Jurassic Park: Park Model

joeyock

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How you all doing! A few years ago my brother was really into model trains and built a great table and bought all the stuff needed to make a pretty extravagant model train set, unfortunately he never got around to building it and now lives in another state. I recently came up with the idea to make a small scale jurassic park with working tour vehicles instead of trains in place where the train set was once supposed to go. The problem i know almost nothing about making train models and creating miniature worlds! I have a few books on all the how to's of making the landscape and environment so I'm gonna start reading up on those but the first thing I need is a layout of the park. I've added the dimensions of the table i will be working with and was hoping some of you would give suggestions as to where things should go.

Things that must be included:
visitor center
helli-pad w/ waterfall (most likely in one of the back corners)
main gate (obviously:cool)
pond or lake for herbivores
T-rex enclosure (also maybe in a corner?)
restrooms that Gennaro the lawyer uses
Nedry on hill with jeep and dilophosaurus
sick triceratops
other small enclosures


am I missing anything else important?

For the dinosaurs I will be using those detailed plastic toy dinos, I browsed ebay and found plenty of people selling lots of them for cheap.

The vehicles are going to be the biggest challenge as I can't find any toy Jpark vehicles that seem to be the right size. I have a suv similar to the explorers in shape that is a 1/38 scale and is pretty much perfect for what i want to do so I will be using that size vehicle. I will have to custom paint the explorers and jeeps once I find which toy I will be using but I have some experience in that area so I'm not to worried about it. I've looked into how to make the explorers run along tracks and what kind of track to use and I will most likely be using Lionel 'SuperStreet' which is used to power trucks and trollies on model train sets.

If ANYONE has any experience with model trains you could be of great help and share some of your knowledge! For now I shall start planning the layout! Please share any and all ideas!
 
Wow an ambitious project, but one that will look fantastic if completed. I know hobby lobby sells the pappo (?) Line that looks dead on for Jp dinos.
 
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