I am on the road right now so no photos from me as of yet. Go ahead and post what you got..........Woah.....that was close...guess I Will finish this text from the ditch and then get the barbed wire out of the grill of my truck. Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2
Laramie Street Dining Room must represent Hollywood’s idea of the frontier version of the roadside eatery whose popularity is evidenced by all the 18-wheelers parked outside. In this case, horses at the hitching rail take the place of trucks. Miss Margery is greeting a cowboy potential customer at the door. The front of the front wall only is from an old 1970-something era Railhead kit. Of course, since this is a Hollywood movie set, there is no inside behind the door, just scaffolding and struts. And the cowboy and Miss Margery are from Central Casting. On a Hollywood set, the horses might come from “Equine Actors” or some such organization. But for the model, they are from Musket Miniatures. That was the one source I could find for riderless saddled standing horses, which would be appropriate for the hitching rail. Bachmann’s unsaddled trotting horses are good for a pasture but not for this scene.
Kenneth - maybe some drastic surgery on the Bachmann horses would help you get the right pose. Nice scenes from you and Candy. An old Athearn Geep. It barely runs, and I'll turn it into a dummy some day. Mike
Boxcab I'm not the most technically minded person you'd ever meet, and I expect the job is beyond me. It needs wheels, motor and DCC. I do know someone though, so maybe it's an option, if it's not too costly. Mike
This could be right out of Blazing Saddles! "Well men. We've built an exact copy of the town of Rock Ridge in one night.. right down to Howard Johnson's Ice Cream parlor!"
No progress this week. Just a couple more shots of the "in-progress" Kettle River Bridge Have a great weekend! md
