I clipped this gas station image from a calendar showing Coca Cola signs painted on old buildings in the South. Should make a neat, small model, which I've mocked up in cardboard. This time, no fancy stuff:just Precision Plastic siding and Grandt Line windows, and maybe a custom door, since it's pretty simple (just a slab of wood). I can't decide if the station should be elevated, as shown, or sitting on the ground.
OK, that was supposed to be my last building project. But today, I went to a lunch at Rancho Los Alamitos, which is in Long Beach, CA and near our home. This adobe homestead and the seven acres it sits on was originally part of a Spanish land grant and consisted of 300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand!) acres! Anyway, on this remaining property there are live animal, numerous buildings, including one incredible barn with a cupola that runs lengthwise down the building's roof. I gotta model this, once I find some time to photograph and measure it. In the home itself, once owned by the Bixby family and deeded to the city, you can see what life was like a long time ago, as all of the many rooms are as the were a century or so ago. There's a 1921 GE refrigerator that is still in use! They don't build 'em like they used to.
Stay tuned for photos of the barn, probably in June.
Meanwhile, a small gas station--
OK, that was supposed to be my last building project. But today, I went to a lunch at Rancho Los Alamitos, which is in Long Beach, CA and near our home. This adobe homestead and the seven acres it sits on was originally part of a Spanish land grant and consisted of 300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand!) acres! Anyway, on this remaining property there are live animal, numerous buildings, including one incredible barn with a cupola that runs lengthwise down the building's roof. I gotta model this, once I find some time to photograph and measure it. In the home itself, once owned by the Bixby family and deeded to the city, you can see what life was like a long time ago, as all of the many rooms are as the were a century or so ago. There's a 1921 GE refrigerator that is still in use! They don't build 'em like they used to.
Stay tuned for photos of the barn, probably in June.
Meanwhile, a small gas station--