... especially if they're in your head*.
I keep thinking about the various details I should add to the ground floor. Support columns here, shelves there, a workbench in the corner, and on and on.
But I realized the project has gone on a little too long and decided to just glue up the walls and elevator-floor insert and get on with original plan: creating a removable roof and detailing the second floor.
That upside-down tobacco can is an item from my father's workshop filled with nuts and bolts just as he left it. Makes for a fine weight for holding stubborn parts while glue sets. In this case it's sitting on top of the elevator shaft to hold it square to the floor and walls.
Elastic bands hold the corners together.
The model was left this way for a day to allow the glue to fully set.
Afterwards, the concrete caps were glued to the tops of the walls, and a lot of touch-up painting was done to the foundation, wall caps, walls, and window sills.
Take it easy and stay tuned.
*with apologies to the Eagles :-)
Tu as l'air bien, mon ami.
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DeleteGood catch on the pillar bases. It's a 'viola' detail - if the violas weren't in the orchestra the string section wouldn't sound as rich and full but you likely wouldn't know why unless you had trained your ear to listen for such things. So too downspouts, electric boxes, foundations and countless other structural elements we all leave off our model buildings because they often disappear when we look at a real building. But if they weren't there, it would be off somehow or, if they are included, it may feel right in the same way without knowing why.
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting problem to decide what to include and what to leave off. I've left so much off the interior, it wouldn't be viable as an actual building. My current configuration is basically a stage set for the 'interesting' details.
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