Scenes in your layout

These kinds of scenes are what attracted me to virtual railroading!

For me, laying track and driving trains don't spark my interest like realistic scenes - slices of a life I wish existed today.

It would be nice if there were a group in the Auran forums which focused on something smaller than routes: scenes like the ones in this thread.

Wes
 
Back in the 1960's two blokes discussing their wheels... for the Aussies it's the whole Ford vs Holden debate... which rages to this very day.

(Again, Neoklai's animated people).

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Back in the 1960's two blokes discussing their wheels... for the Aussies it's the whole Ford vs Holden debate... which rages to this very day.
Forest Runner.

Na !!! that whole debate was sorted back in the early 70's when the HQ and the Monaro's came out. Holden has ruled ever since... :hehe:
Cheers, Mac...
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On my JCTR route that I am working on, I have set up animated scenes all over the completed area of the layout. People walking down the sidewalks, people talking, things like that. The entire layout is just a mashup of various scenes that I recreated from images of the urban part of North Jersey.
 
I'm thinking of putting a bus that has skidded out of control and has crashed into a pole into my route. Please tell me if I should put a bus that fell into a dighole instead. I know! I'll do both!
 
In a route I was working on a while back called Shoreline East, in the city of New Haven, I set up a building next to the tracks that was surrounded by police/SWAT from the aftermath of a big drug raid. With a large crowd of onlookers. Wish I could find the pictures on photobucket.:o:hehe:
 
Here are more of mine. The bus crashed into the pole:

A crashed aeroplane:

The AJS traffic system intersection:

Two cranes lift a bus out of a DigHole:

Andi06's Junction Kit is used to make every turnout/switch on my layout:
 
I like to put scenes in my routes to provide visual interest and perhaps a touch of humor, and I appreciate it when other route-builders do, too. I usually keep them simple and plausible, like a sports car pulled over by the police, or an unlucky motorist trying to fix a broken-down car.

Sometimes my scenes are cameo appearances by yours truly, such as the guy standing next to a red pickup just like mine, parked near the spot where I do most of my real-life railfanning, or the group of guys getting their picture taken right where an old band of mine once did a photo shoot.

-Max
 
Similar to Max... I go for the simple (even subtle) and plausible.

Current project I'm working on is an Outback Australian town, which has the potential to be quite boring and lifeless. This is where scenes come into it, but they have to be subtle for the Aussie Outback.

Here, the end of the line wasn't always the end of the line... the cutting in the background is where the line continued on to Central Australia. The sleepers (or ties as some prefer) are semi-buried. The derelict old railcar has some lean/roll factored into it. Looking closely, there are a few damaged and rusty old barrels in the scene. Finally, the obvious are the abandoned and dilapidated buildings accompanied by the broken and rusty windmill...

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At the end of the day. I've become more about Scenez in Trainz rather then building full blown routes.
 
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