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<P mce_keep="true">I have been putting off working on the facades of my DPM buildings because I thought I would mess things up with my ten thumbs approach. I also put off starting these because I thought I wanted to use thinner styrene than I had on hand. But I found a reason to use the thicker one.</P> <P mce_keep="true">These are my first attempts. I had thought I might try to put in realistic sags etc., but all the photo examples I Googled and saw downtown for real were nice and tight. </P> <P mce_keep="true">This one is just 5/8 " strip of 1mm styrene sitting on some plastic L brackets cut from old sprues. My covers are ordinary paper which, when printed looks somewhat fuzzy and faded already.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/1-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/1-1.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true"> The thick styrene allowed me to bend some florist wire underneath this flat rain cover and then hold a solder point on it until is set down into the plastic. I drilled shallow holes into the building face and touched the iron to these as well to "set" them. I worked better than I hoped. Later I painted this flat rain cover green.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/2-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/2-1.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">On the hotel I used the center hubs cut out of a matte spray paint can lid and glued them in place.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/4-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/4-1.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">Then I added some actual fabric, painted over with acrylic to reduce the out of scale weave, and a paper circle with the hotel name on each.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/6-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/6-1.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">On this one I just drilled holes for the florists wire supports and touched them with the soldering iron to set them firmly. </P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/7-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/7-1.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">Then I set the strip of thick styrene on top, glued the top edge with Proweld, and then trimmed the supports slightly shorter then the edge of the styrene and touched them with the heated tip until the strip settled down firmly onto the supports.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/8.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/8.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">Lastly I glued on another paper printed awning cover. You can see I am merely trimming the edge with pinking shears. I tried hand cutting scalloped edges and they were a mess.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/9.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/9.jpg"></P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true">So those are my quick and dirty methods. Although I cannot see any sagging ones in my real town, I suppose I could just hold the styrene over the hot iron for a bit to put in a curve before gluing my paper down. I got awning fabric patterns on the internet and then altered them with Photoshop which is handy to print them out exactly the size I want.</P>
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