Private messaging isn’t working, so I’m broadcasting my question… Doc, you once posted some photos of a crossing-guard’s elevated tower, with some brick buildings in the background. It strikes me that the cabin part was maybe green or grey. It was not the Atlas model, which has just a ladder, nor the J.L. Innovative kit, which has one long flight of stairs. Yours had a stairway with a landing halfway down. Was that scratchbuilt or did you buy a kit?
Sorry to spam everyone.
Thanks,
-Matt
Don’t worry about spamming us, Matt. It’s always good to hear from Dr. Wayne - and see his stuff. Even if you have to pry him out of his lair.
John
Haven’t heard from doc since December 20th.
Rich
Well, maybe Wayne has better things to do than read stuff on his computer. This thread has a picture of it, I think:
https://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/13/t/228110.aspx
Maybe someone can recognize it. Sorry, the system is not allowing me to make the link clickable, on my computer anyway [:(!].
Simon
Yeah, thanks guys. That’s the one. Any clues appreciated as to who makes that one, if indeed it is a commerical product. I like it a lot.
Hope the good doctor is okay.
-Matt
Could be this one.
It was commercially made, orignally by Revell, and available for many decades under several brands.
They can still be found unassembled and are very well detailed.
https://hoseeker.net/revellinformation/Revell1958infopage07.jpg
Sheldon
Thanks for digging this up, Sheldon. It does have the lower landing and the supports are the same. The stairway seems more lightweight, though. I wonder if Wayne kitbashed it.
Atlas also offered a very similar one. I browsed the net and did not find any other ones commercially available. I suspect either a kitbash or a scratchbuild.
Simon
Rich’s link, a thread with some old favorites. I’m sure the Dr. Wayne scratch build the stairs and landings, along with some kitbashing. That what he does! With amazing results.
Mike.
Looks like Wayne has abandoned the forum. Maybe Bertram’s burned down and he is in mourning. [(-D]
Rich
I sent Wayne an Email about two weeks ago - no response. And the other forum he spends time on has not seen him as well?
I surely hope he is ok?
Sheldon
He stopped posting to both sites about the same time in December. Doesn’t seem good.
Anybody heard anything further? I almost hate to ask.
-Matt
I reached out to a mutual friend a while back, Wayne is fine, he is just having computer problems.
That is very good to hear, thank you.
Sheldon
I’m relieved. And ha! Now that I think about it, wasn’t it always Wayne that complained that he’d just spent an hour writing a response and loading up images for a post only to have the forum software suddenly toss it all into the outer darkness?
Well, God bless 'im. I hope he gets back in here. I want to ask him to paint my Atlantic.
I can’t find anywhere on any forum that Wayne has posted anything in 2024. It concerns me because I cannot imagine Wayne without a computer for going on four months.
Rich
Rich, see Brent’s comment just above.
I did read Brent’s comment, but I remain concerned. Wayne is a moderator on another forum, but he hasn’t posted since last December. That is not like Wayne, and 3 to 4 months without a computer is a very long time.
Rich