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Title: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Adam1701D on October 23, 2013, 09:43:29 PM
http://io9.com/an-disturbing-scale-model-of-post-apocalyptic-london-1450876490 (http://io9.com/an-disturbing-scale-model-of-post-apocalyptic-london-1450876490)

Now, that's what I call modellling..

Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: dodger112958 on October 23, 2013, 09:48:03 PM
Sure is one hell of an apocalypse, all I can see is a white screen. :hmmm:
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Newportnobby on October 23, 2013, 09:53:39 PM
Anyone else come close to smashing their layout up? :-[
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Sprintex on October 24, 2013, 06:46:13 AM
No, not really :no:

Even allowing for the subject I think they've overdone the blue flashy lights a bit.  :unimpressed:


Paul
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Pengi on October 24, 2013, 07:11:34 AM
Thanks for posting this  :thumbsup: - it is the sort of stuff that I like and it is something that inspires me.
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: AndyGif on October 24, 2013, 08:24:59 AM
post apocalyptic.... ah modern image then.... 

far too many plod on the street for post apocalypse, they'd more likely be army/militia/council estate warlord.

nice models none the less.

how about this modeller's work for that "happy day" feel  http://www.visitelginpark.com/ (http://www.visitelginpark.com/)
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: red_death on October 24, 2013, 10:12:26 AM
I love the way the article describes him as working with the KLF - he was one half of the KLF!

Incredible stuff.

<Wanders off singing "Doctor Whooo, Doctor Who, The Tardis...">
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: OwL on October 24, 2013, 08:46:43 PM
Great modelling, strange how it is modelled in 1:87 and not 1:76 for a british outline??
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: dodger112958 on October 24, 2013, 09:13:14 PM
Ah! the link now works, impressive modelling but it does nothing for me. I would rather watch a jinty pulling a mixed goods over a viaduct.
Still each to their own.
Ian
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: 4x2 on October 24, 2013, 09:34:29 PM
Quote from: AndyGif on October 24, 2013, 08:24:59 AM
post apocalyptic.... ah modern image then.... 

far too many plod on the street for post apocalypse, they'd more likely be army/militia/council estate warlord.

nice models none the less.

how about this modeller's work for that "happy day" feel  http://www.visitelginpark.com/ (http://www.visitelginpark.com/)
Seen this before, but more than happy to see it again - awesome modelling and great camera work as well !
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: BernardTPM on October 24, 2013, 09:54:34 PM
Quote from: OwL on October 24, 2013, 08:46:43 PM
Great modelling, strange how it is modelled in 1:87 and not 1:76 for a british outline??
Not sure it was 1:87 particularly. I noticed the burnt out church and electricity pylons were both the Hornby (nee Tri-ang Model Land) kits, so nominally* 4mm. Couldn't see what make the vehicles, the police figures and the telephone boxes - these are available in both 00 & H0. Had it been made 20 years ago 'modern' vehicles would have more likely been H0; that's an area where 1:76 has come on a long way in recent years.
Certainly well done.

* OK, in real life churches tend to be a lot bigger (I always reckoned Heljan's Norman church in 'H0' would have been much better used as an N gauge model).
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: PostModN66 on October 24, 2013, 10:46:29 PM
Superb.  Looks more like a model of a smashed up city than a smashed up model of a city to me!

Cheers   Jon   :)
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Bealman on October 25, 2013, 02:51:39 AM
I'm with dodger on this one. Interesting, but I'd rather watch a jinty on a viaduct, too. Also, having not long returned from Miniature Wonderland in Germany, it pales by comparison!

George
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Pengi on October 25, 2013, 07:08:49 AM
Quote from: Bealman on October 25, 2013, 02:51:39 AM
I'm with dodger on this one. Interesting, but I'd rather watch a jinty on a viaduct, too. Also, having not long returned from Miniature Wonderland in Germany, it pales by comparison!

George
I think most things will pale in comparison with MW - I'd love to go and see it. Can't agree about a jinty on a viaduct though . . . :thumbsdown:
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Sprintex on October 25, 2013, 07:13:45 AM
More like a Voyager on a concrete bridge eh? ;)

HST speeding through a station for me. Oh what a coincidence, that's just what happens on my layout :D


Paul
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Bealman on October 25, 2013, 07:24:27 AM
Ok... how about led-fitted jinty?  :D
Title: Re: Post-Apocalyptic London Model Railway
Post by: Pengi on October 25, 2013, 07:36:07 PM
Quote from: Bealman on October 25, 2013, 07:24:27 AM
Ok... how about led-fitted jinty?  :D
Nice try but no  ;D

and it is unlikely that a jinty would appear in a post-apocalyptic London