Nice job on several of these photos!
God knows I've been in my fair share of parades in my lifetime, growing up as a historical re-enactor. These days, I usually take my WW2 Jeep to parades with my living history group.
But all that said, I would never model a parade for two primary reasons, the second of which is the biggest one:
- My layout takes place in a very rural area, someplace you wouldn't normally see a parade
- I don't model something frozen in place when it should be moving.
Early on, while I was planning the layout, I thought about all the things I see in other layouts that drive me nuts. Whimsical stuff is usually first there, but it puts my teeth on edge when I see figures locked in a moving pose. So, the trains move but the people don't? So while getting, painting and detailing figures, I decided to only get them in statuc poses. I'm modeling a moving world, heace the trains that move. So, as I can't model people in motion, they should be either sitting and standing in a waiting pose.
So, no parades for me...
