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Back to the Acme....
Still working the cashier stands. Not trying to be too literal since it would take a really good pair of eyes to see the detail inside the building. It would be nice to find some cash registers in HO scale, but these things (more cardstock creations) will do, I think. I'm starting to think about how to support the roof (posts most likely) and add some lighting.
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Todd, those will look amazing inside that building.
Charlie
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Todd,
you keep amazing me with this build.
these will be great1
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Thanks fellas. Planted the checkout stands and made a little office for the front corner of the store. Time to work on the ceiling and post supports next. Posts are probably going to be polystyrene and I'll have to cut a bunch of them and ideally they would be cut nice and square, so I probably need to build some sort of jig.
Here's a look with the interior loosely inserted into the exterior.
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Building interior posts. Thought I had some smaller square tubular polystyrene. Alas, what I had was too beefy. What I really wanted was some round stock, but all I had was either the wrong size or was brass. Got to thinking what else I had that wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg to get... Dug into my old boxes or unwanteds and started thinking about parts sprues from plastic models... Found some from a bridge kit that was perfect (aside from the occasional jutting of a parts holder that I'll sand off after cutting to the right length).
Then to cut them, I built a jig out of a small piece of leftover drawer that already had a deep slot cut in it. Got my mitre box out with my smallest kerf mitre saw I had and cut a perpendicular groove to slide my track saw through, but that groove was too wide for the track saw. Cut a narrower slot (the one on the right in the picture below) the same way with a very thin cutoff saw and now I'm in business. Measured for the height of all of my posts and friction fit a piece of oak at the proper distance and I now have a jig for shearing off the posts repeatably and getting a square cut to boot.
