How many people do military scenery? (i need help)[#welcome]
Oh boy, not again…hi train wiz. Have you learned how to respond to messages yet?
I model trains and I work for the military, does that count…LOL
What era and what kind of scenery are you looking for? Are you trying to model a base close to a mainline or something? Are you trying to model an installation that is served by rail?
I myself model civilian scenery in base housing. I guess that is the opposite.[:o)]
What’s with the welcome smiley.
I was curious about that myself.
“train wiz” logs on every couple of months, leaves a couple of short and vague posts about needing help with “military scenery” but never appears to read responses to his posts or provide much more detail about what he is trying to find out. I assume he’s about 10 years old.
Ahhh, thanks for the clarification. I am still willing to give this one a chance though, although I think you are spot on!!
Nope but I do plan to model a BNSF train carring military equipment. Seen of few of them in my time.
I gotta tell you, many may not but I do! I have been waiting for years to have a military base on a layout. So, since I do the 40’s 50’s 60’s thing I decided this time I would build a base. When I learn how the put pictures on the web I will. I use Rocco military vehicles, and believe or not cheap Dollar General soldiers out of a bag plastic soldiers. They are 1/72, bur standing next to the Prieser figures one can hardly tell the difference.
I have built two Revell WW II bombers, again 1/72, but they look great. Got those at Wal-Mart.
I have dedicated an area 2 1/2 feet by 4 feet for the base and simulated air field. The tarmack is foam core insulation as a base painted concrete with white lines and oil and fuel grime in the middle of the runway. Several Walthers industrial building for hangers, other Walthers building for base operations, a military gate with guards and chain link fencing around the base. I use screen wire, stiff aluminium for the fencing, turned 45 degrees and cut to the height of a scale fence, and I super glue pieces of brass wire every so many inches vertically as fence posts, bent at the top.
There are tanks, transport troop trucks, jeeps, fuel trucks on the tarmac/runway fueling the planes, and I also have some Bi-Planes painted military colors and single winged planes from Walther’s. I even found a generic single winged plane, WW II like, at Wal Mart in the toy department and painted it army colors.
There are several rail sidings on to the base with freight stations, and one passenger station painted grey and army green where the troups disembark. It’s a lot a fun, when people see it, it is there favorite part of the layout.
Yard Master
WTRR
How is “Military scenery” defined?
Do you mean the rail-served portion of a Stateside military installation? Looks very much like any warehouse district, except for the fact that all the people and vehicles in sight adhere to the “mustard and mud” desert cami color scheme. There may be tanks and other large pieces of military hardware in evidence, but usually there aren’t.
Do you mean the other guy’s railroad after a visit by a smart-bomb-toting flight of FA-18s? (Or a bunch of Typhoons or Thunderbolts. if you prefer piston-engined ground attack planes.) Gaping craters, smashed rolling stock, rails bent into shapes only a pretzelmaker could love…?
Or do you simply mean an ordinary railroad rolling past the boundary fence of a military installation, with all but a tiny percentage of the latter painted on the backdrop?
How about one of Herr Hitler’s monstrous railroad-mounted artillery pieces, one of the biggest wastes of manpower and resources Der Fuhrer ever indulged in. (Didn’t do a thing a Stuka couldn’t do quicker and cheaper. For what one of those things used up, Germany could have fielded a brigade of tanks.)
Methinks the original question needs considerable refinement and clarification.
As for myself, in my own modeling the answer is a resounding, “None of the above!” I model a prototype location where the inhabitants have rather negative feelings for the military, in a country which lost the war and won the peace. (Nicest thing about economic aggression - nobody shoots at you or drops bombs on you for engaging in it.)
Chuck
I figure just have a small convoy of army trucks on the road. I model Western Pennsylvania in 1990s which would be thousands of miles away from the nearest warzone.
http://www.thortrains.net/page7.htm This website can explain somestuff pretty good about doing military scenery on model railroads. I found the link for it while visiting www.billsrailroadempire.net a very neat website about some guy’s n scale model railroad.
I built a layout one time which, when I got done with it, the scenery made the layout look like it had gone through the Battle of the Bulge. Does that count?