57peppershaker Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) Thought best put these in a new thread. Guy I know, Rick bought this last year, from the guy who originaly built it. Its been gathering dust for a long time. When built, 2 door sedan 55's were not avail so he used a coupe, same with few other bits but I think it looks great (except for dust) He's planning a make over to bring it back to its former glory. Edited September 5, 2012 by 57peppershaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george 53 Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 VERY nice, Steve, dust an all! It should look REAL nice cleaned up, cause it looks good dirty! Did you use solder an then paint it, to make the sign? It looks cool,I like it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High octane Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 That dio does look good and just needs a good cleaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57peppershaker Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Its not my build George, but the sign was made from warmed up sprue, bent to shap & then filled & painted. It was built about 20 years ago ! Kinda looks like its been snowing at Mels lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercman Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTMust Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Great.... he used all the correct cars from the movie as well! (But I don't remember a 2CV in the movie.... or is the memory just fading?) Replacing the '55 coupe with the two door sedan will be the "icing on the cake". Love that sign! Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercman Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Great.... he used all the correct cars from the movie as well! (But I don't remember a 2CV in the movie.... or is the memory just fading?) Replacing the '55 coupe with the two door sedan will be the "icing on the cake". Love that sign! Tony Tony that was Kurt's car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Looks good...just needs a phone booth by the 2CV!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W-409 Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Wow, great looking Diorama. It's in good shape, if it's really built 20 years ago! That would look very good when cleaned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Cool looking Diner. What scale is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57peppershaker Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 Its 1;25th scale so its BIG ! Spencer, who built it, said he watched the start of the movie about 200 times to get the details right. It was entered in a contest back in early 90's but never won a prize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7000in5th Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 This is fantastic!! American Graffiti is my all time favorite car movie. In the recent past I had the overly optimistic notion that I would build an AG diorama with Mel's, the Wolfman studio and other AG features. It was to be complete with operational automobiles running on batteries and steered by magnets that followed buried wires. I did the research, gathered the available cars and people , actually got a mag steer car working, then saw some other shiny thing and never went any further. Anyone interested in doing the AG thing, click on the links above and check out the research that I did. Maybe it will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Beautiful scene ! Just the 2cv seems too big... 1/24 scale ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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