Your Layout Vignettes

Moving on to 2012:

Inspired by Jim P.!

It was made by Corgi.  It is a Greyhound Scenicruiser - made by GM circa 1954 - 1960. Scale 1:50.  It is a very nice model with good interior, windows and details.  Mine came with a "certificate" saying it was one of 6700  - but they are easy to find, I think estimate at least 50 of those are out there on internet sites for sale at any one time.  There were several for sale on Amazon by associate sellers on the day I ordered, although there is only one today and it is an unpainted one.  Here are photos of mine, received about two weeks ago. Cost was around $100.  Last photos show it with a 1:50 Corgi model of the preceding series of GM buses made for Grehound, which is already converted to 'Streets (and the Scenicruiser will be by the end of this week)

The coffee drinker. Nothing fancy but we both start our morning with coffee and trains. I post this otherwise ordinary photo because I took AG's advice and got the Camera+ app for my iPhone. After some playing around I was pleased with the effects I was able to get.

No matter what changes, the coffee cup shall remain a vital part of the job.  I got this statement about coffee from a manual about some high tech stuff at work that I don't understand.  

Glad to have helped!

did you see the (+) in the crosshair corner? do you know how to use it?

AG.

inspection pit.

Andre.

Yes, I've seen it. But no, haven't figured it out yet. Just gave it a tap and I see "Exposure" and "Focus". If the Exposure adjustment means I can get good night photos that would be awesome! Will try it out this evening. Thanks!

Scott, great scene, simple, quiet, and very nicely rendered.  Good photo, too  And you reminded me, I've got add a coffee shop on my downtown somewhere, coffee being so important to me each morning.  .

Thanks Lee! Coming from you that is quite a compliment.

P.S. When time permits please roll up 11 posts and see the request for you to consider doing the used car lot scene from Psycho with Janet Leigh and John Anderson. Of course, I would not be surprised if you already have it.

Beautiful aircraft and a beautiful job installing it on your layout. The Constellation has always been one of my favorite aircraft. For reference, not too far from where I live, Lufthansa has been retrofitting a Constellation to be used for marketing purposes at airshows and the like.

Great info, thanks!  Upon further inspection, it's not the bus I rode on all summer of 1996...close, but not $100 close. 

Excellent use of B/W. Luv it.

Man! There are some great scenes here!! I will go through this thread over and over. What inspiration and talent  

Andy

Waiting to come into town on a busy weekend.

I was hoping that someone, besides me , would keep this going.  Thanks!

But since it's still going, 2012 continues on:

- walt

Father Lionel readies for Mass atop his new cliffside cathedral.

-Pete

Moving Day

Speak for yourself. Well done sir. 

Looks like one of those high altitude monasteries James Bond fought the bad guy in a time or two. Neat imagination. 

Nice scene AG!  Great detail!   I think I lived next door to this guy years ago.

Real nice shot, I enjoy using black and white , it hides the toy look of the us who don't weather our layout.

a 2012 Candy bar delivery

- walt

You'll need an insulin tanker somewhere in that lash up. 

nice photos everyone. Really like the B&W closeup and John's airplane without shadows. That would make a good article.

Here is part of module made for FCTT. You may see it in NE at one of the shows they do.

All of these are very nice.  I really like the glistening water and composition of this photo.

Better watch out for those seedy characters looming in the dark

- walt

Finally got back to this fabulous thread....

Alan

"enjoying the morning arrivals..."

Thank you!

Could be, I saw him in few pictures.

AG.

Nothing like natural light.

Nice shot!

Andre.

Thanks Andre!!....

Alan

Here's my High Desert Vignette:

A Desert Cat examines a Rockhound's overturned Jeep.

RIP TRACK  (click to enlarge)

At Scott T. Johnson's suggestion, here's one of my layout moments...

Hows that, Scott (and guys)?

Wonderful.

FrankM

Vignettes are small visual items of secondary interest, as part of the larger scene...something not very important.

I call them "yawnettes".

Rip Track

Full Definition of VIGNETTE

HEY JON,  (looks like somebody got the "H" outta there...)

I looked at all the definitions of Vignette before I wrote that post.  I like MY definition best.

RIP TRACK

Fantastic Frank. Would love to see more of your work. I may even transfer the antique shop scene over for you!

That's clever, Rip Track. You coined an immediately understood term and brought a smile to my face. And yet, when I saw shots you have posted of your layout, there was no yawning. Instead, I admired your individuality. Also, you said (if I recall correctly) that your layout modeled an area like where you live presently. I've never been to such an arid place, so I surely couldn't model it, having no idea what I'd be "talking" about. I'd have to take your word for it, which I do, of course. But "yawn, no, because I try not to do so when I am being educated about something not known to me.

In fact, I have not ever found myself "yawning" in anybody's direction anywhere on this entire forum since I take all the peeks we are granted, from time to time, into a fellow hobbbyist's imagination and enjoyment of life to be enjoyable, not once boring (as yawning can imply.) Maybe, there's a noteworthy difference between you and me we have just discovered. Good. Variety is the spice-of-life, I believe. And I can see you are having fun, with your layout and here.

Yes, Frank sure comes up with some great vignettes!  This one is of such an ordinary part of life, it is fantastic!