Hudson Cement becomes Empire Grain

[Ralph]

The windows on the long conveyors on top of the silos are an example of the sort of project that I find daunting. Neatly cutting out these squares with a blade and straight edge is challenging for me. Before I started I tried to imagine other ways of creating square holes. I occurred to me that scrap booking supply stores might have paper punches that would work. After a little investigating I discovered this nifty paper punch that makes 3/4 inch square holes!



After wrapping my silos in drywall tape I'm planning on using long strips of it to create the conveyors. Drywall tape has a ready-made crease down is length. My two inch wide tape wraps neatly around some one inch square wood stock I found at my local hardware store. I'm going to paint the wood stock a gray color that will show through the window holes, suggesting interior darkness and shadows. I have some left over window grids printed on transparencies that I'll fit into the window holes as well.

Here is an example of the wood stock with punched drywall paper simply fitted on but not glued to test it's appearance.


That's the basic approach, but of course there are lots of details and other things to do. You probably noticed that I used plastic grids to represent windows on the structure in the last picture which was part of the original Hudson Cement complex I made years ago. I plan to remove those and cover the surface of buildings like this with card stock that will have paper punch windows cut out to make them look better.

Thanks for looking! I'll have more updates as things progress.
Ralph