The Playland Penny Arcade

[finescalerr]

Damned clever, those Easterners. -- Russ

[fspg2]

I love the second and the third look.... It's like a view throgh a keyhole.
The smaller the hole, the bigger the space for the imagination!
Please let us gain insight into many holes.

[Bill Sartore]

Nice Ken!

I had to stop by and check in on the fantastic modeling that goes on here.

I always open up my lighting clinic with the concept that proper lighting can really draw us into a model. You show how a simple, well placed light can do just that.

Bill

[Chuck Doan]

That is so neat!

[michael mott]

Ken ...Brilliant in more ways than one.

Michael

[pwranta193]

What they said...

I really like the shadow box draw of this... as you said, something to discover on your next looks.  Love the compressor and the story continuation.

[nk]

Nice touch Ken, just enough detail to let us imagine what is in there. The lathe is also superb. Don't forget to add dust along the tops of all that plaster that has glooped through the slats.

[Rail and Tie]

Most Awsome, unusual and superb!!

Oh yah, and excellent modelling as well....

[Ken Hamilton]

Stairway to the roof - the basic Gatorboard form:



Etched aluminum over model airplane plywood door; wood frame, painted sandpaper siding:



In place on the roof:



In the real world, the sloped stairway roof would extend all the way to the building's flat roof.
Since this is a "cut-away model", the back of the stairway is cut at the plane where the roof is
cut; however, I don't think this really works - the stairway just appears to be a shed on the
roof. I should have made the stairway enclosure longer, with more of the slope showing.

[Malachi Constant]

I think you're right about the cut-off bit ... immediate impression from the photo was that the stairs would go out the side/back of the building in question ... however, that door looks great!  -- Dallas

[finescalerr]

I think you should scrap the entire model and start completely from scratch .... -- ssuR

[Geoff Ringle]

Too Cool!

[Ken Hamilton]

Started detailing the alley before the building-next-door went in,
but I ran out of daylight.....

[Andi Little]

I think the trouble with threads like this is you just run out of superlatives so quickly .............. I mean, if I'd of answered every post I'd have long used up my entire vocabulary regards groovy and fantastic things to say.
So, just because I haven't littered your thread with gushing praise doesn't mean I haven't noticed or that I'm not appreciative.
Far from it - in fact pretty much the opposite. I'm really quite numb from the lateral thinking, the innovative design and remarkable problem solving.

So it all boils down really to a quite simple .......................... Bloody well done sir!

[Malachi Constant]

Started detailing the alley before the building-next-door went in,
but I ran out of daylight.....

Darn shame!  Loads of storyboard possibilities for the dark alley and the "somewhat" inviting open doorway ... cue Mr. Hitchcock ...