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Looking good Dave, this building is shaping up to be one of your best yet I feel.

I just thought, check out the images of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in this link - it was used as the asylum in Twelve Monkeys - the interior 'decoration' is perfect for your FO style building
http://movie-tourist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/12-monkeys-1995.html

That's great Rug! I actually remember that Bat Child tabloid paper the guard is reading!

Weekly World News, a funny "scream sheet"

@Theo...I hope you have the time of your life man! I only knew NYC from TV and movies before I went. It was such a surreal experience! Although I can't for the life of me figure out WHY they don't maintain the sidewalks better in the richest city in the world! They are worse than Fallout pavements near Times Square.

@Shas- that was the BEST rag for reading on the can for sure!

Sitting around the house all day is starting to get to me I think.. [/quote still no progress in that department?...darn...

and thanks for that lecture! it was an enlightment for sure...

and i dunno why everyone is so dead against ceramite white... me and ceramite, we´re pal´s all the way through... it is the only paint i have nothing bad to say about from GW these days...although...don´t get me started on pots...

Well maybe you'll get off the pots when dr. H gives you other pots to sit on . Sorry, know that one was a stretch, still early .

The filthing has begun

Badger Minitaire brown ghost tint thinned about 70%

OK I have not mentioned anything as of late concerning this building for a simple reason, I was bidding for the same model of ebay and lost

I found it after your earlier builds using o gauge models inspired me to look, however these are not that easily found over here and seeing one at a good price I bid only to loose at 8 seconds less .

However now I am over my small childish tantrum I must say this is a dam fine looking building and hope you have as much fun with it as I hoped to have

No I cant wait to see you add your magic touch to it along with the sprinkle of FO any chance of a mini next to it for scale preferably in the door way

Also love the dirty windows did you just airbrush clear plastic for that result then ?

THanks LDD! Yep just airbrushed on the clear. I didn't get this on ebay, but rather at my local Hobby Shop. There is a European Bachmann dealer that sells all of the WS stuff, maybe that'll help
http://www.bachmann.co.uk/scenics.php


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That dirty white is fantastic dave, really beginning to take shape.

Will take a look at that and see and thanks for the pic for scale I wondered how close it would be, I have found the odd one on ebay but for stupid prices.

But I will check out the link with fingers crossed

i agree the dirty front bumb looks amazing...in some corners of my fair city i saw exactly such building in the same state...

and at theo... bound to happen if i use pots someone needed to make a saucy repertee...

As always looking brilliant Dave, that off-white antique look is great.

@ Theo/ Vik, last time I looked in on DrH thread he was talking Meths, not pot.!!!!!

Ahem! I am here y'know...
I'm half tempted to sig' that Cam, but I don't think that would encourage people to visit my blog...

I'll just settle for my name being soiled ( ) on one of the more popular threads here on DD...

Looking great Dave.

everyone here is grimy and soiled

I found a couple of these Ameritowne Building fronts today at my local Hobby shop. They look to be great kitbashing fodder, and the prices are phenomenal! I'd been gawking at the ads for them in O Gague RR magazine for awhile, but the price was so low, I thoiught they were too good to be true.

Sweet catch dude. Just looked up your beautiful corner store. £97 sterling, OMG that's steep. These look much more affordable. $13 each, you lucky boy. By the time you finished they will look a million bucks.....

I paid about half of that. I think the train store bought an estate collection of railroad kits from some late hobbyist actually. Probably what will happen to my junk someday
A bunch of shrink-wrapped OOP stuff was stickered as "used item"

Yes thats the prices I was getting until I almost had one on ebay for £30 only to be beaten in the last 8 seconds

However great find Dave and nice price, now pack them up and send them here as quick as you can my good man

I want this building in that range, I just see zombies climbing the stairs and 3 survivors fighting there way into the city hall.

 dsteingass wrote:
everyone here is grimy and soiled

I found a couple of these Ameritowne Building fronts today at my local Hobby shop. They look to be great kitbashing fodder, and the prices are phenomenal! I'd been gawking at the ads for them in O Gague RR magazine for awhile, but the price was so low, I thoiught they were too good to be true.

i think that needs to be modeled to look like the HQ of the ghostbusters...
you cant have only grim and dark on your table... a rotten version of the ghostbusters HQ would be so awesome...

Don't get me started! I found a scale die-cast ECTO-1 that I forced myself not to buy

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
everyone here is grimy and soiled

I found a couple of these Ameritowne Building fronts today at my local Hobby shop. They look to be great kitbashing fodder, and the prices are phenomenal! I'd been gawking at the ads for them in O Gague RR magazine for awhile, but the price was so low, I thoiught they were too good to be true.

i think that needs to be modeled to look like the HQ of the ghostbusters...
you cant have only grim and dark on your table... a rotten version of the ghostbusters HQ would be so awesome...

That's funny. Ghostbusters HQ was the first thing I thought of when I saw that too.

~Eric

OLd style firehouse looks like a lot of possibility!

Wondering if Dave will make the Cornucopia Groceries sign for his corner store building?

YES! But I need some little stick-on letters. I saw some used at the LEGO show on road names for locomotives and rolling stock. They have a nice thickness, gives them a 3D look.

Not sure if these would be any good.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Slaters-1102-2mm-High-Letters-Numerals-White-/130946381868?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item1e7d03382c

They have them in different sizes.

Those may indeed work! I think I need to build the structure of the sign first though, then get the lettering. I've taken screenshots from all angles and all the letters all appear to be the same size. The shapes sort of interlock in a rather complex way, so It'll take some planning and wrapping/bending plastic.

There's a neon shop close to me dave , want me to check how small they go?

Jeez that would be ridiculous if you could get them that small. Why not just paint them with OSL?

Because if you could get them that small, you could get it to flash. Show me that mr. Osl.

Now that would rock flashing mini neon lights, Theo if you find them small enough be ready for requests coming your way

Dave could you not just build each section as boxes then gently sand the corners round, then stick them together to make the complete sign like you said break it down into shapes

 dsteingass wrote:
Don't get me started! I found a scale die-cast ECTO-1 that I forced myself not to buy

Awwww...man...what a glorious couple they would make...