"So I went to a model RR supplier..." Topic

…to try to find some TT scale cops that I thought might fit the bill for a 15mm supers game.

I did not find the cops. I DID find these rather amorous folks

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All right. I may get DHed when someone from the TMP Blue Haired Ladies Tea Society hits the button, but it will be worth it just to ask the following question:

How, exactly, does such a model get used on the typical model RR?

Tucked in some out-of-sight corner as an "in" joke.

Depends….are you running "The Love Train" or not???

Bill's right. I've seen that on a couple-three layouts. Usually in a parked '57 Chevy, screened from the road by a billboard and brush, but clearly visible from the rails.

In fact, I've seen the same thing from real trains!

I guess what gets me is that, evidently, there is more of a market for ing couples than for police…

Seriously, who's gonna bust that couple for public exposure?

Man, that's a big picture in her office.

That's what SHE said.

What Bill said. In-jokes abound on model railroad layouts.

yep, they have a full line of "vignettes" at a couple of hobby stores in my area

Tucked in some out-of-sight corner as an "in" joke.

Or is it an "in-out" joke?

Yes, lots of railway dioramas at shows have little 'joke' vignettes tucked away. People having a wee is another popular one, fishermen falling in the lake etc etc. You get the idea.

Yes. I do go to railway modelling shows, very interesting. One I particularly liked was where the railway 'just happened' to run past an aircraft museum, whcih was an excuse to pack the thing with model aircraft.

On my N-Gauge layout there is a blue movie being filmed in a clearing in the woods and a re-enactors fair with lots of WWII re-enactors and Romans about. It gives me a chance to park a couple of panzers outside the station.

get some bystanders and they could be "pulling a train" =P

Usually the oldest member of the club will buy these figures, as well as any other similarly dressed figure, and then build a little scene you really can't see without it being pointed out. They then get great pleasure in pointing out the "hidden" scene on the layout. One guy I knew in college had the lady showering, which you could only see from the other side of a building so the public could not see it. Another had two guys with binoculars you could see. If you really looked for what they were looking at you could see the nude models through a window.

I'm sure you could paint the amorous couple better than that.

I think those in-jokes are a nice addition to the layout.

Just as when people add little vignettes on their wargaming table. Troops in camp life, civilians.

At the SYW convention there was a real nice addition. The 3 story IIRC building in side a fort for a seige scenario, as you lifted off the roof there was a scene inside and each floor had a scene, the bottom floor either being a tavern or a brothel as one lady was bent over with her hoop skirt up. But none of these were visible unless the floors were removed. It was very neat to see.

My father has an in-joke on his layout. He converted an engineer holding his hand up into an engineer playing a little recreational basketball behind the station on his break.

This is coming from a guy who had to stop playing pick-up basketball under doctor's orders at age 63 because he had ZERO cartilage in his knees. (One knee replacement later, he is back on the court shooting free throws at age 67 since NO JUMPING is allowed)

They really get realistic,those model railroaders…….

I would probably be more worried to see those on a wargaming table…

Holy cr@p I know that girl!