Neat little church Wolfgang! Post an update when you finish. This is my Z scale St. Matthew's Catholic Church. I'm still working on the graveyard. I added some stained glass using overhead transparencies.
my church - in the garden Hi, I had to have a church! as my wife is a very long serving church organist, so it was almost the first building I made, that was rather a long time ago now. It is part of my Garden railroad and stays out all the time. It is made from styrene and what you in the USA call Sintra board - I live in England. Last year it was almost covered in snow during the hard winter. Here are a couple of photos of it This was taken when it had just been built. And here is it in position in the hamlet of Sycamore Creek - all the buildings have been scratch built, and also the horse drawn van as well. As a result of this photo that 'offending' fence post had an immediate coat of green (like the fence) to hide it! Yours Peter.
There may be a lot of hell raisin' going on in Glacier Lake but come Sunday everyone meets down by the tracks. Brian
Thanks, Mike. Well said and important information. Every one will ultimately need to make this dedcision for themselves. Some by actually saying yes or no...others by either ignoring the question or delaying their decision and for some too late. Thanks, for clearly explaining this in a friendly manner. Barry
Yes have one church on my layout, Oyster Pond AME church. It's one of he Atlas churches repainted white. Perhaps a little ornate for my neck of the woods and may just be a place holder for a more modest single room church. Sorry no photos. Anyhow it's more or less hidden by the SAL fill and a lot of trees. Trouble is some good modelling of the grave yard out back is almost entirely hidden from view.
I think that it's nice that people would use a church on their model railroad to mean something personal to them. We might like to have a particular kind of business or something on our layouts that reminds us of something we grew up with, which for a lot of us is indicated by the road we model. I think that I can see that for a lot of people a small church on their layout is a real church. When I get my layout under construction, I know I will have one. I know one church I remember on a little country road in southern Missouri (in Frisco country) that is tucked into the trees out in the middle of nowhere. What a great place for a church, and a great one to model. Charlie
I like it! Would fit perefctly teh image I noted earlier. A tiny hamlet of perhaps 90-150 souls. Isd this scratchbuilt? Or a kit. Ho of course, but if only in N... Boxcab E50
Interesting topic. I'll refrain from commenting because of personal interest. *chuckle* There was a movie ... I cannot recall the movie though, but it was said that "some churches were made for standin' ... some for kneelin'." Personally, I've always been partial to the churches made for kneelin'. If I ever get that elusive layout built, I'll have a "kneelin'" type of church on the layout as well. Blessings and best wishes, Pastor David J. Kress, Sr. *waves insanely on the way out the door*
I just happened to remember an incident from-- it must have been 15 years ago. I was in a club with a gentleman who was always making Jewish jokes. He may have thought they were good-natured, though I wouldn't repeat them if I were me. One holiday season, I showed up at train club meeting with a wrapped gift. "We weren't planning on exchanging Christmas presents, were we?" one member asked. "This is not a Christmas present. It's a HANNUKAH present for ____." He opened it quizzically and found.... a scratchbuilt synagogue. He wound up having to respect it, because it was the only scratchbuilt structure on his layout.
Though my California Sierra Nevada based Yuba River sub runs through three Sierra Nevada towns--Nevada City, North San Juan and Sierra City, there is only one actual modeled town--Sierra City--on the layout, the other two are "Off The Set" as it's called. I'm still 'populating' Sierra City, and no, I'm sorry to say, I don't have a church for it, yet, though I plan on it. The area I'm modeling was originally settled by New Englanders (Episcopalian), Cornish 'Hard-Rock' Miners (Methodist) and German and Italian tradespeople (Roman Catholic), so when Sierra City is finally finished, I'm going to have to come to a decision about which church to represent, because of layout space. Though I'm Roman Catholic myself, I'm thinking that due to the hard-rock mining activity around the area, the church, when it's put in, will probably be Methodist. But there will DEFINITELY be one! Tom
Yep, got a couple, but I guess you could say that their presence isn't really all that obvious. The first church is situated downtown in the heart of Jacksboro, NY, with mainly just its twin spires projecting above the surrounding jumble of buildings (a little right of center in the photo). The second one is out in Putney, NY, almost lost amidst its heavily wooded surroundings, the white spire of its bell tower about the only evidence that it's actually there. NYW&B
You wanted an update. Well, here's my finished little church. And this is the thread with my HowTo. Wolfgang
it may not be a surprise that a TTer might have weird beliefs, or metaphysical speculations, anyway . . . so when i come around to doing a layout i think i'll go for a small rosicrucian lodge. i think it'd be a bit more interesting as a structure. i like the neo-egyptian architecture of the american branch of the movement: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMORC_Science_Building_Rosicrucian_Park.JPG second choice would be something influenced by this rather cool looking masonic lodge in port adelaide, south australia: P1269832 Port Adelaide Masonic Centre, 142-150 Commercial Rd., Port Adelaide | Flickr - Photo Sharing! so mote it be ben
Interestingly enough, I'm listening to the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen giving a talk (audio via YouTube) on his program "Life is Worth Living" (which aired on TV back in the 1950s) while I'm "surfing" the boards here. But, on the topic at hand... no, I don't have a Church... yet. Then again, I don't have a layout at the moment, either... although, I do have two under construction (the HO layout I'm building as an auction item for a local Cancer charity and my own, private layout, which will be an O scale traction layout) and, eventually, both shall have churches. I haven't decided which church will occupy the HO layout, but I am going to put a nice, brick, Catholic church on my traction layout. If I'm not mistaken, a couple of the European companies make churches in HO, although, I'm not sure about O scale. (Scratchbuilding, anyone?) Wolfgang, Excellent job on your structure. Your church resembles many that occupy the small towns of rural southeastern Minnesota. Very nice.
In the older section of Happy Rock, they believe in Church, family, hard work, and hard play....not necessarily in that order. The doors are always open at Happy Rock Methodist.
