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Jar lid dioramas - Tyson Rayles - 01-10-2009
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:
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Trucklover - 01-10-2009
Thats too cool!!
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Ralph - 01-10-2009
That is absolutely remarkable! You got so much into it and it tells a story. Nicely detailed too! Did you win?
Ralph
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Puddlejumper - 01-10-2009
That is incredible! Nicely done!
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Jesso - 01-10-2009
Very nicely done! Love all of your little details! Love the little story it tells. Great job.
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Tyson Rayles - 01-10-2009
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.
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Ralph - 01-10-2009
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
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Tyson Rayles - 01-11-2009
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! 
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Sumpter250 - 01-11-2009
: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
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Biased turkey - 01-11-2009
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
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Tyson Rayles - 01-11-2009
Thanks guys, glad you liked it!
Re: Jar lid dioramas - MountainMan - 01-12-2009
That is very creative!
How much weight did you need to add to the lid?
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Drew - 01-12-2009
I remember that one Tyson!
Very cool!
Looks like that hopper took a long jump off a short track!
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Cannonball - 01-12-2009
Awesome!
But how did you get it to balance?
Lead weights in the lid?
Re: Jar lid dioramas - Tyson Rayles - 01-12-2009
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.