Hi Jamie; Another John Armstrong favorite of mine was his reproduction of Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting as a scene on the layout.
Other scale layouts featuring animation: The McMyler "Big Mac" coal dumper on the Garden State Railroad Club layout (since torn down): http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=gscrr >From the Proto-Layouts yahoo group, a British layout featuring animated log >loading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLI-BEFQhs&NR=1 Youtube has other annimation videos, I recall one that showed a steam shovel loading sand in cars that was well done. A company in Europe called Viessmann sells animated Prieser figures - careful, a couple of them coold earn us the Adult rating again! Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 3/1/11, jamiebothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, Pieter, and Anyone Else, > The article in question was in an > MR. I'm not sure I remember any John Armstrong > writings in any other magazine, although he did do some > books for Tab and Atlas. Mr. Armstrong also had a > place on his layout where you could crawl under a hill and > look out through the window of a small RR structure at the > moving trains. Rather reminds of some of the things > Peter is proposing. Similar views might be gained from > some of his buildings. Whatever Peter builds, I'm sure > it will be interesting. > Jamie Bothwell > Bethlehem, PA > > --- In [email protected], > Peter Vanvliet <pavanvliet@...> wrote: > > > > I remember that article (can't remember which magazine > it was in). > > > > Now that I can actually *see* the figures in my > engines, it kind of > > annoys me that the engineer and brakeman are looking > forward when the > > train is moving backwards. IIRC the article had the > engineer hanging out > > of the window, and only his head turned. > > > > I have thought about maybe making the entire > engineer's chair rotate. > > Has anybody ever experimented with that idea? Can we > get our mechanicals > > small enough to fit under the cab of an engine, > especially with DCC and > > sound incorporated? > > > > I, for one, intend to put as much *realistic* > animation on my layout as > > possible. I am getting ready to start scratchbuilding > structures for my > > layout. The ones in the back will have lights and > possibly even sounds. > > The ones in the front will be built such that the > internals of the > > structure are fully visible. The idea is that a giant > circular saw came > > through and cut of my layout right at the front > fascia, cutting > > buildings in half. I have seen a couple of layout > photos of this idea, > > and it really requires detailing the interiors, which > I like to do. I > > plan on having animation and lights in those > structures so that people > > can see figures working. That YouTube link showing the > fantastic work > > that this gentleman in Australia is doing in HO is > tremendously > > inspirational. He has other videos on the subject, if > you are not > > familiar with it. > > > > - Peter. > > > > On 03/01/2011 7:59 am, Pieter Roos wrote: > > > The late O scaler John Armstrong (The other John > Armstrong) wrote up building an engineer figure who turned > his had when the locomtive reversed. > > > > > > > > > > > > Pieter E. Roos > > > > > > > -- > > Peter Vanvliet (pavanvliet@..., or peter@...) > > Houston, Texas > > > > "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." > > > > http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) > > http://fourthray.com/ (my company) > > http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) > > -- > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
