Maybe it’s my map reading skills …
Can someone approximate the dimensions of this buildling for me?
If you could get your hands on a higher resolution copy of that 1905 Sanborn map it looks like there are dimensions on the footprint, but even zoomed in there isn’t enough detail to read them. Next best would be to try and extrapolate size from the photo based on a guess of window or door sizes.
Interpolating from a different Sanborn map where the scale is shown and using the wagon road as the constant (15ft), the front of the building (along that spur) scales to 53ft. Total depth 62ft.
I suggest doing a simple mock-up.
Thanks guys!
Matthew (OV) said:
Thanks guys!
If I would have paid attention!?! On that other map there’s also a 25 stamp mill - in addition to the 45 stamp - and that according to the scale is 62.5ft wide, 42ft deep.
(http://www.gilpintram.com/images/Iron%20City%20SMap%201900_small.gif)
The larger point is that a building of 60x100 feet footprint is a reasonable facsimilie of a smallish mill …
I keep finding that as large as my railroad is, that the largest spaces are really not that big… and some of my grand designs need to be made slightly less grand in order to be workable.
Matthew (OV)
Selective Compression.
Curmudgeon mcneely said:
Selective Compression.
Or only build a full size facade.
Craig Townsend said:
Curmudgeon mcneely said:
Selective Compression.
Or only build a full size facade.
That’s what I’ll be doing at Preda. On the West side of the tracks there’s a row of structures that were built when they electrified that section of the railway (1918). I very carefully lined up the lines (perpendicular to the building axis) when we were there last. Then it’s just a matter of fiddle and diddle to take portions and create a shallow relief of the whole group.
Ok. Did a mockup (see also: wooden rectangle) of the footprint of a building 60 x 90 feet today.
It’s too big. WAY too big.
So, now we try again. Probably 40 x 80 will be more reasonable.
I need a bigger basement…
Matthew (OV)
Forty for the depth should be enough - without a crusher! The Iron City Mill had a separate building for the crusher the Penn Mill right beside it probably had it integrated in the same building. The ratio of that building with a 45 stamp op has a ratio of 1:1.7; going with 40x80 will most likely look too long.
A little trick for height from Disney. Make the first floor full height and reduce the upper floors (built for looks) to around 80%.
Richard Smith said:
A little trick for height from Disney. Make the first floor full height and reduce the upper floors (built for looks) to around 80%.
I knew it! The seven dwarves house just looked … well, as Donald Duck would have said, “Out of Scale!”