Gas Station Interior Details

Can you post the photo? I have modified Menards Wally station.

Look at the Berkshire Valley website. They have what you want and are great to work with. We have used their stuff a lot.

This is Dave's Service station after conversion.

Here's mine, I modified a Woodland Scenic gas station into a Sohio station.  The model looks very much like an old gas station that is now a real estate office in Olmsted Falls Ohio, although I don't think it used to be a Sohio station but in my world it is.

Sorry, no interior pics but I didn't modify the interior anyway.  Good luck and post some pics!

Paul

Worked at a Mobil station in 1959. Office was pretty spartan but on item I remember that would be hard to model was the standing, rotating rack of road maps we gave out for free. Remember them?

Serows1 posted:

Here's mine, I modified a Woodland Scenic gas station into a Sohio station.  The model looks very much like an old gas station that is now a real estate office in Olmsted Falls Ohio, although I don't think it used to be a Sohio station but in my world it is.

 

Sorry, no interior pics but I didn't modify the interior anyway.  Good luck and post some pics!

Paul

Paul

Your pavement on which the Sohio is situated.  Please share with me  the method you have used to get such a great looking road way.  Appears to be asphalt and looks weathered and aged very gracefully.   Good job. . . . 

I'm stopping there the next time I must refill!

Thanks

Seth

Seth Thomas posted:

Serows1 posted:

Here's mine, I modified a Woodland Scenic gas station into a Sohio station.  The model looks very much like an old gas station that is now a real estate office in Olmsted Falls Ohio, although I don't think it used to be a Sohio station but in my world it is.

 

Sorry, no interior pics but I didn't modify the interior anyway.  Good luck and post some pics!

Paul

Paul

Your pavement on which the Sohio is situated.  Please share with me  the method you have used to get such a great looking road way.  Appears to be asphalt and looks weathered and aged very gracefully.   Good job. . . . 

I'm stopping there the next time I must refill!

Thanks

Seth

Thanks Seth, the roadway is really easy to make.  I use black fine grit sandpaper that I lightly spray with gray primer spray paint to give it the weathered random look then I paint cracks on with black acrylic paint and along the seams between the sheets.  Sometimes I'll glue the sheets to foam board and other times I'll glue it directly to the train board.  Have fun!!

Paul

Haven't gotten to the interior yet, but interested to see what suggestions are made here...I recall seeing Berkshire Valley at the Springfield show earlier this year.  They did have a nice assortment of interior deco items...

Let's see "bare bones".... map rack(s) (magazines do?), Amco wiper rack, oils rack, antifreeze/alcohol/naptha/ammonia,  maybe a few boxes of candy/cartons of smokes(limited and not an "above the head" rack )

Maybe a fridgeorcooler for "the Old Man's" beer, separate from guest's machine or the soda was handed/delivered to you...You want that soda opened Sonny? ..Why yes; thank  you . Desk (workbench hybrid?), desk lamp?, floor lamp? Paper clips, scissors, stapler, pencils, a few chairs, timeclock, bulletin board, repair key board & order/ticket holder, small radio, ashtray stand, match.box or match pack box, trash, calendar, wall clock, fan(s)(floor/ceiling), gas can(s)/kerosene can (& pump or elevated tank outside)... fireproof rag container, half gallon or quart spout cans (like a garden watering can sans-shower head). Maybe a picture of war buddies, family, or Ike 😉  Old Glory, maybe a State flag too(real or photos, etc).  Buck horns, etc. Ceiling heater/kerosene stove heater (if lucky)

A bell up high on the door ,and don't forget the "ding" tube outside.