Several years ago my crippled creek station was smashed by a tree limb putting all the walls into 2 or 3 pieces. I dug them all out and after a little bit of puzzle making I had 4 walls, in pieces, but all the parts were there minus the chimney. After some serious gluing and clamping, filling in the cracks with testors body fill, I was ready for paint, choosing yellow okra as it was a very popular color back in the day, it is actually international harvester machine yellow. Was missing windows, boarded that one up also freight area doors, made a interior box in place of so I could show produce, mutton on 1 window frame was broken, so when I install the window pane I broke it in the same place (damn kids I told them not to play baseball there), made and smoke stack out of tubing and secured it with wire to the roof, and made up 1 door also made a new loading dock out of styrene. Some of the produce are from eBay, cucumbers I made from rice and crates are from styrene. Oranges are from lava beads painted with orange, yellow and green spray paint. Put some fruit decals on the building. UD's produce is for uncle Daniel who was a plumber and my brother in law and he thought he was the world's greatest gardener but the only thing I ever saw him grow was nut grass, my he RIP
Thanks for the kind words, I lost most everthing in the hurricanes in 2004 and just recently started putting the pieces back together. I like kitbashing and making things out of pieces I've posted several on the forum under the ChoCho Willy, thanks again, Bill
Nice rebuild! I love seeing old broken made new again. I had a three story saloon/hotel that suffered extensive damage as the dogs were evicting a stray cat. Rebuilt as a store and hotel.
Tom Trigg
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Yes it is. On the evening of build completion I tried several locations for the 3 story building. Decided to wait for daylight to take pix of massive 3 story building. Next morning as the dogs went for their morning business the cat eviction began. Searched for parts for three hours, could not find the back walls. Actually found the back wall 3 1/2 years later at the bottom of the Koi pond some 15 feet away,
Too funny, sounds like some of my escapades, looks like the song is correct, check in but don't check out, Bill
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