Plymouth Street - Printable Version

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Re: Plymouth Street - P5se Camelback - 08-29-2010

Isn't architecture fun?!! Representing it to scale in miniature always presents such interesting and challenging problems to be solved!
Ya gotta love it!


Re: Plymouth Street - cnw1961 - 08-30-2010

Gary, I’d be honored if you’d find anything useful here.

P5se Camelback Wrote:
Isn't architecture fun?!! Representing it to scale in miniature always presents such interesting and challenging problems to be solved!
Ya gotta love it!


I wholeheartedly agree! It is fun to figure out how to build such a structure and it is absolutely amazing what you can do with a few strips of styrene.

Here is the next progress shot. I added a few more details, assembled the fire escapes (Tichy #8060) and test fitted the escapes and the windows (Tichy #8097). As you can see, I am using framed windows, not masonry windows as would have been prototypical. If I had taken masonry windows, it would have been necessary to use thicker styrene to make the windows look right when inserted into the walls and the openings had to be cut absolutely precisely. Cutting these small openings in .040" styrene is easy, doing so in .080" styrene is almost torture. I won’t cut about 40 small openings in .080 styrene, no way Nope . Well, I guess these are the compromises you have to make if you don’t have a lasercutter and have to cut everything by hand.

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Re: Plymouth Street - Gary S - 08-30-2010

Geez, you do some great work Kurt, a great start on the new scenes. The frame windows look just fine. Cutting the thicker plastic would be a tough one. What about some sort of jig for a Dremel tool to cut holes in the thicker stuff, kind of like a router?

Re: Plymouth Street - faraway - 08-30-2010

cnw1961 Wrote:... Cutting these small openings in .040" styrene is easy, doing so in .080" styrene is almost torture. I won’t cut about 40 small openings in .080 styrene, no way...]
Kurt, did I get/calculate that right (2,54 mm * 0,04)? You are using 0,1mm styrene. That is very thin.

Update: No, I did not calculate it right.... it is 1mm thick

Re: Plymouth Street - Gary S - 08-30-2010

Let's see:

1 inch = 25.4 mm
.04 inch = 1.016 mm

Re: Plymouth Street - faraway - 08-30-2010

Gary S Wrote:Let's see:

1 inch = 25.4 mm
.04 inch = 1.016 mm

Sorry,my mistake. I should be 2,54 cm and that comes out with about 1 mm and that is sound... getting old Curse

Re: Plymouth Street - Gary S - 08-30-2010

faraway Wrote:Sorry,my mistake. I should be 2,54 cm and that comes out with about 1 mm and that is sound... getting old Curse

I just turned 50, and yes, I am feeling the "old age" creeping on. Occasional lapses of memory, an extra pound or ten here and there, aching knees and elbows.... good thing that old age creeps on slowly, as it would be pretty tough to take if it happened all at once with no time to get used to it!

Re: Plymouth Street - P5se Camelback - 08-30-2010

You young children make me laugh!

I'll celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of my first legal beer next month! Cheers


Re: Plymouth Street - mountaingoatgreg - 08-30-2010

Old age and bad math aside...

These are some great looking buildings. I am really looking forward to your completion of this building and start seeing them vertical on the new layout!!

Re: Plymouth Street - P5se Camelback - 08-30-2010

I'm really liking the brick inserts on the ground floor ... it's looking very interesting, very old downtown industrial New York!

Re: Plymouth Street - shortliner - 08-31-2010

Kurt - don't know if you have seen these - O scale, but inspirational stuff for urban modellers

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Best
Jack

Re: Plymouth Street - faraway - 08-31-2010

shortliner Wrote:Kurt - don't know if you have seen these - O scale, but inspirational stuff for urban modellers
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Best Jack
The jpg files of the buildings on the webpage make great backgroud buildings in any scale.

Re: Plymouth Street - cnw1961 - 09-01-2010

Gary S Wrote:Cutting the thicker plastic would be a tough one. What about some sort of jig for a Dremel tool to cut holes in the thicker stuff, kind of like a router?
Gary, I thought about using my Dremel and jigs, but could not come up with a solution that would allow me to cut the openings as precisely as necessary. If anyone has got an idea, I’d be glad to hear it.

mountaingoatgreg Wrote:I am really looking forward to your completion of this building and start seeing them vertical on the new layout!!
Me too, but at least I can give you a glimpse after assembling the walls. Seeing it on the layout will have to wait a little ...

P5se Camelback Wrote:I'm really liking the brick inserts on the ground floor ... it's looking very interesting, very old downtown industrial New York!
biL, the whole front wall is red brick, but I did not have enough of the brick sheet left to do the entire wall.

shortliner Wrote:Kurt - don't know if you have seen these - O scale, but inspirational stuff for urban modellers

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Jack, thank you for the link. It was new to me.

Re: Plymouth Street - cnw1961 - 09-01-2010

I was lucky to have a lot of time for working on my structure today. There are only some details on the roof left to be done, then I can start painting it.

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Re: Plymouth Street - Puddlejumper - 09-01-2010

That looks awesome!