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Let me share with you another cut from my N-scale Cisco, Utah diorama: dusk and night at Ethel's Cafe.The Cafe had a short counter on the left and a pool table on the right.
Hiroshi-san,Very nice! You are again demonstrating your superb modeling and photography skills.I also enjoyed seeing an N scale pool table being modeled. That is a detail not often seen in N scale building interiors.Several years ago I have also modeled a pool table for a night-bar scene I built for a friend's layout. I did mine as a multi-piece resin casting with stretched sprue for the cue stick, and painted tiny solder balls for cue balls. They are a bit oversize, but they still look good when viewed in-person.
peteski,The idea and the result of making the cue look great. The cue stand just behind the wall looks wonderful, too. Are the bottles and glasses made the same way? The Coors neon sign is cool. I needed one for my Mercantile, but I had no idea how to materialize it: cheated with a self-made decal which didn't go well...Hiroshi
Thank you Hiroshi.Looking at the dates of the photos I realized that I build this model 20 years ago! Here is another photo.Yes, I made the bottles by stretching plastic fiber optic over a soldering iron's tip. They are colored using Sharpie permanent markers. Of course I took me multiple attempts to produce usable cue sticks and bottles. There were several failed attempts. I got the idea for the "neon" sign by looking at similar larger signs made by a model RR scenery manufacturer. I don't recall their name. They used 1/8" Plexiglas and they engraved the logos on the surface. The edge of the Plexi was then lit by a light bulb, making the engraved logo glow.I used much thinner transparent styrene from Evergreen and scratched the logo by hand using a dental pick. It is lit on the top edge using blue LED.I have plenty of photos and should someday post a full thread about the model.
Pete,My recollection is that like your animated amusement park rides, you wrote about this fine model on the now defunct Atlas Forum Board.The model neon sign manufacturer that inspired your creative signage was/is probably Miller Engineering, who previously sold photo etched brass and stainless steel structure kits and currently sells multi-scale Electroluminescence (EL) Lighting kits.
Yes, I believe that I did have a write-up of the Jim's Bar on the Atlas forum.
No, the signs I got my ideas from were much older. I still have couple of them stashed away on my older model train stuff. I woudl have to dig them out to refresh my memory.ME signs use thin electroluminescent material and high voltage to illuminate them. The older signs used 1/8" thick Plexiglas (way too thick for use in N scale) and a grain of wheat 12V bulb to illuminate the sign.
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