Author Topic: I just bought the Siesta Motel! Link added 10/23!  (Read 10979 times)

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
« Last Edit: October 23, 2006, 02:03:25 pm by Jeff Wrangler »
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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.

 O0

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2006, 10:25:26 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 »
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

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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 »

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.