the fifth and last entry is from Jim Gore

Jim has built a faithful reproduction of the “Diamond bar” Jim has helped us out several times with test builds and often gives workshops on building with paper. no surprise that the craftsmanship is top shelf.

Notes from Jim, Enjoy. Now how do we choose a winner?????

For the record, the Diamond Bar is designed after the real one in Como, Colorado.   It stands across the street from the DSP&P depot.  At various times, it was a bar, an assay office, a bar and brothel, and, finally, a gas station into the mid-1903’s.  It’s been abandoned since then.  I decided to make mine as if it were the bar and brothel.  There were a lot of blanked out windows so I put them back in.

  Here’s sort of a list of the parts I used:

 Siding – textures disc, modified the color slightly on my printer settings

 Roof – metal siding from the textures disc, with individually applied spines

 Front Door – from the Branchline Station (not an exact match, but close enough)

 Red Door (behind the hooker) – back door of the hobby shop

 Windows – from several kits but also on the textures disc

 The gutters are reversed from the roof caps of the cannery

 Trim – from the cannery

 Rear doors – from garage kits

 Detail parts from the scrap box

 The towel hanging out the front window (bar) and the red union suit hanging out of the window on the side are aluminum foil, cut and painted.

 I designed the “Diamond Bar” symbol on the computer and just printed it on cardstock

 Hope this is useful.

  Jim

Comments

[John Humes]

Jim,

Another great model. Is it "O" scale?

John

[marc witten]

As Thom says a truly awesome kit,i like the roof,nice touch,i used mine from the textures disc to make doors,on my flat,but a truly beautiful model,well done Jim,and best of luck.

[Jim Gore]

John,

Yes .... O scale. I think my thumbs are too thick and my eyes are too weak for HO, anymore.

Jim

[Richard]

Outstanding recreation of the original building Jim.
The electrial box on the side is a nice touch.