Progress on trashy trailer park so far

Excellent work.

Very nice addition to your layout. Lots of thought has gone into this. Where's the Airstream unless you think it would be above the rest of what is in the park. Ah, giving this some thought, Wally Byam probably would not want it included anyway.

I can't wait for the movie to come out ,maybe some are on there way to the Jerry Springer Show.

Lee, I think you need a cop car and a cop arresting someone. Don

Nice detailing Lee, looks real!

Love the sign Don!

Lee, I like the way the sand/dirt roads look, with the erosion/water run-off effect.  -Ken

Absolutely a policeman!  You need to have a cop rousting a drunk from a park bench at the entrance to the trailer park.  Matt

Oh, there will be at least one cop.  As I said, not sure who I want to model him after.   The cop rousting the drunk could be (should be) Barney Fife, but as I said above I plan a more serious apprehension going on, too. Barney, Andy, etc., aren't really the ones to be handling wife-murderer Big Mike.

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Certainly someone has made a 1:43 Mayberry PD car and miniature Andy and Barney?  I must look into that. 

Oh Wow - I suddenly had a neat idea!  Andy Griffith got his start on an episode on the Danny Thomas show, when Thomas drove through Mayberry and got arrested by the local law officer (Andy Grifitth) for speeding - it was a hilarious show, too - Andy was alos the local judge, etc.  I wonder if I could find that show's video (probably, note the cars involved, and reproduce that scene where Andy has pulled him over somewhere on my layout.  I must do this!

Wasn't Barney's car a '61 ford sedan?...maybe a '62?

Sounds like an arrest for "Highway Patrol" Chief Dan Mathews (Broderick Crawford) to be driving up to in his 'Black and White' two door 1955 Buick Century to me.

You are right, Len, I have to do Highway Patrol, too.  I watched the show a lot as a kid, just loving all the talk over the fantastic gadget - the radio.  No bad guy could ever outrun it nd used to hum the theme song so much - over and over, that my Mom would get really irritated with me.  I guess I drove her nuts with it. 

I have a wonderful '54 or '55 Buick Century coupe that I could re-paint. 

How about Jack Webb for your detective. I could see a guy laying in the street with yellow tape around him or just chalk marks were a body was. Saw a Dragnet last night I never saw before. A very young O.J. Simpson was playing a possible police recruit. OMG. Don

Eastwood! Harry!

Ya just need an O scale 44, punk!

Rick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtc2SrcqJU

Rick

I have to really think about this: how can I get all of these on my layout, all the detectives (Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Inspector Morse, Jack Frost), Sheriffs (Rod Stieger - Heat of the Night, Jackie Gleason - Bandit, etc., ), Highway Patrol,Andy and Barney, Jack Webb, Martin Milner and Kent McCord - Adam 12. 

In fact, I need to assemble a list.  Shouldn't I also have Lee Marvin (M Squad), too.  Who else?  Dirty Harry?  Oh yeah.  Not my time period, by I have to stretch a point.  Bullit?  This can go on  and on, which of course, I ove - if I have the room.

I have plans, or will make them, to include all,  but have only two "cops" on the layout new - Richard Griffiths as Inspector Crabbe from Pie in the Sky (a British TV series not well known, far fetched but fun about in the US about a detective who owns a gourmet restaurant - my wife's favorite show and which I modeled the restaurant down to ever table inside, and Stacey Keach's office as Mike Hammer on the second floor or one of my buildings, a "Keach" figure is inside looking out the shades but hard to see. 

Lincoln Vail (Everglades)!

Sergeant Morgan O' Rourke  (F Troop)!

Paladin (Have gun will travel)!

Sgt. Oscar Blaketon, PC Alf Ventress or Claude Jeremiah Greengrass(sorry... got carried away, wrong MO, he's more a lovable rogue). (Heartbeat)!

Zorro!

Rick

The trailer park just keeps getting better and better! Terry

Lee, you can't forget the greatest detective in the world. Inspector Clouseau! Don

lee,

don't forget the sherrif from the tv show walking tall, the one with the BIG STICK..

F-troop? Not so much.

Paladin - Oh yeah.  Richard Boone was one of my favorites.  Have Gun - Will Travel.   How cool.

-Maxwell Smart...missed it by that much!.....{sunbeam tiger..red?}

-Sean Connery/007...favorite bond{aston martin db5}

-"Sheriff" from cars?{ok that's a reach but a '49 merc is always cool}

-Roscoe P Coltrane...{'78 plymouth satellite sedan} 

-Hawaii 5-0....I got nothing else there..."Book'em Danno"

...now, what's Mike gonna do for a good lawyer...we'll need a 1/48th wheel chair...{geez I'm getting old to know this}...something about an old ship on the east coast...

Lee, if available I would like to rent one of the trailers for the summer. I have been trying to decide on a nice place to vacation and I think my family would love to spend the summer there.

I could just relax and watch the trains going by. I would prefer to rent the one with the Pink Flamingos if it comes on the market. Going rate is fine whatever it is.  I don't want to skimp on my family's vacation. I don't even care about the rumors concerning soil contamination from Simple Green. I'll bring my own filter. 

Thanks guys.  I'm going to compile a list of all the cops and detectives I will work into my layout - that will be a really nice theme to add a bit of fun.  Good suggestions all.

Lee, Really looking Good. Great story you told, book to follow, I hope. 

I know I have been there, I remember using the Laundromat at the trailer park office.

this is off the path a little,  doesnt appear like the cars , for say

 Bullit-  , and some others, get popular,  --Looking in the wrong

spot or wrong era, maybe   Just a thought this morning : Also

  Mr. Willis,  as a comparison,  what is the size of the mattress !!

pretty amazin stuff !!

thanks

The mattress is slightly larger than scale for a double, but not quite a queen.  Ultimately I sized it to what size looked good in that spot: the first (scale double bed mattress) looked too small.  The next, looked to big.  I'm rather happy with the result and plan to post how I made it, etc., in the scenery forum when I get a chance.  Really straightforward.