) moved out of my girlfriend's place on Friday and I had the opportunity to shoot some pictures with one of my G scale buildings. This one happens to be a discontinued Pola Depot. Enjoy.
A little photo fun.
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A little photo fun.
Most of my XD(not all of it, and yes, we're still together. ) moved out of my girlfriend's place on Friday and I had the opportunity to shoot some pictures with one of my G scale buildings. This one happens to be a discontinued Pola Depot. Enjoy.
) moved out of my girlfriend's place on Friday and I had the opportunity to shoot some pictures with one of my G scale buildings. This one happens to be a discontinued Pola Depot. Enjoy.If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
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G scale(1/22.5) as a general rule works pretty well. Piko also has a wide variety of buildings available. I have a Piko building that I just haven't gotten around to building yet. The Pola I picked up for about $60 on Ebay, and the Piko was around $120 at the local hobby shop.
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Very cool. Gives a great idea on how well the Pola stuff works with XD. I was especially happy when I saw that the german standing in the doorway has a decent amount of headroom between his lid and the jam. 
If you know where to obtain a depot or run across one let me know.
If you know where to obtain a depot or run across one let me know.
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grunt1 wrote:Very cool. Gives a great idea on how well the Pola stuff works with XD. I was especially happy when I saw that the german standing in the doorway has a decent amount of headroom between his lid and the jam.
If you know where to obtain a depot or run across one let me know.
Okay, here's the full disclosure. The doors the soldiers are standing in are warehouse doors, not personnel doors. If I was to stand them in the personnel doors located on the ends of the building, their foreheads would touch the top of the door frame. The doors are about a half an inch short. Provided you buy/pose accordingly, these are details not readily noticed. Again, G scale is about the closest you'll get to 1/18 and still have a wide variety of structures to choose from.
If I see anything good, I'll let you know.
Okay, here's a couple of sites one of the guys here hooked me up with. My apologies for not remembering who.
http://www.onlytrains.com/Merchant5/mer ... ry_Code=LB
http://www.trainworld.com/pola/index.html These prices are about as good as you'll find on a commercial website. Use the item #s to locate images on other sites to compare the buildings.
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Big Duke 6 wrote:Did you dig a foxhole to get the angle on the pics at ground level ? Very Nice !!
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That's the beauty of a pivoting viewfinder screen.
The camera was just about on the ground, but I could still see the shot.
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Hey FLPICKUPMAN---Nice dio!!!!Looks like that place is well guarded---I think I know why!!!! At !st glance of the 1st and 2nd pictures I thought your back yard was full of marijuana plants!!!!! 
Nice work!!!---RED---
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LMAO!!RED wrote:Hey FLPICKUPMAN---Nice dio!!!!Looks like that place is well guarded---I think I know why!!!! At !st glance of the 1st and 2nd pictures I thought your back yard was full of marijuana plants!!!!!
I may live in South Florida, but rest assured that's not dope.
Thanks for the positve comments.
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I am gonna have to recon the local model train stores for one of those Pola depot buildings, it looks great. Nice job, only thing that might make it a bit nicer would be some weathering, but otherwise outstanding work.
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