Beap52 1,797 #1 Posted yesterday at 12:40 AM During the winter months, I take to playing with the model train layout I've got in the basement. It's "L" shaped and is 11 feet by 22 feet. It's a great way to while away time when there's no grass to mow. The assisted living where mom lives has asked me to bring a train set up and leave it for them for a few days. If it's successful I'd like to do a snow scene next year. So I practiced making a small diorama. It's probably 24" square. I got a little heavy handed with the fake snow but it's learning as I go. This diorama is made of drywall compound, paste board boxes cut in strips, assorted paint, paper mache run through blender, wire and rope for trees and/or cuttings from trees in back yard and glue and some hair spray. I've probably got 8 or ten hours in this project. 5 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bar Nuthin 1,906 #2 Posted yesterday at 12:51 AM I grew up about a block away from an old gentleman who was supposedly a model train legend. He had shelves and shelves of collectible engines, cars, miniatures, etc. They removed a wall between 2 upstairs bedrooms, where he had a fascinating layout. Us kids were allowed to look but NOT TOUCH. His name was Ed Crismore, from Uniondale, IN. 6 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 76,053 #3 Posted yesterday at 02:18 AM 1 hour ago, Beap52 said: making a small diorama Very cool 1 hour ago, Beap52 said: paper mache run through blender I feel another SWMBO or Ball n Chain issue forthcoming. 🤔 Did we ask permission to use the blender? Did we eat the paper mache? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beap52 1,797 #4 Posted yesterday at 02:47 AM 24 minutes ago, ebinmaine said: Did we ask permission to use the blender? Did we eat the paper mache? If I'm quiet for a few days, you all will know I've had the computer taken away from me! If I had to do it over again, I'd ate a couple spoons of the mache and claimed clabbered milk made this pudding bad. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne0 1,428 #6 Posted 22 hours ago When I was a kid, my uncle had the the biggest HO lay out I've ever seen. 4 tracks running around the whole basement. Huge (to me) controller. Through walls, tunnels, trestles. Whole towns with lighting, cars, crossings with working gates. It was fascinating to a 10 year old! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 76,053 #7 Posted 8 hours ago 13 hours ago, Wayne0 said: When I was a kid, my uncle had the the biggest HO lay out I've ever seen. 4 tracks running around the whole basement. Huge (to me) controller. Through walls, tunnels, trestles. Whole towns with lighting, cars, crossings with working gates. It was fascinating to a 10 year old! Love that. As a teen I had a school friend who's house I'd only been to twice. Once I went over and his dad had a huge layout in the basement. IIRC it was something around 8 x 12 feet of actual train set-up and more space dedicated to storage for cars engines detail work supplies etc. It was incredible. Mountain scene with the far side being several feet higher than the near side. Many trains. Many. The power consumption alone would have been an issue for most people. Museum quality material and details. A few years goes by. .... I stop by again to see... THE most incredible set-up of a home operation for raising aquarium fish. The entire train everything was completely relocated and in its place was a massive rack of tanks. It too, of course, was beautifully done. Better than any pet store I've ever seen. 🐟 🐠 🎣 🐡 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
