Mickey’s Diner, St. Paul Minnesota

Mickey’s Diner, St. Paul, Mn.

The diner was traced from about 50 photographs and paintings found around the interwebs of Mickey’s Diner. I used the photos to calculate scale and dimensions.
The windows consist of photos of the original diner. I couldn’t find any on the internet with high enough resolution, so I called out via the social medias, and got in touch with Lucas / Picture Saint Paul  who was ever so kind to go and snap some photos of the diner and it’s windows.

Materials

Building: Cardboard, 0.5mm
Windows: low quality printer paper 70g/cm
Oooh and it has built-in lighting too

The blueprint for the model

Go ahead and print, glue and build. Btw it looks best BIG!

The finished/built model (with lights!)
NIKON D300 (50mm, f/3.2, 1/100 sec, ISO320)
  NIKON D300 (50mm, f/2.2, 1/250 sec, ISO320)
NIKON D300 (50mm, f/2.2, 1/100 sec, ISO320)
NIKON D300 (50mm, f/2.2, 1/100 sec, ISO320)

THE ORIGIAL DINER / (SOME OF) THE PHOTOS IT WAS DRAWN FROM

I spent a good deal of time finding these images, and even more time figuring out the dimensions for everything. Fun and nerdy.

And the soundtrack for this page

Diner, my shiny, shiny love