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TEXACO Gas Station Diorama 1/25 - Outdoor Photo Shooting in Switzerland

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Allentown, PA
Posted by BaBill212 on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:02 PM

Super job!          Excellent work............

Mostly,,,,,    thanks for sharing

 

Bill

Enjoy the ride!

 

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    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 12:42 PM

Whoa ...  Yes

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    February 2003
Posted by Jim Barton on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 1:45 PM

Fantastic diorama and setting!

Now where did I put my hiking boots?Smile

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  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: Central CA
Posted by Division 6 on Saturday, January 28, 2012 6:21 AM

That turned out great.

I remember all the old style stations they used to have in the Bay Area, one of the last to go was a Mohawk station.

I saw this really cool color picture of a Mobil station yesterday that had the flying Pegasus in top.(scroll down the page to the Jan 7 post)

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    January 2006
  • From: California
Posted by SprueOne on Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:20 PM

yeah, great story!

 

and very clean building and assembly.

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    June 2010
  • From: Amsterdan & Zürich
Posted by Model Junkyard on Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:48 PM

Bocks Suv

Reminds me of when I was bicycling thru europe and had no place to set up a tent while on a  main road in Switzerland. The Shell station manager's house was right behind the gas station and he let us stay in his back yard. Really nice guy. He even wore a labcoat while doing his car work. Never saw that before or since. Thanks, gas dude!  

That's a cool story!

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  • Member since
    June 2010
  • From: Amsterdan & Zürich
Posted by Model Junkyard on Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:46 PM

Thank you all for the great feedback!

 

@the doog - We might add some detail here and there such as shop interior and a few accessories outside but no figures. We don't like figures, they take most of the realism away as you in most cases clearly see that they are figures. We haven't found realistic looking figures in 1/25 scale. If you know of good figures, please let us know. Of course you can do a lot with painting and texturing of the figures, but the basis must be good, otherwise you will always have that kind of "toy" look. We prefer to keep our dioramas figure-free but never say never... if you -or somebody else- give us a good tip... why not?

@vespa boy - yes, we know there is still a lot of detail to add, as I already aid to the doog. We'll do that. Thanks for the cool picture and the info about the book. I'll check it out! We want to build more gas station dioramas...

@superone - here a few more pics of the work in process

Exterior wall.

 

 

Here the roof of the shop, office and toilet with included electrical installation.

 

Afterwards I painted the bulb matt white to give them a better lamp look. There are also bulbs installed in the exterior roof and the garage.

 

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    March 2010
Posted by Bocks Suv on Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:28 PM

Reminds me of when I was bicycling thru europe and had no place to set up a tent while on a  main road in Switzerland. The Shell station manager's house was right behind the gas station and he let us stay in his back yard. Really nice guy. He even wore a labcoat while doing his car work. Never saw that before or since. Thanks, gas dude!  

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: California
Posted by SprueOne on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:40 PM

Model Junkyard

Hello guys, here is a new project.

Last summer my brother and I just wanted to make something really challenging and spontaneously decided to build this Texaco Gas Station diorama.

Everything (besides the cars of course) is scratch build, also the gas pumps.

The model is made most out of styrene a few pieces of cardboard with little metal parts here and there for hinges and things like that. It also has a full electrical installation with light bulbs in every room in order to get a real light effect during night photo shooting sessions.

The pictures are 100% real. No photoshop, no digital touches!

I hope you like it!

Cheers!

Seb

Here you see me (Seb) taking pictures and my brother's (Iggy) car in the background

http://blog.modeljunkyard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/texaco_old_retro_gas_station_1_25_scale_model_seb_second_location.jpg


Nice photography and great model work.
Do you have a WIP of more of the building and fuel pumps build?


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    April 2004
  • From: Boston MA
Posted by vespa boy on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:39 PM

That is very cool, and great start. Lots of room to add details. The outdoor shots really work well.

 

Here is a photo of a Texaco station by one of my favourite artists, Ed Ruscha from his book: Twenty-six Gasoline Stations

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I ain't got time for that now

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    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:12 PM

Model Junkyard

 

http://blog.modeljunkyard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/texaco_old_retro_gas_station_1_25_scale_model_15.jpg

You wouldn't believe how much that looks like Innsbruck, Austria!

I have to say that I think this is just beautiful; a real piece of Art and spectacular craftsmanship! Some of the photos look like real scenes!

The night photos look terrific, too!

All you need are some figures to complete the scene!

GREAT WORK!

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    March 2003
  • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
Posted by tigerman on Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:24 PM

Love the nostalgia of the build. You just don't see gems like this anymore.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

 Eric 

  • Member since
    June 2010
  • From: Amsterdan & Zürich
Posted by Model Junkyard on Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:35 PM

@DickMcC2 - That's a cool story! Great memories! You are very fortunate to had the chance to drive a '56 Chevy back then, visiting this kind of places and dating a beautiful girl from the 50s! I wasn't even born. I only know all this from movies, pictures... and scale models!

@lighthousekeeper - Yes, we drove around a lot each time before building everything up for the shooting. You want to have the right place! 

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    January 2012
  • From: Chile
Posted by lightkeeper on Friday, January 20, 2012 8:40 AM

I like it so much, specially the background you chose for the photos.

Congratulations! Wink

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    July 2006
  • From: Middle Tennessee
Posted by Dick McC2 on Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:06 AM

Very nicely done and reminded me of a Texaco station in S.E. Colorado in the '50s -'60s which was run by the father of a girl I dated. It looks identical with the one my home town back in those days. The only exception being  the mountains in the background; this was on the high plains and nearest mountains were about 200 miles north and west. It brought back some good memories of filling up my two door '56 Chevie Bel Air at that station for $.19.9 a gallon for ethel! Now whatever happend to that raven haired beauty who looked so good sitting next to me in that '56?

  • Member since
    June 2010
  • From: Amsterdan & Zürich
TEXACO Gas Station Diorama 1/25 - Outdoor Photo Shooting in Switzerland
Posted by Model Junkyard on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:20 PM

Hello guys, here is a new project.

Last summer my brother and I just wanted to make something really challenging and spontaneously decided to build this Texaco Gas Station diorama.

Everything (besides the cars of course) is scratch build, also the gas pumps.

The model is made most out of styrene a few pieces of cardboard with little metal parts here and there for hinges and things like that. It also has a full electrical installation with light bulbs in every room in order to get a real light effect during night photo shooting sessions.

The pictures are 100% real. No photoshop, no digital touches!

I hope you like it!

Cheers!

Seb

 

Great afternoon sun light. Check the waterfall in the background:

 

 

Here a few pics of the building process:

 

working door hinges:

 

 

And here you see a few pics of the photo shooting in Switzerland during last summer. The background landscapes are just great and enhance the diorama. We took pictures at 3 different locations and did finally an indoor "night" photo shooting at home. It was a lot of work but we had lots of fun doing this! 

 

 

Picture of the photo shooting at night.

 

 

 

Here you see me (Seb) taking pictures and my brother's (Iggy) car in the background

 

 

 

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