Re: Animation - The Layout

Rusty Richards · 2004-02-18T08:29:06+00:00

The layout that you saw is owned by a friend of mine.The movie theatre building is constructed from a plastic model kit builtwithout the base. It has the walls washed so that it looks like mortarbetween the bricks and there is even graffiti on the side of thebuilding. The movie screen is a 2-1/2" x 3-3/4" original silver screenwhich does not fade like a LCD color screen of a small hand-held TV.BTW, This was build in 1980. Yes, it is possible to show a wide screenmovie. You can also hear the sound of the movie coming from the frontdoors.The movie is a full length movie of any choice you may have. It was ondisplay at the NMRA convention in Colorado Springs, CO at or about 1980.The marque has a chase set of lights that flow from the top to thebottom and the name of the movie appears with a lighted background.Next to the hotel across the street is the Glass Hole bar. Thisbuilding was also a plastic model built without the base. The insidehas 2 window boxes in which one has a "Coors" neon sign in it and theother has the bar name "Glass Hole" which only has the "ass" in Glasslit up by the neon. The sign is broken. These signs flash on and off. There are several sets of auto traffic street lights with the overheadboom, much like the ones you see in major cities. These lights changefrom red to green, then yellow and back to red. On the major two laneroad, there are two overhead signals (street name is Sex Drive) with aleft turn arrow. All upright posts have another two signal heads onthem too. All of this was hand built and even the brake lights come onwhen the lights turn yellow as the cars approach the intersection. Inthe other direction, the brake lights go out as the lights turn green.There is a tall building tower with a chase sign 1that travels aroundthe top like that at the Stock Exchange in NY. The message on the chasesign can be changed to whatever message you might want.Most of the box cars have a connector where a miniature flashing redlight...

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Joe "Woody" Woodpecker 22 years ago

Many of the chapters are complete in writing. These include: Open Neon Signs (where the sign hangs freely with no background AND it flashes on and off. Not covered by MR's animation book); Building a Movie Theatre; Building Traffic Lights; Buildings Rear Car Flashing Lantern; Neon Signs Hanging In Windows; Airports and Road Construction Flashing Lights & Signs.

All of this is modeled in 'N' Scale where very small items are needed to meet scale life-like animation

There will also be a chapter on realism.

Woody

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