Life offers us funny moments all the time. As such, many of us have captured some of those on our layouts; Chip’s famous guy walking from the outhouse with toilet paper stuck to his shoe comes to mind.
What’s the funniest scene of your layout?
Got a pic?
Anybody got swamp buggy racing in the gator pond, or a guy painting a park bench as a cat walks through the fresh paint? Anything like that?
If so, lets see it! Show it off!
I saw a cemetery on a layout. The names on the grave stones were the names of club members that had derailed locos in ops sessions. Also saw a Kryspy Kreme donut shop with about 30 cop cars parked around it.
Now thats funny!
Thats prototypical! [:O][:-^][X-)]
I always find it amusing to put this guy in the background:
He’s a Preiser character, by the way.
I have a bear chasing a hunter in the mountain…it may not seem funny to some but it relates to a hunting story from years ago when we discovered bear tracks following us on a trail on the way into camp. You had to be there!!!
Don
At my present stage of construction, the funniest thing is that not one millimeter of the track I’ve laid to date will be visible once scenery-building gets under way. And the direction of present construction is deeper into the netherworld, not upwards toward daylight!
OTOH, I can think of a number of things that could possibly find homes on my layout once I reach the detailing phase - including several that wouldn’t pass this site’s ‘prude filter.’ What they might be is for me to know and others to wonder.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Used to be a circular exhibition layout with a whole bunch of gizmos on it - rabbits that dived back into their burrows when trains approached and so on - but the one that hooked all the viewers was a man stood between two piles of parcels - six one side and five the other… or was it five and six? Huh?[%-)]. The trick was that the control to swing the man round was the far side of the circle. Well, that’s the one I can quote here. [:-^]
I plan to have several little hidden scenes to catch the eye as I complete the scenery. Several people have found the raccoons it the trees on the mountain and the family of bears sitting and looking at them from a cliff up there. Here is a set up I did for a photo contest across the street a few months back:
Perhaps a little too morbid for some, but we have a rafter going over the edge of a large waterfall on our club layout, and an airplane that has crashed into the side of the mountain. Rescue personnel at the plane crash scene are being chased away by grizzly bears.
It was the salmon mousse!
–Randy
Honey! You didn’t use the canned salmon, did you?
I’ve got a few scenes on my HO scale modules that could be considered “funny”, maybe not!
A Woodland Scenics “Bare Hunter” scene
A sign painter has fallen off the roof while painting “Smileys” -he’s on the right.
A truck driver stares at his lumber load that has just fallen off, after all that work!
A man is keeping the stream filled!
And lastly a lady hit a pole in her car - “It jumped right out in front of me officer!”
Bob, I love that beehive burner!!! [tup]
Thanks! We call them sawdust burners around here.
One of my friends that owns my fav LHS has a guy who does mini scenes that he sells in the store. One of the scenes was of camp runamuck, and things had runamuck. A tent was on fire and kids were actually chasing their parents up a tree! That sort of thing. I would have bought it and intergrated it into my layout, but at $80 for a little 2 by 2 scene (at most), I though it was a wee bit expensive. Good work though. I like the guy peeing in the steam… lol!
-beegle55
Bob. B… I really like the painter and the “smiley’s” sign!
Happy Model Railroading, Garry
On my old layout I had a dog sniffing a fire hydrant…ok maybe not real funny but I was only 12 when I did it.
J.P.
You guys have some real good ones!
Love to see all the creativity you guys have!
Got any more?
Okay, here’s more, maybe some funnier than others. And some are “funny” in a way other than ha-ha.
Lumberjack Cookhouse, a “theme” restaurant in a phony log cabin building in real lumbering country. Several signs across layout say “1/2 mile on the right”, “turn here”. When you finally get to the place, there’s a stop sign that says “Stop, this is it!”
And a couple blocks down the road, another sign says, “go back, you missed it”
Eastwood theater has billboards and marquee signs for various short amateur movies I made. Kids are out of movie for mom to pick them, but they seem automatically to be looking around in every direction EXCEPT the one where mom is trying to get their attention. Is there something suspicious about the man who is standing back watching the kids? Blond woman near jewelry store in theater-front retail space is trying to project a Marilyn Monroe image. Maybe half succeeding?
The Johnston and East Texas (“Jet”) shortline is a little less formal than some serious trunkline railroads. The conductor of the turn from the sawmill to the Santa Fe interchange brings his dog along as a helper and companion on the train.
The Messy Family and their next-door neighbor, Mrs. Neatnik.
Two identical 35-year-old cliche European-manufactured “unfinished house” kits, built as finished houses, one with shutters, matching drapes, everything in place etc, and one with shutters mostly off, mismatched and tawdry window coverings. Old sofa left in front yard as outside rest, grass dying in places and a few weeds. The yard is a place to han
Is that last structure, the school (great mascot!) a paper building cut at an angle? It looks great.