05-04-2010, 05:07 PM
Thanks to all for the kind words.
Actually, Tom's (tomustang) thread on building his steel works mini-mill prompted me to pull all of the structures out for some photos. As you can see, none of the track in this area has been ballasted, so the buildings were still easily removeable. It's my intention to place some low-relief backdrop at the ends of the two streets which now dead-end at the wall. The track can then be ballasted, which should fix the structures in place.
The window openings and the pattern for the cut stone was layed-out using a scale ruler (the stone pattern is just barely visible in the first photo of the station, although more-so in-person). The lines between the blocks of cut stone were scribed with an X-Acto blade, then widened by making a couple of passes with the back (non-sharpened) edge of the blade. Cutting all the window openings was done with a utility knife (and plenty of fresh blades), then all of the exterior walls were lightly sanded with 150 grit sandpaper, to remove the ridges created by the blades' passage.
Wayne
Gary S Wrote:Did you remove the buildings just for this thread, or were you working on something else that required their removal?
Actually, Tom's (tomustang) thread on building his steel works mini-mill prompted me to pull all of the structures out for some photos. As you can see, none of the track in this area has been ballasted, so the buildings were still easily removeable. It's my intention to place some low-relief backdrop at the ends of the two streets which now dead-end at the wall. The track can then be ballasted, which should fix the structures in place.
faraway Wrote:How did you do the many window openings so evenly aligned on scratch build structures?
The window openings and the pattern for the cut stone was layed-out using a scale ruler (the stone pattern is just barely visible in the first photo of the station, although more-so in-person). The lines between the blocks of cut stone were scribed with an X-Acto blade, then widened by making a couple of passes with the back (non-sharpened) edge of the blade. Cutting all the window openings was done with a utility knife (and plenty of fresh blades), then all of the exterior walls were lightly sanded with 150 grit sandpaper, to remove the ridges created by the blades' passage.
Wayne