EAT AT THE DOG!
I thought some of you might find this interesting
I am currently working on a 1/24 scale roadside food stand for my large scale indoor layout.
Its called the “Dog House”:
Beginning construction:
This started as a carved wood dog I found on Ebay, I have been looking for the right figure since I started building 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 I really like the compact look that came about.
This is based on not one, but 2 REAL roadside stands 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:
