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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 14:31:01 GMT -5
On the Web I found this. You can download the model (it's free) as more than 70 parts or 4 parts (my choice). It's interesting for guys like me who don't like lasercuts ; the designer admits that he was inpired by Animek's model ... I ordered it at Shapeways, about 74 Euro printing costs in polyamide. Now I am waiting for delivery (and painting by my friend) and report if it is good or crap.
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Aug 19, 2020 18:04:48 GMT -5
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Post by neverland on Aug 19, 2020 18:04:48 GMT -5
Cool. I already have a Miller Engineering brass cinema but it’s era-specific. This looks more modern.
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Post by markm on Aug 19, 2020 23:12:03 GMT -5
I have a Amimek theater "Snowden". It's a nice kit, but I wouldn't just call it "laser cut." It contains a number of appropriate multimedia elements.
The design you purchased is very typical in general aspects for theaters built in the 1940s and 1950s, so very appropriate for your layout.
There are a couple of issues with the design you may want to consider. Theaters here were some of the first businesses to install air conditioning. I would expect a couple of air conditioning units on the roof. More importantly. the theater needs a name. Typically the name would be the owner studio such as "United Artists" or "Paramount". But more commonly the name would reflect a person, place or something of local interest. SO some of the names I can think of "Stanford" and "Varsity" (in college towns), "Vine" (wine region), "Redwood" (in the forest) or "Argonaut" or "49er" in California gold rush towns. "Movies" just doesn't make it for a name. You also need marques promoting the films. I'd suggest printing them up using the same material you mentioned for your billboards. Apply them over the colored panels above the theater entrance. The lettering is typically sans-serif and 6 or 12 inches high.
Hope this helps,
Mark
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Aug 19, 2020 23:53:50 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 23:53:50 GMT -5
About air conditioning : I bought the accessories by "Charlie", I used a few of them, and some are still left. And concerning the name : "Shapeways is good for You", I am only waiting to see the size !
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Post by neverland on Aug 20, 2020 6:55:13 GMT -5
Absolutely agree about the air conditioning and I’ve installed one on the roof of mine. When my family moved to California in the 1950s, my mom and I took the Super Chief to LA while Dad drove out car west. We had a 4 hour layover before boarding a train to San Francisco. It was summer and 100 degrees so we took refuge in a movie theater with A/C. In those days you could just sit there between show times and watch the same movie over and over again. So that’s what we did until it was time to catch our train.
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Post by markm on Aug 20, 2020 15:30:49 GMT -5
It will be interesting to see how the theater turns out. I ran across an appropriate marque sample for your era: FYI: the "Century" theater complexes were a dome-shaped theater that was a popular design of the 1960s and cinerama was a 3 projector wide-screen system. I don't believe either was popular outside the U.S. Mark
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Aug 20, 2020 21:26:58 GMT -5
Post by cwrr on Aug 20, 2020 21:26:58 GMT -5
Ha, lol!! Best movie ever! I'll put that movie in and get laughs every time!
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Aug 20, 2020 22:51:06 GMT -5
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Post by markm on Aug 20, 2020 22:51:06 GMT -5
Ha, lol!! Best movie ever! Not the best...it doesn't have a train! But having been released in 1963 it's the best movie for Alberich's modeling era.
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Post by bloodynose on Aug 20, 2020 23:07:56 GMT -5
Yeah Mark, thanks, now I will have to go spend the next 3 hours laughing my ars off! I love that movie, it was the greatest in comedy when comedy was clean! Johnathan Winters was the best!
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Aug 21, 2020 2:12:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2020 2:12:00 GMT -5
I prefer the "blockbusters" like "Ben Hur" (1953), "Cleopatra" (1963), "How the West Was Won" (1962) and "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) ...
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Post by neverland on Aug 21, 2020 6:59:58 GMT -5
And I loved the era of great musicals— “Gigi” (1958) and “The Sound if Music” (1965).
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Aug 22, 2020 0:37:26 GMT -5
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Post by bloodynose on Aug 22, 2020 0:37:26 GMT -5
I enjoy musicals also, as a boy my favorite was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke. But now that I'm an old guy the only manly musical that I will admit to being on my preferred list is...
Wait for it...
Paint Your Wagon! Clint, Lee, and the rest!
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Aug 22, 2020 6:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by neverland on Aug 22, 2020 6:57:45 GMT -5
I enjoy musicals also, as a boy my favorite was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke. But now that I'm an old guy the only manly musical that I will admit to being on my preferred list is... Wait for it... Paint Your Wagon! Clint, Lee, and the rest! Ah yes, two very unlikely singing talents who managed to pull it off without a hitch (🤣).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2020 14:06:28 GMT -5
"I was born under a wandering star ..."
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Post by rray on Sept 4, 2020 19:30:48 GMT -5
My favorite is Emperor of the North Pole with Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. Not a comedy, but lots of railroading. A#1 on the 19 to Portland!
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