Farm details

Be sure to include an outhouse on the farm:

LOL, Arnold

I love it. 

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Be sure to include an outhouse on the farm:

LOL, Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari

Arnold:

I have heard of a brick s**t house but, a stone one? That is impressive!!!!!

Ertl farm sets, (closer to S gauge) work well for a complete farm.

Panoramic shot of Ole McDonald's farm:

Another one:

Arnold

Nice!

A farm at the edge of town.

Nothing like a farm on the layout; the two go together. We have a friend in Vermont who has a family dairy farm and still has a train running along their fields.

On our prior holiday layout we had a small triangle of empty space coming off a curve and filled it with a modest gentleman's farm. It had a small footprint but it was always a favorite scene. The bull and milking maiden are Arttista, the corn stalks and hay bales JTT Scenery, and the cows Woodland Scenics. Somewhere in the corn stalks is a scarecrow from Scenery Express. At one time Hobby Lobby was your friend for scenery items as they allowed you to use a 40% off 1 item each time you came in the store, but alas, no more.

When we get another layout up (if?), a farm is in the plans

Mooner, I love your farm!

The Sirus Clegget Farm as seen from a passing train on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway during the summer of 2016.

Farm in suburban Terryville.

Did someone mention milking time?

Here are pictures of my farm.  I was fortunate to find a pig house on Ebay. I made the chicken coop, it is a Berkshire Valley kit.  I painted the chickens.  I have crows in the field, on the roof and on the silo.

I forgot to mention, the pigs are 2 individual sets, one is HO scale (the babies) the other O scale (the adults).

John Cubic, IMO your farm scenery is outstanding.

For those who modelling skills are not spectacular, like me, you can still make a nice farm scene and have a lot of fun creating it. I did.

Arnold

PS, my favorite thing is the O Scale corn stalks, which were made by Woodland Scenics if my memory serves me correctly.

Looks great Arnold.

Yet remember, every real farm has a black, 55 gallon burn barrel, just outside of the house.  It is shot full of holes so that lots of air can get in when you are burning the trash.  No trash pickup service in farm country.  Whatever you can't burn, you've got to put in the back of the pickup and haul to the dump on Saturday, . . . or bury it!   :-)

Mannyrock

Stone walls chickens, crates, tractors, implements, etc etc.  This farm is named after where worked as a teenager.  The trees, now gone, were 75 years old back in the mid-1980s.  The barn is scratch-built and modeled after a dairy barn, now part of a preserved state park, in my hometown. My parents knew the owners - the wife was friends with Amelia Earhart ! 

Very nice barn!

Here's some more pics of Sirus Clegget's farm on my layout.

Rural road leading to the Clegget farm.   ( This road was made from roofing shingles. )

Sirus tips his hat as he gets ready to take a load of hogs to the market.  His son Little Sirus tills away in the vegetable garden as Enbeesee the peacock prances around spreading his feathers.

Hardly noticed by the farm hands, a train passes by the farm.

Edna Clegget, Sirus' wife, walks among the cattle. She's stepping carefully to avoid the cow pies.

Once Sirus left with his truck load of hogs, Uncle Jasper backs his tractor with a trailer load of hay into the driveway.  Time to feed the cows!  

Some very beautiful farms, thanks for sharing!

Here are a few of mine....

Donald

@John Cubic posted:

I forgot to mention, the pigs are 2 individual sets, one is HO scale (the babies) the other O scale (the adults).

I never in my LONG modeling life have I ever thought of such a SMART thing to do.  Brilliant thinking.  My next trip to the LHS will have me looking at HO animals now!.  Thanks for the idea.

walt