Pictures of your village

SIRT - Thank you, but I only made it to 25, I've gotta take a nap. LOL 

That is a tutorial all its own.  If your working on a village or city scape there is some very nice work depicted in SIRT's post. See above...

A few from my small and crowded layout....

Nice DaveP.  It looks like you've put special interiors in some of your buildings (Toys and Gifts store) or did they come that way. 

Lee,

the Hardrock Cafe and Toy Store came that way from Lionel

Several years ago a visitor took a set of photos of my now 138 scratch built buildings on my trolley layout. These can be seen by going to http:// trainweb.org/crocon/trolleys/Les_index.htm 

Les Lewis

Les

I can't get the link to work

Al Galli

My little town:

Regards from Germany

Lars

Good morning, here is a few photos of my downtown area.

Lars, outstanding work!!!

Lars

Very nice!

Apologies to all the link should have read as ending in html.

Wonderful, Lars; charming, because you are telling the truth.

FrankM.

P.S. The tress add significantly to the overall effect, don't they.

A favorite spot of mine in the layout's village neighborhood, one of the first to be crafted into place...

FrankM.

Thanks Les.  There is also an extra space before train web.  

The level of craftsmanship shown in your pictures is extrodinary

Al

Vars, Frank and Al, - I love these scenes. -

What are they saying???? "You might think you're hot, but you better stay clear of my Husband!!!"

"Oh no another day of school", "Where's my lunch bag?"  "Don't step into the street until I tell you to!!!" 

"I am so tired of this snow, when is Spring coming?"

Lars, aside from the tracks in the street this looks like Logan, Utah ca 1952-1962.

Makes me positively homesick.

Thanks.

Hey Wood, I liked your captioning so much that I'm wondering if we should all post more photos here so you can do your magic in capturing the essence/narrative in words (?)

Really nice work on all the layouts guys!

Very nice Lars. do you have space between the buildings to see the Ice Cream store in the rear of the Woodland Scenics building?

Didn't work for us as well

Lots of good stuff everyone.

A few shots of my downtown area:

Moonson posted: Hey Wood, I liked your captioning so much that I'm wondering if we should all post more photos here so you can do your magic in capturing the essence/narrative in words (?)

Thank you, I know it's a little weird, but when I am laying out my figures, I literally get into the location and think about what's going on.  Some of the thoughts I wouldn't dare write here.....!!!! When I am viewing these scenes, to me it is just natural to imagine the magic...

The majority of these scenes are very artistically done.  I have learned a lot and am reconfiguring, building and making up my own new vignettes. 

Johnny, Nice spacing in your downtown area.  Precious space.  Nicely done. 

And, my caption is... "Where the h**l have you been Sam? I got the equipment here and we're just standing around waiting."

That is exactly what I do, referring in my mind to my crafting every scene/vignette as crafting a conversation: between/among figures; between the figures and the neighborhood; even including the appropriate vehicles in the conversation, as well as every tree and shrub (or absence or scarcity of them) as pertinent to what is being said = narrated.

FrankM.

What would your caption be for this moment?

All the cars are from "Neo Scale Models". This is a company from the Netherlands:

http://neoshop.replicars.nl/index.php

Kind regards

Lars 

Thank you very much. I have placed all the buildings very tight side by side. On the following picture you can see it better: 

Kind regards

Lars

In the evening:

And some more street running:

Kind regards

Lars

This is a tough one. I'm much better with pretty women....  This is an incredible scene Frank, great work.  OK here we go.

"So you wanna buy this place?  Been here 50 years.  It's what I do....  D**n barns gonna fall down soon and they'll have to carry me outta here... So I ain't selling to you kid!"

Moonson posted -

When people are attracted to realism, they sense the emotion. A.Wyeth

I just saw this.  Wow!!

Interiors.  Lars - Did you do this interior?  Outstanding, even if you bought it like that it is still outstanding.  I do not see much interior craftsmanship displayed in purchased buildings. 

 
Where did you get the traffic lights?  I have a source for some pretty nice lights but not of the quality you are showing in the picture below. 

Posted by Lars:

OK, and Thank you.

Want to try another?

A couple more village views, as you requested, Wood...

FrankM.

What an inspiring thread! Here's the downtown area on my layout:

Frank; your scenery is just unbelievable.

here a sidewalk view of mine.