Your Layout Vignettes

Can't speak for anyone else but the art in these scenes has definitely changed the way I planned to do the scenery on my layout.

1) Use of ballast, rocks and plants are a must unless it's a city scene.

2) My telephone poles need telephone wires. Wires make a HUGE difference.

3) Backdrops -- even simple ones -- are really good at fooling the eye and brain.

4) Real 3R parts like wires, wheels and trucks can be weathered and included to good effect.

I like MR Paul's idea of somehow bundling all of these into one book or file. They are great resource and offer a level of variety that I haven't seen in magazines or books on scenery.

Art....I believe that there are a couple of folks sitting on the front table of the White Castle.  Looks like the picture I took didn't get them in view and the rear table is empty!!  Well...maybe most folks took those sliders home to eat!!  I remember as a kid when we would drive to WC and order a dozen and take them home...boy does that bring back memories!

Alan

That is a lovely building, I love!  Nice, very natural but slightlyunusual sahpe to it, and good attention to detail.  Very nice!

Don't know if that's what she was designed for but all the guys on my layout would love to meet that blond wiping down the picnic table. Do you have her phone number?

Cheater's back!

- walt

.....lubrication is key!....

Here's another from the old layout.......

.....have you heard? Lionel has moved production to China......

 I put that sign up right after the move to China announcement.......it seems like yesterday, but it really was a long, long time ago.....

Peter

These guys have a LOT of confidence in the limited speed restriction on the high line!

= walt

One more!

I really like the car, and the out of focus background gives a neat effect.

Thank you Mark!

this car is a Ford 1949.

Andre.

Took me a while to get a decent shot of this. The iPhone is not much of a camera.

Another generator this time on the north side of the layout. I bought two of these on line unpainted then coated with reefer yellow paint and dusted with some of that liquid rust stuff and wiped. I like the look. The figure (Gus) is MTH and they usually show him petting a dog in the catalog. No dogs in his scale yet so I have him checking the fuel barrels next to the generator with a PRR ore car towering in the background. The label on the barrels is Penzoil -- of course.

Nice shot.

tip:

Use the app camera+.

Andre.

Great work all!!!  I am not the only one having fun with scenery-thought I'd throw a little fantasy in it! 

Keep 'em coming. One of the best threads ever!

Gene M.-Great stuff! Don't know if that's a prototype of the Baby Ruth factory, but I'll take one for a nickel please.

Pete-Excellent work! That Gulf station really looks like it's open for business.

Here are some more of my layout:

Scads of nice photos, Paul!  You'r modeling is really nice!

Thanks Mark B. Putting buildings together and scenery are my favorite aspects of model railroading. As Barry B. and Gunrunner will attest to, it sure beats the electrical/electronic aspects of this hobby!

You are the king of the snow scene! Looking at this photo makes me want to put on a sweater. And don't think I didn't spot Sir Winston Churchill flashing the victory sign over there to the right.

I was hoping to sneak him in as "Guy Hailing a Cab".

AS I mentioned earlier, I started in this thread with a few from 2007, moved to '08 and '09, and am now using 2010.  It's the only option that I have, having only a Christmas layout.

But they were vignettes, which is the topic, so I feel OK posting them.

- walt

Cheater returns!

Feeding the picnic goers.

- walt

Oh don't get me wrong Walt . . I think that's pretty amazing that these are all from different Holiday layouts. And of course they are a perfect fit for the topic!

This '53 Ford convertible was a my third car at the end of high school. Mine was a true 'rag' in many ways!

The others here were acquired during college years and afterwards.

Big Crab Cake, nice post. Where did you get those neat marching figures?

I've had good luck with TreeFrogTreasures. They carry W. Britain, King and Country and most of the other die cast figure collections. Most of these are considered 54mm size, so they don't come up in an "O'Scale Figure" Google search. Instead, try 54mm figures for other manufacturers. I've had good experiences with HobbyBunker and SierraToySoldiers as well.

Emile

Might that be Director Sousa right behind the color guard?

It is John Philip himself.

More on the picnic scene:

- walt

Two different vignettes: Earl's Oil with Texaco products. A Bar Mills kit.

BBC Brewery-Blake, Brody & Corbin, my three grandsons! I think this was a Walther's kit. The crew is taking a break while kegs full of beer are loaded on the trucks. That Milwaukee Road Boxcar has hatches on top for the used grain to be used as animal feed.