02-08-2011, 01:48 AM
I would've used styrene (a better bond with the plastic doors and windows) and much easier to work with than wood. The finished product is a lot more stable, too, and won't fall apart after several years on the layout. However, since you're used to working with wood, you may enjoy it more, if only for the familiarity.
You mentioned in the initial post that it's meant to sit atop a mountain, which suggests to me that this "signature" structure isn't going to be a foreground model, but merely one that's highly visible. Do you plan on scaling it down (not selective compression) to suggest distance? If so, you first need to decide the scale in which you're going to work.
I won't give any suggestions on construction - I've built wooden structures in the past and found it not to my liking: too slow, too imprecise, to impermanent, etc., etc.
However, if you're building it in full-HO scale, a good material for window screens is silk screening. It's very easy to cut (knife or scissors), can be coloured with markers (paint doesn't work so well ), and you may be able to get enough scraps from a screen printing shop to do the whole structure for free. The material is very fine...
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...and would probably keep out the HO scale bugs if the screen's frame was a better fit.
Wayne
You mentioned in the initial post that it's meant to sit atop a mountain, which suggests to me that this "signature" structure isn't going to be a foreground model, but merely one that's highly visible. Do you plan on scaling it down (not selective compression) to suggest distance? If so, you first need to decide the scale in which you're going to work.
I won't give any suggestions on construction - I've built wooden structures in the past and found it not to my liking: too slow, too imprecise, to impermanent, etc., etc.
However, if you're building it in full-HO scale, a good material for window screens is silk screening. It's very easy to cut (knife or scissors), can be coloured with markers (paint doesn't work so well
), and you may be able to get enough scraps from a screen printing shop to do the whole structure for free. The material is very fine......and would probably keep out the HO scale bugs if the screen's frame was a better fit.
Wayne