Talltim Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Hexagon paving slabs in 60s-70s town centres. Alsol large hexagonal planters from the same era Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 For those who like the idea of festooning their layouts with working lights and their DCC trains with sound and lights. Friday night in a regional town. Loads of Police, cars and paddy wagons lined up whilst multiple brawls between shaven headed, short sleeve shirted drunks break out in the snow outside the bars, the station and taxi ranks. Similarly loads of miniskirted, skimpily dressed blondes having cat fights alongside the drunken brawls because "Tracey the slapper" "dissed" "Wayne" who is now being hauled off to a paddy wagon. All enhanced by hidden speakers randomly uttering incomprehensible screams, shouts and sounds of projectile vomiting, accurately modelled using dried PVA blobs and acrylic paint. On the station, security guards try vainly to protect the harassed staff from a crowd of disenchanted revellers who through their own stupidity missed their last train home. Meanwhile the last boozer-cruiser Class 150 chugs away at the platform to go in the opposite direction as the last train to wherever whilst freight and engineers trains trundle through the scene. Random bursts of a specially formulated "Eau de Vendredi Nuit", a heady mix of stale beer, vomit, sweaty Paco Rabane pour Homme and fish and chips/kebabs could be emitted randomly, helping to disguise the odours of the great unwashed viewing this oh-so typical scene in many regional towns of all sizes. Ideal for the fan of blue light models and railways..... Tracey and Wayne have set the period of the layout as the 90s. You'd need to update the names for a more modern layout, and, of course, add in lots of people filming the fights on their mobiles. The 150 can stay, but it would probably need a couple of repaints... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted January 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2015 Of the same era, and possibly using said planters, a High Street or other shopping street at the first stage of conversion to a pedestrian precinct, with the junctions blocked by bollards and planters, more planters, artfully placed and a few benches, but with kerbs, tarmac carriageway and road markings still in situ. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) Brick terraced housing one in the middle with 1:1 scale embossed stone cladding. (or a stone one with stone cladding like down my road!https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Chatsworth+Rd,+Chesterfield,+Derbyshire+S40+3JX/@53.231291,-1.460389,3a,52.5y,161h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si8zcNemT9FzcQU6T68wGJQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879850c8933ed25:0x516ec21c2c09f4ba!6m1!1e1) Terraced housing with some of the houses with windows modified (usually badly) to landscape format instead portrait. Edited January 13, 2015 by Talltim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2015 Mentioning taste. In one of my earlier posts I mentioned that we ought to model 1 footed pigeons that have lost a foot in point blades. Just to inspire modellers here's a prototype at Newport. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Jeez guys, steer clear of Mosques and German cattle trains, just no. If you want something political I saw a great railway/diorama depicting an ongoing demonstration about something suitable at the time IIRC it was poll tax on a layout set in the early 90s. What you do on your layout at home is up to you but I don't think anything too close to the wire will last long on the exhibition circuit, it's a fun hobby and a great forum can we not let politics get in the way of that? We did a "peace camp" complete with Greanpeace caravan on a Cumbernauld MRC layout, it was at the entrance to the "military establishment" that hid the fiddle yard. JIm 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I'm glad we dont see models of either of those crimes of Aesthetic Hooliganism!!! Id rather see arty graffiti than people with bad or no taste inflicting it on my eyes! A "Banksy" on a wall somewhere? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Brick terraced housing one in the middle with 1:1 scale embossed stone cladding. (or a stone one with stone cladding like down my road!https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Chatsworth+Rd,+Chesterfield,+Derbyshire+S40+3JX/@53.231291,-1.460389,3a,52.5y,161h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si8zcNemT9FzcQU6T68wGJQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879850c8933ed25:0x516ec21c2c09f4ba!6m1!1e1) Terraced housing with some of the houses with windows modified (usually badly) to landscape format instead portrait. In a similar vein, a few stone built terraces here with each house a different state of clean, the rain has cleaned a fair bit of soot and muck off them over the last 40 years but a few have been jet washed / blasted clean, others painted and some left how the weather left them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2015 Brick terraced housing one in the middle with 1:1 scale embossed stone cladding. (or a stone one with stone cladding like down my road!https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Chatsworth+Rd,+Chesterfield,+Derbyshire+S40+3JX/@53.231291,-1.460389,3a,52.5y,161h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1si8zcNemT9FzcQU6T68wGJQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879850c8933ed25:0x516ec21c2c09f4ba!6m1!1e1) Terraced housing with some of the houses with windows modified (usually badly) to landscape format instead portrait. When I lived in Burnham-on-Crouch about 30 years ago one of the Victorian terrace houses not only had 'landscape' casement windows but were 'half timbered' in cement rendering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm81 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 L plates on a car done. Complete with a roofsign with my name on...... We did consider using the actual registration of my 2005 black Fiesta, but decided that some g*t would probably clone the numberplate........ Blackmill June 2009_16s.jpg It does highlight the left hand drive and lack of people in the car though..... BTW, there's lots of reasons for stationary traffic and my learners usually aren't one of them............. Other detail in the pic - a direction sign to our club model railway exhibition. Cheers, Mick EDIT: pic courtesy Les Green Spooky, the same class 66 was on the bridge in my version of that view: No learner, just a minibus and a mini driver err.... asking for directions.... or something like that.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2015 Doing a 3-point turn? officially now described as "turn the car round using forward and reverse gears so that the car faces in the opposite direction" Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m.levin Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 how about a mosque Never seen a Mosque modelled, yet in most towns they dominate the sky line. Also the community that use these buildings or an individual that my use such building. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 officially now described as "turn the car round using forward and reverse gears so that the car faces in the opposite direction" Cheers, Mick Not a new development. I remember that description (or something very similar) from my own learner days in 1984. Contrary to my own perceptions, that was, apparently, quite a long time ago now . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 A "Banksy" on a wall somewhere? I did a Banksy on my APA box It was just waiting for someone from Network Rail to come along and assess if it could be removed in one piece to sell to the states for big bucks..... Steve 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-e Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) How about Railtour photo stops anyone done them before? or even just Railtour headboards on specials. This kind of thing 40122 1Z37 0930 Birmingham New Street -Welsh Branches Pathfinder Railtours 23.05.1987 Seen at Ebbw Vale Cheers Steve Edited January 14, 2015 by Steve-e 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Horse poo, if there are horse drawn vehicles, there'll be some horse poo somewhere near by... Not horse poo, but I did attempt to model sheep poo in a diorama I made some years ago. I tried a few different things with something less than success, until a gust of wind blew some of the freshly scattered grass scenics onto the still wet paint on the road. It gave me exactly the effect I wanted. I'm not sure if this photo shows it up very well, but it is under and behind the sheep on the road at the right of the junction. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Never seen a Mosque modelled, yet in most towns they dominate the sky line. Also the community that use these buildings or an individual that my use such building. You can already buy "arabs" on Ebay to populate outside the Mosque... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100pcs-Painted-Arabs-People-Figures-Model-fit-Ho-Scale-1-75-Train-Scenery-Layout-/251143002634?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item3a794a1a0a Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 14, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2015 Never seen a Mosque modelled, yet in most towns they dominate the sky line. Also the community that use these buildings or an individual that my use such building. You very rarely see any ethnic minorities modeled, even on layouts set in the modern day. The manufacturers seem to fight shy of producing such models, perhaps they are worried about the PC brigade? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted January 14, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2015 An elderly gent in a raincoat photographing trains from a stepladder? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 An elderly gent in a raincoat photographing trains from a stepladder? DEAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 14, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2015 An elderly gent in a raincoat photographing trains from a stepladder? Subbueteo made a set of figures for their table football that included press photographers both kneeling and standing. I always thought that these would make a good 'enthusiasts' cameo on a layout. They also made/make several different TV cameras that have been updated over the years from the massive 'box' cameras of the 50's/60's to a modern camera crew with shoulder held camera, 'furry mike' and satellite dishes. They also make a streaker (male or female) with two policemen in hot pursuit, truncheons at the ready. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Preiser make a set of figures entitled 'Trainspotters' (or whatever the German for that is) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Preiser-PR79210-79210-Trainspotters/dp/B000T2AMHA (Other retailers are available, but they need to work on their SEO) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) An elderly gent in a raincoat photographing trains from a stepladder? Or perhaps E. Wallis, wobbling around at the top of an LSWR sky signal post with his camera? (Reference the E. Wallis collection by Noodle books: wonderful. My only connection is as a customer, by the way) Edit: I mean the post is wobbly, not Mr Wallis. Edited January 14, 2015 by olivegreen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I'd like a 7mm scale Indian soldier in 1914 rig. It would be a nice tribute to those who came over to help. However, no one makes anything of the sort. I think its only recently that British soldiers became available in the scale. Ah well, at least I do have a sailor with kitbag. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium James Makin Posted January 14, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2015 An elderly gent in a raincoat photographing trains from a stepladder? On Loftus Road I've installed a chap on the end of the platform photographing our occasional steam specials, keeping to the realism I made sure to place him the wrong side of the "Do not pass this sign" notice... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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