The Playland Penny Arcade

[Mr Potato Head]

Ken
A/I
Allan Iverson?
Artificial Intelligence ?
MPH

[Bexley]

My guess would be Alcohol/Ink.

That, or alabaster igloo.

[Ken Hamilton]

A/I

Sorry, Spud.  I should've spelled it out.
Bexley's got it - it's alcohol & India ink.  Makes a great all-purpose wash.

[Ken Hamilton]

Street's done:

[finescalerr]

Adequate. -- Russ

[Malachi Constant]

That's not how you spell arcade -- other than that ... wowzer.  -- Dallas

[TRAINS1941]

Very nice indeed, Ken.

Jerry

[marklayton]

Seeing the truck sure brought back a flood of memories - learned to drive trucks in 1960s Hahn fire engine built on a Ford chassis with that same cab.  Had a two-speed rear axle that had to be shifted along with the transmission (2L to 2H to 3L to 3H, etc.)  Really tricky to smoothly shift both at the same time.



Mark

[Andi Little]

Great work Ken'......

The street is going to provide a fantastic backdrop, and I think it's understated qualities will definitely work with you as you populate it with architecture and furniture. The temptation to [over] dress it now must be unbearable.

This is an area that I can often stall on; As I work out what needs to be done and in what order, the necessary assemblages and constructions, the logistics and time scale ................... well! Sometimes I just get overwhelmed and a deep procrastination sets in [ie - a stall].   

Brilliant as ever, it continues to engage and inspire me

[Ray Dunakin]

Really nice work on that street.

[Ken Hamilton]

Happy New Year...!!!!
My New Year's resolution is to finish the Arcade Diorama.
With that in mind, I spent some time on the Arcade building this weekend.
The bricks on the building were applied individually.  They're made from the
chads from our binding machine at work.



The bricked window was done using a piece 1/2"-scale brick sheet.  The outside
of the second story will be framed with 2x4's onto which the Art Deco panels
were attached before demolition of the building began:



The hole is where workers are starting to bust out the bricks.  The brick sheet was
made thicker by gluing on some plaster bricks left over from the gutter project.

[Malachi Constant]

Nice work on the busted bricks ... really like the deco details going into the doorway.  -- Dallas

[michael mott]

Ken superb out of the box solution to the brick hole, what is the material in the curved sections at the street level?

Michael

[Ken Hamilton]

Thanks.......
Michael, the curved sections were formed with a 1/4-section of an empty paper towel roll:



The tops and bottoms are sheet styrene applied with contact cement;
the vertical pieces in the center are round, plastic coffee stirrers that
end up looking like 1/2-round ribs when glued side-by-side.

[TRAINS1941]

Should have known that the coffee stirrers weren't for stirring coffee.  Good  resource Ken.
Nice job on the brick work to.

Jerry