Sometime back one of the forums had a "build a diorama in the lid off of a empty peanut butter jar" challenge. This is the one I built and it is N scale:

Thats too cool!!

That is absolutely remarkable! You got so much into it and it tells a story. Nicely detailed too! Did you win?
Ralph

That is incredible! Nicely done!

Very nicely done! Love all of your little details! Love the little story it tells. Great job.

Thanks folks! Ralph it was a challenge not a contest so there was no voting. The reason for that is some people won't enter/try if it's a contest and they don't feel like they can win. With the challenge we seem to get more entries.

Oh, OK! That's true about non-voting challenges, they do make folks feel more comfortable about entering their work for viewing. The jar lid theme at first seems like such an unlikely way to model anything but now that I've seen what a creative mind can do I want to know what other ideas people came up with! Fun!

Ralph

Hi Ralph, you have already seen another one of their ideas with the "shoebox challenge" that I posted in the logging and mining forum. These type of challenges are fun and they give you a chance to try new ideas, techniques and maybe dabble in a different scale as I did with the shoebox. If we screw things up there is next to no cost with these things so no harm done!

:hey: "But you can't build anything, model railroading, in that small an area!!!!!"

Mike, I think you blew the lid off that one!

That's s w e e t

Brilliant, well done Tyson Rayles.
I'm a big fan of microlayouts and dioramas.
It's amazing about what can fit in a few square inches.

:jawdrop:

Just running to the grocery store to get a jar of peanut butter.

Jacques

Thanks guys, glad you liked it!

That is very creative!

How much weight did you need to add to the lid?

I remember that one Tyson!
Very cool!

Looks like that hopper took a long jump off a short track!

Awesome!

But how did you get it to balance?
Lead weights in the lid?

Hi guys and thanks for the kind words! The "earth" that overhangs the lid is made of blue stryofoam and there are no guts to the loco, the mechanism is in fact what powers my On18 loco although the bodies can be switched out, so there isn't really all that much weight to deal with. Three automotive stick-on wheel weights of one ounce each stuck to the bottom of the jar lid was all that was needed.