Skip,Alan,
You both have captured the big city scene fantastically.
Russ,
Ilook at your scene and see Brooklyn viewed from the Brooklyn-Queens expressway.
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Skip,Alan,
You both have captured the big city scene fantastically.
Russ,
Ilook at your scene and see Brooklyn viewed from the Brooklyn-Queens expressway.
Hey CHILOQUINRUSS! Your O scale scenes are really amazing. Particularly of interest are the elevated line by your tall buildings. I once wanted to build a high line near the waterfront on my O scale layout, I am encouraged by yours. Thanks for the photos.
leroof.
Elevated is really easy too if you take artistic license. Russ
W&W posted:
Very nice Craig ... great placement of Grand Central Terminal ...are the concrete railings a commercial product?
I also have the GCT and have been searching for a similar railings
Wow there are some incredible layouts out there ...a big thanks to everyone for posting images
And I though GCT was tall......
Years ago Bachmann had a series of HO buildings called Spectrum Cityscenes. They would make great forced perspective structures. You can occasionally find them on Amazon and Ebay.
The former RCA Building, now the Comcast Building, is also known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Along side is the New Yorker Hotel and Pennsylvania Station. We took a lot of geographical liberties in the interest of making the best use of the limited real estate.
Carey Williams posted:W&W posted:Very nice Craig ... great placement of Grand Central Terminal ...are the concrete railings a commercial product?
I also have the GCT and have been searching for a similar railings
Wow there are some incredible layouts out there ...a big thanks to everyone for posting images
And I though GCT was tall......
Carey,
Concrete railings were made for me by Stan at East Coast Enterprises. He also made the MetLife and the other taller buildings.
Just a random comment:
I have always thought that even really good models of large, modern buildings tend to look less realistic than equivalent models of more traditional buildings. But then I started to actually look at real modern skyscrapers. The fact is that the REAL ones look fake, too!
Looking at real architecture with a modeler's eye is revealing in many ways.
Avanti posted:Just a random comment:
I have always thought that even really good models of large, modern buildings tend to look less realistic than equivalent models of more traditional buildings. But then I started to actually look at real modern skyscrapers. The fact is that the REAL ones look fake, too!
Looking at real architecture with a modeler's eye is revealing in many ways.
I agree 100%. I like to model the buildings of the Art Deco era of the early 20th century, but could have saved a bundle of money going with the modern.
Part of the 'not looking real' issue is when we look at most model railroads we are viewing them from the Goodyear Blimp! Duck down to track level and watch a train run around the layout and those skyscrapers become AWESOME! Same buildings, different perspective! Russ
Skip your representation of the real "Downtown" is fantastic.
Paul you've got some of your own man made canyons going on there.
Alan you are the master of the skyscraper. I always like seeing the "Bridge" building.
coach joe posted:Skip your representation of the real "Downtown" is fantastic.
Paul you've got some of your own man made canyons going on there.
Alan you are the master of the skyscraper. I always like seeing the "Bridge" building.
Thanks Joe....that bridge building has an interesting story and was my wife's idea as to what to do about two bridges I had no room for on the layout...
OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:coach joe posted:Skip your representation of the real "Downtown" is fantastic.
Paul you've got some of your own man made canyons going on there.
Alan you are the master of the skyscraper. I always like seeing the "Bridge" building.
Thanks Joe....that bridge building has an interesting story and was my wife's idea as to what to do about two bridges I had no room for on the layout...
There was that big river to cross.
Really impressive! Stunning actually! I had the fun of seeing Bill Bramlage's layout in person north of Cincy. It too had a city scape that was almost beyond belief… almost.
If you have a chance to get to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, check out the HO railroad the emulates the route of the BNSF (sponsored by them) which goes from Chicago to Seattle. Chicago is done in full scale with the Willis (nee Sears) tower extending up at least 15 feet. You need high ceilings when you want to do these things.
Above the tower is the underside of a the wing of a Boeing 727 in 1:1 scale. Impressive space!
Amazing what you can do with an almost unlimited budget and lots and lots of room… Kind of humbling, ain't it.
Skip, very nice ESB!
Alan, just one word, "awe"!
Thanks Joe!
Hey Skip...where are you!! ... ? Here is one that many of you have seen in the recent Publisher's Corner series of articles:
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