08-02-2009, 02:18 PM
Josh, thank you for your encouragement and faith in my abilities ... hope you won’t be disappointed.
Loren, I usually start looking for the biggest aerial shot I can find on Google Maps or Bing Maps. On these aerials I measure the overall dimensions of the structure. It is not totally accurate, but it is good enough for me. In the pictures of Google street view, I look for doors, loading docks, cars that are standing close to the structure or any other objects that will help me to determine the size of the building. If e. g. I can find a door in one of the pictures and I assume that the height of the door is 7', it is easy to determine the height of the structure. Again, this method may not be absolutely accurate, but it is good enough to get good looking model structures.
Ed, I am sure my ugly shoe box cannot compete with your really nice and very well detailed station. BTW, I think it is too late to withdraw, Don would not let you ...
The lettering on two of the walls make it necessary to build this structure a bit unconventionally. Instead of waiting till the end to apply the lettering, I am doing it as the next step. The only way (I can think of) to do these signs, is to do a little photoshopping, and then print out the entire wall with the lettering and glue it to my structure. Here is my little "artwork".
![[Image: challenge8.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/challenge8.jpg)
Loren, I usually start looking for the biggest aerial shot I can find on Google Maps or Bing Maps. On these aerials I measure the overall dimensions of the structure. It is not totally accurate, but it is good enough for me. In the pictures of Google street view, I look for doors, loading docks, cars that are standing close to the structure or any other objects that will help me to determine the size of the building. If e. g. I can find a door in one of the pictures and I assume that the height of the door is 7', it is easy to determine the height of the structure. Again, this method may not be absolutely accurate, but it is good enough to get good looking model structures.
Ed, I am sure my ugly shoe box cannot compete with your really nice and very well detailed station. BTW, I think it is too late to withdraw, Don would not let you ...
The lettering on two of the walls make it necessary to build this structure a bit unconventionally. Instead of waiting till the end to apply the lettering, I am doing it as the next step. The only way (I can think of) to do these signs, is to do a little photoshopping, and then print out the entire wall with the lettering and glue it to my structure. Here is my little "artwork".
Kurt