Super Hero City?

Simple answer: nope! Check the Halloween layouts I reckon!

 

Best regards,

 

Good luck!

 

Mike Maurice

Not that I know of, but it would be cool to see a layout done depicting Gotham City in the later Batman movies

 

 

Thought about doing a Gotham city on a layout....but tends to restrict you a bit much IMHO. I did build the train for it. Never got further......

I thought maybe a compilation a buildings from the movie and TV show. Some Gotham building, The Baxter building from the Fantastic four, Iron Man's Mansion......Mix in some villains. I think It would be interesting. What brought this up is I'm going to do a movie studio filming Star Wars (not sure which seen yet) and maybe Star Trek.

Me thinks there is a trainmaster missing its rear end , and an a lonely Aunit out there.

Nice job, very creative.

Fun stuff. Sure go for it! I'm a big fan of the fantastic. I used to have a sci- fi themed model city. Here is a link http://www.andyestep.com/future%20city.html

I love the Gotham engine great job looks right out of the 90's cartoon.

This would be a fantastic and FUN theme for a layout.  I am having so much fun with my TV detectives theme, and a superheroes theme would be just . . . well . . . super!  There is tremendous room for creativity, fun, and particularly, not taking yourself, the layout, or superheroes too seriously here, which I think is the essence of making it a success.

 

Go for it.  And come here to share - with pictures, PLEASE!!!

Start with a trainmaster,  rearrange or cut up the body to move the cab all the way to the now near. Add a steam loco type roof and a old Shark Nose front end. Fluting on the running board sides. For the tender take a B unit, sand off most the detail below the belt level, add fluted skirting. Custom decals and Gotham!

 

And yes...inspired by the 90's era animated Batman shows....my son wayched them over and over!!!

Hot Wheels offers various 1/50 scale Batmobiles.  I have the one from Batman: The Animated Series from the 1990s, which I believe is actually 1/64 given how much bigger it was than the other cars in the show.  That show, together with The New Batman/Superman Adventures which immediately followed the previous series mentioned, has been a foundational inspiration for my O gauge choices.

 

By the way, I love your custom loco design.  I looked up some of the episodes on YouTube within the past year or so, and noticed the creators actually did a good job at recreating real locos.  I've seen one based on the Dreyfuss J3a and one based on the Loewy K4.

 

Aaron

Gorgi made a lot of Batman, Joker etc cars from various eras. I always thought a Super Hero Used Cars lot would make a good diorama.

 

Steve

The thing you need to make it work are the O scale sized figures of all the Super Heros. They are very hard to find.

 

Hand carved miniature figures with all the details can be made, as long a you have all the tools and materials, plus a lot of distraction free time.

 

To make the 1:48th Scale Super Hero figures for a personal collection you would have to get a 3D modeling program to produce digital character sculptures. The program has to be one that can be used to supply the data for a high resolution 3D printer.

 

Andrew

Here is a source for small Super Hero figures that could be used in an O gauge setting.

 

http://necaonline.com/category.../toys/heroclix-figs/

 

Andrew

You can certainly make your own with a little "editing" of existing figures.  I do this and its not that hard, although a set of good 3.25+ eyeglasses for close in work, and a #11 bladed X-Acto and similar tools are a must. 

 

I've had very good luck with modifying 1:48 Preisser, JTT, Bachman, MTH, Woodland Scenics figures - anything that is plastic and not hard rubber like many of Lionel's etc.  I have not done Superheros, but I've put dresses on women figures in bikinis (and haircurlers on one), re-posed them but cutting and gluing arms and legs, filed figures to change shape and repainted clothing, etc.  Certain Superhereos could be done.  You can cut and re-glue arms and legs to pose them as you want.  One trick is to paint the entire figure, or parts of it, with Emers glue and let it dry: every coat adds 5 to 10 pounds of weight to the figure - several coats overall will turn a svelt figure into a fat person - several coats applied to arms and chest will turn a scrawny figure into the man of steel!

 

My figure of Trayne Rekk, my own bad-boy detective creation, was an old man riding a bicycle.  Here he is running after a bad guy, which I also made., I also have Trayne Rekk on another scene on the layout crouching behind a barrel in a gunfight with ban robbers, etc. 

Carroll Shelby below I made from a standard figure, added the hat, painted the outfit and sunglasses, etc., to match a photo I had of him from the '70s.  The woman to the left is an MTH figure that comes packaged in a bikini - I glued tissue paper on her below the waist for the dress she is wearing now. 

At at a comic book and games store called FANFARE in Kalamazoo, MI they had a large number of the Heroclix figures.

 

The Heroclix figures are made well enough that they can be used on an O scale railroad layout as soon as they can be popped off the game bases.

 

It will save a lot of time required for sculpting and painting. The figures can cost anywhere from $1 to $10. The average price is $3 each. There are numerous character sets.

 

 

 

There are also vehicles for Batman's Gotham City.

 

That will help you build your Gotham City and Batman scenes for O gauge and O Scale.

 

 

Andrew

I surely hope you do this.  A layout build with this theme running through it could be so much additional fun!