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Rooftop details - e-paw - 07-30-2011 With the height of most of our layouts being below chest level the top of structures are very visible. I seen plenty of beautifully detailed buildings with blank roofs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Re: Rooftop details - ezdays - 07-30-2011 Yup, sometimes roofs are viewed more than street level details. In some areas, clotheslines are visible on many rooftops, pigeon coops, lounge chairs and picnic tables are good things to add. I know that some of these things are available in all scales. Re: Rooftop details - Buckler - 07-30-2011 Thanks for the brilliant pictures. There is so much detail that should be shown on our models, but is so often neglected. Dave Re: Rooftop details - Sumpter250 - 07-30-2011 If there is plumbing in the building? --- There is a vent on the roof. If there is a furnace, or gas water heater in the building? --- there is some kind of a chimney. If the building is a Bar, or Restaurant, there could also be a roof-top patio. ------ and the list goes on. Re: Rooftop details - IndyCity - 07-30-2011 Wonderfull details. That will be much fun to model it. At my search, what a "roof top ratio" is, i found this very inspiring picture: http://thefabriclab.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/roof_top_patio.jpg I need a little help with this pic: on the left side of the pic , between the car and the very left house there is an brown unit. Can someone identify what it is ? same the blue box at the same corner ? Is it a trash container ? Re: Rooftop details - e-paw - 07-30-2011 That looks like it could be a trash compactor, Indy Re: Rooftop details - Mr Fixit - 07-30-2011 Excellent thread idea e-paw. One thing that I noted in your photos that you didnt mention was that your first photos show a tar roof that has since been spray painted a white colour. Now I suspect that this is the same material we have had sprayed on many of the roof areas of the school I work at. It is a special paint which has high value insulating properties and can be sprayed on many different surfaces. Another area of roof detail that should also be attended to is Worksafe Compliant Roof Access and Fall Restraint Systems. By this I mean guardrails and roof walkways [metal grating] as well as safety harness attatchment points and cable runs. We are still in the process of having these all installed around the numerous school buildings, some of which are covered by Heritage Overlays, which can make things tricky. Also if you happen to model any multi storey office blocks then you will need to provide details of the structures used by the swing stage scaffold systems used for cleaning and maintaining the exterior of the building. If you have concrete silos for your cement plant or for your grain silos, you could also model a swing stage scaffold being used to provide access to repair crews. One more item that is now making its appearance on building roofs is 'Green Power' generating equipment in the shape of solar panels for water heating or electricity generation as well wind turbines of various shapes and configurations. I will have to consider modelling these items for the Hodgson Mill plant on the Effingham Railroad. Hodgson Mill also has a segment of their website devoted to their 'Green Power' generating systems if you would like to learn more. HodgsonMill.com Mark Re: Rooftop details - ezdays - 07-30-2011 IndyCity Wrote:Wonderfull details. That will be much fun to model it.The brown unit is most likely a paper and cardboard compactor, the blue unit with the black lid is a trash dumpster. The are probably both behind some sort of business on the first floor, with apartments above the business. Re: Rooftop details - e-paw - 07-30-2011 That's not spray paint Mr Fitix, but a fine gravel that is spread over the wet tar. The light color reflects some of the sun light to keep the building cooler in the summer time. In the last pic you can see that the middle section has not been finished yet, that roof is still in the process of being worked on, witch is the reason that I was there. In the same pic in the lower left corner there is a section of conduit that is empty and separated. It controls the security gate at the entrance of the complex and was damaged by the roofers ![]() ![]() Re: Rooftop details - Mr Fixit - 07-30-2011 Ah I see, well it sort of looked like the roof had been spray painted with a little overspray on the parapet sides. Then again now I think about it, why wasnt the parapet sprayed as well, D'oh. Damn clumsy roofers, well at least they made some extra work to keep you busy, e-paw. ![]() Mark Rooftop details - e-paw - 08-04-2011 Here is a shot of a roof From a former Public Service garage in Union City NJ. ![]() ![]() Re: Rooftop details - BR60103 - 08-05-2011 A question arose last year on a visit to NYC. Do any other cities have rooftop water towers? These are things that look like a N scale water tank on a O scale highrise. Re: Rooftop details - Mr Fixit - 08-05-2011 BR60103 Wrote:A question arose last year on a visit to NYC. Do any other cities have rooftop water towers? These are things that look like a N scale water tank on a O scale highrise. The main purpose of the roof top water towers you are describing is to provide a water supply and improved water pressure. In a lot of cases their use depends upon the age of the building and type of construction. The type you are referring to would have been either built or retro fitted to older solid brick or lower steel framed buildings built prior to WW11 as a rough guide. All multi-storey buildings constructed today have one or more plant rooms occupying part or full floors as well as roof top areas, depending upon total height and design. Really tall multi storey 'sky scrapers' will have several plant rooms spread out over the height of the building and occupying full or part floors. Its one way of getting rid of the 'unlucky' 13th floor. While they may contain water tanks for drinking water, service uses, air conditioner use and fire service supply, they are not as visible as the roof top water towers you are talking about. Roof top plant rooms today tend to be located in fully enclosed plant rooms or screened plant rooms open to the sky. A lot of the space in a plant room is devoted to air conditioning requirements as well as electrical, data/telecommunications, and computing/server rooms. Moving air at the 'right temperature' takes up a lot of energy as well as space vertically and horizontally within a building. The 'smarter' a building is today, the more heat that is generated by the equipment and the greater the electrical power requirements. One way to think of an occupied building is like a human body, with similar requirements for air and water to be supplied and then disposed of and power to 'do things' and to be able to communicate. I hope that this has helped with your understanding of roof top details. Mark Re: Rooftop details - Russ Bellinis - 08-13-2011 In the March-April issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist E-mag there is a 29 page article by Tom Wilson, a model railroader and building inspector in Florida, on doing roof top details as well as types of roofs. He also did a follow up on his blog at the MRH site but one of the admins inadvertently flushed it as spam and we lost all of the extra content that Tom had posted. Rooftop details - e-paw - 08-18-2011 This round of pics from The Kennedy center In Union city New Jersey, or the buildings around it. I'll start off with some of the surrounding structures. This is the roof of a building that contains a bank and a few chain restaurants. ![]() ![]() Next is the drive up teller for the same bank. ![]() On to another building that is right next door. ![]() |