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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
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 Posted - 04/01/2012 : 10:01:41 PM
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I've decided to build Scale Scenes low profile warehouse kit. This is a free sample from this company that mainly makes UK style structures but a number of them could be used in north american prototypes. These include a container gantry and a coastal freighter. I should also mention that these are all paper kits that you download and print out at home. The ablity to download these kit means you can print out and build as many as you like with only the cost of ink and paper.
Here is the kit that I'm going to build:
http://www.scalescenes.com/products/R002b
After downloading I found that the kits are printed in either 'N' or OO scale. Since I'm in HO scale I had to change the scale from 1/76 to 1/87. Any good Adobe Acrobat reader should be able to do this and there is also a tutorial on the scalescenes website to walk you through.
the Kit prints out in 4 pages and the instructions are also 4 pages. Two of the pages have to be laminated onto card, Heavy, medium, light. The heavy card is the equivalent to two layers of cereal box cardboard, the medium is one layer of the same and the light is 200gsm, which I managed to find at Staples.
I used Elmers spray adheisive to laminate the two sheets of cereal box cardboard to amke the heavy card, as well as glue the printed sheets to the card. These I let dry overnight
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rhpd42002
Crew Chief
USA
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Posted - 04/02/2012 : 09:54:08 AM
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Thanks for the link, Glen.
In the future, I'm going to need some flat backdrop items. This will be another good source to possibly draw from.
Let's see how it looks as you go.
Mike O. |
Ya Ain't Gotta Like It, Ya Just Gotta Do It! |
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shortliner
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
442 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2012 : 12:03:31 PM
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Mike - search on ebay.com for the store for < ibanezsclassic > He does printed background building-flats in various scales, but they are not all available all of the time - good quality lazer printed and die-cut on foamboard.
He just shipped me three to UK - I'm impressed! |
Edited by - shortliner on 04/02/2012 12:05:42 PM |
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railmus
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 04/02/2012 : 5:43:43 PM
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Originally posted by shortliner
Mike - search on ebay.com for the store for < ibanezsclassic > He does printed background building-flats in various scales, but they are not all available all of the time - good quality lazer printed and die-cut on foamboard.
He just shipped me three to UK - I'm impressed!
Say what?? Did the search and all I got were nice guitars! |
John Kanakos
CNJWS II, Custom Models- Design & Build
http://www.junctionwestsub.ca
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2012 : 8:40:06 PM
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I started assembly of the kit.
The first thing was to cut the front wall out and laminate the brick overlay on top of it. The front wall is made of the thick card so it takes some time to cut through it. I'm using an Olfa utility knife with the snap-off blades since card dulls knife blades quickly. I'll use my smaller exacto knife for the finer detail work.
The instructions call for a glue-stick to be used for the laminating of the paper to the cut-out card pieces and it works just fine. The Paper Brick overlay is oversize around the doors and window openings so you can wrap it around to cover the card edges.
Next are the side walls. Since this is a low-profile backdrop building the side walls are only about 1' long but they are made of 4 heavy card pieces glued together.
The two side walls are on the right with an interior dividing wall on the left. The outside walls have red-brick on the outside and white-washed brick inside, like the center wall.
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shortliner
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
442 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2012 : 06:05:47 AM
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Railmus - Sorry - you need to go to ebay.com , then [advance search] and then [Find stores] and button [store name only] - look for < ModelTrainFlats > no brackets - what I posted was his seller name - mea culpa
One of his items is here 120881351787 |
Edited by - shortliner on 04/03/2012 06:13:30 AM |
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2012 : 08:49:47 AM
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I got the walls and the beginnings of the roof glued on last night. The roof was a little bit too long so I had to trim it up just a bit to fit. The roof is the medium card thickness and has an overlay on both sides. The top side is tar paper the wraps up the inside walls a bit.
I do like how there is interior detail like the brickwork in the flat, even though it's only 1' deep. Since you won't be able to see the backside of the front wall, there is no detail there.
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Edited by - Glen Haasdyk on 04/03/2012 08:52:33 AM |
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2012 : 8:18:06 PM
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Progressing right along, I finished the roof:
It's a sort of peaked structure that is built off triangluar frames, then the main roof is added.
After the roof, then the corner wall caps, again they are paper covered card the add a 3-d effect.
There a a few choices when it comes to the large doors, you can used roll up doors, which they give you 2 styles to choose from, or you can use side rolling doors, which I dicided on. There are also two types of rolling doors, wood or steel. I figured wood would look better on my layout so I went with that.
First the door card (the roll up doors are on the same sheet)
Then the wood door covers:
Then using the glue stick and wraping the covers onto the card.
There is alot of wraping the printed parts to the card so that the edges are hidden in these kits it seems. Next I add the door tracks and the doors to the building. |
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reklein
Engine Wiper
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 09:36:34 AM
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| Nice project, You can use markers to hide the edges rather than wrap them.Wrapping may cause the parts to be too large . BILL in Idaho |
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2012 : 09:47:02 AM
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| You use a mix of wrapping the edges around the card and felt markers to hide the edges. The kits are designed for the cover wraping. |
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 10:26:08 AM
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| Very nice Glen, I like the methods that are used here, looks like a nice strong structure. |
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andykins
Fireman
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 12:36:14 PM
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| nice work, ive seen a large number of these and other scale scene on layouts in the uk. they come out great. from time to time i build the off cheap card building kit, reminds me of when i was young (ok younger) and i used to help my father build them for my layout |
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2012 : 12:59:59 PM
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Thanks everyone. I almost finished off the kit this morning.
I added the doors and window, and wall caps.
The kit also comes with a small office to install inside.
The office has an interior printed on the inside. Unfortunetly it would be almost impossible to see.
And with it placed inside the warehouse.
It also comes with a concrete floor which I'll be adding as well I'm going to add a black construction paper rear wall since I'm thinking of placing it on the edge of my layout instead of against the backdrop. |
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MarkF
Engineer
USA
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Posted - 04/06/2012 : 6:50:00 PM
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| Thanks for the interesting tutorial and pics Glen. I've seen some of these kits on Rick's (Harso's) layout and I'm really impressed with them. Needless to say, since you are working with what amounts to be photographs, you can't beat the looks of the finished walls, windows, etc. And the assembly is reminicent of the old paper models! I'm going to give this a try. |
Mark
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Glen Haasdyk
Crew Chief
Canada
801 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2012 : 11:28:57 AM
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I finished off the building.
I added a black construction paper back to it and a concrete floor.
I used a sheet of card on the back of the black paper for some strength. The Concrete floor comes in the kit and I just cut it to size and glued it straight on without a card backing.The floor was included in the kit. I wanted a smooth transition from the exterior ashphalt to the interior floor so I didn't use a crad backing on it.
Even though this is supposed to be a background building I found another use for it.
I thought is would look better if I placed it on the edge of the layout to form an alley between it and My DPM building
A few more details like the pallet of crates and it will look right at home.
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Edited by - Glen Haasdyk on 04/07/2012 11:31:43 AM |
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raystew
New Hire
USA
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Posted - 04/07/2012 : 6:29:09 PM
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very nice looking building. looks great, nice work
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Scale scenes Low relief warehouse (paper)
