I Want to Make this Building. Where do I start?

[AF350]

I've been itching to try my hand at scratchbuilding something from wood. There's a building I see a lot that I think could make a neat little diorama:



See, awesome isn't it.

"Yes it is very cool, is it a boat house?"

Well the thing is that I don't know where to start. Yeah, I know that I need to track down windows and doors and draw up some plans. I don't plan on doing it perfectly to scale, but it measures out as pretty close to 40'x20' in Google Earth. I have pictures of all four sides and its literally a 30 minute walk away, round trip, so its not hard to reference.

"Sounds like you have already did the first step"


The current sticking point for me is how to scale clapboard siding. I checked Northeast's site and the clapboards are by dimension not scale. So...yeah, there's question #1 right there

"first do you know the approximate size of the prototype? if so you need to come up with math formula to convert from full size to scale size

Example for converting scale size to actual dimensions

For O scale 1/4 inch = 1 foot so a 6 inch wide board would be .5' x .25 =.125 inch wide

For S scale 3/16 inch = 1 foot so a 6 inch wide board would be .5' x .1875 = .094 inch wide


Or an easy way would be to log on to Model Railroad hobbyist magazine and look for the downloadable scale converter.


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