Ameritowne Building rear walls

I have put together a bunch of Ameritowne building kits and I don't know what you mean? The kits come with 4 sides and a roof. Each side is not halved unless you are a second hand buyer of an opened kit that may have been in the process of being kit bashed. 

Are you talking about one of those arched brick kits like the police/fire stations or the theatre or antique shop that have an insert?

Jim:

Which kit? On some two story buildings OGR needs to break the three story back wall into three separate pieces because the customer would need the bottom floor and the top third floor since it had the cornice work. The middle panel would not be needed.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I have put together a bunch of Ameritowne building kits and I don't know what you mean? The kits come with 4 sides and a roof. Each side is not halved unless you are a second hand buyer of an opened kit that may have been in the process of being kit bashed. 

Are you talking about one of those arched brick kits like the police/fire stations or the theatre or antique shop that have an insert?I bought tenI 

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I have put together a bunch of Ameritowne building kits and I don't know what you mean? The kits come with 4 sides and a roof. Each side is not halved unless you are a second hand buyer of an opened kit that may have been in the process of being kit bashed. 

Are you talking about one of those arched brick kits like the police/fire stations or the theatre or antique shop that have an insert?

I purchased 10 buildings and most of them have a back wall in two separate pieces.   Becketts Clothing Store and a few others  I bought these direct from Ameritowne, I am not a secondary buyer they were sealed and shipped from Ameritowne.  I was Just curious why I have to glue the rear two pieces together when the other 3 walls are one piece.  I am talking about the rear wall with the man door, garage door and a second story window.  

CLAIRE'S FURNITURE, VINNY'S GRILL, PEDICINI'S BAKERY, BECKETT'S CLOTHING STORE, PAT & JEAN'S JEWELRY, MARVIN'S DRUG, GRANATO'S GORCERY

HOMESTEAD FURNITURE, IST NATIONAL BANK AND ACME MACHINE SHOP are the kits I purchased from AMERITOWNE, not the secondary market.

Model Structures posted:

Jim:

Which kit? On some two story buildings OGR needs to break the three story back wall into three separate pieces because the customer would need the bottom floor and the top third floor since it had the cornice work. The middle panel would not be needed.

Becketts, a 2 story building.

Model Structures.  I opened all of the kits up.  All of my 3 story buildings have 4 full 3 story walls.   All of my 2 story buildings have the rear wall in 2 pieces.  So Prrhorseshoecurve,  how about that, all of my 2 story kits have 2 pieces for the back wall.  Model Structures, was this a mistake?  Really like the buildings except for the fact that I have to glue all the rear walls together to make a 2 story wall.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I have put together a bunch of Ameritowne building kits and I don't know what you mean? The kits come with 4 sides and a roof. Each side is not halved unless you are a second hand buyer of an opened kit that may have been in the process of being kit bashed. 

Are you talking about one of those arched brick kits like the police/fire stations or the theatre or antique shop that have an insert?

PRR, did not say the sides were not all one piece, I said the rear walls were all two pieces and have to be glued together.  Talking about the 2 story buildings with the 2 piece rear walls.  The 3 other walls on all buildings are 1 piece, just the rear walls are 2 pieces.

MONON_JIM posted:

CLAIRE'S FURNITURE, VINNY'S GRILL, PEDICINI'S BAKERY, BECKETT'S CLOTHING STORE, PAT & JEAN'S JEWELRY, MARVIN'S DRUG, GRANATO'S GORCERY

HOMESTEAD FURNITURE, IST NATIONAL BANK AND ACME MACHINE SHOP are the kits I purchased from AMERITOWNE, not the secondary market.

 

 

Jim:

The top row are all 2-story kits so the back wall (#70 Rear Wall) will be in two pieces as I mentioned above.

First National bank is a three story so the #70 back wall should be one piece.

Homestead and Acme Machine are 2-story buildings have different style back walls ($40 factory back wall). These should be in one piece. These buildings sit on a 'stone wall'

When you glue the sections together it would be a good idea to first file or sand them flat (I usually give them a pass over the table saw) then glue a strip of styrene over the joint to reinforce it. I use Plastruct Plastic Weld with excellent results for all gluing of Ameritown product. If you place styrene strips on the remaining three walls you will have a good foundation for a second story floor. I typically use 1/8 hardboard for this.

Good luck

Joe

Thanks.  Just wondered.  Getting ready to glue the first one together.

Keep me posted on how you do. Any questions just holler.

Joe

Joe, I have to find a hobby shop somewhere around here to get some styrene, all the hobby shops have closed around here.  Have to find a source.

Thanks, John.  I will give them a call tomorrow.

Jim, I have great luck using wood strips for reinforcement on all my kits! I buy bundles of them from Michaels and AC Moore! I make loading docks and such for the buildings and use the scraps for bracing! They work great and are cheap!

play trains posted:

Jim, I have great luck using wood strips for reinforcement on all my kits! I buy bundles of them from Michaels and AC Moore! I make loading docks and such for the buildings and use the scraps for bracing! They work great and are cheap!

What size do you use?

Usually end up using half in by half in because they are left over from my loading dock posts, but really any scrap trimmed up will work! I just used a bunch on a Korber Skyline steel building to square the skylight section with cross sections of scrap 1/4 by3/4 wood because the sections were pretty warped, common with the older Korber kits! They don't have to be beautiful to do the job, no one sees them but you! LOL

Jim:

Either wood or styrene will work. If you use wood buy a super glue that has some kind of elastomer in it (a good one is Gorilla Glue with the light blue cap). While any super glue will work it is just good practice to use the Gorilla glue especially if you decide down the road to assembly a Korber kit.

PS - From people I know an alternative source for cheap styrene is Home Depot / Lowes. Some builders I know will buy a sign (like for sale). If you don't mind the printing on one side you get a lot of styrene for a cheap price. I have never tried this but heard it worked out ok.

Joe

Wasted the day traveling & looking for styrene strips, no luck.  Tomorrow I will cut some 1/4 X 3/4 wood strips and use them and the Gorilla Glue that Joe suggested.  Will post some pictures when I get it finished.  Thanks to everyone for the tips.