Has anyone modeled this gas station yet?

Serious thoughts toward it!!!  I have a 1/48 B-25 model from my work at Accurate Miniatures Co.  But it is still a big plane! Not difficult to build....space is another story! There is one made with a B-17 too......maybe a B-29???

That has been on my "to do" list. Have the plane, the idea, just waiting for the right time. My problem is I build too many gas stations, there will never be waiting at the pump on my layout to say the least.

Paul - That is a really cool looking station!  Do you have any idea where it was or is located?  It looks like something one would see on the old Route 66. 

Art

There was a restaurant just north of Phila that had an old bomber AC build in as part of the building.  Remember it as a kid.  G

No but I'be been there and interviewed the owner that flew it there. Amazing story. Don

It's just outside Portland. Don

found this online

Just a thought...

It might take only half the space...if you cut it lengthwise through the center of the fuselage, put it against a background mirror.  Positioned to minimize unwanted reflections...as 'the master', John Allen, taught us years ago and since replicated by others...it could, indeed be a great scenic vignette!

KD 

I f someone were to take on this project, it would be a good example of making a standout scene on a layout. You just couldn't miss this one. Love to see someone do it.

As mentioned above, I already have too many gas stations, and probably will find

more that I can't pass up, if I find more defunct regional oil company ones, that take less real estate.

I don't think I would do this station as a B-17 is very large in "O" scale. Maybe something like this. 

I remember a constellation as a restaurant in North Philly, I wonder what happened to it?

John

That would be cool.  I've got an old 1/48 scale B-17 sitting in the garage.  The wingspan is 26", takes up a lot of real estate.

This one would take up less room, but planes are cool: