Leave It Out! (or Show Us Your Leave Outs)
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 11:48 pm
What do you leave out 24/7/365 on your railway?
Along with all the infrastructure, fencing, crossing gates and buildings etc, I have some bits and pieces that I like to leave out around the railway, just to add that touch of "life" for whenever I look at it
Always prepared to crib from other peoples ideas, here's mine - now show us yours
The Postman Pat toys are handy, here's the truck (looks great from the back!)
The car (the driver is from the Early Learning Centre)
Motorbike and sidecar
and of course the Post Office Van
This is a cheap chinese toy Landy (is that Llandy in Wales?)
Scooter
and motorbike
This boat originally came from a gift shop
as did this resin cast pony
while this "kiddies ride" on Westwood Station was a comic freebie!
Finally, the Loscoe bus is a cheap souvenir shop toy, smaller than 16mm / ft so used with the smaller concrete garden ornament houses for "forced perspective" at the back of the garden.
I forgot to photograph the dumper and digger toys (cos they're not out at the mo'
) - I use 'em as a visual "bookmark", placing them where I have to do some groundwork 
Along with all the infrastructure, fencing, crossing gates and buildings etc, I have some bits and pieces that I like to leave out around the railway, just to add that touch of "life" for whenever I look at it
Always prepared to crib from other peoples ideas, here's mine - now show us yours
The Postman Pat toys are handy, here's the truck (looks great from the back!)
The car (the driver is from the Early Learning Centre)
Motorbike and sidecar
and of course the Post Office Van
This is a cheap chinese toy Landy (is that Llandy in Wales?)
Scooter
and motorbike
This boat originally came from a gift shop
as did this resin cast pony
while this "kiddies ride" on Westwood Station was a comic freebie!
Finally, the Loscoe bus is a cheap souvenir shop toy, smaller than 16mm / ft so used with the smaller concrete garden ornament houses for "forced perspective" at the back of the garden.
I forgot to photograph the dumper and digger toys (cos they're not out at the mo'
) - I use 'em as a visual "bookmark", placing them where I have to do some groundwork 
