How about these?.....
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Happy Hump-Day Wednesday,
Carey - The GCT looks great on your layout.
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Alan is that a revolving restaurant or just an observation deck in the center top of the first picture? What did you use to fabricate it?
Fantastic scends, my tallest building is a two story milk plant, light towers and water towers don't count
Ray
Skip, your RCA buildng brings back memories, my first Industral Enginering job out of school at RCA's I/C Somerville NJ plant.
Dr. Jack posted:Skip, your RCA buildng brings back memories, my first Industral Enginering job out of school at RCA's I/C Somerville NJ plant.
I have my Dad's old RCA Strato-World Radio in my office. Love the sound of an old tube radio. Can use a little work but the FAN and CBS AM come in clear as a bell.
I had the pleasure of knowing two gentlemen and fellow train collectors who worked of RCA in the RCA building.
Milton Walsh was a charter member of the TCA who worked for RCA in the 40's and 50's and moonlighted as a repair man in Carmen Webster's train store on 45th Street I believe. When Carmen closed shop Milton bought all of the Lionel repair parts including the cabinets and set them up in his basement in Ossining, NY. He did several repairs for me on my post-war trains and charged me whatever the original price was on the original Lionel envelope. We were friends up until his death in the late 80's or early 90's.
Eddie Murphy was an electrician in the RCA Building who used to string the lights for the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree back in the 50's and 60's. Eddie was a great guy and I used to see him at the York Train Meet. We kept in touch by email until I got word from his wife that he had passed away. I still have a cookie tin of Christmas lights Eddie gave me that were used on the RC tree.
coach joe posted:Alan is that a revolving restaurant or just an observation deck in the center top of the first picture? What did you use to fabricate it?
Great catch there Joe!...it is in fact supposed to represent a revolving restaurant. In reality, it is an old non-functioning smoke alarm...LOL!
How about this: (don't forget to click on the picture for a nice detailed large size....)
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I really don’t have a lot of room for tall buildings, but I did just add a GGD Coaling Tower to my layout (Beth Marshall at Public Delivery Track had a great deal on these a couple of weeks ago). This is one beautiful building. It is really tall (for me, anyway). The Todd Architectural flat against the back wall is a Scale 5-story building, and the tower is taller. Wouldn’t want to climb to the top of the tower!!!
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OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:coach joe posted:Alan is that a revolving restaurant or just an observation deck in the center top of the first picture? What did you use to fabricate it?
Great catch there Joe!...it is in fact supposed to represent a revolving restaurant. In reality, it is an old non-functioning smoke alarm...LOL!
OK... that is one great scrounge (or recycle if you prefer). @M. Mitchell Marmel would be proud!!!
Skip and Alan, absolutely great skyscrapers.
Alan two questions if I may; did you have to cut all the windows into the restaurant or was that just the design of the smoke detector and is that an N gauge water tower on the lift bridge?
OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:How about this: (don't forget to click on the picture for a nice detailed large size....)
Most impressive!!!! WOW!!!
coach joe posted:Skip and Alan, absolutely great skyscrapers.
Alan two questions if I may; did you have to cut all the windows into the restaurant or was that just the design of the smoke detector and is that an N gauge water tower on the lift bridge?
Hi Joe....The smoke detector is very old...probably at least 20 or more years... It was an AMWAY product (the long time multi-marketing company) and what you see is the exact design. All I did was to add to the "top" of it with a plastic lid and golf tee.
The water tower on the lift bridge is an HO model with a red flashing light. I thought it looked good and added a little depth to the scene even though it may not be completely prototypical....
Ah....gold and silver...my two favorite precious metals...ah, I mean window colors...
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Alan are the silver and gold windows colored plastic, mirror, foil over substrate a combination of any or all?
coach joe posted:Alan are the silver and gold windows colored plastic, mirror, foil over substrate a combination of any or all?
Joe....you are correct, the windows are a combination of all of the above. The gold tower is made from foam core board covered in a sticky sided reflective foil which I found in the wall paper department of a local home improvement store. The silver mirrored building next to it is made up of four 4 foot long dressing mirrors that are marketed to be used on the back of either bathroom or closet doors. The floor divisions on both buildings are various kinds of electrical and automotive striping tapes.
Good Morning everyone! Here is one of the "Modernistic" skyscrapers downtown:
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Give me the steam era buildings 
Looks great BTW Skip & Alan.
