My wife has been trying to put together a graveyard next to a church for a while now.
This will be her third try. The first was using ground foam. The second using a grass type matt. Neither looked real enough for her.
I think she just needs a few photos to get her started. So if you have em, please post em’…
(Or if you have tips for her)
~D
Google is a wonderful thing ain’t it ? [;)]
Hi–
I’ll be putting together a cemetery before too long on my n-scale layout (thankfully none of the little people have passed away yet, so I’ve still got some time to get to it) based loosely on one near where I grew up. But so far, no photos to show–will post them when I get it done.
In what era are you modeling? This will often determine the shape and size of the stones. Is it the shape of the tombstones, layout of the stones, size of the yard. etc.? Does she plan to group them closely or is this in a large field?
Like the Grim Reaper?
Here’s a module that I completed last week and had at the Timonium MD GSMTS last weekend.
Hey We Saw That! We were oogling over it. Nice work! It was clever to put the graveyard on the other side of the street. Few people think of that.
OK, here’s the dirt on two of the better R.I.P. threads:
We gather on this solemn occasion (pics)…
http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/848323/ShowPost.aspx
Do you have a grave yard on your layout?..
Just saw the episode of CSI that featured the “Miniature Killer”. Talking about how mental model railroaders are that get lost in their little worlds.[xx(] One of the things they depicted as “twisted” was a modeler putting a grave yard on his layout and all the home made figure molds he had which included grave stones and the Grim Reaper![(-D]
Isn’t it great how some people view us!!![:P]
That is some very nice work. like your grade crossings and roadway, too.
Thanks for the compliments. This was the first module that I’ve done and the first scenery in about 20 years. I got involved with the Four County Society of Model Engineers last year and the standards are pretty high. We had our modular layout featured in Railroad Model Craftsman last October and we were in GMR 2005. If you look at either of those articles you 'll see that my module is really pretty simple, which was my objective. To have a relative easy module to build and do it to a very high level of quality.
Joe Fugate gets some the credit for my roads, I followed his lead in using .03 inch styrene sheet. the grade crossing was scratch built from styrene planks.
I’m working on the plans for my next one, It will have more complex trackwork and ultimately lead to a hidden staging area.
This must be where the people who didn’t stop, look, and listen get buried…
Charlie Comstock