Pizzareno Posted October 6, 2015 (edited) So I know it is a wee bit early for a Christmas train but our LUG has a competition to build a Christmas train this year and I thought I'd step way outside the normal for building a Christmas train and do something fun for me and hopefully somebody else gets a kick out of it too. So this is my weird Christmas train. I wanted to build a train that was sort of abandoned and being overtaken by nature but with a Christmas theme and still used by people for events that happen around Christmas. Everything has some sort of meaning for me. Because I have never had a winter Christmas, snow and sleighs and all that wintry stuff doesn't really have much significance for me. In the loco we have the nativity scene. For me as a Christian the birth of Christ is the driving force for Christmas...also that is why it is in the locomotive. In the middle the tree is a pohutukawa, sometimes referred to as New Zealand's Christmas tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosideros_excelsa And because it is summer here every time that Christmas rolls around I thought we should have a swimming hole scene. What is better than swimming on hot summer's day in the Christmas holidays! As far as the build goes, I tried to leave as much original looking parts of set 60051 as possible so that it was somewhat recognisable but different. Here is a link to the full album of this train https://www.flickr.c...157659540955331 Edited October 6, 2015 by Pizzareno Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marook Posted October 6, 2015 Wow, now that is a funny angel on that theme! :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
THERIZE Posted October 6, 2015 Wonderful! Creative to do something with the passenger train! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kieran Posted October 6, 2015 Hehe, what a great christmass train Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hod Carrier Posted October 6, 2015 You'd need to have a heart of stone and a soul of custard not to love that. It's chuffing marvellous!! If I was in your LUG I would give up trying to compete. I couldn't conceive of anything more perfect than that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dr_spock Posted October 7, 2015 Interesting interpretation of the Christmas train. Is the water defying gravity or there's a river going through the train? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pizzareno Posted October 7, 2015 Thanks for your comments. I really appreciate them. You'd need to have a heart of stone and a soul of custard not to love that. It's chuffing marvellous!! If I was in your LUG I would give up trying to compete. I couldn't conceive of anything more perfect than that. This made my day! Thank you. Interesting interpretation of the Christmas train. Is the water defying gravity or there's a river going through the train? Yes I thought it was interesting too! In an ideal world this would be nestled in a forest and the water would be flowing in from the far side of the 3rd wagon and be flowing right through the train. I did actually build water flowing through the whole last carriage but you can't see it in the photographs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
James Wellington Posted October 7, 2015 Hey, nice work! Very cool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nemo57 Posted October 7, 2015 Good job. And it is good that the Christmas roast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris Morgan Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) I appreciate your creativeness. I liked it a lot and I will also try to make these kinds of nativity for Christmas day this year. Edited October 30, 2017 by Chris Morgan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Feuer Zug Posted October 30, 2017 I love it. Christmas themed, but done in an innovative way. Also, I like thinking about warm weather for Christmas instead of the wind and rain I have now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
