I took advantage of the warm weather this past Sunday and tried my hand at recasting some Greenmax N-Scale buildings for a project........ I still have never completed, I still have this urge to build a city scene..haha (4 those that know)
I have decided to scale it down to a 1/144 size instead of HO=1/100 scale for a few reason's, less space to be taken up/ less exact details needed (opposed to larger scale)...As I have learned from my friend Jerry over at Quinntopia by using optical illusions via paper / styrene strips for lack of better description / and last but not least...save's on materials / supplies .
The only DOWN SIDE too working with plaster in this small scale is the structural integrity is much more fragile than 1/35 th scale buildings....(as you may notice..I already have breakage), the whole purpose is to realistically damage a building or 2....BUT not SCRAP a perfectly good plastic kit if not needed.
I don't really have a time line for completion, but I wanted to share this anyways.
Many More photos @PAINTEDHOBBIES.
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I have no idea when this may get completed, I'll try an work on this as time allows (fingers crossed..haha)
I have decided to scale it down to a 1/144 size instead of HO=1/100 scale for a few reason's, less space to be taken up/ less exact details needed (opposed to larger scale)...As I have learned from my friend Jerry over at Quinntopia by using optical illusions via paper / styrene strips for lack of better description / and last but not least...save's on materials / supplies .
The only DOWN SIDE too working with plaster in this small scale is the structural integrity is much more fragile than 1/35 th scale buildings....(as you may notice..I already have breakage), the whole purpose is to realistically damage a building or 2....BUT not SCRAP a perfectly good plastic kit if not needed.
I don't really have a time line for completion, but I wanted to share this anyways.
Many More photos @PAINTEDHOBBIES.
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I have no idea when this may get completed, I'll try an work on this as time allows (fingers crossed..haha)
6 comments:
First...thanks for the nice shout out! :-)
Second...cool project! There's a 'darker' side to my little train world that I want to have a very 'post-Armageddon', toxic area on my layout someday. What your doing is really inspiring! Keep it up!
Very cool. Good luck with the plastic. I have no patience and am an unreasonable perfectionist, so I would suck at that. Carry on - it looks awesome so far!
Looking good do far. I think most modelers/gamers want to have a city table... but they are a ton of work!
Wow looks like you need alot of time,patience and skill to create something so small and detailed.
Its amazing you can do this.
Good Luck with it x
How'd you make the mold? I have this part and wanted to make some copies but the shape of it just seemed impossible to do without filling sections of it so it doesn't "leak"
Thanks a ton my friends, Hopefully I will get some free time to finish this up.
@Baronjutter.
Take a look at this article, this is what I used..and pretty much the same process.
http://www.stormthecastle.com/diorama/medieval-village/making-the-roofs-of-the-buildings.htm
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