02-05-2012, 08:53 PM
G’day All,
I will attempt to briefly outline the rest of this build up to the point where I decided where I would start again.
The photo below shows one of the lower wall sections cut out and the brick pattern about to be stuck onto it.
The next photo shows the two lower wall sections attached to the upper wall section. Here you can see how I staggered the upper and lower sections so that I did not have a join running the full height of the wall. As I wrote before I got the arrangement the wrong way around. If I had left the two upper sections as they were and cut one of the lower sections in half to create the `stagger’ I would have been able to run a down pipe over the join and had the joins in the lower walls covered by some loading platforms.
At this stage I skipped over assembling the internal frame until I was sure I had this wall all together as I wanted it.
Here I have cut out the door openings as per the instructions (Steps 16 & 17), and this is my first major gripe with the instructions. Unless you have a really sharp knife, trying to cut neatly through the two layers of cardboard on the upper wall is a real pain and very difficult to do neatly. On the new build I have done careful planning and measurement and cut the openings before assembling the walls.
This is the inside of the wall and you can see the ragged edges. I have also done Step 18, assembled and glued into place the door supports on each side of the door opening on the inner side of the wall.
Here you can see how I fitted a cover strip from the extra metal siding patches on the print out. The colour was not a good match, but at least the extra material is there to use for patching up gaps. I also fitted the safety striping as per the instructions (Step 19) and then realised that there would be a platform in front of this for the railcars and it was not a road vehicle entrance! Still you do get to see how they fit on.
One more post to go on this first build!
I will attempt to briefly outline the rest of this build up to the point where I decided where I would start again.
The photo below shows one of the lower wall sections cut out and the brick pattern about to be stuck onto it.
The next photo shows the two lower wall sections attached to the upper wall section. Here you can see how I staggered the upper and lower sections so that I did not have a join running the full height of the wall. As I wrote before I got the arrangement the wrong way around. If I had left the two upper sections as they were and cut one of the lower sections in half to create the `stagger’ I would have been able to run a down pipe over the join and had the joins in the lower walls covered by some loading platforms.
At this stage I skipped over assembling the internal frame until I was sure I had this wall all together as I wanted it.
Here I have cut out the door openings as per the instructions (Steps 16 & 17), and this is my first major gripe with the instructions. Unless you have a really sharp knife, trying to cut neatly through the two layers of cardboard on the upper wall is a real pain and very difficult to do neatly. On the new build I have done careful planning and measurement and cut the openings before assembling the walls.
This is the inside of the wall and you can see the ragged edges. I have also done Step 18, assembled and glued into place the door supports on each side of the door opening on the inner side of the wall.
Here you can see how I fitted a cover strip from the extra metal siding patches on the print out. The colour was not a good match, but at least the extra material is there to use for patching up gaps. I also fitted the safety striping as per the instructions (Step 19) and then realised that there would be a platform in front of this for the railcars and it was not a road vehicle entrance! Still you do get to see how they fit on.
One more post to go on this first build!
Always learning, from both wins and losses.
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