Structure Build: The Panhandle Cafe

Time for another structure build! This week, it's the Panhandle Café, inspired by the Panhandle Hotel from the queue of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland. Follow along step-by-step as I scratchbuild this quaint O scale Victorian era structure as the latest addition to Thunder Mesa town. Wooden structure building techniques, coloring, roofing, and finishing.
Thanks for watching, amigos!
Dave
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[@williamking8552]

I have enjoyed watching your video,

[@denisblanchet3149]

Hello from « FRANCE » it’s always very nice! Good Job! Beau Boulot in french.....Adios for Now !

[@maxcorey8144]

I am glad you create these how-to videos. I always learn something in spite I do not have a laser cutter. I do it all the old fashioned way but the methods otherwise still apply.

[@jeff9104]

Very nice !🚂🚂

[@michaelsullivan3581]

Amazsing!

[@stevemellin5806]

Really the best work I've ever seen . thank you for sharing . Have a great weekend

[@tomeasley5979]

Dave, great job on the Cafe build!

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

Thanks!

[@jvanamb]

Howdy Dave, Well here I am again. So I love this build so much I am not going to build it. At least for a few months. Yes I have some over the top upgrades. When have I not??? The reason I'm not ripping you off now is because after your 2022 review I had a heart attack. Not to worry the Doc Sawblade says I'll recover. Ya' can't git rid a me that easy. But just as the destruction to the rebuild of my NVR/WAS Hudson River Line RxR got started I got halted. Also while Thunder Mesa is timed out to the Pioneer West, NVR/WAS HO is set in the Adirondacks and Hudson River Valley (soon longer trackage) in Post-WW2 through 1970. This building WOULD FIT IN with alterations. And Dave that's why I love your channel. Though you build to suit your era, the techniques work in all eras IF modelers take the time NOT TO COPY but enhance. As a tease here are somethings I'm thinking of doing to the Panhandle Café' for Dolly Levi's Kosher Deli., Garrison, NY circa 19sometime. 1. Extend the front and rear walls to make the front window longer and allow visitors to look inside. The back wall will have a delivery ramp and deck. Adjacent to a team track. 2. Add an interior staircase from the Café floor to the "kitchen" entry (bump out) above. With some sort of curtain to obstruct the view into the kitchen. And detail the kitchen viewable walls. 3. MY THING...Animate the kitchen so viewers looking in the front bump out window would see a person moving from ???sink??? to ???stove???.& back again. 4. With diners at select tables I'm thinking I want to add Aunt Tempe (Hattie McDaniel) from Disney's SONG OF THE SOUTH as a server swopping across the floor and into the back room. BTW Song of the South was filmed in Arizona somewhere near Thunder Mesa Studios. My homage. I can't use Dolly inside as she already leads a Fall Holiday Parade through the Garrison Shoreline Park. Dolly Levi is Pearl Bailey. Lastly, #5 Your wall hung menu I am certain beyond ANY DOUBT to be hanging on a black board outside the front door. Whether on the wall or the awing support is unknown. Enough braggadocio. Now a helping hand to you. In the ally between the Undertakers and the Café how about a half dozen or so coffins standing upright against the Undertakers wall, lying flat on the ground, AND on the back of a flat wagon. Here comes MY THING again. Animate ONLY ONE of the Coffin Lids to squeak open (Haunted House style). Easy way would be to drive a servoed rod through the Undertaker's wall and push/pull the lid. The real tricky way would be to mount the servo under the layout. Have the rod push up and down on the lid on the wagon. But you will have to hid the rod from view. Got 'cha Cowpoke. Jim Resting comfortably in Upstate N.Y.

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

Sounds great! All the best to you on your recovery.

[@pbyfr]

Great work, a very nice building.

[@ronaldwalters5736]

Great job!

[@paulbottrill8391]

Yet another fantastic build. It’s a pleasure to watch.

[@WMTrackdog]

That is a very cool build! Enjoyed it very much.

[@lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561]

Thank You, you make my day. What beautiful work. Keep'em coming.

[@terryrunyon2793]

I recently found your channel and you sir are very talented! Your layout is phenomenal!

[@Hanzo.Azmodan]

Brilliant as usual. I really must invest in a laser cutter. I have a 3D resin printer but.....

[@OtterCreek]

Love your work! I hope to see some of these kits produced in HO scale!! ;-)

[@John-mz8rj]

Looks like the town from paint your wagon.

[@MattRLR]

Second Keep up the good work

[@70rrsteve51]

I wish you would release all these as kits. I’d buy every last one of them! …of course, I assume there would be copyright issues in the way.

[@kylewalker2160]

Another amazing build as usual, thank you. Could that Crescent Board be used for constructing a building? I’m in HO but thinking that could be used as a modern warehouse flat, maybe painting it with textured paint to represent concrete?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

Yes it could. I have used it to simulate many different kinds of building materials, from stucco to wood. It is a very versatile medium.

[@txag007]

Dave, have you tried a brick exterior using your laser printer? I'm curious how well that comes out compared to the clapboard siding for all of your buildings.

[@kurtludwig6962]

Clapboard? Did you laser it or buy it? Sorry but I’m new to this hobby just trying to learn. Like your videos Clear voice and explanation

[@kennyburgess1756]

Sounds like you're a Floridian with the names of your towns

[@titanic-pl4gk]

hello!! Your railroad model is really very beautiful. Made you, yourself the buildings or these are kits ?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

Thank you. The vast majority of structures are scratch built.

[@titanic-pl4gk]

@@ThunderMesaStudio wouahhh good job !!! Thks

[@titanic-pl4gk]

@@ThunderMesaStudio Did you know on which site I can buy kits of the same style ?

[@KenBinCT]

Another great video👍👍 What thickness MDF are you using in your structures?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

1/16"

[@bluesman285a]

Dave, silly question is that Clapboard siding purchased as a sheet or did you laser engrave it from basswood?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

Purchased as a sheet

[@williamdickman7917]

Well done, Dave...where did you get the shingles?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

These were leftover from a Crescent Creek Models kit run. Unfortunately they remain too expensive for us to produce as a stand alone product, but you might try Berkshire Valley Models for something similar.

[@thatonegscaler3855]

do you ever plan on uploading the images you print out for your paper building mock ups to you’re website?

[@ThunderMesaStudio]

There are several available on the website now: thundermesa.studio/product-category/tmmc/structure-plans/

[@thatonegscaler3855]

@@ThunderMesaStudio cool! I’ll be sure to check the out, thanks Dan!

[@mhxistenz]

@@ThunderMesaStudio Thank you so much for making these available!!

[@fifthrider]

Do you sell these? I'm currently turning one room of the house into "Frontierland." The upper 12" border around the ceiling is a backlit mountain range. My goal is to make a "Rainbow Ridge" in 2D laser cut wood around this perimeter but its next to impossible to find someone willing to do this. Meanwhile you're kind of already tooled for this, you made the plans, have the printer, etc. Just curious if you'd ever sell any. E-mailed you a week ago but I presume the no-response means "I read your e-mail and no."