Not too long ago, I started a city scene on my HO scale model railroad. What a better way to tie-in to video games than to build a thrift store and have the AtariAge boxcar go to. I used a discontinued Korber 5 and 10 store building kit and furnished some interior and "junk" inside and attempted to make a miniature Atari. The attempt wasn't so great and my cheap camera didn't like it either. I used a rubber eraser to make the console but when you have a system that's smaller than your pinky fingernail, it takes a master to accomplish that. I admit I'm no master at miniatures. It was going to be a "woody", then a Junior...then in the end, it looked like some sort of gigantic pirated gaming system with square-ish joysticks. There is a light inside so many shots were taken with it on.

Now the AtariAge boxcar has a place to be dropped off instead of always being on a train. Either it's dropping off games or picking up cartridge shells at the "All Right Thrifts" store. On the same section, I've also built a hotel, a well-known Life-Like kit, with some humorous "curtains" printed from the internet and a familiar poster on one of the walls. It's also lighted but has no interior.

One of these days, I'll have to get my butt in gear and buy a decent camera; one that won't have a flash that looks like a nuke's going off.