Freelance 2012

[sailormatlac]

I played around with a layout theme "West of Houston at about 1980" to run my Santa Fe CF7 and GP7u. The stack of containers in one background spot would not be wrong but not the best choice for 1980. A toyed around with a simple structure made of corrugated steel.



The corrugated steel needs some explanation. Kurt did a superb structure some month ago using corrugated steel. He pointed me to Campbell #805. I was shocked about he price/size ratio of the sold product. It would be very expensive to build an entire structure from Campbell #805.
A German shop sells corrugated aluminum about 8" * 11.5" for €5.21. My little test structure consumed about a half plate worth a bit more then €2.
The shop is http://architekturbedarf.de Architekturbedarf. Alluminium Wellblech 1mm Part# 8450, 388020. They claim to ship everywhere but I did not see a English version of the web page.
May be this page with all kind of corrugated metal http://www.architekturbedarf.de/Shop/Mod...etall.html makes it easier to use that source.

I like your new structure. Simple, but a classic in itself. Steeped roof sheds are under modelled IMHO even if they are an important feature of any cityscape.

Nice product! I'm actually planning to rebuild the club layout grain elevator and most of the structure is made of corrugated steel. At this point, buying it with commercial parts is a ruinous adventure (it's 9' long and 18 inches high). I've tried corrugated paper sheet CA on styrene backing for a few projects. When small, it works OK, but going larger is a challenge in itself. I should have tried spray glue instead!

Matt