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My new pride and joy, take a look

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Anonymous
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My new pride and joy, take a look
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:51 PM
I know I'm late for 'Weekend Photo Fun' and early for 'Midweek Photos', but I just finished this and had to come and show off. [;)]


This is the first model I have built in about 27 years, the last one being an old Wolf Pack U-Boat years ago.

So here it is tell me what you think, honest opinion is always welcome..









Peace

Coyote

P.S. I just threw it on some spare ground foam with some spare trees to have something to shoot it on [:)]
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Posted by ARTHILL on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:56 PM
Nice work. Thanks for sharing. What was the kit and where does it fit on the pike? Will it get a TV arieal or is it too early for such modern things? What's next?
If you think you have it right, your standards are too low. my photos http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/ARTHILL/ Art
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Posted by Cox 47 on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:57 PM
Looks like a good start on a trailer park....One that looks just like it is right down the street....Cox 47
ILLinois and Southern...Serving the Coal belt of southern Illinois with a Smile...
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:57 PM
What! you didn't put curtains in any of the windows. Peeping Tom heaven.
Just kidding, I think it looks great and will go very well with the theme of
your layout.
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cacole
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Posted by cacole on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:58 PM
That looks great! I wish I had a dozen of those with which to make a trashy trailer park on our club layout.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 2:59 PM
Grandpa, that's very, very nice. You might not have built in a long time, but you certainly haven't lost the touch.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:01 PM
Excellent work Coyote[tup]!

I might suggest a different title though: "In-Between-Weekend-And-Mid-Week Photo Fun"[:o)]
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Posted by ereimer on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:05 PM
nicely done !
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:07 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ARTHILL

Nice work. Thanks for sharing. What was the kit and where does it fit on the pike? Will it get a TV arieal or is it too early for such modern things? What's next?


Art, It is a City Classics # 113 Roberts Road Mobile Home Kit, it will be part of a trailer park just outside of Winslow Ari on the pike and this one will not have a Tv arieal, but a few others will.. since its a bit early for most houses to have tv's in 1953 [:D] Thanks for asking.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole

That looks great! I wish I had a dozen of those with which to make a trashy trailer park on our club layout.



City Classics makes them as does NuComp Miniatures.. I picked a bunch from both

http://www.nucompinc.com/index.htm
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Posted by cheese3 on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:14 PM
looks great!!!![^][:D]

Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:17 PM
If you need a trailer park to move those folks to, we have some lots available in West Presence, right next to the RR tracks. Lot's of railfan activity.

Looks good, what kit was that?
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Posted by steveblackledge on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:22 PM
Looking great to me, nice work
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Posted by grandeman on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:24 PM
Looks great! I like the color choice, it's very realistic looking.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:35 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman

If you need a trailer park to move those folks to, we have some lots available in West Presence, right next to the RR tracks. Lot's of railfan activity.

Looks good, what kit was that?


It was a It is a # 113 Roberts Road Mobile Home Kit by City Classics.
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Posted by railroadyoshi on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:35 PM
awesome job
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Posted by JohnT14808 on Monday, September 12, 2005 3:53 PM
Reminds me of the mobiles about five miles from my place!! Very nice job!![tup]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:00 PM
[^][bow][tup]
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Posted by davekelly on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:09 PM
Awesome! I especially love the way you weathered the trailer itself, the roof and skirting. Excellent job - please share how you did it.

Dave
If you ain't having fun, you're not doing it right and if you are having fun, don't let anyone tell you you're doing it wrong.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:26 PM
GREAT MODEL![bow][tup][wow][wow][8D]
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Posted by grayfox1119 on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:32 PM
Very nice Grandpa Coyote!!! Does it have a shower? [(-D][swg] Just kidding Grandpa, I'l bet the grandkids will want to play with it!!
Dick If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!! Learn from the mistakes of others, trust me........you can't live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself, I tried !! Picture album at :http://www.railimages.com/gallery/dickjubinville Picture album at:http://community.webshots.com/user/dickj19 local weather www.weatherlink.com/user/grayfox1119
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Posted by Trainnut484 on Monday, September 12, 2005 4:52 PM
Great job Coyote [tup][yeah].

Take care,

Russell
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, September 12, 2005 5:32 PM
I'd never have a trailer on my layout.


I'm just no good at modeling tornados.

Chip

Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.

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Posted by BMRR on Monday, September 12, 2005 7:36 PM
Looks good to me, great job !

Stan.

THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 7:55 PM
WOW! That must have been some U-boat if you can still do work like that after 27 years.

Great job.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 12, 2005 9:14 PM
Great job on the model of the tornado magnet, Coyote!

Like Chip, I was going to include a comment about how you model a tornado, but he beat me to it!

Darn!
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Posted by pj1775 on Monday, September 12, 2005 9:47 PM
Well done. It doesn't look like you have taken any time off of modeling to me. Nice work.

PJ
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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, September 12, 2005 10:12 PM
I didn't see you snooping around my place!!!!!

Seriously, great job on the tornado twinkie!
Philip
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:23 PM
Thanks to everyone for the great compliments... doing this has convinced me to keep going.. thanks again to all [:)]
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