Several years ago, I went to the Toronto Christmas train show. There was an S group there with a large modular setup.
They had animations all around the display. Don't if some were 'always run' but many had push-to-start buttons accessible by the public to bring the layout to life non-train wise. Ken On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Andrew_Malette <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting thread. To animate or not animate that is the question. > > Four score and 50 years ago a young lad had a Flyer Observation Car that > had > a rather poor looking brakeman going in and out of the end observation > platform. It was really cool but the noise the relay made was annoying to > said young fellow. > > Back to the present, every time this fellow has people over to operate the > scale layout, he is encouraged by like scalers from different scales to > have > an operating stand pipe. At least have it move, they say. > > One of our members of our workshop group, Pete Moffet, has operating scale > accesories that are push button on both sides of his modules. The spout on > the enclosed water tower goes down and you can hear water gushing. Also > there is always a Morse Code sender sounding when you go by the station. > When we display in public, the audience really loves it. All that is > missing is the smell of Creosote. > > I will probably animate the stand pipe to have it move towards the loco > being serviced. It is on the Brewery module. Having it pour a beer would > be stretching it although I know some people who would love it... > > > cheers, > > > Andy Malette > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
