Hello guys, thank you all for the great feedback! Making models and everything that is somehow car related has been my passion since I was a Child.
About the boards. Every board of the exterior wall cover is cut by hand out a bigger piece of wood to recreate the old irregular way of cutting boards. Only 2 sides of the barn are covered and I had to cut 11 meters / 36 feet, (yes 36 feet!!, no miscalculation here!!!) of little boards to cover only two sides.
Most of my dioramas, like this one, are in 1/25 scale.
Here you see a pic of myself at work for you to get a feeling of the size.
Again, I want to thank "Thunder II" who gave me, many years ago, all the dimensions of the Tok 39 for me to build a replica. I finally never did. Instead I build scale models. It's not so easy to get access to good old gas pumps over here in Europe. Do you guys know of someone having scaled plans/drawings of old pumps? the fabricators maybe? or maintenance manuals maybe?
Or if you know of a gas pump collector over here in The Netherlands or Germany, would you please let me know?
I would love to go by to collect more dimensions of other old pumps for future projects.
Cheers!
Seb
Here you have also a few pics of the outdoor photo shooting