Combining 2 favorite hobbies

[nwdrummer379]

I've been a school bus enthusiast since I was 5, and now I'm a part time school bus mechanic so buses have always been in the mix for me. I spend hours detailing and lettering HO buses, sometimes modeling exact ones that operate in my area, so when my layout is built there's no doubt I'll put a Blue Bird Body dealer on there to showcase my work on those.

[rlundy90]

I am a model railroader in fall winter and spring, an RC airplane builder spring, summer and fall and a leather carver when I'm not doing the other 2. They have all made me a better model builder. Thanks to model railroading I now have the skills and tools to superdetail my planes. I use Monokote covering material in black and yellow for tiedown straps on loads. It has a heat activated glue so it sticks to itself or pretty much anything else. You can put it around a load loose and shrink it to make it drum tight. I now use leather dye to color all my wood. Some of the tools from leather carving have become usefull for both RC Planes and model railroading. Next thing I am going to try is using leather carving to make patterns for modelmaking. I think it might work very well.

[ianacole]

Originally Posted by TRAINFAN9510

I think the scale is really close, keeping in mind how big the Chief is, and it is a decent sized military vehicle. It fits on the roads and keeps in one lane. The Falcon looks really to scale next to the bonanza. And they do make the covenant banshee and ghost, but we havent gotten any of those yet. We were thinking of having a covenant invasion and suspending them from the ceiling or something lol. And series 2 is coming out sometime in january, and it will have the tank and some other vehicles as well

Oh, I don't disagree that the scaled down right ... I just always imagined the Warthogs being the size of a open top Jeep or a buggy of some sort. I forget that Master Chief is huge.

With some of the electronics out now - flashing lights, welding look LEDs - you could make a pretty good battle scene. I think it'd be quite cool.

[HOexplorer]

I guess I'm the wierdo. Model railroading is it on my layout. Now if I could figure out how to integrate some ES Skyrim things I might be better off. Jim

[Lionel fan]

Neat! Since it is your layout, you can add whatever you wish to it. I really love Walt Disney World, I think it's a great place. So, I have a Disney Transport bus on my layout, along with characters like Goofy, Donald, Minnie, and Mickey.

[ianacole]

Originally Posted by HOexplorer

I guess I'm the wierdo. Model railroading is it on my layout. Now if I could figure out how to integrate some ES Skyrim things I might be better off. Jim

Ooooooo....maybe I need to figure out how to include my dragon from the Skyrim CE on a mountain top ... "EPIC" comes to mind

[TRAINFAN9510]

Sounds like some pretty sweet ideas in here. I have never played Skyrim, mainly because that is exactly the kind of game where I would play and nobody would see me for a month lol, but it does look really sweet. A dragon on a layout would be pretty cool, never thought of that. And yeah at times when looking at the Warthog compared to a train, it does seem a tad on the bigger side than the smaller (although they claim to be about 1:100), but like with the planes in 1/72 scale, only we really know, and it doesnt make that much a difference anyway as long as you are having fun

[Fazoo]

These are some great ideas...especially the futuristic set-ups. Would love to see pics of those!

[TRAINFAN9510]

Originally Posted by Fazoo

These are some great ideas...especially the futuristic set-ups. Would love to see pics of those!

Working on it! Work has been crazy these past few months, 70+ hours a week so the layout has been put on the back burner. Layoff isnt that far out, so for now (while I have money rolling in ) we have been stocking up on accessories and vehicles and such. Ill build up the Halo army and put a pic up sometime. The problem for us is that our layout has a lot of fun areas and scenes we want to do, we dont know where to start!

[Larry]

There's a Man & his Wife that comes to the Plant City, Fla. train shows in March every year or almost every year & they have a Modular layout that is about 20ft long & 6ft wide in HO scale & they have some weird stuff that happens on the whole layout. Earthquakes, big buildings on fire, buildings being demolished, war zone, Space ship attacking earth, flood, large train wrecks, train hitting a semi, dinosaurs attacking a city & a Dragon w/fire shooting out of his mouth. All of these are mechanical operating all the times the trains are running. The layout really looks like crap, but, they get a lot of people taking pictures & the kids love it.