Constructing a large rooftop billboard in HO scale
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Rooftops on a model railroad are usually a lot more visible than their real-life counterparts, since we generally view our models from above instead of below. Therefore it stands to reason that they are prime candidates for detailing. Many industrial structures have roofs loaded with equipment, ripe for modelling.
Despite my recent efforts building layouts for others, it's been over a year since I made any progress on my own layout. This week, I start a new mini series where I detail the roofs of the National Widget industrial complex. First up, is a large rooftop billboard to replace the basic foam-core mock-up that has served as a placeholder for a couple of years. - Zábava
Great detail work, explanation of support beams, walk way, safety issues addressed as in real life. Must of had an engineer background with knowledge of kit model size to real life. Thanks.. A Great billboard build👍
Nice video, the NW Company must have a fat government contract to be able to afford such a billboard.. Your factory looks terrific!
Business is pretty good, although the published production figures are down this year. When I spoke to the conductor in charge of the switch job, he informed me that he has been switching out more cars this year than ever before - especially at the secure inside loading dock. The unofficial word on the street is that National Widget have cut back their normal product lines to manufacture ammunition for our tanks and warships. A NW spokesman declined to comment.
@@mpeterll Awesome! Great railroad!
Can't say I love the artwork but the structure is extremely good. Full of visual interest and has most if not all prototypical features. For your next sign, if there is one elsewhere on the layout, instead of 2" x 6"cross bracing consider 0.040" angle iron a little less than 1/2 the diagonal length joined onto gusset plates. Closer to prototypical and equally importantly even more interesting to see and fun to build
that is a darn nice looking billboard and support structure.
also, good idea with a worker and tools to fix the broken hand rail.
very glad you're back to making weekly project vids, they are my favorite.
keep up the good work, and thanks for posting.
Lots of details make for great senses....thanks for all the hints....Jack 😀
Nice work and I agree the more diverse roof details on industrail buildings the better.
Great story and theory when designing the billboard.
Thats good work. You are showing also the difficulties of building a structure like that in scale. I ll also have billboards, You can see the "la golondrina" package on my layout, which is the base material for one of them. But as I am building a toy-train, I have more freedom and will build the construction usimg matches I have a good green wash that simulates old wood and is perfect for painting the matches . Thanks for the help!
Wow! You do incredible work. Thanks for sharing.
awesome work as always ..... thanks
Never thought about cutting the buildings down
wow awesome craftsmanship you have
That is a very well built sign, thanks for sharing how you built it!
Welcome back I hope everything was okay and a amazing come back video
wow.. very nice,, it does look huge,,
the ad budget is deductible ,might as well go big ;) lol
Many of the rooftop billboards I found when researching the project were even larger. Originally I started copying a 20'x60' board but enlarged it slightly as mentioned in the video.
That's what she said.
2:12 For those that do not know (and there is no reason why you would know). That is the Widget Carousel Cool. You can not make widgets with out a carousal and you can not have a carousal with out a cooler. Well, you could have a carousal with out a cooler but your building would burn down. That's a thought, a burned out build for the lay out. Hmmmmmm :)
i do not see the widget collider or its extensive cooling and aligning amplifier ? great build and thanks for sharing
I did show it - well the top section of it anyway (2:12 - 2:27) - and I will go into more detail in part three of the series. That's the three-story machinery I talked about. The electrostatic ion accelerator and aligning amplifier occupies the third floor, with the double-oscillation particle isolater and centrifugal widget collider directly above it on the fourth floor. The part modeled on the roof is the six-station vertical exhaust purifier (even before the EPA rules made it mandatory, National Widget have always been an environmentally conscious company). The 2123 square-foot cooling pan with it's seven 8-foot diameter fans is located directly behind the exhaust purifier. Unfortunately lack of space forced me to build the structure as a narrow background flat so there is no room to model it, although one of the air-ducts can been seen just to the left of the exhaust purifier. The process would have been relatively new technology in the period of the model - first patented in 1926, but not becoming popular for a few years and then being superseded shortly after the war. As a result, research material is very limited and the only photograph I was able to find is not particularly clear.
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The Framenstat. Don't forget the Framenstat. The one with the oscillating right and left hand acme threaded proton pumps.
@@mpetersen6 Yes, thank-you for pointing that out. Once again, lack of building depth forced me to omit that part. It's a shame really because it would have given the building extra character, especially the distinctive weathering patterns typically evident on the doofour inversion station.
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To add extra dimension to the structure it most likely would have been necessary to axis hexadecimal 4 and 5D space. It does help in keeping the lot size down though