1/2" Scale project still in progress (somehow)

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks all! Marty, they cast a valve stem in, so it was easy to remember! I almost did a wheel weight, but that would have been silly.

Thanks Jerry, we are away from the flames, but not the smoke.

[Scratchman]

Chuck,
Very nice as usual. Sorry I don't sign in very often but your work always leaves me wordless. Now you need a piece or two of old hose laying on the ground, and is there going to be a hose-bib of some sort near?

Gordon Birrell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77318580@N00/

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks Gordon!

Yeah, I'll do some hose and a valve, but probably after I finish some of the rough handling construction and get it mounted. I keep breaking things!

[RoughboyModelworks]

Oh sure... not only did you take the old screen door off my back porch, but now I know where my old Chevy wheel went too...

Outstanding work as usual Chuck

Paul

[Chuck Doan]

Paul. all you gotta do is slap some new paint on all that stuff and I'd never touch it!

[RoughboyModelworks]

I reaching for the Krylon right now.... 

Paul

[chester]

Paul. all you gotta do is slap some new paint on all that stuff and I'd never touch it!

By all means please stop by and bring a big truck. Nothing I own has much paint on it.

[Chuck Doan]

Not much progress lately. I did test fit the garage doors. They still need some nails and other hardware.

[Ken Hamilton]

(...I wish I could at least pretend not to be insanely jealous of you....)

On a more civil note, the initial sketch in your Fotki album shows a gas pump.
Is that still in the equation?  And you did say you're wrapping a hose around
the wheel, right?

Howza'bout some closeups of those garage doors, too? 
That will give me one more reason to bang my head against the wall.

[TRAINS1941]

Okay just so you know I'm paying attention to this.  What happened to the Coca Cola sign??? 

Outside of that your little progress is just unbelievable, and please do a close-up.

Jerry

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks! The Coke sign was temporarily attached and I removed it for safe keeping until I finish dropping and knocking this over.

I am still planning a pump, probably between the window and garage doors. The hose is coming, but I need to mount the wall on the foundation first for the same reason as above!

This was the best shot I got...my camera has turned Cubist and keeps doing a Picasso number on my pics, slicing them up and re-arrainging them. I will try to sort that out this weekend.

[finescalerr]

Chuck, the new protrusion on the left-hand edge of the building is reminsicent of a similar one on the barn diorama. And the lack of depth (so far) on the right-hand side suggests you may be planning to put the store in the background and some kind of surprise, although probably not a Fordson tractor, in the foreground. Want to offer a clue as to your ultimate intent? -- Russ

[Chuck Doan]

This is the basic layout. It will be on the same kind of base as the barn, but set at a slight angle. Other than a gas pump I don't have anything else planned yet. This has been a poorly planned thing so far.

[jacq01]

   A nice Indian motorcycle 

   Jacq

[marc_reusser]

An old sofa, ice chest (freezer), and tires.....staples of Southern front yards.

M