All scales

In a constant search for realism its only too easy to forget the animals on a rural layout. Heres the new pigfarm (with baked bean can housing;better when its rusted);

 



 

and the donkey shelter;

 



 

show us the animals on your layout?

 

mikey

Looking good …. as for showing animals on my layout ….. got to do a layout first !!!!!

Not got any at the mo. I like the use of that bake bean tin, very clever, never thought of that one, :pathead

Phill

Nothing but Spiders on mine!  The pig sheds look great Mike - won't be long before they weather in naturally, all free of charge!

heres mine

and one more

And mine :

great animal life. what about the city/town/ industrial layouts? Aint there even a dog running around? and whatabout the Oz layouts. any 'roos about?

Plenty of Roos about mate, you have RICK, Max etc :pedal

Phill

None on, or planned for the present layout (well, you never know.  Cats and dogs maybe!)  But back in the days of Wenchoster Mk 1 ….  (over two years ago)



Sorry for a small picture.  I'm looking for the unsized original :roll:

Found it - plus one other!





Now - can you spot the cranberry juice tanker prior to its juicy weathering?

Animals on the layout are banned my wifes little dog Leo payed a visit to my shed the other day i didnt really watch him.

Yesterday morning i noticed the little git had pooped across one of my tracks:twisted:

cheers Brian

thats taking realism a bit far Brian!!

And surely out of scale!

The layout is currently home to pigs, sheep, cows, horses, dogs, cats, gulls, pigeons, a chough and a few chickens.  There are also some beekeepers though the bees are only represented by black dots of paint!  All of those are (or are alleged to be!) in either 00 or HO scale.  I'll leave to your imagination how fiddly is getting a HO pigeon to stick where required!

I'll try and come up with some closer pics but I can't seem to get the macro to work on the camera so the ones I have are of other scenes with tiny coloured spots.

There are at least eight birds visible in this shot if you look closely at the sort of places birds would perch.  The lighting has almost bleached them out but there are also two dogs playing on the outhouse roof of Station Villa while "mum" hangs the laundry in the back yard right beside the platform.


This shows a wide view of the farm including some of the outbuildings; cows and horses are identifiable, the farthest field contains sheep and there are dogs and cats around the farm house though not clearly visible.


and the reverse-angle shows the piggery and the beekepers in the distance

brilliant detailing Rick! Love the one warming himself on the chimneypot.

Mikey

Hope you have the Chough nesting site well protected Rick!

Of course :lol: … it's only known to a very few people ;-).

There can be a suprising amount of wildlife out there.

The "Comorant Tree" below was taken a couple of weekends ago while on a canoeing trip with my sons about 140kms south of Perth, Western Australia.



Trouble is… they are going to be hard to model in N scale… the pelicans less so.

 

 Here are mine

A few cows filling a hard to reach space



 

Grazing horses

 



 

A farmer and his dogs



 

Farm hand with a few goats