Everyone has a different layout especially for freelancer. This is no different than kitbash structures.
How is your structure is or gonna be different? I for one plan of having three model size baseball stadiums (high school, college, and pro) and two football stadiums (college and pro).
I hope you are modelling in T-scale…
I’m modeling in ho and i have enough room for one town
Unless you have a supermarket-size layout space you probably have enough space for one stadium - and not much else.
As far as one-of-a-kind structures, I have the kit for (but have yet to erect) a five-tiered pagoda. It has a designated location, but the understructure is still incomplete.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
When I said model size i mean not the size designer or sports team owners use for new stadiums or arenas.
I meant big enough for the layout but also small enough not to take up the layout.
Someone back in the late 1950s put an interesting photo of a one-of-a-kind in ME. The person just put together an assortment of plastic model sprues and a few other items, wound a number of Grain o’Wheat bulbs, and set it into an industrial type setting. Called itt a chemical plant.
I’m planning on having a nice size football stadium not too big but not too small with small bulbs for the interior lights.
You do realize that an HO sized football stadium is over 4 feet long and 2 feet wide with stands?
If you really model a scale sized baseball stadium {or three} and a Football stadium {or two}, you had better have a LOT of real estate to devote to these lofty endeavours.
If you “have room for one small town”, you will certainly have to use “selective” compression to even get just ONE basball diamond and ONE football field in there, let alone 5 stadiums.
Those who have modeled such have used selective compression and a representation of such fields by miniaturizing and compressing them as small fields not actual scaled down full-sized stadiums.
Good luck.
Build the stadium or diamond in N scale or smaller, and use it in a background scene to give some forced perspective.MR and RMC have shown photos of ball diamonds, but I had the impression they’d be scaled about right for “T” ball. I seem to recall only one photo of a college football stadium in HO, but even with selective compression, it was still apparently about 2.5’ long by something over 1.5’ wide.
I never decided to use a model train scale so i will build it to a reasonable for the stadiums.
i have decided to merge the college teams with the pro to save time and space.
my layout is 100% freelance who i only plan on having one city and or rural towns.
So…, I guess you’re not a big fan of adhering to 1:160/1:87.1/1:48 /etc. ratios, eh?
I can think of several Arena built on top of major passenger stations (Madision Square Garden - Penn Station, NY; Barclay’s Center, Brooklyn - Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn (under construction); TD Garden - North Station, Boston), but I can’t think of any football stadiums which are over trainyards or passenger stations (the aborted West Side Statium in Manhattan would have been an example, over the MTA/LIRR West Side yards, but that never happened)
In the final analysis, it’s your layout, you can do it whatever way you want.
This is post isn’t about me, it’s about model railroading. I gave my thoughts on the post, your turn.
This will be on my indoor G layout, this is from the movie Rocketeer, but its based on a real building, actually 2 real buildings: this one from Venice Ca.
and this one which was somewhere in Southern California:
Should be a fun challenge at 1/2" scale
WOW!
Not truly one-of-a-kind, it has been done in several scales over the years, and even an old Railroad Modeler mag had a freelance article on setting it up. I know of one in a suburb of Rio de Janiero. In fact, along the same lines I thought of another similar thing.
A lot of people may remember the Victoria Station line of restaraunts, where a couple boxcars were blended into a conventional building. Roundhouse/MDC had a freelance kit for one. Instead of box cars, how about using a portion of an old retired Airplane? When I was in Rio in 2004, I saw a restaraunt where the fuselage of a DC-3 was built into the second floor. It stuck out over the sidewalk and part of the street high enough to clar the busses. The RM article IIRC used a more modern 737 fuselage.
The other idea was similar to the rather ubiquitous old Trolley car or passenger car converted into a diner. On a number of business trips to Altoona, Pa., I’d stop at a roadside hot dog joint converted from an old caboose. A large serving window with a shelf and drop down shade provided curbside food and beverages with outside patio and picnic type bench seating. They had great chili, chili dogs, and sloppy joes.
I think it’s great that people find uses for old unrepairable material like they do with old airplanes. A caboose could make a great bed and a tank car could store water for farmers’ crops.
You beat us all with this one! My one-of-kind structure is in the same theme, at least for the religious aspect of it. Some parts where already cut, the place is selected, but it’s far to be a priority. I concentrate my effort to get the ordinary ready before doing more fluff.
Matt