1/18th dealership display

I based it off of AutoSport USA in Pompano Beach Florida. I went there a month ago when I was in Miami and I really liked the looks of their dealership. I drew up some 5 minute basic plans and went to the store this morning. It cost me a total of $20 in supplies because of stuff being on sale and coupons and what not. I've been working since about 1 pm and it is not 9:22 pm. Not bad for a days work but there are details still missing. I still have to add grass and gravel on the outside. Cut plexiglass to shapes of openings and line them to look as if there are more window panes. Add some kind of flooring/carpet on the inside. And lastly little details such as posters/signs, car parts, etc. Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy my mini exotic dealership.
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Sorry for the blurry pictures, very shaky hands from patiently cutting and glueing all day, better pictures will be posted tomorrow after some more details are added.

Small details to add:
-Sidewalk area is textured and look of real sidewalk, textured stone paint.
-Exterior walls are textured and look of real siding.

Cars that will be in the display after I save up some cash, so by fall/winter the car dealership will be holding:
-Inside 3 car area:
Aa Porsche Black Carrera GT (already there)
Aa Yellow Lamborghini Murcielago
HW Elite Red Ferrari Enzo

-Inside 1 car area:
Ma White Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

-Outside 2 car parking:
Ky Silver BMW M6
Something halfway decent, unsure of what yet.

-Underneath ovrehang
Nv Grey Porsche 997 Turbo D/E

 

All of the stuff was on sale but I used:
-White foam core board for the base (sidewalk area)
-Red foam core board for several walls
-Black foam core board for roof
-Textured/road look paper
-Design paper for inside showroom
-Siding textured/look paper
-Stone spray paint for sidewalk

Odds and ends I already had to help out:
-Grass/gravel for outside (Very cheap at hobby stores)
-2 silver pillars

The M6 I do not have yet but you can get them all over ebay. Kyosho makes them and they come in Dealer edition blue and red and regular release in silver and bronze.

 

The base was cut out first. I wanted the floor to be sunk in so to say. I built the walls to fit in the cut outs on the base. There are three rooms in all. The middle entrance you can't see in these pictures but I will post up more today. Also added a few little details last night so I will post up those pictures as well. All I am waiting on is plexiglass and that will come soon. Other than that it is basically done (I should never say its done because so far this is the fourth dealership display I've built in the passed year and they keep getting bigger and better quality wise. I know it doesn't sound like the quality is great if I'm just using foam core board for walls and everything but if you take your time to cut the pieces to fit and use a hot glue gun to permanently fix everything in its place, it is very sturdy and looks very clean to the eye. The cuts around the windows and door openings were alittle rough but I just used black tape and went around each opening to give it a cleaner look until I get the plexiglass cut to the templates I have for the window sizes.
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Updates:now in my basement. Still needs some things/clean up rough edges around the display. Windows will hopefully be cut and put up in the next week or so. Other than that, if you have any suggestions on what to add, feel free to reply.
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I dont have any full pictures of the dealership. I'm pretty sure I only took pictures of the inside. The outside I just based off of my memory and didn't want to copy exactly so I did it my own way but used their colors and style alittle bit so its doesn't really look like it at all but it has the some ideas from it. Google autosport usa and then go to their webpage.

 

Thanks again for the comments! I didn't actually expect the display to be this big. I've had the idea for a bigger dealership display for awhile but never got the guts to do it. The gallardo SE was just a practice one since I can get Gallardo's for $10 at my local BJ's. I will buy another one as this one is not perfect and then buy two Gallardo spyders when they are released. One to keep stock and one for the wheels. I will take the wheels from the spyder and paint them darker grey fot the SE. I also did a Murcielago with black down the middle of the roof and front vents. It looked really cool!

 

Its in pieces right now. It was also a trial and error type car because it was another $10 purchase but yea I will take a pic tomorrow. I want to do another one to go along with the Gallardo SE.

 

Lol yea, Im working on that. Art supplies are very expensive though and have been leaving my wallet empty : /
But these are on the list:
To get:
-Blue FXX
-Red FXX
-Red Enzo
-Red Superamerica
-Red F50
-Yellow F355 GTS

 

I have an Elite F40 but made it into my own version of an LM. Pics below. The F50 and Enzo I will get but Im not a fan of the 288. Im leaving all my supercars for another display. That one will have:

First shelf
-Lamborghini Diablo GTR yellow (already have)
-Porsche GT1 Roadcar white (already have)
-Ferrari F40 LM custom red (already have)

Second shelf
-Ferrari Enzo red
-Porsche Carrera GT silver (have black but want silver too)
-Lamborghini Murcielago yellow

Third shelf
-Mercedes CLK-GTR silver (already have)
-Ferrari Superamerica red
-BMW M3 GTR blue

Fourth Shelf
-Maserati MC12 (already have)
-Mercedes-Benz SLR Mclaren black
-Porsche GT3 RS red/white (already have)

F40
(oops I deleted all my pics, heres one when it was stock, Ill take some tonight of it in the race form)
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