Winter Challenge 2024/2025 - Flat Iron Corner Building - Tom Langford.

[ACL1504]

Reminds me of Edward Hopper and Tom Waits, both.  Nighthawks.

Critter,

Hopper is famous for painting scenes looking through window glass. The restaurant scene is a wonderful scene and I think a modeler captured the scene on his layout. Don't remember where.

Tom Waits I don't know of.

Tom

[Larry C]

Tom very nice imagineering on the interior; looks very convincing to me.

[deemery]

Great interior!

dave

[nycjeff]

Hello Tom, what great work you have done on your scratchbuild. The thread is your usual fine job- very instructive and informative.

[Rick]

Tom, such creativity the way you used the toothpicks.
Also smart to have made a mold of the booths so you could make more later.
Very impressive.

[PRR Modeler]

That is some great scratch building and thinking out of the box Tom.

[ACL1504]

Tom very nice imagineering on the interior; looks very convincing to me.

Larry,

Thank you, much appreciate the compliment. I have a couple other items to add.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Great interior!

dave

Dave,

Thank you kind sir, er, Moderator. 

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Hello Tom, what great work you have done on your scratchbuild. The thread is your usual fine job- very instructive and informative.

Thank you Jeff. This has been a fun and challenging scratch build.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Tom, such creativity the way you used the toothpicks.
Also smart to have made a mold of the booths so you could make more later.
Very impressive.

Rick,

Thanks my friend. I've also made a few of the booths for the Bar Mills Sweaty Betty's Bar interior. Although I haven't finished the interior on that kit yet. I did scratch build the interior walls.

Again thank you.

Tom

[ACL1504]

That is some great scratch building and thinking out of the box Tom.

Curt,

Thank you Butty, I appreciate the comment.

Tom 

[robert goslin]

Reminds me of Edward Hopper and Tom Waits, both.  Nighthawks.

Critter,

Hopper is famous for painting scenes looking through window glass. The restaurant scene is a wonderful scene and I think a modeler captured the scene on his layout. Don't remember where.

Tom Waits I don't know of.

Tom

Looking great Tom.  Yes has that Nighthawks vibe.
There is an O scale kit available of the Phillies Diner.  And I have seen a few folks do the Nighthawks scene in various scales over the years.  Just search Nighthawks Diorama.
It's a scene I've been wanting to scratchbuild for a long time.

Tom Waits is the singer.  He had an album, Nighthawks at the Diner.
He's not to everyone's taste.

[ACL1504]

Looking great Tom.  Yes has that Nighthawks vibe.
There is an O scale kit available of the Phillies Diner.  And I have seen a few folks do the Nighthawks scene in various scales over the years.  Just search Nighthawks Diorama.
It's a scene I've been wanting to scratchbuild for a long time.

Tom Waits is the singer.  He had an album, Nighthawks at the Diner.
He's not to everyone's taste.

Rob,

Thanks for the compliment. Yea. I love that scene on the model of the Highthawks Diorama.

Thanks also for the information.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I didn't want to light the entire second and third floors but a few random windows. To do this I decided to make four small shadow boxes.

I cut small pieces of cardboard from the back of a legal pad I saved. 



I started by gluing one side to another piece.

[ACL1504]

Well, you get the idea so I'll fast forward here and show you the four shadow boxes.

I painted the inside of one blue and the other three white.



I placed a lady taking off her top in the blue box. Since this is a family forum, I faced her away from the window.