[madmike3434]

This is BEULAHS HOUSE OF ENCHANTMENT......it is a bordello upstairs, its a pool  hall and barber shop to the right building, main building lower is RED DOG SALOON.   All the walls are made from USA HYDROCAL WHITE dental plaster.  The dental plaster is coloured using a variety of inks mixed with 99% pure isopropinal.  The scale is O scale 1/4" = a foot.   The upper wood walls are made using basswood in clapboard style.  All the windows and doors are plastic castings made by grandt line.  This is one of 516 structures I have built for other peoples model rail roads.

mike  lynch

[themoose]

Very nice Mike.....Fabulous attention to detail. Do you also do HO or is that too small?

Moose

[sammons]

Nice work Mike. Many years ago I had been building a small table, and the small trimmed off edges looked like 2x12's. Gave me the idea to cut to scale ( 1/25 ) and stick build some old service stations for my model cars. It was a lot of fun, and I could use the old model car parts to stock it (tires/wheels, jacks, tools etc. Wired them with little 12v old stereo lights. I guess I shouldn't have given them all away.

516, man that's alot of buildings. Very nice detail.

[madmike3434]

Very nice Mike.....Fabulous attention to detail. Do you also do HO or is that too small?

Moose

Moose, used to do HO 1/8 = foot from 1987---2004 then switched over to O scale  1/4" = a foot.  never built anything in  N...S..or G scale .

In HO I built about 388 structures, kit and scratch built.  Age caught up to me, started needing glasses in late 40's. Love building the top of the line kits, loaded with little cast lead details you could never get in O.  That's where fine scale miniatures, south river modelworks , sierra west kits and other pricey kits were invaluable.

mike lynch

[madmike3434]

Nice work Mike. Many years ago I had been building a small table, and the small trimmed off edges looked like 2x12's. Gave me the idea to cut to scale ( 1/25 ) and stick build some old service stations for my model cars. It was a lot of fun, and I could use the old model car parts to stock it (tires/wheels, jacks, tools etc. Wired them with little 12v old stereo lights. I guess I shouldn't have given them all away.

516, man that's alot of buildings. Very nice detail.

Yup, #516, BERGDOFFS MACHINE SHOP, still sitting here 90% finished.   Unfortunately in 2012 SHAZZBOTT my 1935 Chevrolet steel roadster entered my life and totally distrupted a very happy existence of building models all day .

Never give away your toys, because you never know when your going to want to play again.   The 1.25 scale = 1/2" G scale =  1/2"=1 foot scale.  If you get yourself a car or two and want to duplicate your own garage or a gas station and build 1 foot wide  x  3-4 foot long diorama all dressed up to the nines.  Its a lot of fun. You can buy scale basswood in g scale from "north eastern scale lumber " in mass.   Build stick framed walls just like real thing except make stud spacing 24 scale inches.  You can cover the walls with clapboard siding.....1/4" spacing. Or use real birch veneer to cover the walls, other options are corregated iron with real rusted pieces, or raised seam metal siding or roofing.

Check out GRANDT LINE PRODUCTS in their G scale offerings in plastic windows and doors.  Will post a few pictures of my blue garage or the white one I built.

mike lynch

[madmike3434]

this is the first garage I built in O scale.  That rusty looking metal fence on the side is actually a material called TULLE, its used for wedding veils and comes in that  nice rusty ginger shade.

mike lynch

[madmike3434]

this is the white one I built. I used 3 different shades of white to achieve the faded paint look on the walls.   This one got detailed out with lots of details, including gas pump, air pump, oil rack with cans.

Building these was a lot of fun and when you do the 2nd or 3rd version of it , the rest is to see how much you can make it different.   Those signs were copied off ebay items for sale then printed out on your printer as a contact sheet with 25 others.  Butter up the back with white glue, used toothpick or rounded over wood to get the sign into the calpboards. Notice the lifted and broken boards and also the nail head impression in the wood.

mike lynch 

[32chevy vett]

Very nice work,Great detail

[TFoch]

Nice work Mike, I would never have the patience.

[62131]

Mike that sure is some nice work, I like your attention to detail.

[madmike3434]

Nice work Mike, I would never have the patience.

If you have the patience to rework a 33 Chevrolet master cabriolet, and all the hard slugging to move along with it,  building models is calming. 

It doesn't consume your everyday life like building and planning a street rod redo.
I found it that way.

mike lynch

[madmike3434]

behind the front wood wall is some interior detail. A barber shop with chairs and a mirror. Behind that a pool table with cues on wall and balls on table.

The stairs leads upstairs to beulahs house of enchantment two floors of bordello.  No roof doesn't come off and I have no scale ladies hiding up there.

forgot to post this shot first time

mike lynch