I want to kitbash some styrene plastic parts to look like the building in the photo, but I have no idea where to even begin. Any suggestions?
Rich
Alton Junction
I thought that I had outlined the construction of Bertram's somewhere, but I don't mind running through it again. The main building is Walthers Vulcan Manufacturing, built with both long sides facing the viewer, and the unseen rear side and the roof made from .060" sheet styrene. I used the same material to add a foundation under the whole structure, and also a loading dock in the area of your partial photo.The majority of the walls in your photo are Model Die Casting parts - no longer available, although you may find them on e-bay. An alternative would be Walthers brick sheets, which might match the brick style of the main building better than the MDC stuff. The roofs over this part and over the loading dock is leftover roof from a Vollmer Roundhouse, but .060" sheet styrene should work just as well. The stack is from the Vulcan kit, and sits on a platform within the structure - I wanted it taller in consideration of the passenger station across the tracks behind it.The rest of it, unseen in your photo, is the LifeLike Bottling Plant. I rearranged the walls a bit into an "L" shape, and had to make a new rear wall from more .060" styrene. There's also a flat-roofed one storey addition within the "L" - not sure if it's leftovers from the bottling plant or more MDC brick.
That's about it - not an especially difficult build, and most of the needed stuff (or substitutes for it) is readily available.
Wayne
LOL
Well I was kidding around, Wayne, but I will save the instructions.