I regret that I am unable to recall the name of the Kansas (or Missouri) model railroad club to give them credit for the following bountiful harvest scene:
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Near HO Scale Star Wars figures including Darth Vader, Han Solo, Storm troopers, jawas etc and an Imperial walker having a battle in a back alley and on some rooftops in my city scene that uses the Bachman Spectrum buildings as well as some other DPM and Korber buildings. Makes an interesting scene. Because it is in a back alley it is not distracting but gets a good laugh when it is spotted.
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HO Scale Trans Am driven by the “Bandit” being chased down main street by NY’s Finest in their Chevy Caprices.
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HO Scale firehouse with rooftop tennis court and players.
Now, YOU’RE my kind of guy! Better yet, have an old ATSF wooden boxcar in the yard with the door ripped off and a little decal saying: “For Sugar Loading Only.”
That’s still a WHOPPER of a good ‘Big Bug’ movie![:P]
Tom
Well let’s see. I have a Preacherman dragging toilet paper on his foot and a cat chasing it.
And I have a piano being loaded with a buckboard–and the ticket clerk watching the fun.
And I got Mongo And GW.
Up until last Thanksgiving, I owned a vitamin store called Vitamin Connection.
I got alot of funny things planned for my layout. Unfortunatly unless I tell you the connection the humor is lost.
My latest advent is from the song Convoy.
In my town park scene im going to have the 11 long haired freinds of Jesus having a prayer session or what ever in front of their chartreuse mini bus.
Many of you probably know of my planned Red light district.
And given that my “other” hobby is being an all out Trekie I am sure some one from the Starships Enterprise, Voyager, or Deep Space Nine will be making an appearance on my layout. Right now I am thinking of the scene from the book “The Making of Star Trek” which shows William Shatner and Leonard Nimy having lunch in a cafe that was on the lot where they shot star trek. They are in full make up. Figured I might recreate that scene.
Another one that I am working on is a passenger train full of little green space aliens. But alas I am having trouble finding the right little green space aliens. I don’t really like the ones that come with Busch flying suacer. And the ones that I have found that have the look that I want are too big to fit into HO scale passenger car seats. Might have to go scultp my own.
these are some of my gags.
James
That brings back my plans of a NASCAR road course running across a the mainline. “Racing the train???”
As a transfan, and an owner of the Tyco 86 Transformers trainset, I plan on recreating Mount Saint Hilary (the volcano the Ark crashlanded into) with a spurline. Insert obligatory “scene is more than meets the eye” joke here
As Dad spent some time out of state, we had stories we told to keep us awake on the 2.5 hour trip to his place on the weekends. We played the truck as a train, and now we’re playing the cast of regular passengers into their day lifes
Modeling an homage to the Madison Incline. Not funny
have a boxcar sticking out of river on end of fishing line=Funny.
Fw:
Be sure to have some Blackrock gas stations, too, then. 
I run a Packers train every now and then… It’s only od, since I model the 70s, and the cars are based on the team in the early 2000s.
I have a camaro with it’s wheels, bumpers, and windshield (was wrecked, but used it for parts for another [model trains and real cars aren’t the only things I do that to]). I plan to get some styrene blocks and make them look like cinder blocks.
I forgot about him.
Good topic Metro.
The Hobby shop that I visit has a real nice layout and in one scene is a dough-nut shop with a long line of cops waiting to be served and up on the roof out of all the wathfull eyes of the law is a bandit complete with sack over his shoulder and the black mask on.
I already have 1 on my “layout in progress”, and it is in the office of my Military Motor pool building, I didn’t want to build a typical office interior so I put a two person personal sub in the office, you can’t see it until you get on eye level with the windows and look in…LOL, so far you are the only other person who knows this little secret…oops, and everyone who reads this…dang it!!!
I plan on doing more, in my “seedy side” of town there will be many, “back alley deals” a car up on blocks and stripped, some funny graffitti on the alley walls, a few steamy silloettes on the buildings window shades only seen at night after the lights are turned on in the tenament and I’m even thinking of a roof top biker party and we all know that with that set up, anything is possible.
So I say sure, have fun, go nuts, you can be subtle or outragious, I know I’m going to be!!!
My darn spell check went to bed early tonight…the wife was tired!
I still have this figure of a dog, leg up ready for the fire hydrant. No real layout yet to place it.
Walthers sold their Oscar shortie passenger car complete with interior and shower with girl.
I might make a Dr Who police box… maybe if I can find figures to match.
Lets see I have a couple. I have a kitbashed heljan Brewery Kit which is now the I.P. Freely & Sons Bath Fixture Plant ( I’ve yet to kitbash or find some porcelin thrones for the loading dock ) I have a near HO scale Chewbacca that’s sitting in an outdoor cafe, and I’ve set up a small donut shop using the Walther hite castle restaurant which has at least 15 plice cars parked in it’s lot and out back I have the Woodland scenic Chain Gang enlarging the parking lot.
Rob
The Bandit wouldn’t be caught dead in New York! [swg]
Here he’s being chased through a field by the Georgia State Patrol!
Rotor
You ought to be able to find something to fit The Doctor…aren’t they on the 9th or 10th Doctor now?
I need the phone box. My Life-Like phone booth doesn’t look quite right, so I never painted it. It’s sitting right behind Elwood and the Blues Mobile.
Rotor
Funny stuff! Especially the chain gang!
Got pics?
Rotor
Some great scenes here! I especially liked the guy trailing the toilet paper!
Here are some of my scenes, some are permanent, others I set up for photos to post elsewhere:
Some quiet “reading time” is interrupted by a barking dog:
Wow, didn’t know the old parts were that old!
“Musta taken a wrong turn somwhere!”
Wow -the little people have discovered their world ends in the harbor!
“But officer, the pole just jumped out in front of me”, the lady driver says:
Damsel in distress:
(Click on photos to enlarge)
Interesting how these things tend to settle into themes: race cars; movie characters; aliens; adults only…
On my layout we have two of the above. My son came across a near N-scale NASCAR racer at a model train show. Since we already had two police cruisers there is now a Dukes of Hazard style police chase going down the long highway on one side of the layout.
On the opposite side of the layout we have this group of railfans who showed up one night and who don’t seem to be in any hurry to leave.
Maybe I’ll model one of these…[(-D]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6-klM-3jU
NOTE: Video is not dirty or inappropriate in any way.