decorama progress

progress being made back drop finished roofs for the buildings and still adding some detail to the insides of some of the buildings

Newest Project

after putting this project off for several years we finally am starting to make some progress

its a rendition of the north side of the 600 block of College Ave in Appleton Wis

it will be added to our street parade so after the additon it will be a mile and one block

starting on the left side we have the rail road crossing at college ave then the stores that were there in the 1940s starting with a Fredericks barber shop then Junake Jewerly, Helens frame shop they actually were in the same building but it was split down the center

Kimballs Shoe repair Ackers Tavern, Lethen's second hand store, Kronberg's Market

Tastee Bakery, Farimont Dairy, Schafer's Groc, and ends at State steet with Klines Tavern

several of the building we are going to try to detail on the inside and then finish it off with lots of people to watch our parade

another year helping with the Great Circus Parade
Milwaukee 2009

Our Circus parade set up

Each of the Red boxes hold the entire display and each Red box becomes a 12 ft table
each box is 4ft long and 30 inches wide with a 4 ft wing on each end
giving us 36 ft of table display each box is 4 ft high these were built about 30 years ago and other than having to touch up the paint job on them they have held up very well
and has made moving the display very easy

another note on each of the stantions we put a plackard discribing the display and also one tells of what products we used to create it the plackards are held by drilling a hole in the end of the stantion putting in a piece of copper pipe with a fourty five degree angle in it and attaching a 8x10 piece of plywood with a acrllic protecter on the face

An added note there are two great well stocked Hobby stores in the St Paul area.
and lots of train watching as the Burlington Santa Fe Main line runs right behind the building

thought I had a better picture of the seated people

template for grand stand people

I used several of these templates in making the seat wagons that have been posted on this site first I reduced them to the size I needed they are presently in 1/2 inch scale

then printed on card stock cutting around the heads customizing a bit leaving hats on or off or changing a hair style a bit then when arranging on the seat wagons tryied not to arrange so we did not have blocks of all one color