EAT AT THE DOG!
I am currently working on a roadside food stand for the indoor layout. Its going to be called either the Doggie Diner, Tail of the Pup, or Hot Doggie Hot Dogs:
This started as a carved wood dog I found on Ebay, I have been looking for the right figure since I started rebuilding the layout! All I had found had been either too big, too small, too primative, or too finely detailed. I had given up and was planning to use sculptamold to make my diner, when one day on a whim I did a search, found this, checked the dimensions were about right, bid and wholla! I won, ideally it should be a tad bigger but so far I really like to compact look thats coming out of so far. Now to wait for the putty and glue to dry and then paint and signage.
This is based on not one, but 2 REAL roadside diners that once existing on the westside of LA, both were known as the Doggie Diner, both were a short drive from each other, one was more realistic but the other had its own charm.
If you saw the film The Rocketeer, you saw one of them recreated for the film:
the other which is more like my version, was smaller and graced a book on the subject:
Have fun with your trains
I love it! Awesome
That is just too cool! Gotta love California!
Winnegance and Quebec Railway
Eric Schade Gen'l Manager
Years ago, there was an ad from an accessory outfit that had ready-made versions of the first one in garden rails magazines.
Now that is just cool.
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Thanks all,
I am painting it up and should have it finished (more or less) by this weekend. I think I have finalized a name, gonna call it "The Dog House"
Trying to find all those little things like a menu I can use over the order window and I need to find a 1/24 scale Hot Dog, beleive it or not I know exactly where to get just such a odd item, and its nearby!
EAT AT THE DOG! Finished!
The Dog House is complete, it came out better than I ever hoped!
Painted and detailed, added an old Coney Island stand menu. I had too photo-edit out a hanging lamp out of that menu and backfill in part of the text, yikes! Today I will go to Folk Tree, a shop that specializes in Mexican arts and crafts and where I buy alot of the small detail items that populate my layouts, and pick up a hot dog and hopefully a mustard bottle.
Still need to make a large roadside side for it and print out a few smaller Coke or Pepsi like signs. But the hard part is finished.
Vic, you never cease to amazes me with some of the stuff plant on your railroad's
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Orders up! Who'ad da musta'd sp'ecial
Roadside sign:
Thats another building down, just 5 more to go (but they the big'uns). :D
Inquiring minds want to know where you found a scale hot dog!
Rene S Inquiring minds want to know where you found a scale hot dog!
Rene
There is a place here called FOLK TREE that sells Mexican folk art and that includes items for Dia De Los Muertos commemorative diorama shado boxes remembering what a passed loved-one did and enjoyed in live, these are usually near 1/24 scale. But the Hot Dog came from there, along with the bottles, and a bunch of stuff on the other layout.
http://www.folktree.com/shopping.htm
I have to admit that my layout would be a WHOLE LOT more boring without this place.
Me thinks me remembers that place! Was but a a little tyke, but dad could not get me near it. I had a sever fear of dogs back then.
Tom Trigg
Great piece of work there!!
I've had an interest in knowing how those places did get built as well....
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