Davetown Boardwalk

[gnatshop]

Good, goofy fun with some serious, clever, creative modeling. Great stuff as always! Fun approach to the hobby -  like it should be       John 

This also describes another group of folks that I'm familiar with!!

Although Dave's talent and imagination takes it to another level !!!
With his imagination, I sometimes wonder what age a physchiatric exam would put him at! 

Just kiddin', Dave - Never Grow Old!!
We love you like you are!!!!

[DaveInTheHat]

I didn't have a round window to fit the hole in the building so I made one. I used a compass and scored the circles in a scrap of styrene. Then glued the cross pieces across the back. Then used a hole punch to make a thingy in the center to hide the joints. After I painted it I used Canopy Glue to make the "glass"



Here's the building with 2 coats of blue craft paint and the windows in position.



I used the surfboard pictures that I found on line and glued the tallest ones to the back of the building.



Then glued shorter ones to the piece of wood that holds the sides of the building together.



I glued a couple more boards to a strip of wood and glued the shortest boards to that, then glued it in place.

Here it is all together.



It's sitting in place on the boardwalk. I need to do a little fiddling with the bottom edge to get it to sit flush.







I'm probably going to take a brake from the boardwalk stuff and get started on another diorama or something. Maybe a couple vehicles.

[bparrish]

That is really cool.....

thanx
Bob

[gnatshop]

Takes me back in time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4slliAtQU&index=5&list=PLApyhECLlb9_aN-cmPOtU5IlrCu-v5ftG

[S&S RR]

Great details!  It's all about the details.

[Janbouli]

That looks like a place I would want to spend my vacation, great scene.

[ACL1504]

This reminds me of the old Daytona Beach Boardwalk. The smell of hot dogs, burgers, frying onions, cotton candy, suntan lotion and carny barkers.

Great little scene Dave.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

This reminds me of the old Daytona Beach Boardwalk. The smell of hot dogs, burgers, frying onions, cotton candy, suntan lotion and carny barkers.

Great little scene Dave.

Tom

Or Asbury Park on the Jersey shore.....

[Chet]

Very nice work, keep the pictures coming.

[tabooma county rwy]

Takes me back in time!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4slliAtQU&index=5&list=PLApyhECLlb9_aN-cmPOtU5IlrCu-v5ftG

Geez, David, that video must have been one of the very first the Beach Boys ever did!  I got a real chuckle out of the short bell bottom pants they were wearing, too.


Anyway, great themed video and music to go along with Dave's super boardwalk build.


Al Carter

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking very cool, Dave!

Cheers, Mark.

[DaveInTheHat]

Here's the bow of the Titanic that I saved. It was taking up a lot of room in my junk box. I thought it would be good to make into a bar.



I made a mock up of where I'm going to cut it and an entrance.



Figuring out where to cut it was probably the hardest part. I used a lot of tape and paper to help visualize how it would look.



I cut out illustration board to make the bottom, top and back.





Since the scale of the Titanic is a lot smaller than 1/87 scale I had to fill all the port holes.



After I sanded out all the putty I gave it a coat of flat black then masked it out and painted below the waterline with red primer.



The entrance is made out of a roof and a couple scraps of plastic.



I cut a couple strips of plastic to make a door.



I wrapped plastic around the door by slowly bending and gluing with super glue.



I wanted sort of a porthole look, so I cut a ring out of plastic and glued it in place. The strips along the edge are made out of part of the aluminum pan that comes with a Tastycake pie. I ran a pounce wheel over it and cut it into strips. The roof is another piece out of my scrap box. When I glued the door to the entrance way I used liquid glue. Where the plastic was bent around the door it cracked as soon as the glue started working. I didn't know that would happen.



Here it is just about done. The "lights" across the top are just glass head pins. All the weathering was done with acrylic craft paint.



Here it is on the boardwalk with Earl and Ed ready to check the place out.

[ACL1504]

Dave,

Really cool bar!

Tom

[gnatshop]

The Ledbetter boys like it so well that they want to reserve a special table just for them (well, maybe
the best-lookin' and well endowed waitresses could sit with them!).