OGR AMERI-TOWNE KIT BASHED STRUCTURES ADDED BETTER PHOTOS

It looks great, wow what a job.

dave

Great job.  This looks really neat, especially with the random lighting. A great job on the brick work too.

Great job Alex.

Dave,

My horrible photography isn't showing how good this really looks, I'm going to try and post better photos after dinner. When I look at it on my workbench it looks so much more realistic than it does in these photos

Alex

Alex; Great looking project.

Looks great!!

Good looking!  I'm quite interested and studied your photos - thank you for so many.  While I've made a couple of bashed buildings with Ameritown, including a six story two-wide, I've got a bigger project coming up: fifteen feet of building fronts from two to six to stories high soon, that can be no deeper than 1/2 inch.    I'm particularly interesting in how you did the lighting - in my buildings I used one big LED light to do the whole building -- good but it requires depth to work -- but how you've done yours  looks like it would be very shallow and fit within my constraint.

I concur; it is "fabulous."

Alex NICE JOB! Like it looks great.

Hi Lee,

That's all i did was glue single incandescent 16 volt lights right to the back inner face of the building. Then I pull the blub slightly off the face so it doesn't burn through. This is done with

less than a 1/4 inch of space, and it looks like there's lights on in certain rooms, not just one bright light.

Alex

Beautiful work, Alex. Now, how about some of those cookies. I have been thinking about them all day. Totally your fault. 

Alex,

  They look fantastic  

Bill

Great job, Alex!  I like your lighting approach too.

Art

Thanks Alex for all the pictures. It looks even better then I thought.

Looks very nice! I like the Ameri-Towne building too, they are nice, but yours really look nice. I also have a few of their smaller buildings, but unfortunately mine don't look quite like yours.

Kind of along the question Lee had, what did you put behind the windows to fasten the lights to? I guess you didn't use the kits windows or included window dressings?

Great Job Alex.

Curious though -  Why not have the front line up?  Is this a background building?  What kind of street or pedestrian area will be in the front?

-Ted

I glued the lights with a small dab of hot glue, on the wire not the blub

Thanks,

Alex

Alex - great concept!  This offset design would look great in a old town plaza square scheme. Something different for a change...and beautiful work by the way.  Thanks for the idea.

Mike

Alex,

I know the work that went into that.

Painting those structures so beautifully is hard, hard, hard.

Kudos to a master.

I hope you can help me build my next layout.

eliot

Alex,

Great job.  Thanks for the helpful and instructive, start to finish photos.

George

Hi Alex,  They look fantastic!  You have amazing skills.  All the best, Dave

Well done!

Peter

Way to go Alex!  As usual, "You de Master" at this!!!!!

Some day we'll have to sit down for a while (half a lifetime probably) and you can teach me some of your secrets.

Best,

Dave

Alex

Super job

Steve

Alex,

You did a great job on these buildings. They finished product looks fantastic.

Alan Graziano

I started this four story hotel today with Ameritown panels.  I plane to light it as Alex did his, following his description above. It is a really good idea of how to get a nice look to the lighting. 

This takes time, talent and skill and it shows, Alex has it all.  job done well.

Brent

That looks GREAT, Alex - excellent work!

I wish I had thought of doing mine along those lines, as you did. Instead, I just assembled several of the Ameritowne building kits and cut them in half; well, closer to 1/3's and 2/3's. I used LED reel lights, cut into 3- and 6-LED segments, for the interior lighting. They look OK, but not as good as yours:

One thing for sure, the Amritowne kits are great for kitbashing.

Thank you for sharing your nice work!

Alex

What would also look good is if you did one that looked like this, maybe with a small fountain or garden in the inset.

Alex (and Lee, and others),

I LOVE your work!  They look great!  Send me finished pictures of the building(s), and I'll see if we can't get your beautiful results in the magazine.  All are great kit bashing ideas. 

Ingeniero #1, cutting the sides into either a 2/3rds or 1/3rd depth is a great idea for getting just a little depth in the layout without using the full depth of the kits. 

Lee - I love the shape of your new building!  That will definitely add a lot of interest to it and make it stand out.  I also like the way that you are mounting it on a custom sidewalk shape.

Art

Alex, as George Steinbrenner said on Seinfeld...

"I'm blooooowwwwwnnnn away"

Nicely done.

Paul