Seems like it has been awhile since we have had a model related challenge on the site?

Would a Labor Day to New Years Day challenge be a good time frame?

How about a Pizza Box challenge or 12"x12"? You can build in whatever scale you want but the base has to fit into a medium pizza box, bonus points for starting with an actual pizza box or doing the entire challenge while eating pizza ( must have photographic proof)

What are your guys thoughts?

Gotta run, all of a sudden I have this craving for pizza!

Tyson Rayles Wrote:Gotta run, all of a sudden I have this craving for pizza!

Don't forget the toppings!!!!!

GEEZE!!!!! it's been a week, since this thread was started and I'm just seeing it now?????

Ok.. A pizza box eh?????? How about a 2 car challenge.

Take 2 cars any type, New, old, weathered or partially destroyed (Left out on a siding to rot for years)

2 cars or an engine and a car or 2 engines... any TWO pieces.....

Now.... Build a diorama around them. If you can fit them in a Pizza box, then go for it! If not, like those of us in G just make at as close to square as you can... In other words, The N & HO can be in or on a small Pizza box, the Lionel's and G's can be a square as large as the 2 rolling stock will be....

Sound good???

THIS THE CRITICAL PART!!!!!
If you are going to join in, Post Here NOW!!!!!!!!
Post any suggestions, and especially sign on to join in the challenge...

If you would like it shorter than Labor Day to New Years, let us know now! For instance; if you would like maybe Labor Day to Thanksgiving....... etc....

If we don't receive enough participants, this may not happen... If we get enough participants, we can even split the format into experience levels so you don't have to be intimated by someone with more skill!!

Let us know!!!! And we'll have some fun!!!!!

I like the Equipment challenge there are a ton of possibilities!

I think maybe we do 12"x12" for HO scale and smaller and up to 24" x 24" for the larger scales?

Maybe ending it December 1st would be better as not much in model railroading gets done for me until after the New Year, either way I am in!

mountaingoatgreg Wrote:I like the Equipment challenge there are a ton of possibilities!

I think maybe we do 12"x12" for HO scale and smaller and up to 24" x 24" for the larger scales?

Maybe ending it December 1st would be better as not much in model railroading gets done for me until after the New Year, either way I am in!

I never thought of that!!!

A N Y... 2 pieces of Railroad equipment!! Any MOW.... Any Engine Any Rolling Stock!! Anything!!!!!
Just 2 pieces

LOL If I use the LGB Crane, Mine will most definitely be 24" X 24"

I'm going to have to pass on this challenge. I just finished laying down the lines for a "Tern" ( Three Mast Schooner ) that is 88 feet long at the waterline, Length over all , (tip of bowsprit to end of main boom) 135 feet.
This will be a scratch built, plank - on - frame waterline model ( in HO scale. It will definitely be mid to end of December before this one is done ( if that soon, could be longer ). The next step in this process ? lofting the frames. This process creates the shape of each of the frames, once that is done and the frames are erected, the next phase, is planking the hull.
Then.......masting and rigging.
This will give me three ships, the tour ship, the Brigantine W.W. Marsland, and this "Tern", that can show up at the sea wall, at the Cindys Harbor Seaport Village and Museum. This picture, shows the "Marsland" at the sea wall. this is the space the tour ship, or the finished "Tern" will alternately occupy.
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Awesome scene Pete!

Thank-you, Mike.
Just about all my "model building interests" are present in this module set. Trains, Ships, buildings, Scenery, bridges.....
I only need to figure out a way to add a small intergalactic vehicle, to include the Sci-Fi stuff , and a place to "dock" a float plane, and I'll have just about all modes of transportation covered. Most of all though, I have had fun "learning and creating".
.........not to mention all the "ego pleasing comments" I receive at the shows I take these modules to.
After I get a few frames drawn/cut/and installed, I'll start the photo "progress" posts.

I knew a ship model was due...the words "Arrrrr", and "Shiver me Timbers" were creeping back into my vocabulary.

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, Heat and cold.
If schooners, Islands and maroons, and Buccaneers and buried gold,
and all the old romance retold, exactly in the ancient ways,
can please, as me, they pleased of old the wiser youngsters of today,
So be it........ Aharrr and fall on."

Sumpter 250
Dont forget you will need a submarine or U-Boat to cover the under sea aspect of transportation.

Dive, Dive, Dive, not in the harbour though.
Mark

Submarine......
A "Lurking Submarine" would be fairly easy to build.........just the tip of a periscope !!

I am in for the challenge(what about narrow gauge could go in HO or O scale if you use On30 equipment )

I just might build it around 2 of my Hayseed & Hicksville boxcars.

Extra points if we can incorporate the box lid as a backdrop?

AF350 Wrote:I am in for the challenge(what about narrow gauge could go in HO or O scale if you use On30 equipment

:o hock: :o
I am sooooo tempted to set aside the Tern, and start an outside frame 2-6-6-2 bash from a pair of On30 2-6-0 locos.
Then again the challenge would be long over before I even came close to being finished.
The frames would have to be scratch-built in brass, and that would be the greater part of the construction time.
I think I'll settle for having the Tern on the modules at Trainfest, In Milwaukee .......even if only partially done. It could be "post launch", moored at the seawall , awaiting masting and rigging. hmmmm that, could almost be possible.... hock:

It doesn't look like we have enough people to begin a challenge....

Anyone else want to join in????

You know I'm always up for a challenge, but we're in the middle of a move and all my train stuff is either in storage or the landfill.... Yeah, I saved all my structures and dioramas, but my old layout is no longer. It'll be a good year for me to even think about building anything once we move to the new house, and that's not going to happen for a few months yet....

Good luck on this challenge, it's been a while since we've had one and I hope more people join in.