If you are interested in seeing a kitbash using three City Classic Grant Street buildings, there are photos posted on my modeling blog. I'm happy to answer any questions.
Thanks
Todd
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The next time you do an iron front (or any of the City Classics buildings) Try removing the one edge at the joint. On the iron front that would actually mean carefully sanding all the inside edges so the joint between wall sections runs down the center of the columns (with the wall section on either side of the joint having half a column.
I kitbashed the warehouse into a structure about a foot wide and over 3 feet long. It took lots of trimming to get it right.
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
loathar wrote:Where did you get your air conditioners at?
I'm not sure if these are the same ones he used, but Walthers makes some that I used on my warehouse
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3733
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Very good work! What kind of printer do you have that can print gold?
With a large building like this, it is also a good idea to add some interior bracing. It will prevent damage and help the building hold its shape in the long run. Plastruct I beams make good braces. This is the bottom of a building I made with DPM modulars. You will notice that I have reinforced the roof also, to prevent warping as I handle, paint and detail the building.
I paint the interior flat black so, if I add lighting in the future, the walls will not glow. I also will add view blocks made from cut up cereal boxes (also painted flat black) so you can not see a window on the far side looking through a near side window or other opening.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
The AC units are indeed out of the Walthers kit that has a bunch of different kinds of them. I highly recommend it.
The windows already have black paper behind them. It's a view block and helps the gold lettering show up better.
The printer is an ALPS clone, a Citizen Printiva 600. Printing gold and silver was one of the options for it and the gold looks just like the window lettering you see on office windows.
Nice job. I would, however, offer a few points of possible improvement. I echo dehusman's comment about how to properly join the three separate fronts into a single unit. As it stands now, the appearance is really that of three abutting structures, rather than a single unit...it's more work but well worthwhile in a case such as this.
A commercial building this large might well have more than one heating plant (or one very large one). Thus, that one small chiminey would not be represetative of that on the prototype. Likewise, there is a lack of any plumbing vents on the roof, of which there would likely be many in the case of the prototype. Rather more critical, there is no evidence of roof access from the interior. A building of this size could be expected to have several roof stairwells, or at least hatches. A nice touch would also be to have just the top of a curved ladder protruding over the top of rear wall, suggesting the hidden presence of roof access from a fire escape.
CNJ831
Good suggestions CNJ. I was planning on adding some more details to the roof, now I have a better direction as to what to add.