Christmas All Year Community

anynoe else here do a christmas village?

i've done a train village/ christmas vilalge since i was a kid.

it started with a small train and some cardboard houses that my older brother, mother and i would set up. then as a teen ager my mother bought 4 porcelin houses and we had that on display.

my own in my house has turned into quite an elaborate display with about 40 buildings 15 more large accesory (ice hocky rink, gazeboo, etc) plus abou 70 small people, sign, animals etc. plus a christmas time lionel train and a seperate trolley.

i'll post some pictures and videos when i get home.

We do a mini village - the houses and people are all like 1:3 scale to the traditional "Department 56" line. - We have fake snow and lights and such.

I'll have to take pictures of everything and post this year.

Growing up we always had a Christmas village of some sort.

here are some pictures of last years village
picture 1 is the "city portion of the village the large christmas train travels around the city

picture 2 is the track that connects the city and the small country town the trolly runs from city to small town on it

picture 3 is the small town

the video is from 2006 i had it set up a bit different and used a johnny cash song as over lay







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tFjk0q7VBM <--- the video

I'd been collecting a small-scale porcelain village from Walmart for about four years. Last year I feel I completed it, a full town and even a lighthouse were present and graced the entire stretch of the top of my parents' massive entertainment center. It's still with them and as Trevor and I have no room for it up here--plus we have four hyper male cats, I'm having them keep it for now :)

I saw your videos a few weeks back - WOW nice! I don't get THAT creative 0 just set everything up on a table with the white sheet and fake snow - no train or anything like that.

i started painting my own villages years ago.i have a small village with fake snow and small people.i have decided not to continue it tho.i just dont have anymore room.so i may sell my pieces after christmas.who knows..well see..but i do love to see others..and i love the trail sets that go thru them.