Thanks to the generous support of Brother Ben and the NJHR's, Ms Eclair and I are completing the building flats for the North wall of the new layout. Like 12 feet or so to be done.
How do you add details to your building flats? Suggestions? Pictures?
thanks.
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I added lights to the big flat I bought form Patrick H. Ad some point I may change out the doors and windows and light up the factory. You can see it has a loading dock and exterior vents. The doors are probably S Scale, but no one notices except me.
Mr Muffin,
Here is a link to a youtube that has a bunch of OGR fronts. If you look at the fronts on the OGR web page, then compare to his video, you'll see how he cleverly changed the look of the fronts by adding a boarded up window, a boarded up door, bricking in a door entrance. He weathered his fronts with chalks and powders. I would watch his video, stop it at various points to get good views of the fronts, and then capture it using a screenshot, then print it out for future use.
Great building flats by everyone. Very impressive! Thanks Terry
Frank....Great pictures. What did you use to attach the piping to the exterior walls? I am working on a flat (Ted you may be interested as well 
) that is advertised with piping pictured but is not part of the kit. I love the look and wish to add it to my version. I just have no clue as to how to mount the pipes. I am not very good at cutting muliple shapes or pieces from wood, plastice, foam, or whatever.
Thanks everyone for the photos. Lot of great ideas being presented. Hope to see more....
Certainly gorgeous flats.... I was wondering about using wire for the piping.... either stripped or insulated....
Certainly gorgeous flats.... I was wondering about using wire for the piping.... either stripped or insulated....
I hadn't thought about an outside platform where workers did work that didn't have access to the tracks or trucks - good idea.... love the interior - I need to get back to work adding something like that.... Frank - is the windowed building farther down from a korber roundhouse kit?.... with the curved windows?.... I have a box of the HO cyclones you referred to already....
Strogey,
Yeah those pipes look good. I am looking at the straw sticking out of my Jamba Juice and it looks the right size - LOL!
Modeling all starts with potatoes....
Frank...what did you wrap around the pipes to simulate the strapping and mounts?
Strogey,
Yeah those pipes look good. I am looking at the straw sticking out of my Jamba Juice and it looks the right size - LOL!
Modeling all starts with potatoes....
Ted....You are amazing! Not only do you have me making card stock buildings (I keep thinking of my sisters when they were young cutting out their paper dolls 
), You post a picture from one of my alltime favorite movies from my college years! Funny thing is my wife looks at me the same way his family looked at him! Man..what a movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecJLI-GRuU
Frank...what did you wrap around the pipes to simulate the strapping and mounts?
The mounts are part of the piping kit.
Ahhhhhh! So I bet you know what my next question is going to be! 
Where did you get the piping kit?
Check out www.westportmodelworks.com for components that can be selectivly added to backdrop flats to add dimension or emphasize the functionality of a building. Also note that the addition of roof details can add variance to flat roof structures.
Photos of the models I created using my modular building drawings will illustrate how the face of a backdrop can be made more interesting.
Les Lewis
The piping kit to which Frank refers is the add-on piping kit for the Walther's HO refinery. I purchased 3 of these kits at the last train meet we went to in St. Louis last month.
I have just completed a steam cleaning rack using components from this kit. Also, just added some pipes to the refinery. This neat kit has all kinds of uses for O-scale!!
Alan
Where did you get the piping kit?
It's a walthers HO detail kit - out of production now I think. I never understood why walthers makes such great stuff and then stops making it.
Argh.....! OK, Ebay here I come. I know you can get the piping componats from Plastruc but the banding is the tough one for me. Hmmmm, maybe some thin brass stip material!
Details made from pen tops, brass tube, brass rod, brass tubing (for the brackets/pipe joints), computer generated signs, HO Scale floodlights, styrene shapes, awnings from an MTH building, craft store rhinestones, Lionel Reefer underbody tanks, etc
Dont worry, It just starts out with a little modeling on the dining room table and eventually turns into a scale model in the living room
Details made from pen tops, brass tube, brass rod, brass tubing (for the brackets/pipe joints), computer generated signs, HO Scale floodlights, styrene shapes, awnings from an MTH building, craft store rhinestones, Lionel Reefer underbody tanks, etc
That's fantastic work, John. It is so much more satisfying and fun when you use a little creativity to come up with a look that is all yours.
Certainly gorgeous flats.... I was wondering about using wire for the piping.... either stripped or insulated....
Wire would have to be a pretty heavy gauge to simulate an industrial pipe. I have been saving sprue from all kinds of kits. Some of it reminds me of refinery piping; but I always imagined that it could be cut up for sections of pipe on a building. Great pictures and ideas everyone!
Here are a few on my layout:
The Bourosvic Bagging Company (Sand Is Our Specialty) has a platform for workers accessing the pneumatic equipment, along with a roof overhang for inclement weather. Some piping is added and lights are installed under the overhang.
The Hudson Soap Company has HO Cyclones by Walthers. I have found O Cyclones are just too big. I also installed exterior piping to simulate a processing plant where whatever is piped from one end to the other. I also built big display windows and placed photos of a processing plant in the background with some tanks and piping in the foreground.
In the center display area, I used an HO Tank Car cut in half and placed vertically to simulate tanks and ran some piping on the wall. Also added a red platform to make it stand out through the window. This is a Walthers HO Unloading platform.
Likewise Alters Glassworks features overhangs, lighting, cyclones and piping.
In a cityscape, fire escapes, lighting and maybe a dominant roof top billboard
Frank,
That is an awesome scence. How deep is that from the wall under the passenger train to the paper backdrop?
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