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08 - Gunz N Alienz Store, lights switched off
“Gunz N Alienz” Store
From Kryptonite to dynamite, whether you are looking for extraterrestrials, jetpacks, space suits, space crystals, alien grimaces, handguns, heavy machine guns or Star Wars figures, radioactive materials or loads of conspiracy theories… Come and enjoy your visit @Gunz N Alienz!
This is another dream come true, dating back to as far as 2016, where Gabor, ER0L and I had first met up to present a more rudimentary Route 66 layout together, and where I first had the idea to build a spacy-looking motel and alien/UFO-themed store.
The building process started with making the billboard, which I considered a make-or-break, key element to this MOC. Converging clichés was the goal here by uniting a typical UFO and alien paraphernalia store (as one may find along the Extraterrestrial Highway and places like Roswell, New Mexico) with a gun store, a freaky store owner and even freakier clients 😉. 12V lighting with the good old 12 light bricks from the 80s was used to illuminate the shop windows and entrance area, making the building look especially interesting in darker conditions.
Oval-shaped windows such as incorporated in the Mojave Inn Motel unite the two models style-wise and give both of them an allure of “Outer Space”, with allusions to extraterrestrials and their often displayed, oval eye shapes. Weird posters, “alien heads” and figures along with some rubbish out front are placed strategically to underline the weirdness of the place.
Photos of the store’s interior will follow later on, as I will set up a shorter version of the layout at home again soon.
Thanks for looking and reading all this, guys! 😊
08 - Gunz N Alienz Store, lights switched off
“Gunz N Alienz” Store
From Kryptonite to dynamite, whether you are looking for extraterrestrials, jetpacks, space suits, space crystals, alien grimaces, handguns, heavy machine guns or Star Wars figures, radioactive materials or loads of conspiracy theories… Come and enjoy your visit @Gunz N Alienz!
This is another dream come true, dating back to as far as 2016, where Gabor, ER0L and I had first met up to present a more rudimentary Route 66 layout together, and where I first had the idea to build a spacy-looking motel and alien/UFO-themed store.
The building process started with making the billboard, which I considered a make-or-break, key element to this MOC. Converging clichés was the goal here by uniting a typical UFO and alien paraphernalia store (as one may find along the Extraterrestrial Highway and places like Roswell, New Mexico) with a gun store, a freaky store owner and even freakier clients 😉. 12V lighting with the good old 12 light bricks from the 80s was used to illuminate the shop windows and entrance area, making the building look especially interesting in darker conditions.
Oval-shaped windows such as incorporated in the Mojave Inn Motel unite the two models style-wise and give both of them an allure of “Outer Space”, with allusions to extraterrestrials and their often displayed, oval eye shapes. Weird posters, “alien heads” and figures along with some rubbish out front are placed strategically to underline the weirdness of the place.
Photos of the store’s interior will follow later on, as I will set up a shorter version of the layout at home again soon.
Thanks for looking and reading all this, guys! 😊