jlcjrbal wrote:I hope I can explane this... I have had this photo for along time of a town on top and a trains under it. there is a waiting area for passengers but what I like most is the open steel look.. I have tried to post the photo on line but it just does not take it I would happily email it to anyone who may have a clue of what I am talking about
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Sounds very much like what Mister Beasley has done with his subway stations. You might try entering a forum query on 'subway' to see what comes up. He had several good photos.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
This may be the kind of thing you're describing. (This shot is intentionally a bit dark. I wanted to get the newly-installed subway station lighting to show up. Click on the pictures for a bigger view.)
This is the same station from above, with the street-level scenery removed:
This shows the steel girder effect I was trying to get:
The girders are Evergreen H-girder pieces. I used a piece of u-channel for the top horizontal supports. The u-channel is cut from some scrap pieces that are throw-aways from the coffee machine packets at work. I typically cut and assemble the steelwork before painting, and then I spray them gloss black from a cheap rattle-can.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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Sorry for the long delay but this is what I am talking about... any direction??? Joseph
This is a wider shot of one of my stations:
As ndbprr pointed out, the girders and "metalwork" don't actually provide any support. In this picture, you can see the chunks of 1x2 wood which I've hidden inside the "tile" walls. The tile is a hydrocal casting, which I bent around a piece of 1x2 when the plaster had set up but didn't quite harden yet.
The roof of this station is a piece of quarter-inch masonite. It rests on the wood blocks, which carry the load down to the foam base. The plastic girders are all just for show, although they do hold up the interior lighting.