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This is my latest start in scratch building, I have an area approximately 4 x9 inches to work in, and wanted to create an interesting older well kept building in a near the tracks area.
It is a commercial building with offices up top and entertainment industry in the first floor, and a one story side annex will house another small office.
For the main structure, I want an older post-Victorian style building. Two stories with a third floor formed out of dormers and supporting center tower for a widows walk.
A front porch and side wrap around to back stair walkway to the second story business.
The roof will be gable with shingles, with a widows walk centered over a small full third story.
The smaller side annex will be a single story, with metal roofing sloping over most of the annex building, with cedar shingle roof front pitched about 75-80 degrees.
Here is how I am approaching this build.
I bought a selection of doors and windows for this build comparing them at my LHS trying to find ones that could work together in the style of building I want. The main structure is clapboard siding with the annex board and batten.
I visualize it, then try to make what I see come out with the doors and windows I have selected.
In my mind I can see a finished model, but am making small changes as I go along, like the 45 degree corners on the first floor were not originally there, but seemed to needed when when I laid out the front windows.
NO I do not suggest people try this, but I thought it would be an interesting way to create a model;
I figure out how large a wall should be, and cut a blank;
I then start to place the windows and doors on the wall seeing how it all looks;
This is the backside of the building, with out the second story door as of yet.
Here is the front wall with doors and windows already cut in and painted.
The front door is recessed, and the side cutouts are for 45 degree walls to meet the side walls.
Here is the front and a side wall as they presently stand. The annex will be at the other end of the building.
The pencil square is the probable location of a loading dock and door.
The roof will over hang the walls by about a scale foot, with a center one story tower supporting the widows walk.
The roof will be about 45 degrees with a 30 degree taper near the bottom to meet the overhang.
That's it for now.
It is a commercial building with offices up top and entertainment industry in the first floor, and a one story side annex will house another small office.
For the main structure, I want an older post-Victorian style building. Two stories with a third floor formed out of dormers and supporting center tower for a widows walk.
A front porch and side wrap around to back stair walkway to the second story business.
The roof will be gable with shingles, with a widows walk centered over a small full third story.
The smaller side annex will be a single story, with metal roofing sloping over most of the annex building, with cedar shingle roof front pitched about 75-80 degrees.
Here is how I am approaching this build.
I bought a selection of doors and windows for this build comparing them at my LHS trying to find ones that could work together in the style of building I want. The main structure is clapboard siding with the annex board and batten.
I visualize it, then try to make what I see come out with the doors and windows I have selected.
In my mind I can see a finished model, but am making small changes as I go along, like the 45 degree corners on the first floor were not originally there, but seemed to needed when when I laid out the front windows.
NO I do not suggest people try this, but I thought it would be an interesting way to create a model;
I figure out how large a wall should be, and cut a blank;
I then start to place the windows and doors on the wall seeing how it all looks;
This is the backside of the building, with out the second story door as of yet.
Here is the front wall with doors and windows already cut in and painted.
The front door is recessed, and the side cutouts are for 45 degree walls to meet the side walls.
Here is the front and a side wall as they presently stand. The annex will be at the other end of the building.
The pencil square is the probable location of a loading dock and door.
The roof will over hang the walls by about a scale foot, with a center one story tower supporting the widows walk.
The roof will be about 45 degrees with a 30 degree taper near the bottom to meet the overhang.
That's it for now.
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