This is a great topic. With my space, I have a lot of places where this will come in handy. I am excited to see the creativity and how good they look.
Rick,
your flats are just awesome, they really give the illusion of full size scale buildings. I especially like the train shed built in the corner.
I noticed that lighting took away the flatness …
We purchased some last year at the ECLSTS, they were pretty cheap and held up well so far this season outside.
They will need some TLC over the winter but it saved me the time in building them!
Over the past few days I built my first facade and the paint is drying now. I then started on a second one and the glue is drying.
They are both rough planked typical looking RR warehouse style buildings.
This thread will come in handy. I just put an overhead line in my sitting room. (reversing line) I want to add some facades to it.
Shawn Viggiano said:
This thread will come in handy. I just put an overhead line in my sitting room. (reversing line) I want to add some facades to it.
hmm, then maybe, you are interested how to make them cheap and easy? -> http://kormsen.info/buildings/
Garden Texture, if it’s still around, sold plans for building facades. Store fronts mainly. I have a couple of sets of plans that I will eventually be using.
Still around, but it doesn’t appear that he has facades anymore. (http://www.gardentexture.com/transportation) Of course you could just buy the building plans and only do the front.
Edit:Oh, he DOES have some storefronts.
He has VERY nice kits. I bought the Camel Back bridge from him and everything was already cut to fit; great lumber as well. It’s been outside since 2003 and looks great.
Korm Kormsen said:
Shawn Viggiano said:
This thread will come in handy. I just put an overhead line in my sitting room. (reversing line) I want to add some facades to it.
hmm, then maybe, you are interested how to make them cheap and easy? -> http://kormsen.info/buildings/
Thanks Korm. I like cheap and easy (shut up Rooster)
I have been busy over the last few weeks and just put the roof covering on the water tower this morning.
Each facade is up to 3.5 inches deep. The water tower is 7x3.5x24
These things are fun to make and I plan on building several more in the near future. I think over the Winter I will add some details.
(http://www.largescalecentral.com/filesharing/file/view/60/facades-jpg)
(http://www.largescalecentral.com/filesharing/file/view/60/facades-jpg)
Where’s da pitchers, huh?..(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I put one photo up of the 4 facades in a row. I can see it? How about now?
Picture shows, and the facades look good… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
I can see those. Looks good.
for those interested in “advanced” facade-building two ideas:
(i did these things with scraps of carton packages, veneer and coffee stirrers - good enough for indoors.
and please excuse the rough execution, these i built over a decade ago)
these pics from a comic are one inch behind the frontwall:
this “room” is about one inch in depth too. it was my first lighted building. a rearlight car bulb and some alu foil did the trick:
these station buildings are 1:29 in the front, and 1:45 in the back (with a real depth of 6.5 inch):
Todd
I think you need something behind the buildings … Hard not to see the latticework!
That is a good idea to add the photos inside Korm. It looks good.
I was thinking that Sean, even a board painted sky blue would look better.
In the works is another facade that is shaping up to be the best one yet.
For my airplane hanger building facades, I just painted the back of the window glazing black. It gives the impression that the room beyond is large and unlit.
David Maynard said:
For my airplane hanger building facades, I just painted the back of the window glazing black. It gives the impression that the room beyond is large and unlit.
I have been doing something similar for years. In my photo the red barn to the left has a plexi window and the wall behind that is painted. The yellow building to the right has 3 windows that have the same treatment.
It works.
The SVGRS modular RR has an immediate need for more buildings, so I’m going to build a bunch of flats to clamp onto the rear of the modules. I can do that, but I need a little help. I’d like to build some one and two story buildings in various widths to resemble stores like banks, offices, hardware stores, etc.
Widths are a problem for me, but the heights are. Are there any “typical” heights for one story and two story buildings? Measuring commercial kits won’t help because they are not (usually) 1:32. With my scale ruler(s) I can lay out the height easily if I know what it is. TIA.
