Der Waffle Haus

Amazon sells sheets of steel.

This one is 12 inches wide and 24 inches long, and 1.5mm thick.

It is nice and smooth and the edges are smooth too.

My favorite TV show was Dead Like Me.  Much of it takes place in a diner called Der Waffle Haus.

I decided to make a 1/72nd scale version of that restaurant and I decided to use interlocking bricks, generic Lego bricks.  The model is not finished, I am still gathering data, parts and making decisions about the model.  There were two different versions of the restaurant.  One was a real coffee shop in Canada but most of the show was filmed on a set that is very similar to the actual restaurant.  But they changed up a few things and being a set they built it to be able to move around the interior furniture and sometimes even walls.  So the building sometimes has different numbers of tables and doors in different places.  This is part of my American Cities project.
 

 https://canadagraphs.weebly.com/celebrity-blogs---ends-june-2012/dead-like-me-fans-i-give-you-the-original-der-waffle-haus-set 

Fixing the Van

I use this putty sometimes and it works okay.

I put a little bit on this aluminum foil and using a dental tool to fill in the bump in the roof of the van.

Put it on the roof to fill the dip.

Smooth it out with the tool.

Then sand it down with fine sandpaper. All better waiting for primer and paint.
 

Eastern European Van

This is an Eastern European van from the period of the Cold War.

Vans like this were used for both military and civilian purposes.

It is a rather small vehicle in HO scale.

Underside it rather detailed.

Airfix Civilian next to the van.

The roof has a weird gouge in it.
 

Three Ambulances

Many times these big vehicles are mobile trauma centers.

The back and front of this vehicle needs a little painting on the lights.

Bottom is pretty good.

Top side.

Sometimes vehicles from many agencies and private vehicles will respond to the same incident.

In a very large incident ambulances from hundreds of miles away can respond.