Plymouth Street

[P5se Camelback]

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

[cnw1961]

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

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 . 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.

[Gary S]

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?

[faraway]

... 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

[Gary S]

Let's see:

1 inch = 25.4 mm
.04 inch = 1.016 mm

[faraway]

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

[Gary S]

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

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!

[P5se Camelback]

You young children make me laugh!

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

[mountaingoatgreg]

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!!

[P5se Camelback]

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

[shortliner]

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

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Best
Jack

[faraway]

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.

[cnw1961]

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

[cnw1961]

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.

[Puddlejumper]

That looks awesome!