I imagine open flames are not welcome in your Disneylands ?? Nice work, Becky. love it.
Fantastic job Becky!!! 
WOW, Becky!!!!
I plan to pour some coffee this weekend and take time to really LOOK at all your work.
You could go into business with those cool trees!
All the best
ALAN
PLEASE , PLEASE share pictures of this year's version.
ALAN
I will, I will! 
OK, it's not Disneyland yet! But here are a few pics of my 4 by 6 postwar layout that's finished as of today:
"Sinclair" seemed about the only naming option for a gas station factory painted with pink and green trim. The pole sign was made by grinding out the inner ring or an empty spool from scotch tape with my Dremel. The sign itself is printed on vellum.
Not as easy to make out is the A&P sign I made the same way for the K-Line super market.
Light-ups are one of the oldest and easiest ways to add interest on a layout.
I use 54mm figures on this layout like the boy scouts shown here listening to a presentation by their campfire. Or this kid:
Or these guys:
Excuse me. How do I get to the Plasticville airport?
You go to the edge of town and hang an "up"!
No room on the main board, the airport is 5 feet higher on top of the dresser. Layoutus interruptus? 
You sure have fun doing this model RR stuff !! Nice. I enjoy seeing it.
Looks great, Becky!!!
I am adopting a similar strategy with my new layout. The mantle is full of my buildings with no trains, but visitors will be sitting in the middle of everything. The HO scale buildings are all going to a friend this weekend.
Alan
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pennytrains posted:OK, it's not Disneyland yet!
"Sinclair" seemed about the only naming option for a gas station factory painted with pink and green trim. The pole sign was made by grinding out the inner ring or an empty spool from scotch tape with my Dremel. The sign itself is printed on vellum.
Not as easy to make out is the A&P sign I made the same way for the K-Line super market.
Light-ups are one of the oldest and easiest ways to add interest on a layout.
I use 54mm figures on this layout like the boy scouts shown here listening to a presentation by their campfire. Or this kid:
Or these guys:
Excuse me. How do I get to the Plasticville airport?
You go to the edge of town and hang an "up"!
No room on the main board, the airport is 5 feet higher on top of the dresser. Layoutus interruptus?
Burly looking boy scouts. Cut down on the steroids.
Hello My friends, Nice work on your Christmas layout under the tree looks very nice. I like to see the American Flyer train under the Christmas tree looks great too I love it too. Thanks have fun with your Christmas layout with American Flyer trains. Thanks longbow57ca. I hope all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Thanks.
yardlet6 posted:Burly looking boy scouts. Cut down on the steroids.
Repros of Marx figures carved out waaaay before my time! Actually, that big shirtless guy is from a cowboys and indians set. I try to find any 54mm figure I can modify into a civilian. Cutting off feather head dresses is easy. I use ACW figures over on the tinplate layout:
I used to have a lot more space where I could construct reenactment battle scenes at my Plasticville farm. But since I decided to add my diecast vehicle collection to that layout I don't even have room for a small parade.
longbow57ca posted:Hello My friends, Nice work on your Christmas layout under the tree looks very nice. I like to see the American Flyer train under the Christmas tree looks great too I love it too. Thanks have fun with your Christmas layout with American Flyer trains. Thanks longbow57ca. I hope all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Thanks.
I've been in love with Flyer since first seeing my uncle's set under their tree after he married my aunt (who lived with us in those days). That Atlantic and it's red New Haven passenger cars has always said "American Flyer" to me. I have 2 Atlantics of my own now (300AC and 303) and many postwar freight cars, both link and knuckle, but no passenger cars yet. But I'm looking forward to the day when I'll have my own version of that set that inspired me one Christmas way back in the 1970's. 
pennytrains posted:longbow57ca posted:Hello My friends, Nice work on your Christmas layout under the tree looks very nice. I like to see the American Flyer train under the Christmas tree looks great too I love it too. Thanks have fun with your Christmas layout with American Flyer trains. Thanks longbow57ca. I hope all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. Thanks.
I've been in love with Flyer since first seeing my uncle's set under their tree after he married my aunt (who lived with us in those days). That Atlantic and it's red New Haven passenger cars has always said "American Flyer" to me. I have 2 Atlantics of my own now (300AC and 303) and many postwar freight cars, both link and knuckle, but no passenger cars yet. But I'm looking forward to the day when I'll have my own version of that set that inspired me one Christmas way back in the 1970's.
Hello Penny
I never forgotten the 1970's either (good old days in San Gabriel, So. ca.) I learned one thing that toy trains and Christmas always go together !!
Tiffany
Hello PENNYTRAINS, The American Flyer #300 AC and #303 locomotives were great runners too I like both of them too and also like my Frontier set with 3 coaches and my # 290 fright set as well. They would all look great under your Christmas tree and run great too. I am also a American flyer train nut too and also my Marx trains too they are my two favorite trains I play with over 60 years of them. I sure loved your Civil War soldiers on your layout that was cool my friend. You do great work on your layouts I just love it too. Thanks longbow57ca.
Scouts on "Roids", 
What's next a Billy Jack vs the puny Hulk movie?
(Look.close at the scout scene 
)
Hall of Presidents with a skylight or fold open roof "Ya gotta" 
Who is the last president in that Marx set you found ? (another thread)
2 Ikes and a Mamie.
Becky, you sure are talented! Fantastic or should I say "Fantasia" work.
Ron
Track cleaned, land cleared and cleaned, tree goes up tomorrow!
WOW! Awesome modeling! I have been to Disney World a few times but not Disney land. You have really captured the look and feel of the park. Well done!
I've never been to the left coast either! I went to WDW 5 times between 1979 and 91.
Better photos to come! (They'd have to be better, don't you think? )
pennytrains posted:
Better photos to come! (They'd have to be better, don't you think?
The slightly out of focus makes it more mystical!
Very nice, Penny.
Merry Christmas!
Absolutely awesome Penny! 
And Merry Christmas to you & yours! 
I second John's "absolutely awesome" comment.
Becky, you have a real talent. Keep up the good work.
Alan
Becky, how many elves do you have helping you making these individual items and the display? Do you do ALL this yourself? What an imaginations you have to assemble all this!
You should sell tickets for people to see this display.
None need travel beyond your living room to visit Disneyland. What fun.
Mill City posted:None need travel beyond your living room to visit Disneyland. What fun.
That is like listening to Rachmaninoff on CD or better yet on record VS. in a concert-hall!
Mill City posted:None need travel beyond your living room to visit Disneyland. What fun.
That is like listening to Rachmaninoff on CD or better yet on record (with all harmonics) VS. in a concert-hall!
PRRronbh posted:Becky, how many elves do you have helping you making these individual items and the display? Do you do ALL this yourself? What an imaginations you have to assemble all this!
You should sell tickets for people to see this display.
Help? What's that?
Pretty impressive holiday layout, and the photos do a very nice job of bringing it to life. Very nice indeed.
I'll just have to live vicariously through this thread.
Im the only "kid" in the whole family, cousins and all, that hasn't been there at least twice, and I cant really travel far anymore. Likely the Im the second biggest Disney fan out of all of us, to beat it all. The last time it crept up as a topic, nobody had realized, or could even beleive, that I never once got to go. Mom cried. Even all my Grandparents and two Great Grandfathers went every 4-5 years. I even stayed with Grandparents at the winter house 15 minutes away. They all went while I was shore fishing one day.
(I got used to it. I was the quiet guy that groups forget about and leave AT events too. Eventually, I either insisted on driving, or would often just stay home unless I at least had extra cash for food and a cab.)
I started building this in 2011 largely because my mom hasn't had a vacation since 1991. So I figured if we couldn't go to Disney, I'd bring it to her.
Now that's a really cool gesture.
Penny,
I am simply amazed at what you have accomplished. Where do you find the time to do all this modeling? Where do you store it all?
I really like the hot glue trees - I may borrow your technique.
Cheers,
Sean
Sean007 posted:Where do you find the time to do all this modeling? Where do you store it all?Sean
Well I can't work because of medical issues so I pretty much have all of my "spare" time to devote to railroading.
As to where I store it all, the biggest modules sit out the summer months on what's supposed to be my layout table. The smaller structures and accessories along with Standard gauge, G scale, items from my other Christmas layouts and my collection of paper rockets live in a large stack of boxes on 2 pallets in the workshop segment of the basement.
A few of the rockets I build when I'm not working on layouts:
Ever wonder what an O scale Saturn V would look like?
I've been working on a new 1:48 scale LEM model that blows this one out of the water for realism.
These are all over the place scale wise. I'm planning to rebuild most of them (and many more) to 1:96 which is what the tallest Saturn V is. (The one next to it is an Estes 1:100)
Built this little "Gadget" for an "unusual flatcar loads" contest. The golf ball with the thermonuclear core! 
Becky
I just spent several days going through this thread, incredible! Glad you made it over here, I used to check that other forum just to see your progress on Disneyland, but this thread is much more detailed. You have several years worth of articles for OGR right here. They are missing out if they haven't talked to you already. Great work!
That is super Cool!
I agree 110% on the OGR articles on the Disneyland feature. Would make an incredible series of articles.
