EAT AT THE DOG! New roadside diner for the indoor layout.

vsmith

vsmith

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EAT AT THE DOG!
I am currently working on a roadside food stand for the indoor layout. Its going to be called either the Doggie Diner, Tail of the Pup, or Hot Doggie Hot Dogs:

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This started as a carved wood dog I found on Ebay, I have been looking for the right figure since I started rebuilding the layout! All I had found had been either too big, too small, too primative, or too finely detailed. I had given up and was planning to use sculptamold to make my diner, when one day on a whim I did a search, found this, checked the dimensions were about right, bid and wholla! I won, ideally it should be a tad bigger but so far I really like to compact look thats coming out of so far. Now to wait for the putty and glue to dry and then paint and signage.

This is based on not one, but 2 REAL roadside diners that once existing on the westside of LA in the 1930's, both were known as the Doggie Diner, both were a short drive from each other, one was more realistic but the other had its own charm.

If you saw the film The Rocketeer, you saw this one of them recreated in the film:

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the other which is more like my version, was smaller and graced a book on the subject:

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vsmith said:
EAT AT THE DOG!
I am currently working on a roadside food stand for the indoor layout. Its going to be called either the Doggie Diner, Tail of the Pup, or Hot Doggie Hot Dogs:
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This is based on not one, but 2 REAL roadside diners that once existing on the westside of LA in the 1930's, both were known as the Doggie Diner, both were a short drive from each other, one was more realistic but the other had its own charm.
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It takes a very special kind of genius to come up with that idea AND from a prototype. Bonkers, but brilliant! :thumbup:
 
Will it sell Whimper Burgers and will the prices be Bark-oded?
Just the place to go for a bite.
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Thats Brilliant, but also absolutely barking! :thumbup:
 
Not to be confused I guess with a book by one Prof Vale of Auckland: "Eat the Dog", recommending that it's greener to eat one's pet than feed it...
 
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Not to be confused I guess with a book by one Prof Vale of Auckland: "Eat the Dog", recommending that it's greener to eat one's pet than feed it...
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Place it next to a small inlet, like a bay, next to a small sailboat.

If anybody asks you can say "his barque is worse than his bight".
 
These two have a bark that is worse than their bite

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Very Cool! :bigsmile:
Have you thought about branding it as a vegetarian outlet - "Mutts Nuts" ?! :confused:
 
Its gonna be called "The Dog House". I am painting it right now and should be finished by this weekend, hope to put a 1/24 Hot Dog on the order counter with scale mustard and ketchup bottles. Yes, I have a source to get them !!!
 
Off the wall! Reminds me of a bar in a giant pineapple that I saw in Queensland, Australia, many years ago. Where are you going to place it on the layout?
 
EAT AT THE DOG! Finished!
The Dog House is complete, it came out better than I ever hoped!

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Painted and detailed, added an old Coney Island stand menu. I had too photo-edit out a hanging lamp out of that menu and backfill in part of the text, yicks! Today I will go to Folk Tree, a shop that specializes in Mexican arts and crafts and where I buy alot of the small detail items that populate my layouts, and pick up a hot dog and hopefully a mustard bottle.

Still need to make a large roadside side for it and print out a few smaller Coke or Pepsi like signs. But the hard part is finished.
 
Zany - but clever! Like it:thumbup:
 
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