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 Posted - February 16 2011 : 07:52:08 AM
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I'm thinking of building a PHotography kiosk building, and making it out of pieces of a 1:1 camera. My main piece will be a Japanese Kowa 35mm top shell, with viewfinder, as the roof, and use a building underneath it like one of those parking lot kiosks you used to see for 1-hour drive-up developing. So the actual building will have the look of an actual camera. I thought that would look neat in a '70's theme, or even '60's. Anyway, the building has to be narrow, like 10' deep at most. Anyone know of building kits that have something like that? I may just have to scratchbuild it out of pieces/parts. I'm thinking of using the iris shutter part for a Sci-fi prop in some diorama ( pseudo-Stargate, anyone? ).
Anyway, got lots of miniature screws and parts out of this old '60's camera, no value to it for the most part, I checked Ebay, so it came apart for parts. Just had the wild idea of a Photo kiosk as I was deciding which parts to throw away. Can't save everything, defeats the purpose of cleaning up, but will try to have fun with what's left of it. 
Jerry
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Posted - February 16 2011 : 08:13:00 AM
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hi jerry faller make a few that could be adapted i would think one listed below ken
https://www.frontlinehobbies.com.au/products/F130212?FALLER%20HO%20NEWSPAPER%20KIOSKCOCA%20COLA
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Posted - February 16 2011 : 10:54:11 AM
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Do you have a picture of the camera? If I understand you right, you want to make a kitcshy "theme building" like the faddish ones of the mid-20th century. I like the idea... but it seems to me that any camera would be much too big to be a plausible HO building - I mean, even the smallest cameras typical of the 60's would dwarf a 3-story DPM main street building. It's just a drop-off kiosk, right? You might be better off looking for a smaller toy camera and fashioning that into a building.
I had a similar "stargate" idea when I dismantled a dead computer LTO tape drive and found the stepper coil array ;) It even looks scale-appropriate, but is still too big. Still, it made me wish I was modeling a desert scene so I could make a gag out of it. Guess I could hide it downtown and attribute it to a TARDIS malfunction... or jam my "almost HO but just too wide for a flatcar" StarTrek shuttlecraft in there. Whoa, uncomfortable geekdom references... nevermind.
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Posted - February 16 2011 : 6:09:28 PM
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| Those fotomats were small, maybe 4' x 8' as I remember. Best thing might be able to just bash it from scraps. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that has what you're looking for. There are small buildings for circus/carnival concessions, but they definatly look like what they're modeled after. Fotomats were very distinct in their appearance.
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Posted - February 16 2011 : 9:28:10 PM
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Here's a couple shots of some HO people in a clear prison, next to the "roof" of the proposed kiosk.
Yes, it's a little large for a Kiosk, maybe a larger ketche type. It's 5 inches real, so that's about 37' long scale. But only about 10' deep. So I think it'll still work. Just need to find walls for it. Definitely need a lens-type door. 
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