trammayo
Interested in vintage commercial vehicle, trams, t
There is more than enough inspiration on this site to last several lifetimes! Having gone down the road of early American railroading I am slowly channelling my efforts in this direction as regards the built environment.
Most of my time and effort goes into my trailer set-up (West of Ireland meets the Wild West of the U.S.). Odd you might think but Rule 8 applies!
I had admired Peter Bunce?s early American buildings and he pointed me in the direction of a U.S seller so I could purchase a copy of ?Early American Wood Frame and Stone Structures? by Pat Harriman & Ron Morse. It features forty-five different structures ? complete with line drawings, plans and colour photographs. Although the models illustrated were built for HO, good old feet and inches are provided so you can scale to whatever you like!
Below: The book?s front cover.
As the U.S. narrow gauge is predominately 3ft (15mm = 1 foot) then, with selectivity that is what I scale to.
Selective compression are the two words I was looking for. In the drawings, the building is 40ft long (12 metres approx.) and 26? wide (7.8m). Height would be (from ground level) nearly 23ft.
My building scales out at 430mm ( 28? 9?) x 210mm (14?) with a height of 285mm (19?) to fit the site I have available.
Because I needed to keep the weight down (trailer?s GVW is 1 Tonne) I used foam board as I had used in my Sand Depot build. I didn?t want to soil the excellent book (or redraw the plans) so I scanned in the drawings and photo and then printed out my own A4 guide in transparent sleeves in a cheap folder.
My ?guide book?
Looking at the original model, the stone built gable walls have the mortar lines incised so I experimented by drawing on the card covered board. Careful pressure with a rounded pencil point, outlining the rough hewn masonry, gave the desired results (although I did manage to puncture through the card several times!)
More to follow .....
Most of my time and effort goes into my trailer set-up (West of Ireland meets the Wild West of the U.S.). Odd you might think but Rule 8 applies!
I had admired Peter Bunce?s early American buildings and he pointed me in the direction of a U.S seller so I could purchase a copy of ?Early American Wood Frame and Stone Structures? by Pat Harriman & Ron Morse. It features forty-five different structures ? complete with line drawings, plans and colour photographs. Although the models illustrated were built for HO, good old feet and inches are provided so you can scale to whatever you like!
Below: The book?s front cover.
As the U.S. narrow gauge is predominately 3ft (15mm = 1 foot) then, with selectivity that is what I scale to.
Selective compression are the two words I was looking for. In the drawings, the building is 40ft long (12 metres approx.) and 26? wide (7.8m). Height would be (from ground level) nearly 23ft.
My building scales out at 430mm ( 28? 9?) x 210mm (14?) with a height of 285mm (19?) to fit the site I have available.
Because I needed to keep the weight down (trailer?s GVW is 1 Tonne) I used foam board as I had used in my Sand Depot build. I didn?t want to soil the excellent book (or redraw the plans) so I scanned in the drawings and photo and then printed out my own A4 guide in transparent sleeves in a cheap folder.
My ?guide book?
Looking at the original model, the stone built gable walls have the mortar lines incised so I experimented by drawing on the card covered board. Careful pressure with a rounded pencil point, outlining the rough hewn masonry, gave the desired results (although I did manage to puncture through the card several times!)
More to follow .....
