Dominion Building Update

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 If you glance briefly at the pictures it may look like I haven't done much work.  But if you look close much has been done.  First I have the beginnings of the back under way, but as of yet nothing worth showing.  I also have added a strip of detail along the edge above the arched windows, it added some desperately needed detail to the top.   

The most work I have done is on window frames and the detailing between floors on the facade.  As of yet I have added 6 pieces of .020 x .040" and .020 x .030" strip styrene to the 65 windows on the 4th - 8th floors.  That is 390 parts so far, I will have doubled that when the windows are done on those five floors.  It is a mind numbing experience and I sort of go into a Zen state and the time fly's by.

The other long task is the detail that I am adding between the floors.  It is done between floors 7 and 8 and 75% done on the next floor down.  Each row will be a different from the others.  The finished rows are made from .020 x .020", .010 x .020" and .010 x .080" strip.  I will finish the rows before I finish of the windows so I don't risk breaking out anything, like I have done on the other floors.

Initially this building was to be placed at the back of my future city, and because of this I had skimped on the detail of the windows and the back.  Now it will still be at the back but I have become more picky and am striving for a more detailed structure.  Because of this I have cut out some of the windows that I had finished and will do them "correctly" because before they looked like I was cutting corners and not putting forth my full effort.

I still have quite a bit of work left and if anybody has questions or suggestions please leave a comment so I don't feel like I am talking to a wall.

Thanks,

Chris

close up of detail 

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Dominion Building

I started back up on the Dominion Building, and I am having a lot of fun.  I am glad I took a few months off from it cause I learned much from the other little buildings that I built.  I am hopping that the excitement continues till I finish it, but it is going to be hard when I start to build the 60-70 windows from scratch,  I need to learn how to cast parts. 

 If you look at earlier pictures of the building I was experimenting with a paper brick pattern on the 4th thru 8th floors and thats about when I stopped.  I have ripped off all of the paper due to the fact it looked like poo and wasn't giving me the results I desired.  I have now laminated on textured brick plastic and added a little detail with strips of three rows of brick to add further dimension.  The color has been difficult to decide on, (the first coat came out a nasty Dijon mustard color).  I think I like the color of the brick now, its a bit of a kaki color.  Now that the brick is done I am starting to finish off the back.  Initially I was going to leave it unfinished because it will never be seen, but now that I will most likely be entering it in a show in March I needs to be finished.  

I am sorry for the bad pictures I was using them to see if the colors work in natural light.

Small but very good N-Scale layout

This is a small N-scale layout built on a 36"x80" door. For its small size it is done well and feels like a much larger setup.

Section Houses

These little guys are section houses for the track gang to reside in.  This is about as far as I take these until they have a final resting place.  I knocked these out in about 8 hours, not used to structures going so fast.

The finished Co-op

Well I blitzed the Co-op so it will be ready to be judged at the NMRA show tomorrow.  I am a little scared to have them officially judged, if they do poor I will try not to take it personally and use it to better my self as a modeler.  Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think.

Farmer's Supply #2

These are a few pictures of the finished M.S Butler Farmer's Supply.  This building along with the Newton County Co-op and Junction City Station will be entered in the NMRA show on November 1st and 2nd.

Please enjoy.

Farmer's Supply

New little building that I am working on for the "A" module.  We are going to start bench work in the very near future so these will all have homes soon.