Is there anything on your layout (or someone else’s) that is completely fake, funny, or just unbelievable? Post it here. Since I don’t have my own layout I’ll post some from John Allen’s Gorre and Daphetid Railroad. 1. Emma the stegosaur found in woods near the tracks. She could switch both standard and narrow gauge cars. Unfortunately, she never learned to use the ash pit. 2. A diesel salesman hanging from Hangman’s bridge. 3. A man fishing, unaware of the huge crocodile about to swallow the boat. Now let’s see yours!
On the N scale display layout I use at shows I have “T-Rex’s Dinosaur Clones. (Juraisic Our Specialty.)” It’s a small industrial building with a welder simulator in it.
It has a yard full of cloned dinosaurs but unfortunately the T-Rex and a friend have broken through the fence and a police car is trying to prevent them from further roaming. T has a man in his mouth, much to the delight of the kids who notice it. There’s also a sign under his foot - “1,024 Days Without An Accident.”
Oh, and there’s the troll-like figure under a bridge…
Mike Tennent
Thanks Mike, that gave me a chuckle this morning. Any chance you have photos you can share?
Hmmm, only my response?
No sense of humor out there? [:D]
Here’s a couple of closeups.
Intentional or unintentional?
Well, it’s meaningless to most folks, but I have a wrecked loco laying in a gully with the initials SEB painted on the cab where the loco # would normally go… SEB are my first wife’s initials, and she was a bit of a “train wreck”… It’s my little homage. Nobody but my current wife and I get the joke, of course.
K
Both! Something like my cement plant that only handles low cars because I don’t have enough cork to build up the foundation is good too (that should add a lot more posts. [:D] Just kidding).
Nice pics Ironpenguin! It’s funny at a show how a gag scene like that can draw more viewers than a weathered and super-detailed engine that you spent 6+ hours on.
True enough.
BTW, did I mention the Krispy Kreme Donut store with the 5 cop cars parked out front? [:D]
(Sorry, no pics of that right now. Computer crash.)
Mike Tennent
I went ot a club show in Ocala, Florida and they used broken pieces of rolling stock as pieces of a fence for a salvage yard, I kind of like the idea. They also used axles and odd wheels as some of the contendts of the yard. These guys are “good” on another part of the layout they have orange groves including the trees with the fruit on them.
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Mike,
I think that’s pretty funny.[:p]
My baby brother and I are Dr. Who fans. I have ordered a British police call box, circa. 1963, to represent the Tardus. I plan to randomly place it on the layout when little brother comes over and see if he can spot it.
One scene I am working on is at the train station. Virgil Tibbs sitting on a bench reading and Sgt. Sam Wood walking in behind him. From “In the Heat of the Night”.
Somewhere on the layout I would like to recreate the scene of Lew Archers murder from “The Maltese Falcon” and a car (and a lady) in a lake from “The Lady in the Lake” I would try to work in something from Sherlock Holmes but my era is to late.
a Seattle club who show their modular layout regularly also post a list of about 20 “irregularities” to find. One can actually pick up a list from a bin and walk around the layout to fini***he list there are things like Hoffazin cemnt co. “Spotted dowels” from a Rainier commercial a few years back The Wild Artisians which consists of a small herd of Rainier Beer bottles running through the woods, Etc. Iv’e seen the layout several times over the last few years and its always fun to look for the stuff.
I’m still in construction, but I’ve already got the Preiser figures for the Grim Reaper and a mermaid. Here, Death takes the A-train…
