Sunday Scenic Showcase 11-18-2012

This build started off using a Main Street Heritage Models Weekly Record kit. http://www.mainstreet-heritage...t-O-505-details.html

Named for my headbanger son, who has not stepped into a barber shop in years, we have Derek's Barber Shop.

The four walls were assembled along with the removable floor. Interior side walls were cut from styrene along with the ceiling and roof.

After painting I built the interior bench out of scrap wood and then covered with thin styrene. All the images were found on the Internet and reduced as needed including the barber's license on the mirror.

 

 

The rest of the interior were built from things I have accumulated over the years. It's the chairs that were going to be the hardest. With much thanks to Vulcan, who sent me pictures of his chair as well as the inspiration for his, I came up with two passable chairs built all from scrap parts. Lighting is 603 leds inside small beads for globes. I had a Miller Engineering barber pole, but at 6 scale feet, it was just too large. I found a picture of a round hanging sign so I modeled that instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan,

 

Very nice job on the barber shop, looks somewhat like a place I used to go when I was a kid. Keep up the good work.

Dan,

Also looks like the place I went as a kid. Is that Betty Grable?

 

Malcolm

Here are some scrap dumpsters that I constructed. WE are going to be using a lot of these in Jersey right now to clean up.

 

Alan Graziano

Just Incredible Dan.  

 

Cant beleive what a fantastic job you did on that.

 

 

 

 

 

I posted the start of the linoleum factory about a month ago. Finally got some more time for some progress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are the vent stacks that where opened and closed with wheels

 

Had some time to make progress on home layout  to detail and weather another Boxcar. The Weaver boxcar was an Oct York purchase which I just detailed this morning. The Rico Station was bought at a Greenberg show and the factory building is made from Westport Card-stock with some cutouts for a loading dock and Scenic Accents figures. Just getting started in the Photo end of this hobby and will likely contribute a bit more in future. Certainly benefited from this weekly thread and the fantastic skills displayed here.

Beautiful photo's everyone, Dan that is just incredible

 

Thanks, Alex

what a fantastic job, Dan. you should do a step by step build on that interior and building. we all could learn alo from your technique. thanks. 

 

jerrman

Great work, All !! Thanks for starting things, Alan.

 

Dan, the chairs and the shop turned out superb, excellent work !

 

 

This aint what I'm working on.  It's a future project.

 

Meet "Woody". Woody needs a make-over.

 

 

 

Allan. How did you make the dumpsters?? They look great!!! Are the old gondolas? I would to try my hand at making some to. Thanks I Remain, Ed Powers. Ecp2425@verizon.net.

First off, thanks to all. Now I am going to take a magic out of it.

 

The floor in simply a piece of paper that I printed 18" scale squares using Photoshop. Any paint program will work. It's glued to the styrene floor. The barber table was built out of scrap wood glued to shape. Four blocks of wood make the ends and the center with a piece across holding together. Then I cut .10" styrene and glued to the wood. The top is again styrene just cut to shape. Small pieces of styrene for the drawer fronts and the mirror was a piece of aluminum foil.  The barber chairs... 

I really looked around the house and thought about what to use for the base. After a cigar, which allows me to think in peace, I had an idea. I took a piece of 1/4 tubing and with a lighter (see where the cigar comes in) started to heat the end. Once it got gooey I pressed it down on a piece of glass to spread it out. If you do this right, you will get a nice stem of 1/4 inch tube sticking out of a flat round blob. Now you can file/sand the blob into a circle. Then a smaller tube when into the 1/4 tube for the hydraulic part of the base.

The chair top was bits of styrene cut to shape. You can see it better in the pix below. The foot rest was a piece of O Scale roof walk.

 

Ed,

The dumpsters are made using .030" styrene. They are 5 inches long by 2 inches wide by either 1 or 1-1/2 inches high. They have a flat bottom that extends 1/16 inches past the sides. There are .040 x .080 vertical braces on one inch centers on the sides. The top of the box is bracecd with a .040 x .100 strip.

They are pretty easy to construct.

 

Alan Graziano

AWESOME work guys. Thanks for the inspiration!

Great work everyone.

 

Dan you hit a homerun with that build, just beautiful work.

Here are some pics of my recently finished layout.  Enjoy

Dan, I have some sticky-back stiff foil that lies flat if you want some for your barber shop mirror. Just email me your address and I'll send a piece.

Detailed the inside of NYC passenger cars.

Just when I think I've seen it all, this page shows up!  Dan, I knew you were good at this but this piece is pure genius!  I know where to get a cheap haircut.
Everything here is wonderfully built and inspires me.
Thanks guys!