Wednesday
Feb172010
Next months free model
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 9:33AM If you thought this months model was some thing, next months will knock your socks off. I asked bro Dave what to offer and was totally blown away by his suggestion. This model is what I would consider a premiume kit that by it’s self I would have priced at about $20. As such I’m going to make it available for only a short time starting March first and coming back down March 14th. It will be available for sale with some small modifications later in the year.
The picture shown is of a test build by Jim Gore. There are a few small differences between this and the final kit we are posting. This is a kit to tell your friends about. This will likely be the last freebie for a wile.
People think we’re crazy. I’m sure of it.
Thom
Reader Comments (14)
-Ben
Thom
I'll send the jpeg of the diorama I have now incorporated this model into and you can post it here. I think it came out kind of nifty, if not a little corny.
Jim
I like your diorama! I am planning to do a diorama for the water tower that I am finishing up. Whose figures are you using in your scene, and is it O scale? Are both buildings in the kit, or did you add the one on the left? It looks like there is some strip wood used in some places, or is it 100% paper?
-Ben
The one on the left is the kit that Thom and Dave are offering as a freebie. I'm not very good at following instructions [just ask anybody who has supervised me (from my mother on up to the Provost of my univeresity)], so I always manage to modify things. I used stripwood to make the porch supports and the railings [the porch roof is in the kit but I must admit a passion for Paper Creek tar paper so I used that]. I thought that the deck suports provided in the test run were a little thick so I added some stripwood there. I also modified the false-front but that can be done with parts from the kit. Otherwise, everything you see will be in the kit (the stuff in the window display is out of the scrap box). The building on the right is a modified Tom Yorke resin kit (see? I can't help but not follow the directions) [the porch and cover being my own design]. The figures come mostly from my scrap-box but the "film crew" is modified from a Woodland Scenics surveying crew [I made the "mouse-ear camera"], the dentist is an old Grandt line figure, the guy on the horse is from an old (1950's) Revell kit that's been in my junk box and the gunfighters come from Australia (a company called Mountain Blue). I painted all of the figures (even the Woodland Scenics guys). It's all O-scale. Funny ... nobody has asked me about "Elfego Baca".
Jim
-Ben
I grew up in New Mexico about 10 miles from the Baca Ranch so everyone around our town knew who Elfego Baca was and thought that it was incredible when Disney made "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" in the late 1950's (a few years after his death). That is, indeed, Robert Loggia in the culminating scene before the Great Frisco Massacre. Glad you like it!
Jim
Do you have a layout, or do you just like building? I do not have a layout, though I would like to build one. If you do, I would love to see some photos. Your craftsmanship is excellent.
-Ben
I do have a layout, called the Jemez and Rio Grande (J&RG) - On30. It was featured in O Gauge Railroading about a year ago and I have had quite a few construction articles in OGR, O Scale Trains, and Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette. I think that the latest picture of my layout was in the Feb issue (2010) of Model Railroader in Trackside Photos. I'll send a couple of jpegs to Thom and he can post them, if he wants.
Jim