IrishRover

I’ve scratchbuilt and kitbashed some rolling stock and a couple of locos, as well as a scratchbuilt boxing ring and punching bag, but, so far, all of the structures I’ve built have been pretty much right out of the box (or Woodland Scenics modulars—same thing, more or less.)

So, time to give scratch built structures a try, since there’s some I want to build later.  This one will be a simple structure—a basic clapboard shed—door, windows, and a larger door for moving junk through.  It could be a garden shed in a backyard, a shed in a railroad yard or industrial site, or even a place to store maintenance junk—but due to zoning laws, it has to look good.  Arkam has strict laws for the looks of structures near the better areas of town, even if the structure is railroad property.

Being in Arkham, the shed may contain things others do not want near them, no matter how they look…

I hope to get a friend that does figure painting to do up a non-statue version of the same figure…she scales out to 20 feet tall…but at 20 feet tall, perhaps something else needs to go in the shed—most sheds aren’t 20 feet tall.  She can go elsewhere.  Miskatonic students find some odd archeological exhibits—as do students at I.O.U. if anyone gets that reference…

Materials are a sheet of Evergreen .060  clapboard siding, 2 mm angle plastic for the corners, some Grandt line windows and shutters, Grandt line warehouse door, and some doors from the scrap box.   The statue is a Reaper miniature.  Incidentally, I have some sheets of shingles, but neglected to get them out for the photographs.

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Jackh

Great

Always glad ot see another scratch builder.

Jack

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IrishRover

I've done sme before--but never a building

I haven't done a building before, so thought I'd start with somethng simple.  I'll post pics as i go, but expect othing fancy.

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Mark Nieting

Great start.....keep us

Great start.....keep us posted!

 

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IrishRover

A little bit more

I made more progress on my practice shed.  (Might be called a “Chainsaw” if it was a layout; I don’t know if I’ll have a place for it, or if it will end up at the club.)

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Getting identical sides was easy, but the ends were much harder.  At the time, I just have an HO scale ruler and an Exacto square, so getting the angles exactly right was difficult.  I discovered that finding actual dividers is not easy!  I just picked up a nice compass, though.

Getting the openings perfect just didn’t happen—but they are close enough so that the grandt line windows and the door from the scrap box have sufficient lip to hide the imperfections.  A friend of mine said, “Perfect is the enemy of good enough.”

The square and a couple of short sections of .1 x .1” Evergreen styrene were sufficient to get the building glued together.  I’ll be using Evergreen strips for the trim along the top, and Evergreen angle strip for the corner trim.  That should hide the joints (on the corner) and the imperfections (along the roof peak.)  Everything came out as close to 90 degrees as I could measure.

The trim, doors, and windows will be added after painting. 

I doubt I need any sort of roof vent for a small storage shed—or do I.

Shed will be white, with green trim.

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