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When I finish the current Bobber Caboose I will start posting here. For those interested, vol. 1 starts here: http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102&whichpage=1 Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2013 :  3:02:30 PM   As discussed at the end of vol.1, I think I will make a 1/24 scale house, two houses in fact. I have sort of narrowed it down to two I'd like to do and as always, I will change things and dimentions to suit my needs. House #1 will be loosley based on a little drawing I found in an American architecture book, sort of a city house. It could even be a row house. House #2 will be loosley based on a house model made by Michael Smith who I consider an outstanding modeler. This is a small town house depicting his childhood home. Mine will have the flavor of that house but I will make many changes. I just like the style. At this point I think I will make a departure from my usual operation, they will not have interior detailing. I picture them both being far enough back that work on interiors would be a waste of time. That may change. Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 Ensign Fireman Posted - 01/29/2013 :  3:08:07 PM   Woo Hoo! it's begun! Yes just like your little friend Charlie,I will be showing up here in Vol.2, on a regular basis. Best of luck! With your new Vol.2 adventures Bob! Greg Shinnie Country: Canada | Posts: 8807 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2013 :  4:27:57 PM   Thanks Greg, I knew I could count on you to keep me company. This will give you an idea of what house #1 will be like. Not exactly. but in this flavor. Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 Ensign Fireman Posted - 01/29/2013 :  4:38:25 PM   Wow! House no.1 is a beauty! I love older homes,I even live in one that was built in 1894. This will be another great Santos build to watch! Greg Shinnie Country: Canada | Posts: 8807 Rick Administrator Premium Member Posted - 01/29/2013 :  5:28:08 PM   Bob, congratulations on completing Vol. 1 and starting Vol. 2. Even though I didn't respond very often, I did check your thread often. This newest build you're embarking on looks like it will be especially good. Would you like Vol. 1 locked? Country: USA | Posts: 23849 mark_dalrymple Fireman Posted - 01/30/2013 :  12:46:56 AM     A real doozy Bob! Gee Greg - I lived in a house built in 1894 too! I spent many, many days doing it up! Cheers, Mark. Country: New Zealand | Posts: 1220 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/30/2013 :  07:09:13 AM   Greg, Rick, and Mark, Thanks for your comments. Rick, I'm not up to speed on all the stuff that can be done on the forum. What does that mean about locking vol.1? Cheers, Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 Rick Administrator Premium Member Posted - 01/30/2013 :  07:44:49 AM   Bob, it just means that it can't be posted to any longer. It's optional and some of the members such as Troels and Verne have locked their old volumes after they've started a new one to keep new posts in a linear time continuum. Country: USA | Posts: 23849 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/30/2013 :  08:37:23 AM   Rick, Thanks for the quick reply and the info. Yes, go ahead and lock it, I'll be posting to vol.2 Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/30/2013 :  08:54:23 AM   I know there are a number of much better modelers on this forum and I ask for their patience, some have asked for a bit more detail. I think that most models can be broken down to simple shapes added together. All I have is the drawing shown before. I look at it and visualize it as four basic blocks, the main building as a block, the front tower structure, the steps, and a roof section as shown here. Get them right and add detail and the model is done. Now, if you have followed any of my builds you know that I am not trying to build an exact duplicate of the drawing, I use it as a guide and build what I like. My finished model will not be a copy but it will be close. My plan is to start by making the front wall of the building with the tower structure and steps attached. Once that's done adding the side walls and roof will be a snap. http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/30/2013 :  2:40:49 PM   Using that drawing I figured dimensions for my model. This is the hard part because you have to make a lot of decisions since I have no real measurements. I usually use a door as a guide. Today, each room is usually 8 feet tall but back then, 10 feet was common in large homes, especially the first floor. If you followed vol.1 you know that my favorite building material is sheet styrene but this could be done in card or wood. With that in mind I layed out the building front, the bay window tower front, and the two sides of the tower. These were all cut from .030 sheet styrene. Cut out shown below. The window and door openings are not the actual finished size. These will be that squared off opening around each as shown on the drawing. The actual door and windows will be made later and cemented behind these holes. Here they are cemented in place. The hard part is DONE. the rest is all frosting on the cake!! Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 rndunique New Hire Posted - 01/30/2013 :  7:23:07 PM   GO Bob, GO! If this is going into the background, have you considered using a little "forced perspective"? That is, making it a slightly smaller scale? I have a sitution on my layout that I think would lend itself to that. I already use the trick of putting 1/25 and smaller cars and people and such toward the back of the layout, and am just wondering if you are doing the same. Dave Dave Vanderwal Country: USA | Posts: 36 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/31/2013 :  07:26:58 AM   Thanks Dave. I have used some 1/25 stuff in places where I thought it looked OK but I never used it to force perspective. While I say some stuff is in the background, that is relatively speaking, no place on my layout is that far away, I don't think I could get away with trying to force perspective. Let us know how that works out for you. Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 sgtbob Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/31/2013 :  2:03:23 PM   I have started adding some of the icing on the cake. If I was trying to make a model of a particular structure I would strive to get each detail just right but I am really trying to make a structure with the "flavor" of that drawing, something that resembles it. I simply keep adding pieces of Evergreen Styrene strips until it pleases me. I use new strips for this but I also tend to try to use up some of the backlog of saved pieces in my scrap-box. I chose to start with the bay window tower, filling in the details of the base. Here's a shot of the whole front and then closer shots straight on and from an angle. Pretty simple. I think that shows my methods better than I could explain it. The trick is knowing when to STOP. Next I will move up around that first set of windows but the method will be the same. Bob http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30102 http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=51837 Country: USA | Posts: 4056 mark_dalrymple Fireman Posted - 01/31/2013 :  9:01:11 PM     Looking wonderful Bob! Homes like this often had internal stud height as much as 12'. Our plain old workers cottage (4-square villa) built in 1894, had 10 1/2' studs. It stayed remarkably cool in the middle of summer. Cheers, Mark. 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