triangular buildiings

Under the recent "Plasticville" post, I just posted a picture of a a triangular kitbashed

PV station (the captions did not come through), for inside of a wye.  Building one from scratch, depending on the type doesn't seem that hard...one less wall to build.  Lay

out the floor (ground space you want to cover, make a pattern of that, and use it for

the roof, and to measure the walls around edges).

 

 

 

Thanks I was looking more for something like the building at Smithfield and Liberty streets in Pittsburgh or the Flatiron building in NYC. I wanted to see how the front door area was handled.

 

 

 

 

 

Since my triangular station has a peaked roof that divides, it was much trickier to

build than what you describe, with flat roof, that might be built with three sides from a Korber kit.  The Flatiron Bldg. is multistory, so....might take several Korber kits.  You

need to file the corners of the walls at an angle, so they will fit together, glue that

and assemble the rest as the kit.  Use modeler's putty (or builder's materal posters

have recommended to fill the cracks at the corners). To get a building with a larger footprint, you would abut some walls, and angle the wall end corners less, depending

on the shape of your triangle.  I used multiple Korber kits to build a large beet sugar plant, but it was a rectangular brick building with assorted roof structures.

nice stuff..amazing amount of info on this forum..I'm going to try removing the door area and bending an ameritown front around a piece of pipe to get a rounded front 

Joe,

 

I built a triangular building for a spot along the edge of my layout. Part is built from 1/8" MDF the other half is hydrocal wall sections from CC crow. I modeled it after a building a couple miles from my home. Funny story, I had a friend over to visit my layout while he was working in the area. On his way over with a co-worker they passed by the building. When they arrived he told me he saw an interesting building that would be a great structure for my layout. I just smiled and proceeded to show him my rendition of it.

Here is the prototype

Here is a link to more photos of the construction on my website

http://home.roadrunner.com/~studiozphoto/wedge.html

thanks Al

 

except for the fact that I would like the door on the front that would be exactly what I'm looking for complete with instructions.

 

thank you

Joe 

 

 

I recently had to create a building for my trolley layout on a triangular lot, I posted a narrative with photos on my website along with several other project scripts for those interested in how I do what I do.

 

For those interested please check out my web site on OGR source page under Westport Model Works.

 

Les Lewis

 

 

Al I have always loved that building.  You did a super job on it.

 

Art

That is a great model.  Looking at the prototype photo, with what looks like a vacant

lot around it, I wonder why they built it in that shape?

       
       

Thank you guys, it was a lot of fun building this. There used to be a rail spur that went through that vacant lot area. This area of the city of North Tonawanda was a huge lumber mill area. The city nickname was Lumber City.The Railroad tracks crisscrossed all though the streets around here.

CSX Al.......that scratch-built factory building of yours has always been one of my favorites!

 

Peter

I have built three for my layout that I made at different times, all our of AmeriTown panels, but all are removed now and I could not find/probably threw them away.  All were basically square buildings cut through at an angle to fit them to a site: in two cases I actually built them like that, making the square building first, then cutting it at an angle to fit the site and making a fresh face for that side.  

Probably the most famous triangular shaped building is located in NYC, the Flatiron. Department 56 did their version of this building in porcelain that fits in well with O-Gauge. The Flatiron Building is next to the Chrysler Building.