Railway coach Diner

[Michi]

Argh, my fat fingers have sever difficulty with the smaller details to cut glue and sand I will have to give it a try.

Cheers
Matt

You could still cut/carve them from solid balsa or styrofoam if that suits you better...

[former user]

may I ask where You got Your plans from? I had always been into doing something like that too, but never founf enough information.

[Michi]

may I ask where You got Your plans from? I had always been into doing something like that too, but never founf enough information.

I usually work without plans. I get inspired mainly by watching movies and try to copy that from memory - sometimes with the help of some photos I find in the www. Like googling for streamline diner in this case: https://www.google.com/search?q=diner+coach&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OUDZUuntBouv4QTh4oDoAQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=791#q=streamline+diner+&tbm=isch

[former user]

yes, that was my approach so far too, but Your is at least two generations earlier than "streamline", so I thought I'd ask 

[Michi]

Your is at least two generations earlier than "streamline", so I thought I'd ask  

You´re totally right. My thoughts were that the building of streamline diners must have been inspired by the original use of real railway coaches, because there are so many optical similarities apart from being wider to allow a little more space inside. Actually there are some prototype coaches still in use as diners today too. I just made up my mind what they would have looked like if they predated the art déco era and I would bet that there are or were actual diners just like that!  

Look: http://www.google.de/imgres?start=162&client=firefox-a&hs=Umv&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=664&tbm=isch&tbnid=dqFH0V4JZzEJSM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fohtheplaceswesee.com%2F2013%2F11%2F01%2Fhashtag-the-hashbrowns-at-franks-diner-spokane%2F&docid=mPQqKPxlrHDjyM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fohtheplaceswesee.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F11%2Fimg_1308.jpg&w=3264&h=2448&ei=MYDZUqCMGImThgeZ94CoAQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=3199&page=7&ndsp=25&ved=0CIECEK0DMFQ4ZA

[former user]

quite so!
the Wiki about diners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_diner#American_Diners_Association
apparently contains published material from
"The American Diner "©1998 Michael Karl Witzel
that says exactly that

which also corresponds to the railway dining cars being introduced in the late 19th C in USA because of the long journeys between stops so that people could eat

so You credibly retrostyled that concept 

[Michi]

so You credibly retrostyled that concept  

You see!  

And there is another example (patience pays off!):
http://www.google.de/imgres?start=490&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=664&tbm=isch&tbnid=PXAPoHhCTv4FbM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arkansasrailroadhistory.com%2Froadside-diner%2Froadside-diner.htm&docid=JBQ92opjeJTqOM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arkansasrailroadhistory.com%2Froadside-diner%2FPine-Bluff-AR-2w.jpg&w=1200&h=651&ei=e4TZUrqGEo6UhQfdxoHwDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=2280&page=20&ndsp=24&ved=0CCMQrQMwCjj0Aw

[Michi]

Now this photo is totally exciting and would make an impressive gaming table for VSF, wouldn´t it?

[former user]

You are sooo right...  

[FramFramson]

You see!  

And there is another example (patience pays off!):
http://www.google.de/imgres?start=490&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=664&tbm=isch&tbnid=PXAPoHhCTv4FbM%3A&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arkansasrailroadhistory.com%2Froadside-diner%2Froadside-diner.htm&docid=JBQ92opjeJTqOM&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arkansasrailroadhistory.com%2Froadside-diner%2FPine-Bluff-AR-2w.jpg&w=1200&h=651&ei=e4TZUrqGEo6UhQfdxoHwDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=2280&page=20&ndsp=24&ved=0CCMQrQMwCjj0Aw

I am laughing SO HARD at that sign on the left right now. Ohhh wow. 

[rumacara]

Hello

Nice photos with lots of ideas.


Cheers

Rumacara