Hello everyone. I was just wondering if any of you guys have odd or weird items on your layout just to add a little zing to it. I’ve been known to put stuff like a hovering UFO over mine, or the Iron Giant in the trees up on the mountain looking down at the town below like he did in the movie. One thing that’s not so odd is that I always have an aircraft hanging overhead to reflect the time period I’m modelling. Right now it’s a DC3 of the transitional period of the 1950s.
My idea of “a little zing” is a bit more conservative. On my plate is adding a UP pickup with a scale flashing beacon. Oh, yeah. My wife has insisted that I add a “taco truck” to a parking lot.
That’s about as wild and crazy as I care to get.
Ed
I placed a HO size Sasquatch (Big Foot) on a club’s layout and a lot of the members didn’t notice it for months. Oddly during open houses kids was the first to spot it.
A closer look would reveal the figure was none other then Chewbacca that I painted black since that is one of the supposed colors of a Big Foot…
About the wildest thing I have is redneckish campers.
At Trainfest, in Milwaukee earlier this month, I was checking out the naughty Noch figures. I was told “NO”.
Mike.
Here’s a photo showing one of the aisles of my layout…
…and another showing a closer view of the upper level at the end of the aisle shown previously. It’s about 38" deep and 59" above the floor…
I can’t provide the third photo that should go with the two above, since even with a time delay on the camera, I’m unable to climb a step ladder quickly enough to be included in the photo.
It was the only way that I could reach the back side of the rails to paint them, just in case I wanted to take some photos with the camera on the layout, facing towards the aisle.
So, you’ll have to take my word for it: definitely the oddest item that’s ever been on my layout is me.
Wayne
I’d have to back up Doc Wayne…I’m 'bout as odd as they come, so I have plenty to deal with…thanks very much.
I’m a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, as told to me by more than one person over my 65 years. No piercings, no tats, no illicit substances, no smoking, don’t chase wimmin…just don’t seem to need any of that. I tend to be (mebbe) overly rational, although I do have a decent sense of humour. It’s just that the humour doesn’t seem to show up in my hobbies, only in conversations. So, my rationality doesn’t make it important for me to have ‘cutsies’ or fanciful things appear anywhere on the layout. I like the experience of being near steam locomotives, and that’s what I attempt to create. No robberies, no hangings, no burning houses, no schooyard brawls. Just don’t need 'em.
I have one that might quality as odd. I have structures on my layout named after our children. We had two taken away from us early in life so both have structures and vehicles either named after them or their names visually on them.
One in particular that has an oddity is my son Doug’s house. It is a Classic Miniatures Leadville House CM12 kit. My son Doug was full of energy, had a good sense of humor and enjoyed being a prankster so I added a special effect to his house in his memory.
The Leadville House is a close resemblance to the Alford Hitchcock Psycho House. I have a guy with a hammer going after a young woman.
LION needs losts of figures to populate the subway layout of him.
Among these I have some golfers, I have them playing through the 76th street subway station.
Some of my wayside signs are set in 2 point type. Very prototypincal in size, but the message might ba a little off the reservation.
“keep your freeking body out of our subway tunnels”
Stuff like that.
Enuff’ said [:O]
Ed
The guy on the bench in front of her was screwing around with his cell phone and didn’t see a thing.
Indeed there is: [8D]
A sasquatch (made from a Star Wars Micro Machines Chewbacca with his weapons belt removed)
The abominable snowman from the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer movie,
Another abominable snowman doing battle with a snow groomer,
A dragon at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire,
and a colossal praying mantis starring in a monster movie.
I hate to be a stick in the mud but this is a forum that is used by all age groups so please keep the posts and pictures “kosher” unless of course you want the moderators to delete your post or this thread![2c][(-D] I’ll get off my soapbox now.[soapbox][:D]
There is a Martian Attack Tripod that ocassionally shows up and causes havoc to ensue.
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As you can see, he has an appetite for the “futuristic” STRATTON & GILLETTE, and tends to leave the 1954 version alone… for the time being at least.
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-Kevin
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My Aunt was around for the original broadcast of War of the Worlds. Lots of people missed the intro, and they thought it was real. They gathered in the streets awaiting the end.
The casket company’s ‘decoration’.
I want to have Pugs all over the place, like Menard’s has the German Shepherd on all of their structures, but HO Pugs are hard to come by. Even though they weren’t as popular a breed in the 50’s, mine are always around so I think they should be on the layout as well.
I also have the model Wat’s Cafe, in honor of my Uncle, who always liked to find new places to eat. Not sure what to put for my parents. If I have a stuffed and mounted HO loco somewhere I can replicate the picute I have as my Facebook picture, of me and my Dad posing in front of one of the locos at the RR Museum of PA when I was about 3. Or I could replicate an even early event. When I was a baby, I had a pal who crawled around with me, Petey the rabbit. Seems we had a pet rabbit because one time on a camping trip my Dad managed to drop the trailer hitch on my Mom’s foot, breaking it. To make up for it, he got her a pet bunny. That woud be easy to replicate, although I’d have to be sure to point it out to my sister as she’s the only other one left that even knows the story.
–Randy
We accomodate all passengers.
Not many odd things on the Boothbay Railway Village layout, here are a few
This delivery to Dragon Products cement plant appeared for a short time
Women see some humor in this pumpkin patch scene, I can’t imagine why
Crows are getting in the trash at the Seaman’s Memorial Park
Love is in the air up on the roof and stairs of the apartment building
I’ve got a few little scenes. There’s a mermaid on a rock, and Dorothy walking down the yellow brick road with the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Woodsman. Most of the humor is signs like Gump Forest National Park or the Sal Monella Ice Company. Elvis sings for his hound dog outside the Heartbreak Hotel.
Anyone park one of these next to a run down hotel?
