Build Your Own Lincoln Sites

[Gene C]

You know how over the holidays some people like to make a miniature Christmas Village?

Here's your chance to build your own Lincoln Sites.
And just in time for the holidays. Better get started.
Ho, Ho, Ho

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Pr...treet.aspx

[Anita]

Gene, what a fun project. I'm starting with the Lincoln home. Should be done by Christmas. When I asked my grandsons if they'd like to help, they suggested I buy a plastic model.

[RJNorton]

That's neat - Gene, thanks for posting this.

[Eva Elisabeth]

That's neat, Gene, I shall suggest to add it here (I think Las Vegas they have rebuilt already):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s

[RJNorton]

Wow, Eva, Miniatur Wunderland is unbelievable!! Thanks for posting this.

[Thomas Kearney]

Thanks for the link, Gene! I just started doing Tom Lincoln's home. Eva, that is a cool display. I wish I had the talents to build Miniatur Wunderland!

[L Verge]

There is a huge indoor train display similar to this in New Jersey, but not quite as extensive. It's not far from where the Lindbergh kidnapping trial was held, but I just can't remember the name of the museum or the town.

[L Verge]

(09-30-2015 03:56 PM)L Verge Wrote:  There is a huge indoor train display similar to this in New Jersey, but not quite as extensive. It's not far from where the Lindbergh kidnapping trial was held, but I just can't remember the name of the museum or the town.

Memory has returned. The display is called Northlandz, and it is in Flemington, NJ. Check it out - start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFA02VhBeYs

We sponsored a tour bus here years ago. Northlandz's tracks stretch for about a mile (inside), and there are also displays of other memorabilia from the first half of the 20th century. You can also rest in a small theater and enjoy a performance on a huge theater-style organ from the early days of movies.

After spending the morning at Northlandz, we went to a great restaurant in a turn-of-the-century hotel that was across the street from the courthouse where the Lindbergh trial was held. After lunch we had a tour and lecture in the courthouse.

I also have been told that the NJ State Troopers now have a small museum and research area that focuses on the Lindbergh case.

[Jim Page]

This thread reminded me of a fellow using miniatures and forced perspective camera tricks to create a 1950s U.S. city that never existed. His work is amazing:
http://www.studio360.org/story/sideshow-...miniature/

Here's a video of his "town:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90FZ6ehvbY

And here's a video about the gentleman who creates this stuff:
https://vimeo.com/116577464

--Jim

[Thomas Kearney]

I finished the Shastid Cabin. This summer, the National Building Museum in DC is having a paper model exhibit. I hope to check it out this weekend:

http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collectio...paper.html