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The Tidewater Division of the NMRA is building a diorama that will be located in the restored C&O station in Lee Hall, Virginia. Last year I built a building, Clement's General Merchandise, for the diorama and posted the build here: Clements General Merchandise - Railroad Line Forums (railroad-line.com)
There still are a couple structures that need to be built before the diorama is complete. One of them is the house that Clement family lived in. I agreed to build it. It's still standing, and I was given photos of all four sides to work with. You might notice that a couple pictures have lost the correct ratio are too narrow.
I looked at a Google satellite photo, and the building is square. I was also able to come up with a guess to it's size based on the known gauge of the nearby railroad tracks. The main thing I want is to have a building where the windows and doors are in their correct location and the ratios looked good.
The diorama is set in the 1930's, so I deleted a what looks like an addition on the west side and made the porch on the east side smaller.
Here's a screen shot of some of the planning I did.
I developed a set of drawings and made a mock up to show to the chairman of the diorama committee. I wanted to make sure it fit the space he had allotted.
The mock up also showed me where I had made some small drawing errors.
George
There still are a couple structures that need to be built before the diorama is complete. One of them is the house that Clement family lived in. I agreed to build it. It's still standing, and I was given photos of all four sides to work with. You might notice that a couple pictures have lost the correct ratio are too narrow.
I looked at a Google satellite photo, and the building is square. I was also able to come up with a guess to it's size based on the known gauge of the nearby railroad tracks. The main thing I want is to have a building where the windows and doors are in their correct location and the ratios looked good.
The diorama is set in the 1930's, so I deleted a what looks like an addition on the west side and made the porch on the east side smaller.
Here's a screen shot of some of the planning I did.
I developed a set of drawings and made a mock up to show to the chairman of the diorama committee. I wanted to make sure it fit the space he had allotted.
The mock up also showed me where I had made some small drawing errors.
George
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