Astounding. My grandfather had a huge model train layout that was a constant work in progress, and my favorite memories are running the trains with him. Incredible layout and wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.
I have never ventured into the smaller-scale stuff yet, I love the idea of having a more broad layout having a smaller scale and I also like the idea of putting it on a table with a smaller tree. I really want to make one myself this was awesome, thank you!
Thanks John for the feedback. Unfortunately the only media I captured at the time was timelapse. About 80,000 RAW still images, so no real way to present the info as a real time tutorial. As to the plans, they are still thumb tacked to the wall of my garage. I will see if I can find my digital plans and I'll post a link to them in the description. With such tight radius curves and existing structures I knew I needed to get the trackwork right before building. That is why you see me creating the grid on the table top at the beginning, so I could map the dimensions 1-to-1 from my plans. It helped a ton.
Merry Christmas! It's June and 90F/30C degrees today in Vancouver. I thought the snow would make me feel a bit cooler for awhile, but it didn't. I like the curves in the track run.
Loved the video. I slowed it down in parts where I was more interested in the detail. I was also impressed by your "live" villagers at the end of your video. Bravo!
What tremendous creativity you have! Such an inspiration as I am just now beginning the build the foundation for my Christmas N scale layout. The people waving at the end are a nice surprise. Wonderful video!!! Thank you so much for posting it.
Thanks! It helps having the production tools that I leverage for work available for goofy videos like this. Not everyone can set up a 4K green screen in their garage for the ending shot. :)
Amazing! And so inspiring! My boyfriend and I are just starting our own Christmas layout in HO scale- not sure if we'll get close to this but saving this video for reference. Thanks for sharing!
Lauren Klich HO is the way to go. I built one for my grandson last year and it came out great for being my first project.Check out tree roots for trees I got the idea from a video they are very realistic.
I blocked out two weeks from work when my wife was out of town on business (which is how I managed to move to operation to the living room.) I did spend about a month creating scaled drawings before I started, and that helped me manage things. This year's project is lighting things up in the town. Thanks for watching. And good luck.
What a wonderful video! I tend to be An Ebenezer but love the villages. Thanks. And a note to the 54(at the time I'm viewing) thumbs downs, learn to enjoy life!
Thank you Mike for the kind words. I don't get too caught up in the thumbs down unless the ratio is 1-to-1. Then I know I really didn't deliver what folks wanted or expected and the onus is on me to do a better job next time. The ratio is still running about 30-to-1 on this video so I'm OK with that. There are a lot of choices out there and creative work won't satisfy everyone. I always appreciate when folks take the time to comment, positive or negative. But, I positive ones like yours do feel better. Thanks again. Have a great holiday.
Thanks! I love shooting timelapse. Shot it mostly with a 5D and a Sony 6500. The ending green screen & live action stuff is a C300. Glass is most all Canon. Check out the rest of the channel for camera and storytelling tips. Thanks for watching and for the kind words.
I think I’m doing worst this year. We have the tree up and tracks and snow blankets on the floor. The layout is an 8 figure track and hard to do the lights in the houses. My train set is the polar express o gauge
Thanks! With four kids, Christmas is always fun for us. Even though they are in their 20's. As to the dogs, sort of a poodle. Australian labradoodles. Thanks for watching and commening.
And greeting from Seattle. I had to send a screen shot of the Modellbau playlist on your channel to my daughter. Both of us loved that I was on the same list as Luke Towan. We laughed that I had "arrived". Thanks for watching.
Some are scratch built, or kit bashed. Most of my structures started life as Design Preservation Model kits, and I really appreciate their attention to detail. Thanks for watching.
Amazing build! I love all those little details, the earlier mentioned camera skills are fantastic too. May I use your video in a local "Christmas Village builder" facebook group? I would love to show them your work. :)
OUTSTANDING!!! Daddy always set up the train under our tree every Christmas 💖. Thank you for the memories!
You’ve created great memories for your family. Priceless.
No Christmas Tree is complete without a trainset underneath. It just makes it that little bit more special.
That was really fun to watch. You do really good work and, boy, are you fast!
I used tree roots for bare trees .I got them from a creek bank .They look very realistic.
Over the top... what a great story, video and train set.
THAT was amazing, and sweet, the ending was perfect! Love it! Thank you for making this and sharing it with us. :)
That was wonderful to see and great that the family pitched in and helped. Marry Christmas to you and the family. Richard
I loved seeing you both make it happen , Absolutely Wonderful !!!!!
Love the Christmas display and your beautiful tree. It's great to see people go the extra mile to enjoy and share the Christmas season.
Astounding. My grandfather had a huge model train layout that was a constant work in progress, and my favorite memories are running the trains with him. Incredible layout and wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.
I have never ventured into the smaller-scale stuff yet, I love the idea of having a more broad layout having a smaller scale and I also like the idea of putting it on a table with a smaller tree. I really want to make one myself this was awesome, thank you!
Wonderful all family's should be so lucky!
Awesome video... great playlist.
OUTSTANDING results. I did enjoy the show. Thanks .
Would love to see a “how to” version of this. I think building plans and a slowed down video would be great. Love what you’ve built
Thanks John for the feedback. Unfortunately the only media I captured at the time was timelapse. About 80,000 RAW still images, so no real way to present the info as a real time tutorial. As to the plans, they are still thumb tacked to the wall of my garage. I will see if I can find my digital plans and I'll post a link to them in the description. With such tight radius curves and existing structures I knew I needed to get the trackwork right before building. That is why you see me creating the grid on the table top at the beginning, so I could map the dimensions 1-to-1 from my plans. It helped a ton.
This was so much fun to watch. Thanks for the ideas for my Christmas display this year.
Great video, even though it was sped up and completed in 6 minutes a great example of how much work goes into making a quality layout.
Superb ,Merry Christmas ,sounds better than happy holidays to me happy holidays is two weeks on a beach in Spain ,merry Christmas to you all 🎅🏼🤶🏻
Wow !! It’s amazing and fantastic!!
Incredible video. Thanks for all the hard work documenting the build out.
This is awesome!! Bring on 2019!
Merry Christmas! It's June and 90F/30C degrees today in Vancouver. I thought the snow would make me feel a bit cooler for awhile, but it didn't. I like the curves in the track run.
The ending was great made me smile
The Team work was the best part !
This is awesome! What a great idea to make every year!
Wow.. so Inspiring.. I wish I'd seen this earlier in the year than Nov 26. WILL DO THIS for next year.
Merry Christmas one and all! 🎅
Loved the video. I slowed it down in parts where I was more interested in the detail. I was also impressed by your "live" villagers at the end of your video. Bravo!
Cool !!!!! Merry Christmas !!!! 🧑🎄🎄🥳🎊🎁🪅🎆
I'm "wordless"
No wait I have 1....
WOW!!!!
This was a joy to watch! Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Love the train layout very awesome
This is totally Beautiful. All I can say is WOW.
So great to see it from beginning to finished project. amazing!
This must have taken forever! Was fun to watch!!! Thank you. Made my day
FANTASTIC!!! Thanks for sharing this beautiful video story with the World. (Great surprise when the waiting passengers waved;-))
This is so awesome
What tremendous creativity you have! Such an inspiration as I am just now beginning the build the foundation for my Christmas N scale layout. The people waving at the end are a nice surprise. Wonderful video!!! Thank you so much for posting it.
Thanks! It helps having the production tools that I leverage for work available for goofy videos like this. Not everyone can set up a 4K green screen in their garage for the ending shot. :)
Just wonderful...🌲⛄️🌲
Great job Keller’s!!! Loved watching, July 2020.
Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful. Wonderful!
Woww! !!...lavoro da certosino! !!
Brilliant! Inspiring from beginning to delightful ending! Thank you so much for creating this video.
I just wish there was an N-Scale Polar Express. That would be ideal for your layout
Very cool ending.
Really nice and inspirational!
Wow that is beautiful! I wish they would make a N scale polar express
Beautiful Work. thank you for sharing
Marry Christmas 🎄 Great lay out
Looks great 👍🎄🎅🏼🎄👍
Amazing! And so inspiring! My boyfriend and I are just starting our own Christmas layout in HO scale- not sure if we'll get close to this but saving this video for reference. Thanks for sharing!
Lauren Klich HO is the way to go. I built one for my grandson last year and it came out great for being my first project.Check out tree roots for trees I got the idea from a video they are very realistic.
And I needed 2 Years. Next Time I will work in Timelapse too. 👍
Wow impressive
Such and amazing job. I love it !
Beautiful
Fantastic job love the detail work. Merry Christmas
This is beautiful! Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
Thanks for watching and the kind words.
What a gift you possess! Thank you for sharing. Happy Holidays.
And I hope the New Year is great for you. Thanks for reaching out.
Very inspiring! It makes me want to do something similar. Thanks for sharing!
I blocked out two weeks from work when my wife was out of town on business (which is how I managed to move to operation to the living room.) I did spend about a month creating scaled drawings before I started, and that helped me manage things. This year's project is lighting things up in the town. Thanks for watching. And good luck.
Merry xmas feliz navidad ! Love modeling
Wonderful job!
What a wonderful video! I tend to be An Ebenezer but love the villages. Thanks. And a note to the 54(at the time I'm viewing) thumbs downs, learn to enjoy life!
Thank you Mike for the kind words. I don't get too caught up in the thumbs down unless the ratio is 1-to-1. Then I know I really didn't deliver what folks wanted or expected and the onus is on me to do a better job next time. The ratio is still running about 30-to-1 on this video so I'm OK with that. There are a lot of choices out there and creative work won't satisfy everyone. I always appreciate when folks take the time to comment, positive or negative. But, I positive ones like yours do feel better. Thanks again. Have a great holiday.
2:00 I really like the rock detail
Great build - but I love your impressive CAMERA work even more!!
Thanks! I love shooting timelapse. Shot it mostly with a 5D and a Sony 6500. The ending green screen & live action stuff is a C300. Glass is most all Canon. Check out the rest of the channel for camera and storytelling tips. Thanks for watching and for the kind words.
Extraordinaire.
I love it, all the great Christmas layout scenery you could ask for plus 2 alcos and a steamer! Well done!!
Bonjour splendide je vais copier Bon Noël à vous cordialement
This was amazing! Although the pond was a little disturbing :P
wonderful video ,Thank you very much. Grüße aus Deutschland
I think I’m doing worst this year. We have the tree up and tracks and snow blankets on the floor. The layout is an 8 figure track and hard to do the lights in the houses. My train set is the polar express o gauge
Lovely!
Very very well done!!!!
Thank you
very nice video!
Bellissimo complimenti buon 2020.
Nice job.
Outstanding
Red bull gives you, an awesome train set.
Amazing.
Great video.
How nice , greetings from sweden.
AWESOME!!!!! Those people at the end look real!!! HaHaHa Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Danke ! Schaut Klasse aus, auch der Hund ! Ein Pudel ? So macht Weihnachten Freude.
Thanks! With four kids, Christmas is always fun for us. Even though they are in their 20's. As to the dogs, sort of a poodle. Australian labradoodles. Thanks for watching and commening.
Joyous! Thanks.
Wow.
Greetings from Germany...
And greeting from Seattle. I had to send a screen shot of the Modellbau playlist on your channel to my daughter. Both of us loved that I was on the same list as Luke Towan. We laughed that I had "arrived". Thanks for watching.
@@TheStoryGuide soon it is Christmas time again, enjoy your wonderful "Holiday construction" with your family.
Jo
Oh, Well Done!
Very good, well done. Only wish I was so skilled
THANK YOU
That was a really cool video! Now if only I can talk my wife into letting me do this
Great great work!
Great job.
I’m looking for someone to create a large display in New York next month. Is this something you would be able to do?
Awesome
This is amazing. Do you remember where you got the model houses from?
Some are scratch built, or kit bashed. Most of my structures started life as Design Preservation Model kits, and I really appreciate their attention to detail. Thanks for watching.
Santa clause is coming to your house just to play with your train.🎄
That was so cool 6:06
Amazing build! I love all those little details, the earlier mentioned camera skills are fantastic too. May I use your video in a local "Christmas Village builder" facebook group? I would love to show them your work. :)
Of course, thank you for asking. And thank you for the kind words of support.
Wow.