I’m putting a farm scene in my layout with a house and barn w/animals
Does anyone have any pictures I need ideas
Everyone lives within 30 miles of a farm in the USA. Why not take some time this weekend and take a nice drive in the country with your camera?
What kind of farm? Horse, dairy, beef, hog, goat, or chicken? You might want to try a Google search. I’m sure there’s more than enough info there.
Are you an American taxpayer/ (No, this is not an off-topic question…) Your government has a lot of farm pictures.
Go to the Library of Congress online at http://www.loc.gov/. Then click on “American Memory”.
Click on “Culture, folklife”
then on the collection "Depression Era to World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945 " America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945. That’s the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information collection.
The government provided “made work” for photographers during the 1930s depression by having them document the American rural scenes. Then they continued the effort during the 1940s in the Office of War Information.
Over 160,000 images-- indexed, catalogued and searchable. Enough for you?
For more modern farm scenes, the US Department of Agriculture has hundreds of “stock pictures” of recent American farm life. You’ll have to experiment to find their site and find the stock pictures. It may be in the “for the press” portion of the usda site, it’s been a couple years since I used it.
I have a couple of farm MODEL scenes but I have not scanned them or uploaded them to my railimages site so I can’t instantly share them here, sorry.
farm pic
are you modelling a family farm? or a big farm? remember farmers grow crops ad will have livestock for their own uuse/food. a rancher raises livestock for everybody
tom
Did someone say farm? I live on a farm. My wife and I raised Paint horses, along with miniature horses, miniature Zebu cows, pygmy goats, and assorted birds. We retired from breeding, but still have more than our share of 4-legged friends here on the ol’ farm. Our nieghbors are all horse or cattle folks and behind us are many acres of timber land. One of these days I need to update our website. I can snap some better photos to share if you like? When my wife and I eventually make our layout, it is going to have several farms on it. The best part is there won’t be a feed bill for those tiny plastic and metal horses and cows.LOL Our farm site is at: http://www.homestead.com/cederstrand/Cederstrand.html
-Rob
Not that I was wanting a farm scene per say, but I did want to capture the flavor of the region around Sand Patch on my Allegheny & Cumberland…
Even cows enjoy trains !
My farm scene is behind my mainline in a corner with a curved backdrop. In the foreground I have the county park scene.
WOW! Nice job River Eagle, CB&Q, and Outdoorsfeller! Really great scenery!
The farmstead needs to be scratch built, maybe this winter. Here is the corn field during pheasent season and a diorama my grand daughter made. Maybe there are some ideas there. The second cornfield shot catches the Sublime loggers doing a little northwoods hunting.
Hats off to your granddaughter ! I especially like the idea of a half-plowed or half-harvested field. Wish I could get family to join “the crazy old fool that plays with toys in the basement”.
And Outdoorsfellar : Thanks for reminding me that not all tunnels need to be surrounded by craggy rocks. That’s a nice calming scene.
One club member did this barn scene
Nice work on farm scenes to all. Found something of interest, www.map.live .com. You can find farm country anywhere and click on “birds eye view” and see real farms from different angles. To Art Hill, Great work on your scenery, hope mine will be half as good as yours. If I may be bold here, and nit pick a little, I’d like to suggest that when you “string” wire for your fences, such as the barn yard, you place the wire on the “inside” of the fence. Reason: Most wire is held on to the posts with staples or nails. If a cow or what ever animals are fenced in, bump against it, the post will take the strain, not the staple. Believe me, being and old dairy farmer, cows do think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and try to get there. Doesn’t take much to “pop” those staples and the fence will be down. Then you’ll have to model a scene where the farmer’s wife and kids are trying to round up those cows. Ken