I built this Stadium...

[ashie62]

Literally.... as a school project with the help of my dad about 1975...

It was done without a kit.. The stands were made from heavy cardboard and the "faux" panels colored with flair markers....

The scoreboard and plastic items were taken from train kits.

This took about six months to do and I am still very proud of it and my Met loving patient dad...

[ashie62]

And from above...

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

That's spectacular!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Very well done!

[Edgy MD]

All that's missing is Grand Funk Railroad and tens of thousands of thoroughly baked 15- to 19-year-olds.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Nicely done, I liked doing stuff like that when I was
a yute too.

Where's the rotunda though?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Man alive, that's great.

Do you remember what happened to it?

[ashie62]

Thanks folks! I best as I can tell it was destroyed by northern NJ floodwaters...

[Edgy MD]

We built this model!
We built this model of Cardboard Shea!
Built this model!
We built this model of Card...board... Shea!

[Zvon]

Wow. That is freakin' awesome. And damn accurate. Excellent job!

[Centerfield]

After the flood, the only way to save Ashie's model was to paint it blue and attach neon figures.

[ashie62]

lmao...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That is nice.

A construction strike has stopped progress at a Lego Citifield I'd been building with the the pail.

[Guest themetfairy]

....on Rock and Roll!

Very nice work

[Farmer Ted]

Tom Carvel coulda turned that into a cake. Or Fudgie the Whale.

[seawolf17]

Nicely done!

[Zvon]

Were the ads on the scoreboard readable (can't tell in pic) ? If so, which 3 ads were below the scoreboard?

The red one I figure to be the Rheingold ad, and that's definitely the Longines clock. They sure got their moneys worth out of that clock.

[MFS62]

When I was a kid, I liked to draw baseball stadia.
What you did was really impressive.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

Don't let Jeff see that model, he'll want to stomp on it.


My only attempt at a "model" of Shea as a kid was a house of cards replica on my bedroom floor.
And even then it was only 'Shea' because I made a complete circle one "story" high, then three more high 3/4 of the way around so as to approximate the Log, Mezz, and Upper horseshoes.
Needless to say, it lacked anything resembling the details of the above and its lifespan consisted of the time I finished it until one of my overgrown feet caught an edge of it as I went by. IOW, not long at all.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Too bad your model didn't last. Nothing ever lasts.

Here are some photos of a Shea model some poster on Baseball Fever began to build about five years ago.

I don't think he ever finished it.



































Shifting field level seats for Jets stadium configuration

[ashie62]

I got mine done on budget lol...

[dgwphotography]

Ashie62 wrote: I got mine done on budget lol...

It's incredible, too