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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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I just bought the Siesta Motel! Link added 10/23!
« on: October 15, 2006, 08:32:17 pm »
Seriously!  :o

Well, sort of. Somebody had an old, assembled "Plasticville" HO-scale motel listed on eBay. The sign on the structure says "Siesta Motel." On a lark and a whim, I bid on it--and I won it, for the grand total of $11.50!  :o

Now all I need to find is the right model and color of HO-scale pickup to park in front of it. ...  ;D

Now I guess I have to start trolling eBay for a 1960s Wyoming-proper Union Pacific diesel locomotive and caboose.

Just yesterday, at my local hobby shop, I found a couple of HO-scale cowboys on horseback, though they need some paint alterations.

I sense a theme building here: Brokeback Mountain in HO scale!

Jesus H.!  :o  :laugh:

For anyone who wants to see what the Plasticville motel looks like, here's a link. It's the best I can do.--J.W.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=270038437429&rd=1&rd=1
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2006, 09:38:55 pm »
that is so fun!! congratulations!!
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2006, 09:47:46 pm »
Jacks truck was a 1965 or 1966 Ford F-100 if you didn't already know.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2006, 10:00:17 pm »
Awesome, Jeff!  Congratulations!
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2006, 10:16:41 pm »
Coincidently, Jeff, I have HO scale people and props. I'll pull out my train stuff this week and see if I can hook you up.

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2006, 10:25:26 pm »
Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on October 15, 2006, 09:47:46 pm
Jacks truck was a 1965 or 1966 Ford F-100 if you didn't already know.

Thanks, Mark! I'm so automotively challenged 'bout the only thing I could have said about Jack's 1967 truck was that it wasn't a Model A!
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2006, 10:26:59 pm »
Quote from: RouxB on October 15, 2006, 10:16:41 pm
Coincidently, Jeff, I have HO scale people and props. I'll pull out my train stuff this week and see if I can hook you up.

 O0

RouxB, you are amazing, girlfriend! Thanks, little darlin'!

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2006, 10:44:11 pm »
That's how it starts, Jeff.  Next year you'll have the whole friggin' town of Riverton assembled in your bedroom!  ;D

What's HO stand for?  ???
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2006, 11:29:51 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 15, 2006, 08:32:17 pm

I sense a theme building here: Brokeback Mountain in HO scale!


Oh yes!  Let's do it!  :D  :D  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2006, 06:29:05 am »
Jeff that's great!

   I recall Matchbox selling an HO scale pickup truck.  I think it was a late 60s / early 70's model though.    It was red.  Hmm,  maybe its time to go visit eBay!    LOL.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2006, 07:00:28 am »
Ya gotta love eBay!

   Here ya go Jeff!      $9.00  on eBay!

Matchbox first edition Ford Truck #6.

Take off the rear cap and add some white paint in the right places and you have Jacks "reunion" Truck!   ;)

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2006, 09:05:21 am »
Quote from: meryl on October 15, 2006, 10:44:11 pm
That's how it starts, Jeff.  Next year you'll have the whole friggin' town of Riverton assembled in your bedroom!  ;D

What's HO stand for?  ???

Supposedly "HO" stands for "half-O," being half the size of O-gauge/O-scale model trains, "O-gauge" being the size of Lionel model trains.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2006, 09:07:25 am »
Quote from: DavidinHartford on October 16, 2006, 07:00:28 am
Ya gotta love eBay!

   Here ya go Jeff!      $9.00  on eBay!

Matchbox first edition Ford Truck #6.

Take off the rear cap and add some white paint in the right places and you have Jacks "reunion" Truck!   ;)



Thanks, David! I think I had an earlier version of that Matchbox pickup, back in the days when I was an earlier version of me.

Why the heck did I let my mother give away my Matchboxes?  :laugh:
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2006, 09:24:13 pm »
Looking forward to pictures of the completed project.   ;)
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2006, 11:30:52 am »
Of course, I could also do the story version. In the story, in 1967 Jack hasn't yet started to come into any of his father-in-law's money. When he shows up at Ennis's apartment, he's wearing the same old Resistol and driving the same old pickup as in 1964.

So maybe I could look for some 1940s style pickup--in green, I think the story says the color is.

Guess I'll have to start looking for a laundromat building with a second floor to it.  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2006, 12:19:19 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 17, 2006, 11:30:52 am
Of course, I could also do the story version. In the story, in 1967 Jack hasn't yet started to come into any of his father-in-law's money. When he shows up at Ennis's apartment, he's wearing the same old Resistol and driving the same old pickup as in 1964.

So maybe I could look for some 1940s style pickup--in green, I think the story says the color is.

Guess I'll have to start looking for a laundromat building with a second floor to it.  :D
The black pickup was a GMC, pretty much the same thru 1948-1953, Chevrolets very nearly identical.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2006, 01:21:49 pm »
Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on October 17, 2006, 12:19:19 pm
The black pickup was a GMC, pretty much the same thru 1948-1953, Chevrolets very nearly identical.

Hey, thanks, Mark! Much obliged!  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2006, 05:55:17 pm »
Jeff here is a link to a Ho 1950 chevy pickup

http://www.cchobbies.com/hoscale/vechicles/asscembush.htm
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2006, 06:21:59 pm »
Just since we're talking dioramas, I hope no one minds if I post this here for old times' sake:



http://destinationdaniel.smugmug.com/gallery/1213678/1/56764720
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2006, 06:35:39 pm »
Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on October 17, 2006, 05:55:17 pm
Jeff here is a link to a Ho 1950 chevy pickup

http://www.cchobbies.com/hoscale/vechicles/asscembush.htm

Hey, Mark,

Wow! That's great! Thanks!

I'd have to beat it up a little more to be Jack's truck, though.  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2006, 11:17:42 pm »
Hey, Jeff, when that diorama is completed, let me know.   It'll come in handy as an altarpiece for our BBM Cult worship services.  ;)
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2006, 03:44:28 pm »
It shouldn't be too difficult to come up with a building for Monroe's grocery store, too. That's a pretty nondescript small-town storefront building.

So in addition to the Siesta Motel, it should be possible to come up with the laundry with the apartment over it, the grocery store, the Black and Blue Eagle bar, maybe the Elks' Club building, and, since they do make HO-scale mobile homes, even Joe Aguirre's trailer office.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2006, 04:12:17 pm »
Now I'll have to check my building also...

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2006, 01:06:38 am »
The motel arrived in Friday's mail. Now the next time I'm in a hobby shop, it's time to start looking for an appropriate pickup truck.  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2006, 01:19:05 am »
Where's the pictures?  :D  :D  ;D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2006, 10:30:26 am »
Quote from: sfericsf on October 22, 2006, 01:19:05 am
Where's the pictures?  :D  :D  ;D

That's beyond my technical capability.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2006, 01:59:22 pm »
OK, I didn't think I'd be able to do this, but here's a link to the eBay listing, for anyone who wants to see the Siesta Motel in HO scale.  ;D

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=017&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=270038437429&rd=1&rd=1

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel! Link added 10/23!
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2006, 03:28:58 pm »
That's so cute!  ;D

Congrats on your tech skillz, Jeff!  8)
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel! Link added 10/23!
« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2006, 07:07:18 pm »
Looks great Jeff!      I can see the truck in front of it already!   ;D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel! Link added 10/23!
« Reply #29 on: November 03, 2006, 01:13:38 am »
WOW!  Your very own Siesta Motel!   :o


"They went off in Jack's truck, bought a bottle of whiskey and within twenty minutes were in the Motel Siesta jouncing a bed. A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured door of the next room then and through the night.  The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap."

Don't forget the little whiskey bottle!   ;D . . . but I won't say anything about how to create the appropriate "fragrances"!   ;) ::)

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