Modular NYC Subway Layout - IRT Broadway Line meets Old San Juan

Foamcore sidewalk sections primed and ready for final painting.

@West Side Joe posted:

Foamcore sidewalk sections primed and ready for final painting.

How do score them?

With the small round end of a paper clip. Just press down and run it along the surface of the foamcore. It leaves a depression in the surface but doesn't break through.

And you do have to coat the flip side of the foamcore with something to offset the warping that happens when you paint only one side. I coated the flip side with Mod Podge.

@West Side Joe posted:

With the small round end of a paper clip. Just press down and run it along the surface of the foamcore. It leaves a depression in the surface but doesn't break through.

Thank you

Tiny books for a tiny bookstore in Old San Juan.

Amazing detail, Joe!!!

Bookstore completed.

@West Side Joe posted:

Bookstore completed.

When I showed my wife all of the photos you posted of everything you’ve done her response was another person who should seek out help and then she laughed her head off. She thought it was wonderful, but she said to me what is it with you men and model building?  My last big project was the RMS Titanic so she’s always amazed by the detail and now she knows I’m not alone.

That's a very interesting observation on her part. I never thought that obsessive attention to detail could be a male characteristic, particularly as it seems to serve no real useful purpose. Perhaps it is a male desire to exert a high level of control over something, to compensate for the little control we have over the world overall!

Nice model, by the way. 🙂

@West Side Joe posted:

That's a very interesting observation on her part. I never thought that obsessive attention to detail could be a male characteristic, particularly as it seems to serve no real useful purpose. Perhaps it is a male desire to exert a high level of control over something, to compensate for the little control we have over the world overall!

Nice model, by the way. 🙂

Thank you very much and yes it is as Jackie Gleason would say “I am the King of my castle, as long as my wife is not around”.

After a hiatus of several months for grandparent duties and a trip to Japan, I'm back making some slow process on the Old San Juan street scene. Somehow it seems like each new structure I undertake is more complicated than the last. This is going to be a loose rendition of the Capilla de Cristo adjacent to the Parque de Las Palomas in Old San Juan.

Well, I tried. Those little decorations on the top were a real pain. I can always take them off and redo them later.

Toned down the colors with a medium gray wash, and changed the corner capitals. Now just waiting for an etched brass cross to go on top.

Next building finished: the Pablo Casals Museum in Old San Juan.. For those of you not familiar with him, he was a Spanish cello player who was already world famous when he left Spain after Franco came to power. He eventually came to Puerto Rico, married a Puerto Rican woman, and made the island his home. The museum contains pictures as well as videos and recordings of his performances.

One or two generic buildings left to do to fill in some gaps. Also the plaza and "Parque de Las Palomas" (Pigeon Park) next to the chapel, the cobblestone streets, and the subway station entrance kiosk.

A generic corner building to fill in a gap in the streetscape. Note the street signs. They are embedded in the sides of the buildings.

Embedding the street names really shows up in the "night" shot.

One block of fronts mostly finished except for roofs and interior side walls.

Another corner finished. One more to go.

@West Side Joe, is the subway entrance a commercially available kit or custom 3D print?

I bought it from Shapeways. It's a 3D printed S scale model. I went on the Shapeways website just now but I couldn't find the model. It seems to me the site has been redesigned. Maybe you'll have better luck.

I had seen a kit that looked similar on eBay but something about the look of that entrance, color maybe made me think 3D print.  I thought Shapeways was gone, bankrupt or just closed up shop, I don't remember which.  There was a thread about on the forum.

Last corner finished. Now to work on the central plaza.

Nice work.  Shapeways is gone, bankrupt.. a few months back...

That's a shame. I got my subway signals for all 3 of my subway modules from them, too.