41st Street & 2nd Avenue Brooklyn NY (NYCHRR)

[modelsof1900]

I love street runing! Let see us your progress!

[jglfan]

When the loco stops next time, leave the track power on and use something like a small screwdriver to apply some presure on the solder joints in that area. Cold solder joints are often intermittant and just a bit of movement may cause enough contact to start the loco again. Once you find the bad joint you can resolder.

[Rscott417]

...Once you find the bad joint you can resolder.

I'll give that a try as well. I haven't gotten my cobble stone sheets in the mail yet so I can't start the street work yet anway so i'll get to the track wiring this weekend..hopefully.

[Rscott417]

I cleaned the tracks and re soldered a few of the feeders and everything seems to be running pretty smoothly. I got my cobble stone sheets in the mail so I worked on adding the base for the street. After it's all in im going to pour the smooth-it over the sheets and have the cobble stone breaking through the asphalt (smooth-it).

[Ralph]

The cobble stone showing through will be an eye-catching effect! Very nice!

[IndyCity]

That will become a very interessting layout.

Where do you get the street material from ?

[Rscott417]

I got the cobble stone sheets from here. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.modelbuilderssupply.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=10&products_id=1823">http://www.modelbuilderssupply.com/prod ... ts_id=1823</a><!-- m -->

[Rscott417]

Fascia installed and loft building built with base coat of paint. I've ordered the paving tape and will hopefully start on the street surface soon.

[Tyson Rayles]

Looking good!

[sailormatlac]

Let's talk about life-sized building!!! Perfect! I'd rather have a single large warehouse than a collection of small miserable shacks!

Matt

[faraway]

The size of the structure fits perfect! It makes the switcher what it is in reality. A small object on the street in front of a big city building.

[Rscott417]

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback. I tried scratch building the decorative parapet from 2 sheets of .020 styrene cut as close as i could to get them to match up with a hole cut in the front section but they came out horribly. I'm going to give it another shot and see how it turns out. These are the panels im talking about.

I typed in bush terminal in google images and found that photo. its the same perspective just years apart but the top picture is what i'm aiming for. I'm also going to try using hair spray that i read about (but cant seem to find the article) that will make the beige color look flaked and chipped and have the white base coat show through, but I hate cleaning my air brush and wanna make sure i know what i'm doing the first time so i haven't tried it out yet, but i'll post any progress i make.

[doctorwayne]

.....I tried scratch building the decorative parapet from 2 sheets of .020 styrene cut as close as i could to get them to match up with a hole cut in the front section but they came out horribly. I'm going to give it another shot and see how it turns out. These are the panels im talking about.

Design Preservation offers "Fancy Cornice" Part 30114 in their line of modular building components.
I used it on this building:


For your structure, I'd combine the DPM parts with .060" sheet styrene (for the upper portion) - the extra thickness will work well with the DPM parts and will add rigidity to that long wall.

Wayne

[sailormatlac]

THe best would be to use a thick styrene strip to make the upper part of the cornice. You glue it on the top of your wall assembly with a small over hang. Then you glue your small strips under it to for the moulding. I used this technic on two buildings with similar architectural feature than your prototype.

I'm not sure if my explanation is clear!

Matt

[Rscott417]

Design Preservation offers "Fancy Cornice" Part 30114 in their line of modular building components.

Your building is incredible I like a lot but I don't think I would need to use that cornice because the Walthers building already has that decorative part of the parapet included