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about 48 scale feet. I had to limit mine to just 32 scale feet, but still managed to squeeze a door and a window in to the wall. However, my compressed structure meant that the smokestack that sat on its own foundation in Wayne’s model would have to be roof- mounted on mine. At this stage I wasn’t overly con- cerned with what the two side walls would contain, so I printed out my re- vised elevations, taped them to card- board, and made a simple three-dimen- sional mockup. A few nips and tucks later, and I had a building that was not only suitable for the space on my lay- out, but was, I think, a pretty decent replication of Wayne’s original model. I found, though, that the cardboard
mockup actually served a dual purpose. First, it let me visualize the building in three dimensions, but just as important, it allowed me to understand the com- plex rooflines of the building, and how the angle of each roof interacted with the one adjacent to it. I discovered, in fact, that there’s some weird geometry going on because the left side of the building is deeper than the right side, which means the pitch of the roof on the left isn’t as steep as that on the right. This means the sides of the dormer roof aren’t symmetrical. I would have never discovered that by staring at the draw- ings alone.
It’s 1980 again The “real” prototype (the Aurora foundry) and my prototype (Wayne’s model) were both built of board and batten siding–a siding material I rarely seem to use for scratchbuilding.
Due to the complicated configuration of the roof, dry-fitted cardboard sections were used as templates to cut the styrene that would be used for the sub-roof (top and above).
I scrounged through my basswood sid- ing bins and to my surprise came up with a 30″ long piece of board and bat- ten siding I didn’t even know I had. When I turned it over, I discovered it
still bore the price tag from the hobby shop where I’d purchased it. That hob- by shop has been out of business for a long time. The $1.75 I paid brought a smile. The last time I bought a piece of
Northeastern pre-assembled shingles were used on the roof. The shingle material was painted Grimy Black and then glued to the
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styrene sub-roof. The inside of the roof was painted to cover the overhang. Clothes pins were used to hold the roof as the glue dried.
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