Eshaver Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Building this job only required a year and a half . Doing the research too two years . built in 1937 at the corner of 3rd ave and Preston Ave in Richmond Virginia , this building survived intact even with the construction of I - 95 in 1958 . [ IMG]http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/scrubba/gettinerready.jpg Ed Shaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randx0 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Great work Ed .A great period piece. I like the cars you got floating around there too. did you scale everything out or did you have to make some stuff smaller to look right ?the pit looks cool you just don't see those any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixties Sam Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Wow! nice job, Ed. It's like stepping back in time. It's great that you are preserving a piece of history like that. Gas prices 18 and 21 cents a gallon?! Wow! That was a long time ago, wasn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshaver Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Randy , everything and I mean everything was done to 1-24th scale . The cars of course are 1-25th . Ive got a 1941 Lincon I can't seem to find but it will reside in the grease pit area. This was a model of an actual working station too. It quit selling gasoline somewhere about 1959. It remained as a repair shop until about 1974. The origional office was turned into a Convience store for aboiut a year or two . I'ts been vacant since about 1985 according to city records . Ed Shaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george 53 Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Good to see it here Ed! It was REALLY cool to see it come together too! ALL the work you put into it REALLY paid off. It looks GREAT!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Winter Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Building this job only required a year and a half . Doing the research too two years . built in 1937 at the corner of 3rd ave and Preston Ave in Richmond Virginia , this building survived intact even with the construction of I - 95 in 1958 . [ IMG]http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/scrubba/gettinerready.jpg Ed Shaver Wow that's really beautiful Ed, Were'd you get the folks from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Ed, that is one sharp dioarama! I'd love to make something like that-------I'd have to put it someplace where it could be cat proof though! My dream diorama would be a late '60's Gulf station with period cars from new ones to the early '50's. The building would have a pitched roof which could double as a kind of tire rack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronr Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Awesome job ED! You captured the period correct look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyn Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Ed that is fantastic! you even have *stuff* on the guys arm lol.... beautiful simply beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshaver Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Thank you everyone for the kind words . Amoco stuff is collecable , just not as out there as say Texaco stuff. Im looking foranything from a very local company called Crown . Their refinery was and stillis by the way at the shoreline of the Houston Ship Channel . They retailed in Houston , Virginia , Maryland and some of North Carolina . The company reorganized under bankruptcy protection and I think they now just retail in Maryland under the Fas-Fare logo . Ed Shaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caymin last Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Excellent work, the details, vehicles and building are amazing, very well done indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKE'57 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Ed, words fail me, that is a work of art. I would love to see some shots in the sunlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps-xrds Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 She looks great ED. I have one little question though. Why is the pump island sitting that direction. I don't think I've ever seen one that way. Looks like there isn't enough room for a car to get between the island and the station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshaver Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Actually Bill. there really is . Theres approximately bout fifteen feet between the front of the building and the tip of the island . The Preston street side , actually the front of the building is only about thirty feet away from the building . I can't see where the street was ever widened out either . Third Avenue dead ends now . It used to cross over what is now Interstate - 95 . You can go behind the building and you can look down to the Interstate from there . To get back over to Downtown Richmond , you have to go back to First Avenue and procede south . Thats the closest overpass. Ed Shaver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Randy , everything and I mean everything was done to 1-24th scale . The cars of course are 1-25th . Ive got a 1941 Lincon I can't seem to find but it will reside in the grease pit area. This was a model of an actual working station too. It quit selling gasoline somewhere about 1959. It remained as a repair shop until about 1974. The origional office was turned into a Convience store for aboiut a year or two . I'ts been vacant since about 1985 according to city records . Ed Shaver hi, awesome job ! that is cool, i love how the corner of the building wraps around it really sets it off to this era. very nice work. mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 She looks great ED. I have one little question though. Why is the pump island sitting that direction. I don't think I've ever seen one that way. Looks like there isn't enough room for a car to get between the island and the station. Yep, I'm with Gramps on this here Ed. Did they really align the pump islands thataway? Mebbe until some ol' ladies ran into the building a few times??? Nice touch them air lines for that ###### bell! When I worked at Marshall's Amoco we had the airlines-- had two 2 pump islands. When I started dating my first wife, her ex boyfriend used to like to come in with his new girlfriend and try and harass me by driving her li'l bug around and around the two pump islands dinging the ###### bell What a fruit! He did somehow score another girlfriend with a cherry 65 Galaxie conv. All that work really paid off--Wowser! Really bringin' back lotsa memories Ed, specially them wrapped tires with the ###### labels all facing forward. You's my ol' bossman Ed Marshall redecarbonated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codie27 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Building this job only required a year and a half . Doing the research too two years . built in 1937 at the corner of 3rd ave and Preston Ave in Richmond Virginia , this building survived intact even with the construction of I - 95 in 1958 . [ IMG]http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/scrubba/gettinerready.jpg Ed Shaver that is a very nice job you have done there ed,the shopfront has that nice,period look about it. very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie8575 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Outstanding! Charlie Larkin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgebuster Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Building this job only required a year and a half . Doing the research too two years . built in 1937 at the corner of 3rd ave and Preston Ave in Richmond Virginia , this building survived intact even with the construction of I - 95 in 1958 . Awesome diorama Ed. Well researched and sounds like you had fun doing the research. Man, I remember when the "filling station" was MUCH more than a place you breezed by to get gas. I'm not that old and I remember buying gas for my first car that cost 22.9 per. I used to wait for the schoolbus in a corner neighborhood gas station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 That is a great diorama, Ed! Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarDude.com Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 I love your gas station dioramas Ed. Beautiful work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1955chevy Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Well Done Ed I know what it takes based on my Texaco Station. A lot of research, planning - I made scale drawings on graph paper before I touched a piece of plastic. I have learned a lot. I know that project took a lot time and work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledr330 Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Great work Ed! I can tell you do a lot of research for your pieces, outstanding craftsmanship! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyBad Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 I don't look down here enough. That is a great looking Dioraoma. Lots of Lil details really bring it to life. Great work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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