Floyd's Diner

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Discussion Starter · May 19, 2005 (Edited)

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I wanted to share some pics I did of a 1:24 scale model I built for a local diner owner. He like me, was really into the 50's and 60's cruisin' scene. He built his 1:1 diner to recreate that atmosphere. Floyd's Diner is a great hangout for us 50ish JD's. This baby had a lot of detail, lottsa chrome and stainless steel and a great learning experience for me. I built it a couple of years ago and it helped me in development of some new techniques for working with several effects including radius corners. Hope you enjoy.

This is a photo of the actual diner:

The following are different views of the model I built:

This next photo is one where I cropped out the real diner and incerted a photo of my model. I was working with an inferior camera at the time so the photo isn't the best quality but it let me know if my model was taking on the appearance of the real one. Yep, a real learning expearance but it was a lot of fun to build.

And I alwas like night shots. Best time for cruisin'. I took this photo before I hooked up the lights:

As always, I appreciate the feedback and kind words from the folks here.
My dioramas are no better than others I have seen here, just different. Aren't we all just having fun?

Diner Fan

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kenrobinson6

· #2 · May 19, 2005

Had to keep checking, it is very hard to tell the difference between the 2 images,very good work DF :nicejob :nicejob The 1:1 owner must be 'chuffed' to bits

Your dioramas are absolutely brilliant, please post more of your pictures

JohnReid

· #3 · May 19, 2005

Great work and nice pics.Cheers! John.

RichardM

· #4 · May 19, 2005

Thant's an awesome piece! Is it on display in the real diner?

cobalt1959

· #5 · May 19, 2005

dinerfan, there are no words for your work. I'm with Ken. Your diner looks like you could open the doors and walk right in, order a hamburger. Your diorama's are absolutely amazing. . .

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Discussion Starter · #6 · May 19, 2005

RichardM said:
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Thanks for the kind words. They are expanding their chain and it's my understanding the model is on tour. Getting it to look like the 1:1 required a couple of late nights hanging out studying all the chrome features and figuring out just how I was going to duplicate them. Ate a lot of burgers and fries but it was the chocolate malts that gave me the answers:lol .
Diner Fan

LUW

· #7 · May 19, 2005

Fantastic!!! :nicejob

winstoncds

· #8 · May 19, 2005

'Honey! He's shrunk the diner!!!' This is what the diner owner must have told his wife when he saw this.
Absolute masterpiece dinerfan. :nicejob :nicejob

Cuda Jeff

· #9 · Jul 3, 2006

How the h3ll could I have missed that topic????? :dizzy

Incredible piece of art!!! WOW!!! :10

mosteller

· #10 · Jul 3, 2006

Dinerfan did several postings over a month or two at that time, all of which were fantastic, true works of art! Unfortunately, he hasn't posted anything since then.

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Discussion Starter · #11 · Jul 3, 2006

Bob,

I we occasionally exchange emails - and from the sounds of it, the dioramas he posted here were only stepping stones. He sent me some blueprints of some newer ones he was working on - and the guy has some talent for sure.

The ones he is making now are going to be mass produced too - so the detail level will not be as high as these - the themes seem to be catered to those who are demanding them.

mosteller

· #12 · Jul 4, 2006

Darrick;
That's great to hear. I thought he had just faded away, and his work is unbelievable! Please keep us up to date as to when these diners will become available if you know. :cheers

momodels

· #13 · Jul 7, 2006

Absolutely awesome, I am speachless :10 :hot

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Discussion Starter · #14 · Jul 7, 2006

momodels said:
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:iagree :10 :10 :10
WHAT A TALENT!

StygianMax

· #15 · Jul 7, 2006

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stevie said:
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You should check out his out handywork. Here's a list of them. I really like his work with electroluminescent lights around his diners!!!

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Discussion Starter · #16 · Aug 31, 2006

DiecastX said:
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I've worked with him for several years and I expect the detail to be as good or better than all the photos posted here. His development efforts include production techniques which mix mass production and craft strategies.

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Discussion Starter · #17 · Aug 31, 2006

Welcome aboard gap tag :cheers

mbc112

· #18 · Sep 1, 2006

DiecastX said:
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:iagree ...:welcome gap tag !!!

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