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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 7:22:07 GMT -5
Our version of the General Store..... Actually we changed the sign later to say 'Sycamore Store' in honor of the gift shop my parents owned for several years. Still love 'em even if they do not understand the value of a good playset. Attachments:
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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 7:30:38 GMT -5
Our Version of the Hotel: I have had the good fortune to stay at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver and it is really magnificent. This hotel looks nothing like it, but while building it, I noticed there was a lot of 'brown' in the colors, so thought it would be neat to go with that name. We chose to break up the hotel and dance hall (which were combined in the Marx set). Also, you can see here we are not against using plastic parts if they fit and we like them. I keep a box of building parts and will buy a kit for 'bashing' if it looks like it has some features we could use. The basic buiding is card stock, and then has porches and railings added from some plastic kits. Actually the hotel combines sleeping rooms, cafe, barber shop, bath house and laundry ---- and don't forget that they sell cigars (Wooden Indian out front). Attachments:
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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 7:34:39 GMT -5
Newspaper..... I stuck to the Marx version as closely as possible for the 'Weekly Journal' newspaper shop. This was the fastest build, but still like it. Attachments:
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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 7:43:46 GMT -5
The Grizzled Bar Saloon...... The outside..... For the Saloon we went all out. Started with the Marx pic, but really went farther after finding a Disney site that had a paper model of the inside of the Country Bear Jamboree. So our saloon and dance hall was the first building where we wanted to be able to show both the inside and the outside. It also combines elements from a ton of places. Got carried away on signs for this one too. It came out a little bigger than I would have liked. Kinda looks like a warehouse compared to the other buildings..... but it is still fun. The Dance Hall sign and siding are copies of the original Marx Hotel/Dance Hall. After that it really evovled into its own thing. One other note...l.discovered that even with the 1/72 scale western kits it was hard to find a variety of women. The dance hall girls will end up being 1/72 scale ancient Greek ladies. They at least had the right general look to the dresses, etc. Attachments:
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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 8:41:09 GMT -5
Inside the Grizzled Bar Saloon and Silver Dollar Dance Hall The Disney site had pictures of the Moose, Buffalo, and Deer mounted on the wall, but I tried to make them 3 dimensional, and lopped the heads off of the approriate plastic animals before mounting and painting. The bar has a real mirror and brass foot rail. I have not made the piano, tables or chairs yet. I may have to take a vow of silence while trying to get these right....don't want to teach the boys new words that they should not use. Attachments:
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Post by savewithdave on Mar 23, 2013 9:27:26 GMT -5
AWESOME!!!
Thanx for sharing!!
D&D(x)
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Post by fortapache on Mar 23, 2013 11:53:36 GMT -5
Excellent work the building lok great. Looking forward to more.
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Post by terryschimm on Mar 23, 2013 12:32:44 GMT -5
Nice job, Lee. Lot's of painstaking labor there.
Terry
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Post by Lee on Mar 23, 2013 15:20:28 GMT -5
Thank you everybody for the comments. This is the last one I was trying to get in for now.... Flick and Flack in roughly HO scale........ We found some little rubber figures in a toy store at the beach last summer. These included some police officers and canines. At first I intended to use the German Shepherds as wolves -- and have made a couple. Then Grayson said what about Flick? Well Flick was a great idea. But that meant I had to find Flack. As it ended up, with a little plastic surgery, wire, card stock, and paint, we made Flack out of the same basic dog. Their positions are certainly not identical, but we were happy with the way they turned out. The first picture in the upper left corner shows the original rubber toy compared to the final Flick and Flack. And its always neat to compare the sizes between the Marx toys and the small scale versions. Lee Attachments:
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Post by Lee on Aug 19, 2013 7:59:33 GMT -5
In searching the web for paper buildings found that Cheerios had a promotion for a Lone Ranger Frontier Town. They did it first in the '40s, and sounds like they issued it a couple of times after that. These were building patterns printed on the backs of boxes. There were 9 different patterns to get, cut out, and build. And they purposely made them HO scale. Not Johnny West - but hard to beat a Lone Ranger tie-in. Here is the best link we have found for being able to print them: www.21catsalute.com/page93.htmlI am not certain how the Lone Ranger ties in with the cat and dog theme, but if you go to the middle and bottom of the page you will see the links for the buildings. Lee
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