Freelance 2012

[faraway]

Reinhard and others,

I know that you've done some long buildings, can you expand on what you've done? On my FWWR layout that i'm modeling is a industrial area with a lot of large warehouses building that are at least 36 inchs long. Having a bit of a problen finding sheet styrene long enough to make this seemless. Do you build cores of a small size and glue them together or what? Im currently getting ready to start building a few background warehouses that are 2 inchs deep and approx 40 inchs long, any recamindations?

The largest styrene sheet I can buy is 40' * 20' (1m * 0,5m). That would fit your planned building. I glue a long strip of wood 0.4' * 0.4' * 40' from the home improvement market on the backside of the long floppy styrene front. That costs a lot of gel CA glue.

This photo shows the inside of a long structure. The lower one got a wood strip to keep it's basic shape.


That is the front.


This is the longest building I did. It is composed of four parts each 30' long with a hidden wood stick. Next was to join two two part assemblies with a two roofs. The rear part of the roofs covers two more wood sticks. Ending up with two quite stable units 60' each. That two final units have been glued together for alignment reason only. I could not get a nice seamless front if I only "put" them together. I needed my wife to move the whole unit is place on the layout. Sorry, I have no photos from the rear.