Model Rail Scotland (pic heavy)

[Andym]

I know this isn't exactly wargaming, but everytime I see these layouts all I want to do is battle hundreds of miniatures across the tabletop. If nothing else I thought these photos maybe good inspiration...


This is a model of criainlarch in Scotland complete with mountains.

This bad boy was huge!! About the size of a small garage!!

Working lighthouse.....

....working chimney....

...harbour with canal lock.....

....another harbour....

...another harbour....

...a full town....

....and a forest!!!





This one had fully working lights, including welders and police vehicles, and a real water fountain display!!!! (which I never got to see! Boo!!)


Again some nice stuff.


This is one for the guys of the forum.....

This was on one of the trade stands. Fully working red lights included!!

All in all, a good day and many insertional models.

Cheers!

[OSHIROmodels]

Talented pack of buggers ain't they   

cheers

James

[Westfalia Chris]

Great pics, thanks for posting!

This is one for the guys of the forum.....

This was on one of the trade stands. Fully working red lights included!!

All in all, a good day and many insertional models.

Do I detect a Freudian slip?

[Andym]

Oops!!!

Bloody iPhone spell-check!

[HerbyF]

This is one for the guys of the forum.....

This was on one of the trade stands. Fully working red lights included!!

 Need one of the for my Atomic Cafe set up

[joroas]

Ramirez invited me to the local railway show, we need to recruit these guys away from the darkside and make scenery for us.

[Captain Blood]

Inspiring. Thanks Andy.

Some wargamers could learn a lot from the world of model railways... 

(Not that I'm remotely interested in trains - but by golly, some of these chaps are damned good at scenics... There again, to be fair, theirs don't actually have to come apart and move around that much, do they  )

[Thunderchicken]

Those boards need figures on them! Stunning stuff! 

[Michi]

Great post, thanks for the many photos, although I expected something more Scottish instead of that admirable northern Germany layout...

[redzed]

Some wargamers could learn a lot from the world of model railways... 

yep, so here's a LINK for some more inspiring models.

how do they get everything to look so 'in-scale' and realistic

[Westfalia Chris]

how do they get everything to look so 'in-scale' and realistic

I'm going out on a leg on this one, but I dare say it is because of the fact that they actually have proper standardized scales to work with, and don't have to compromise for "figure sizes" and area requirements (e.g. terrain vs. ratio-scaled regiments). Also, as noted before, the wear and tear is far less than for our hobby (although I'm sure transporting those layouts from one show to the next takes a bitter toll).

Also, I would say that the average model railroader is an even worse rivet-counter than the most avid Napoleonics enthusiast.

[Andym]

No I disagree with you chris, I don't think scale has anything to do with it. I think that most wargaming terrain I've seen is better finished than most train layouts. Train people get away with a lot because you can't really pick there stuff up and examine it bit at a time. It's the equivalent of the two foot rule for painting miniatures, because you stand back and admire a train layout as a whole but see wargaming terrain as separate pieces.

One of the other problems wargamers tend to have is that we have to use our imagination to visualise a scene where train layout enthusiasts copy from pictures.

Don't get me wrong there's still stuff we could probably learn from them, like composition of a scene so that your terrain tells a story, but I think on the whole I prefer war-game terrain.

[HerbyF]

I regularly get the S-gage modeling magazine. For the articals & ads for scale models to get terrain building ideas & supplies.

[YPU]

The one thing we do come out ahead on would be the miniatures themselves, if you look closely there are quite a few models in there that could use the attention of a talented painter, and perhaps a sculptor as well.