The Playland Penny Arcade

[Ray Dunakin]

Looks like a dangerous place to hang out after dark!

[W.P. Rayner]

Very evocative Ken... just waiting for Philip Marlowe to come down the stairs and out the door...

Paul

[Ken Hamilton]

Finished up the alley and decided what I was going to do with the Arcade entrance,
so the Arcade building is ready to be permanently attached to the base.



Once the Arcade building is in place I'll finish up the part of the first
floor (just inside the door) that's visible.



Made a TV antennae for the apartment building roof, too......

[fspg2]

It just looks always great!
I'm looking forward to your next steps.

[danpickard]

It would have been loud and proud with the bold art deco colourings in its prime, but now just beautifully sucked into the scene with a health dose of city grime.  This is growing very quickly into on of those dioramas that will stick in modellers minds for some time.  Its just a common city sight with a dying building, but captured just brilliantly here. Amazing work Ken.

Cheers,
Dan

[Junior]

Fantastic so far and instantly recoginzable as a diorama with the typical "Hamilton Touch".

Anders

[lab-dad]

Ken,
Really interesting (and entertaining) to watch you progress through this project.
While not a subject I would ever model I am still very much enjoying the posts.
If it were not for the background (or lack of) it would appear real.
When finished I think you need to take it to the city for a proper background.
Shot with a narrow focus plane (background slightly out of focus) it would be a very real scene.
Thanks for shows us and all the SBS along the way!
-Marty

[michael mott]

Ken I did a double take on that first picture! then realized that it is a superb example of model work. Simply amazing!!

Michael

[BKLN]

I will continue to sit quietly and watch this beauty unfold!

[Gordon Ferguson]

Ken I am with Michael that first picture is amazing .......... the grime and sense of urban decay has really been captured, and like an artist think it is those little details that you have added that really make it ............. in this case its got to be the graffiti, just  enough to make an subtle impact

[Ken Hamilton]

Thanks, guys.
I was really torn about adding graffiti because (1) I didn't want to neighborhood to look TOO bad and (2) I'm
not much of a graffiti fan in the real world, but after the fact I think it does add something to the story.

[Chuck Doan]

Unfortunatly you have to have some grafitti in that enviroment. in this case it is encouraged.

[danpickard]

The graffiti plays its part in setting the timeline for the display...age of the buildings and the era we are now looking at based on the style of the graffiti.

Dan

[EZnKY]

Excellent work Ken.

[finescalerr]

That new photo ... well, what can one say? -- Russ