger, you never would have been able to pick out what it was.
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Actually, scrap yards are great places to hide the remnants of the Axis powers from World War 2.
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There is a good bit of a destroyed Panther tank in this load.
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I have had bears sitting inside offices, a billboard for SLURM soda pop, dinosaurs in the woods, etc, etc. I love these scenes. I see them when I look and chuckle to myself. Others need to look hard to find any of them. John Allen did it, and that is all the permission I need to have fun with my railroad.
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I like humour in the scenes.
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-Kevin
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LION wants top build platform 9 3/4.
Him will build it at the Lenox Avenue station. The Lenox wall will be painted on a window screen. The 9 3/4 platform is on the other side of the screen and when the lights on that platform are lit, the screen disappears and the Hogwarts Express becomes visible.
Least wise the plan that is.
ROAR
I have plans for some things referencing family members. One I already have the kit for, and I doon;t even need to make custom signs, it has the right name already.
I would also like to place various Pugs in different places, but the only place I have found an HO pug is the one that comes with the Preiser “fat people” set and I am not buying 10 of those to get 10 Pugs. Sort of an anachronism for my 50’s era anyway, they weren’t a popular breed in the US in the 50’s. But I have 2 and probably will have more, my lovable little goofballs plus they have no ability to jump on the layout. The one will, however, eat any freight car she can get a hold of.
–Randy
On the Bootbay Railway Village layout, we do have a few of these scenes, police behind the billboard, the WS “Wash Day Getaway” scene with the dog getting in trouble with the laundry. Women seem to find this one funny
Not intentionally.
One of my loading dock doors way in the back of the layout is Mom’s Robot Oil.
Then…
Finally, the names on my streamliner passenger cars are Gov. William Lepetomaine, Hillary Rodham Manson, C. Montgomery Burns and, for the dining car, Alferd G. Packer.
There was a request in the “Show Me Something” thread asking for a girl covered steam engine…
Well, I had to oblige—
Actually, PRR DID do a photo-shoot with a lady gracing the front of a J1.
Reminds me of the monkey scene on a small display layout at the now gone Caboose Hobbies in Denver.
The first notice was one chimp that looked very out of place, then another, and another. Then a pattern of chimps creating all kinds of havoc across the city scene, one tracking spilled red paint, another leaving footprints in wet cement. Eventually I found the zoo truck that was in an accident.
Jim
On the store layout in (now gone) The Happy Hobo in Tampa, Florida there was a farm that raised “long cows & tall chickens” that was a reference to a recurring theme in the Far Side comics.
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I am going to need to letter a tank car for Mom’s Robot Oil.
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-Kevin
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A bit of whimsy on the layout can be fun. Somehow those Creature Features monsters seemed more real back in the 50s.
Regards, Peter
I’ll see if I can find some from previous shows!
Every morning I have to clean gull crap off my quarry equipment.
Funny like a clown or funny strange? There is a giant insect attacking the city… 
but its only a movie being made. 
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Oh no… the extra 519 is being attacked by a Martian Tripod! Orson Wells warned us, and we ignored the warnings! This is what we get!
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And… Its NOT a movie being made… RUN!
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-Kevin
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