The subject line speaks for itself. Just wondering in anyone maybe re-created something from a movie, say, the shootout from Fistful of Dollars on a late 19th century western layout, or Rosco chasing the Dukes of Hazard on a layout set in Kentucky.
Maybe some kids running madly to get across a RR bridge before the oncoming train creams 'em (as in the movie "Stand by Me).
Just curious if anyone here has had a similar inspiration.
Well, I may have inadvertantly recreated the “tear the rails out for scrap metal” scene from “October Sky” - except the train DIDN’T take a different branch… [D)][B)][oops][#oops][:-^]
I plan on having a Texas County Mountie chasing a black Trans Am somewhere on my layout.
No…but I saw someone at a train show ncorportate a small SONY Watchman into their layout and use it as a drive-in picture screen. It was surprisingly realistic.
Tom
I don’t know about re-creating a movie scene… but when I get my layout up and going… it will be a movie set hopefully with a city spperated by a masonite wall with mountains painted on one side at least and an Old West / Ghost Town on the other half of the layout… I may look fot some cowboys or something and stage a train heist and in the city section maybe have a car chase running along side the track.
No, but I have taken to video taping operating/demonstration sessions on the BRVRR. The idea is to document the growth/progress on the layout and to demonstrate new equipment. I send tapes to family members far from here. They seem to like them.
I recreated the opening scene from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou - three chained convicts confronting a group of hoboes in a box car. In the movie, of course, the third guy never actually made it in (he pulled the other two out with him), but I took a little modelers’ license so that I wouldn’t be dragging a figure all the way around my layout. I used an old MDC boxcar for it, and some Woodland Scenics figures.
While not a movie/TV show, I remember an article in MR years ago about a guy who recreated the famous Edward Hopper painting scene “Nighthawks” on his layout. In case you don’t know the painting, its a late night scene of several people in an all night diner, in a city setting. The mood of the painting is awesome.
The modeler did an excellent job. The perspective was correct, coloring right on, and it was very believable.
I always wanted to model the scene from "Day the Earth Stood Still where Klaatu walks out and holds his hand up in a peacefull gesture…
…only to be mowed down by the 5:15 Express!
My major metro area will be modeled after Gotham City…very New York-ish in the 40s and 50s…but if you look carefully you’ll see the batmobile down a sidestreet as the dark knight is off fighting crime. Lets me combine my two loves…comics and model railroading.
Um–yes, but it wasn’t intentional. I forgot that I had a freight train in a certain block and rear-ended it with a passenger train. After the carnage was over, I realized that I’d accidentally re-created the Circus Train wreck in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, only without all those animals running loose. Of course, naturally this happened when company was watching me run the train. DUH—!
Tom [banghead]
I picked up a while ago some Preiser figures at a train show that included a few TV cameras and some lights mounted on stands. I’ve thought about creating either a news event or something similar in a diorama, but haven’t actually done anything yet.
Bob Boudreau
That was (naturally) John Armstrong. A man of many talents who is sorely missed by the model railroad community.
–Randy
What a great idea!!!
All I need to do is find the General Lee & a white Dodge Monaco cop car & I can have Roscoe P. Coltrane chasing the Duke Boys! HMMM maybe find a yellow 72 Charger for Daisy as well!
Sahweet!
Gordon
Didn’t Daisy have a White Jeep CJ5 or something like that?
Well, it seems that Jim Rockford has moved his trailer and Firebird from Paradise Cove to my humble little layout[:D]
Next, I think I’m going to paint a Trident GM van in the A-Team scheme.
As I am modeling the mid60 to mid 70 time frame, does anyone have any idea if someone makes a model of the car that Maxwell Smart drove? Would love to park it next to a phone booth.
Well, considering that I’m presently in transition between my several years ago N-scale experience and my future HO-scale dual level shelf layout I’d say I’m currently modelling an unreleased Twilight Zone episode. Have to say unreleased 'cause once it’s done it will probably represent that episode where the folks keep returning to Centerville in that classic offering.
Dave (dwRavenstar)
Yep she did, I think she called it Dixie but before she had the Jeep given to her she drove a very sweet yellow Charger. It got wrecked and somebody gave her the Jeep as a thank you. Gordon if you come across the General in HO get 2, I wouldn’t mind one on my layout.
The real trick would be to recreate a hilly section of road and have the General Lee in the air… of course, in real life, every time they did that, they wrecked another beautiful car [:(]
–Randy