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Re: Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:21:00 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
   Hello,

A while ago, when I was deeper into my diner phase, I built a diner inspired by Mickey’s in St. Paul, MN. I was inspired to build it by looking at the works of painter John Baeder. (His work also inspired my AlMac’s Diner, which I later found out used to be owned by my family).

I wasn’t really thrilled with the way my version of Mickey’s came out, so I didn’t post pictures of it, until now. I decided recently that it isn’t all that bad.

Here is my version:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=219273

Here is the painting I based it off by John Baeder:

http://www.johnbaeder.com/Oils/1978-Mickeys-Dining-Car.htm


I think a little better presentation and maybe some signage would help out my version quite a bit.

Just the same, here it is!

Thoughts and comments are always appreciated.

Hey, that’s a peach, hon! I’ve had that diner on my radar for a future build because it’s local and cool. You’ve done a great job, Jonathan! I hope in one of those BL orders you are getting 20 of these in dark red;-)

Thanks! Good eye! Yes, when I built this I didn’t know those parts were available in Dark Red. I’ll have to make the switch.

  
Here’s a cool pic of it I found. Lighting would be cool....


So, cool. I agree. I have done a (very) little research on neon lighting kits for modelers. Still poking ideas around in my head for neon. I have bought some trans colored parts on BL recently and await their arrive to experiment more.

Thanks again!

Jonathan



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(...) Hey, that's a peach, hon! I've had that diner on my radar for a future build because it's local and cool. You've done a great job, Jonathan! I hope in one of those BL orders you are getting 20 of (URL) in dark red;-) Here's a (URL) cool pic> (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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