The Playland Penny Arcade

[finescalerr]

You actually scribed every brick on that wall? That must have taken hours! -- Russ

[lab-dad]

Nice vacation!
I dont think that would work for me..........
-Marty

[Design-HSB]

Hi Ken,

I used to engrave the stones as well as you.
Meanwhile, I've had practice, drawing on the computer to the stones and engraving with CNC.
Now what really goes fast, I can not say exactly.
But your score even more convinced that bemahlung of advertising.

[Ken Hamilton]

Here's a closer look at the ghost wall:

[TRAINS1941]

Ken

When did you vacation if you were doing that???

Beautiful work.

Jerry

[Chuck Doan]

That's a lot of carving. The whole thing is looking good!

[Ken Hamilton]

Thanks.....
Each wall took about 3 hours.  It was a good kitchen table
project in the evenings after long days of sight-seeing and
generally doing nothing.

[nk]

That really captures the look of a faded ad on a brick wall. Your brick carving gives a great effect...after I carve a lot of bricks, I feel like I need a vacation!

[pwranta193]

You realize just how twisted it is that you prep for vacation with pre-poured slabs .  The final product looks great.

I was just visiting friends in Seattle - the Five Point restaurant has a ghosted wall outside the dining room window that they dummied up in 1:1 scale.  After staring and staring during breakfast I had to ask someone if it was new or not...

[Ken Hamilton]

Had time over the holiday weekend to get back to the Arcade.  The base is
made out of pink rigid insulation (my new favorite base material) and measures
in at around 22"x 38".  The sidewalk is Hydrocal cast in a big sheet and scored
at the expansion joints, broken and glued onto the foam with silicone caulk. 





I did something a little different with the sand mixed with the plaster:  I sprinkled
it on the bottom of the mold instead of adding it to the plaster mix.  See the whole process here:  http://public.fotki.com/khamilton/models/model_how-to/how-to-make-deterio/
No written description yet, but the photos will give you an idea.
Next up are the curb pieces, which are in now but weren't when I took the above photo.

The asphalt street will have a brick gutter, which I'm making by casting plaster bricks in
a mold made by a friend and gluing them to a long strip of black construction paper that
will be glued to the street before the asphalt is poured:





More to come.  Thanks for looking............

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice. I see another building in the works, and possibly a spot for a third building. How big many is this diorama, and how many buildings will it have?

[finescalerr]

If you have no publication plans for this project I hereby offer you something to think about. It's really shaping up. -- Russ

[TRAINS1941]

Ken

Looks like the clinic you gave on details, details.  Got you back to bench and details it is.

Excellent!!!!

Jerry

[Malachi Constant]

Wow!  Great looking sidewalks and everything else ... happy to follow along at any pace.    -- Dallas

[Ken Hamilton]

Thanks.....

Ray, the base measures just about 22"x 38".  Here's a quick, roughed-in composition shot:



The empty lot on the left will contain debris from a former building at that location; the Arcade
in the middle will be in the process of being dismantled, with perhaps a wood scaffold on the
facade, while the games are loaded onto the truck.  The apartment house on the right is, except
for the closed storefront, managing to hold its own in the neighborhood, at least for now.