A suggestion of what it will look like when finished, although the building will be slightly smaller, to fit on the platform, and I decided to make it shorter, about half the height of this mockup.
An HO scale switching shelf layout based on an alternate history of Hill City, Minnesota in the year 1920. In this alternate history, the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range railroad has expanded into more than an ore carrier, and is servicing Hill City as a general purpose railroad.
Friday, December 31, 2010
First scratchbuild underway
This afternoon I started working on the first structure - Johnson's Produce. The floor & loading dock is complete, built using matte board, balsa strips, and a textured stone paper. This is my first ever scratchbuilt structure. My thoughts on the process so far? It's tedious, time-consuming, aggravating, frustrating, and the most fun I've had in a while, the afternoon flew by. Now to do something about the CA glue that is all over my fingertips...
A suggestion of what it will look like when finished, although the building will be slightly smaller, to fit on the platform, and I decided to make it shorter, about half the height of this mockup.
A suggestion of what it will look like when finished, although the building will be slightly smaller, to fit on the platform, and I decided to make it shorter, about half the height of this mockup.
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Tracy, it looks like you are off to a good start. How well does the dock line up with the car doors?
ReplyDeleteThanks Karl... Right now, it's 1 scale foot too tall to line up with the car doors. I purposely built the "legs" 1 foot taller than neccessary, because I will be (hopefully today) mounting this to a permanent base, into which the legs will sink about 1 foot. I want to be able to remove the structure intact when I eventually move it to the future larger layout.
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