Modeling Town Square - Park

[wm3798]

I don't think I have a shot of it, but I used some scraps from an Atlas viaduct kit to build up a base, then I used a figure from a Civil War set, probably 3/16 scale, to make the statue.  It was big enough to be seen but not so big as to look out of place.  There's a chunk of the WM Dutch Line that transects the battlefield at Gettysburg, so it seemed like a reasonable detail to include.  I think I painted it with some floquil Brunswick Green, which is too green for PRR DGLE, but just right for aged bronze.

Lee

[eric220]

I like that arrangement. The statue faces the passing street and station, so no one but the occasional train crew has to see the horse's butt. Passengers coming out of the station get a head-on view and passing motorists get the profile. The fence on the left and the placement of the statue serve as good deterrents against cutting through the park, but do not significantly restrict access. I can see where the addition of a fence along the short side on the right would serve the same purpose, but I'm still a proponent of leaving the long sidewalk side unfenced.

That's my logic anyway. I feel like I'm starting to beat a dead statue, so that's my 2¢.

[peteski]

The current positioning of the statue IMO totally destroys the look of that park  Looks totally imbalanced to me. Listen to your wife Roger.    As far as the statue goes, If it was mine, I would just spray paint it using brown paint with a touch of gold paint added in.

But it is your layout... 

[DKS]

I tend to agree with Peteski on this one, although I would not go so far as to say it "totally destroys" the scene. I do think it looks better parallel to the street. Turned toward the station, it chops the park in half, and provides little or no space to walk around it.

[Zox]

THIS IS WAR TIME, so ALL such Material go to the WAR EFFORT.

Including that big, recyclable hunk of metal sitting in the middle of the park?   

[rogergperkins]

Found flat black paint marker at LHS today!! Another layer of patina on the statue.
At 27 cent war games figure with how much of your precious time in comments and mine in striving to get THE LOOK!

[rogergperkins]

Statue of Gretzky in Edmonton.


Okay show us your parks and statues. 

[peteski]

I don't have my own N scale park Roger, but I sure like to comment on others. 

I like the latest iteration. Good to see the statue back to its original alignment, and the bronze color now looks pretty darn good to me. All the photos of those real statues you were posting looked like they were brown with a tiny bit of metallic sheen.  That is how yours looks now too.

I'm just being a nitpicky but looking at the latest photo, I would have trimmed the piece that connects the front hoof to the base. Many statues of horses have some of the horse's legs not connected to the base.  The way it is now, it looks like the horse stepped into a giant wad of chewing gum and it lifted its leg up.  I don't know why I haven't noticed that earlier. Maybe because the bright bronze paint was overwhelming my senses.  I know this is the way that figure was molded (not your fault) but you did ask for opinions. Sorry for being so nitpicky. 

[Alwyn Cutmore]

Hi Roger,

Do not have my own park either but that was the way I did one on a layout I built for a guy.

I must say it really looks good. 

Now for the pigeons.

Regards

Al

[rogergperkins]

Thanks for the comments. I like the color of the statue.  I trimmed off the attachment of the fore hoof of the horse, so that leg is in space.
It seems to me that I read where is some significance in horse statues regarding placement of the legs/hooves.

I am 73 years old; I remember WWII and the personal, daily sacrifices that nearly everyone in the US made
in support of the "WAR EFFORT."  Rationing was reality.

[DKS]

It seems to me that I read where is some significance in horse statues regarding placement of the legs/hooves.

Whatever you read was a myth.

http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.asp

[pnolan48]

I never did get a chance for a horse statue in this park.

[up1950s]

The color of the statue came out quite well Roger .

Since it was placed till 2002 this was 2 blocks from where I worked .


I had an old 70ish Plymouth that was matalic brown in color which looked very much like the browner color in the bull .



Would be a decent color to do a statue with .

[rogergperkins]

In further research on bronze statues, I read they are/were chemically treated to get the patina. 
Need to focus on my cemetery project now, so no more weathering of the statue.
This means installing spiked tipped wrought iron fence around the existing cemetery.

[wazzou]

I had an old 70ish Plymouth that was matalic brown in color which looked very much like the browner color in the bull .

Starting the kids early on the assault rifles, huh Richie?