QUESTIONS

Posted By irondan on 09/18/2008 10:24 AM
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1: I have zero buildings on my layout because it is an elevated line 6-inches wide with no room for anything other than a facade of a building tacked to the side, but I never made anything. /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/blink.gif

2: A 3/4 circle Roundhouse, 32 to 48 stalls. I have plotted, planned, schemed and dreamed of this, but it would be 15 to 17-feet in diameter (depending on which design and number of stalls) and that is HUGE!... thus it would also be difficult for a 1.5:1 human to attend to vehicles on the radial tracks and turntable. It is still a dream, and I still have plans, and I have been collecting "Stuff" to make it from. Whether I will ever get it built is in question. /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/whistling.gif

3: Since I don't have buildings I can't have a favourite /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/crying.gif... but if I ever get the Roundhouse built, I think it would be my favourite!

I presently have removed all the tracks from my layout and am working on rebuilding the elevated structure (it didn't survive last winter too well... water got into joints and split the wood when it froze, something that did not happen in any of the previous 6 winters). I am working on a design for a 17-ft diameter "deck" (to replace the Loopback at one end) at the height of my elevated layout so I can put the Roundhouse in the middle of it... well, all over it! I want to put trap doors in the floor for me to enter from below (most of the stalls will be dummy areas with no tracks (or floor) and a lift off roof) so I can get to the radial tracks and working stalls. The turntable pit will also be openable from below for the same reason (it needs a floor of some sort to catch anything that might fall in).

Posted By irondan on 09/18/2008 10:24 AM
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Is there a building that you always wanted and for some reason you have never built it? /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/unsure.gif" border=0>

What is your favorite building in your layout and why?/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/wow.gif" border=0>




About 30. Indoors. All favourates

But on my little RR that runs outside there are only four and I'm really missing a typical sand tower that will withstand the weather. It's all those ladders and pipes that take a beating.

Dave

Posted By irondan on 09/18/2008 10:24 AM
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Is there a building that you always wanted and for some reason you have never built it? /DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/unsure.gif" border=0>
What is your favorite building in your layout and why?/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/mls/emoticons/wow.gif" border=0>


Counting shacks and towers, about 5 dozen.

No, but I still could use a sand tower.

My favorite buildings, and those of many of our guests are not buildings at all per se. Our volcanos, dinosaur excavation site, and mineral springs are among our visitors favorites and these actually have very little structure (and are cheap to do). (The "baudy house" is also very popular.)

How many buildings do you have in your layout?

i could not count, because i did not find all. (we are still suffering from post-moving sindrome...)
but about one and a half time these here plus some i am going to build will be in the upcoming layout.


from front to back:
a fifty year old toy-fort, background station buildings, a sample of my style of temporal buildings, still unpainted, a playmobil dollhouse to be kitbashed to make a city-station building.


front left a front for the background. some 25 year old cardboard houses to be cut up for background buildings. in the back some unfinished kitbashes.


toy-houses age 35 to 50, to be coloured, kitbashed, or canibalized for windows and doors.


the buildings range from 1:32 to 1:22.5
on former layouts i had satisfactory results, by cautiously putting the smallest buildings nearest the background.
anyhow, regarding rule #8 they are just fine.

Thank you all for sharing your pictures and projects. What a wide range of ideas, it is very interesting. These are the plans of one of our favorite buildings that we created for one of our customers. Can you guess what it is? "



Ok, I won't make you guess, here we have a picture of the main observatory building, which is one of our all favorites and I don't think a lot of people have anything like this; ofcourse I might be wrong.







This picture shows the main building; unfortunately we don't have a pciture of the second samller building. They were made to be set up one next to the other and would be connected by a catwalk.


After another person saw this building he asked for this variation:







Next we'll try get pictures of the buildings set up on their layouts.

Posted By irondan on 09/18/2008 10:24 AM
How many buildings do you have in your layout?

Is there a building that you always wanted and for some reason you have never built it?

What is your favorite building in your layout and why?



3 - water tower, coaling tipple, passenger depot - I believe any steam loco needs at least these, the first 2 for running, and the last for revenue

My next building will be a saw mill - haven't had the time to start it yet

My fav' would be the coaling tipple - currently its a modified plastic piko but someday I'll build a wood one from scratch. I like it the best because it's such a unique structure.

http://www.mylargescale.com/1stclass/jmetzger/IMG_4990.JPG


The question is what is you favorite building, well this round house above is one of many I have made for clients. It is made of 1/2 inch thick cast resin walls, the only wood used is under the roof to support the roofing and the support post and beams between each stall. This one is showing a metal roof over plastic as per the client request. The water towers in the background are the D&RGW 50,000 gal tank with tapered sides. At this time all my buildings are scale in 1:20.3, the sides measure 41 1/4 on the inside with the doors closed


http://www.mylargescale.com/1stclass/jmetzger/IMG_5006.JPG

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Above is my favorite building to make because is show what happened to round houses as rail roads lost revenue and were on the decline they would sell off engines and the need for round houses became less and less so they would dismantle the round house remove the turn table and adapt what was left to they're needs. This is my staggered stall engine house. It is 41 1/4 long on the long side with the doors closed and 29 1/4 with the doors closed. To see more you can visit my site at www.mcwwerks.com. I'm working on a new site look but I have more pictures of a few other buildings. Joe



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Currently I have six buildings on my layout. They are all scratch built with different materials and methods. They are each progressively more daring and detailed than the last as follows:

A western jail, a western saloon, a log cabin birdhouse conversion, a station roughly fashioned after the Durango station, my family's historic farmhouse that I grew up in and the newest addition, my castle. I am in the process of my seventh if you count an indian teepee that will be fairly simple.

I've always wanted to build the Disneyland Main Street Station and still may. Just need to figure out how long I can make it and where I'll put it.

My favorite structure has to be the house I grew up in and still is in the family.

Here is a photo of the actual house....



and this is the model on my layout....