[Madkitten]

I have been working on a 0 gauge monorail for a while now......... Its the Listowell and ballybunioun railway..... So far ive designed the track and after a lot of different methods have a bit that will work..... now for the locomotives... Also somewhere in the attic is a curved tube with a futuristic bullett shaped monorail in it that works......... will have to find it and photograph it................ I foun d four sectionsof rail mean it cant derail....... Stations would be fun .... never got that far.

Nikki

 

[steam-driven boy]

QUOTE (Brian Considine @ 18 Jan 2009, 20:57) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>With the popularity of the books & films the only surprising thing is not having seen A HP exhibition layout yet !

Hi all,

There was 'Hogsmead' at Warley '05 courtesy of Warley MRC Junior Section:

taking things on a little further than the Hogwarts element of the old Model Rail TTF

My appreciation of monorails was somewhat hindered as a child, they always seemed to need the intervention of International Rescue

I remember a couple of episodes of Thunderbirds quite distinctly

There was a little railway mayhem involved in John Carpenter's 'Ghost's of Mars'

As you might expect, H. R. Giger has had a contribution to make including (YOU DO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT, DON'T YOU???:)

www.hrgiger.com/ghost.htm

and:

www.rodesia.org/ruben/?cat=4

Regards.

 

[Richard Johnson]

*** apparently the Sydney Von Roll monorail model is now being done by ER models.... here is a picture of the set (taken from Ebay). there are also added track packs available by the look of it.

 

[Free-Form Journal]

I have started an HO layout called the Tromz Valdirea set on the planet Mitae Hobin. While my trains are not radical, I am experimenting with alternate designs. See my website: Free-Form Journal at http://www.freeformjournal.com also see Science Fiction & Fantasy Trains at http://www.fantasy.freeformournal.com On my website there is a link to my BLOG which has updates of work on the layout.
Jack Hess
Aurora, Illinois

 

[Brian Considine]

Hi jack & welcome to MRF.

Interesting links - a couple of weeks ago I was discussing "fantasy railways" with a friend who is into art & fantasy & we both thought it would be an idea for something very different.

Please keep us posted on progress.

 

[h&b_barrett]

QUOTE (eddscott @ 15 Jan 2009, 14:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>In the Warhammer 40,000 universe there is an extensive Mag-Lev transport system. I'm currently reading a book called Mechanicum which is set around 30K and the characters use the Mag-Lev.

You could hunt around for a product that Hornby brought out in the very early 80s. I barely remember it but I did see it in a shop window in Banbury but I think I would have been 6 or 7 at most. It does pop up on ebay from time to time.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Hornby-3DS-Miss...emZ350122448286

Within the same Warhammer universe are bog standard trains as well. The Ciaphas Cain novels and Gaunt's Ghost both feature locations with extensive rail networks, as well as an underground maglev used by chaos

 

[Decky]

I did, briefly, consider a fantasy Middle Earth setting, but based in modern times, with rail franchises such as East Middle Earth (based on East Midlands railways) and the like.

Fangorn is a bustling town full of humans with a totaly senile Treebeard used as a swing frame by the local kids, Lothlorien is an Elf themed fun-park, staffed by humans wearing plastic pointy ears, of course, because all the elves went over the sea thousands of years ago, and Hobbiton is the scene of a heavily guarded Hobbit reservation, surrounded by machine-gun towers and barbed wire to keep the rodents inside.

Then I decided I needed to get out more and meet people, and plumbed for a modern central England layout instead.

 

[h&b_barrett]

The setting for the elder scrolls games provides an interesting back-drop, particularly Morrowind. I envisaged 2 different railway systems for the island of Vvardenfell - an extensive 2' 3 gauge network across the elvish provinces and a 3' gauge line linking the imperial domains. Alternatively China Meiville's steampunk novels set in New Crobuzon are good ones as they include a vast steam suburban network centred on one large station and a transcontinental railway.

In terms of fantasy railways which do exist there is a small narrow gauge layout called Bramble Bottom which literally does look like the bottom of a hedge with little people and insects as passengers. And I remember the one that was in a circle with the really tall engines, carriages and people, but can't remember it's name now.

 

[Free-Form Journal]

I have updated my Science Fiction & Fantasy Trains page. I found a few more interesting models/modelers, updated the Movie Trains page with more Total Recall photos and the addition of the Back To The Future engine. Look for the little red "NEW" by the entries in the right hand column.

 

[21C164]

There is another Monorail supplier based on the Wuppertal Suspension Monorail - very expensive - but beautiful models. Available in 3.5mm or 2mm scale

web site here
http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/cms/i...t&Itemid=38

rgds Tony

 

[7113]

Beautiful models indeed Tony, I only wish I could afford one.....

Regards

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (21C164 @ 17 May 2011, 16:28) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There is another Monorail supplier based on the Wuppertal Suspension Monorail - very expensive - but beautiful models. Available in 3.5mm or 2mm scale

web site here
http://www.hielscher-dampfmodelle.de/cms/i...t&Itemid=38

rgds Tony

I remember seeing them at Nurnberg a few years back - expensive yes, but no more than a couple of months worth of beer & ****

.

 

[Free-Form Journal]

My latest fantasy engine model is finished. HO scale, built on an Athearn chassis. See pics and info at:
http://www.freeformjournal.com/gal/trv/body/bash.htm

 

[Chris_IRL]

QUOTE (Free-Form Journal @ 31 May 2011, 17:13) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>My latest fantasy engine model is finished. HO scale, built on an Athearn chassis. See pics and info at:
http://www.freeformjournal.com/gal/trv/body/bash.htm

that is frickin cool!!!!!

also this one which I found when digging around:

looks like something straight out of Thunderbirds, I like

 

[Free-Form Journal]

I have added several Ghosts of Mars photos and links to the Movie Trains Page on Science Fiction & Fantasy Trains. Also, am making progress on the layout by laying the next area of track. No photos yet.

 

[zmil]

Hi All,

I did some captures of the Train Heist in Firefly , after seeing some of the Art and CGI render from the site linked to http://www.fantasy.freeformjournal.com/ , when I went back to have a look the images were only saved to the Clip board

I had not changed the setting as yet

Looks like another excuse to what the Firefly series again

Regards

Zmil

 

[Free-Form Journal]

Update: I have renamed my former website Science Fiction & Fantasy Trains. It is now Fantasy Trains at http://www.fantasytrains.net I added a few pictures to the Movie Trains Page, these are of the prop train from Ghosts of Mars. Two more HO engine modeling articles are scheduled for inclusion. Stop by and check it out!