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I can't believe all this incredible detail is going to be covered up with a body! Even though I know the bodywork will be just as fantastic....

More progress today. It's Monday and the crews have been back at work on the hotel. They've got the second floor windows and door installed and the clapboard siding is nearing completion. Still lots of trim to add. The main floor walls have been completed, painted and the double main door and large windows are in place. It's now Monday afternoon, the crews have finished for the day and the local townsfolk are checking out the progress. Farmer Fred has parked his Sears Autobuggy outside the bank while he's inside making a deposit. Jim Farley of Farley Feeds is being driven back to his home, but the driver is paying more attention to the new hotel than looking where he's going! He almost hits the Model A Ford pulling away from the curb. Now Mr. Farley's driver has returned for a closer look at the hotel. The couple in the Model A Ford are also heading back home after a visit with relatives further down Main Street. If the crews return tomorrow, hopefully they'll get started on the balcony posts and handrail before someone falls off.....!

I'll dig them out and take a couple of shots. Tony

I have a similar streetscape I did a few years back for my HO layout. Scrapped the layout long ago but still have the street, a church, a hotel, retail stores and a couple of other buildings. Somehow, I just don't have the heart to part with them! Sorry... didn't mean to hijack your thread.... Keep up the great work. Tony

One thing I hated about these Hubley/Gabriel metal kits, was the use of paper, stick on interior panels. Do you have plans to fabricate a more realistic interior? Tony

Are you going to be hooking this up to a model railway layout or just a "stand alone" dio? I love the final combination of buildings. Tony

Thanks for the comments guys. James:...... It is an 1893 Duryea. It's built from an rare early Highway Pioneers (later Revell) kit from the 1950's. I did confirm it as the 1893 vehicle when I built it........ as I thought it should have been 1895 as well. If you do some further research, I think you'll find that Wikipedia is not quite correct....... or at least, misleading. Check out "America on the Move" from the Smithsonian. http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_1272.html Tony

Just to let you know the crews have been working in Thomasville, trying to get the town ready for the seasonal celebrations. It's been a little slow going with Christmas shopping taking so much time.... but they've made a little progress. A new sidewalk has been built in front of the hotel and the second floor windows and door openings have been prepared. The windows are here, waiting for the clapboard siding crew to finish (or even start!) their work. The side entrance door is also being prepared for access to the service entrance to the hotel at the back. (Oh, Oh.... that time traveller is back again. And in a Duesenberg, no less!) That's more like it. The town Doctor's 1983 Duryea is parked on the main street.

Those Revell Zundapp tyres are a great substitute for the kit tires anyway. The tires in the kit don't fit the rims very well (at the bead and the rim) and just look........... wrong! I guess some massaging of the plastic could help the kit ones..... but this is a much better solution for a model of this quality. Excellent. Tony

I was originally planning that the hotel would be a brick structure.... but I can't find any 1/32 scale brick stryrene sheets. They are available in other scales... but not 1/32. So instead, I decided to give the hotel a fancy wooden facade...... in keeping with it's stature in the town. Here's the main floor exterior mocked up: And the bank now has a shingled porch roof that needs a little more detail dry brush painting.

What did you use for the asphalt? Waterproof sandpaper? You might consider giving it a very watery light gray acrylic craft paint wash, using a wide brush and allowing the paint strokes to show a line of travel for the vehicles. If you do, experiment first on some spare sandpaper to get the feel of what I mean. It's difficult to describe in words so you really need to experiment first. You're doing a great job so far....... this is just a suggestion. Tony

I have to admit I'm not up on all this apocalyptic stuff, but your level of modelling really has my attention. Can't wait to see how this progresses. Tony

I know you got sidetracked into the 55 T-Bird concept, etc. but I'm drooling to see this one finished Ken. And then...... when you do have all the others done, how about tackling this one? It's a Curtis Aerocar Land Yacht, circa 1932. It's located in the Louwman Museum, which may be somewhere in Holland, but I don't read cyrilic text, so I'm not sure. You may be able to get more pictures and info by contacting the museum at http://m400ru.livejournal.com/4819.html (The car is a 1932 Graham Blue Streak Coupe.) Definitely a oddball and deserving of your scratchbuilding talents. Even if you don't tackle it, it's an interesting camper of the vintage era.

Now, why didn't Ford/Mercury think of that? Competion for the Mustang, perhaps? Great build and I love it. Tony

What started as a "quickie" dio has taken on a life of it's own......! It's become the main street of "Thomasville", a small but thriving community founded by immigrant Thomas Ratclffe in the mid 1800's. Thomas opened a General Store in 1895, and then a Bank and now is building the hotel, which should be completed soon. It's Sunday morning and the townsfolk are all at church. The town is still and quiet. Time to snap a few pictures of the progress........... Tomorrow the carpenters, roofers and painters will be back at work........ (Just noticed the time traveller from the '50's dropped by, while no one was around....... back to the future....... Where are Marty and the Doc?)

Definitely looking good so far.... Tony

I had a feeling this was going to be good......... and it is! Tony

I don't think I explained clearly what I meant? I'm suggesting each of the Mustang CBP's could include past builds of our Mustang models in it's own particular era forum thread. (Not just work in progress builds) Or would that be against the intent of the CBP forum threads? Tony

Do you plan to include a man door and/or windows somewhere? Tony

I was thinking of all the Mustang CBP's including the one you started and the Fox one as well. Tony

Mike....... at first glance I thought those two were real...... great models ... AND photography! Tony

Hey Stephen.... seeing as how we're all mostly suffering the "Can't paint it in this weather" blues.... how about some pics of some of the ones we've already built? I know they're not CBP projects..... but it may help us keep our Mustang fix alive over the winter. Same questions to Johnathan (martinfan) and Brad ("The fox"). Tony

You're definitely heading in the right direction with your construction methods. Keep up the good stuff! Tony

You're a sick man John......... blow a few of your germs my way, would you? Tony

There were also a lot of fabric covered cars (and British "saloon" cars) back then. I believe some 1930's models of Riley's, Austins 7's and Morris Minor's had fabric bodies, to name a few. I don't know the reason why some were fabric and some steel. I grew up in London after WW2 and as a kid, I can remember seeing them all over the place. Funny.... it didn't seem strange at the time? I am a devout follower of the Poirot series as well. Interesting how that blue taxi shows up in all eras and all locations around the world!