This was a fun project on many fronts, including adding another set of detectives, doing a lot of fun research on Hollywood history, and making several rather challenging scratch built things. Plus, I got to include Vernada Turbine again, and I got to model John Wayne - The Duke himself! How cool is that!
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Very cool!!! Really captures the feel of So Cal architecture. A few construction details later would be nice!!!
That diorama certainly has the WOW Factor.
Lee
You are changing this whole thing into an art form.
77 Sunset Strip has to be my favorite.
The attention to all the little details is outstanding.
You made my day with the one.
That diorama certainly has the WOW Factor.
Certainly sums it up for me! Very impressive, Lee!
The show is on the vague fringes of my memory. I can remember watching it with my parents, but can't remember anything specific about it. You do seem to have captured its aura though. Well done.
George
Lee; just unbelievable. You are an extremely talented modeler.
P.S. I really enjoyed that show along with most of the Warner Bros. produced shows.
That's very impressive research and modeling.
Those detectives and Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn were the epitome of cool to a kid like me back in the day. I loved the look of the intro to both shows. Lee, you will have consider how this layout may be entrusted to posterity like the Smithsonian, when the history of model railroading is documented for this part of the 21st century.
OK, you got me. With only a passing familiarity with 77 Sunset Strip, I had to know: Did they really have a character named Veranda Turbine? A quick search of IMDB said "no." Darn! It is a perfect 1950s TV show dame name. Right up there with the Bond girl names.
Anyway, great job with the modeling and the back story.
Bob
No, they definitely did not have a character named Veranda Turbine. She is a character I made up - a Hollywood starlet that appears more than a dozen times on my layout, always a figure based on a very buxom, leggy female figure in one of the MTH O-gauge figure sets. Many of the people she knows and meets are real or were fictional movie characters. Here is her story in the link below, posted in mid June.
Thanks. I think as many people remember that (truly dreadful) song as remember the TV show!!! I really wanted to model is T-bucket hot rod but I had no room in the vignette for it - had a hard time squeezing in the '62 T-bird.
FANTASTIC-BY THE WAY-CAN YOU LEND ME YOUR COMB-JOE
Another gem?.. In so little time?... Lee, your amazing.
Veranda Turbine lends glamour and class to the scene
Yes the song was awful but Connie Stevens made it memorable due to the Verandaturbinishrack.
The other song from the series...the REAL song from the series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrcSieqMH8
"The high-brow and the hipster; the starlets and the phony tipsters...."
The theme begins at around 1:50.
"The theme defines coolness daddy-o," as a wise man once said.
BTW, ANOTHER piece of outstanding modeling, Lee. FANTASTIC!!
Just superb! Terry
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