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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 15, 2017 12:42:12 GMT -9
So something like this:  3d scale by grendels_mother64, on Flickr This was a couple of hours of goofing around with sketchup to get an idea of what might work. The building on the right is a free 3D model from the sketchup warehouse. The other buildings are what I drew up....and textured with an elevation drawing I found online. The cardstock model would be like the 3 buildings together....with original textures. The idea that you construct a solid box, then tack on the textures. Options would be: 3, 4 or 5 window widths with several different windows. Several different styles/colors of brick. Optional building sides....for alleyways. Several styles of cornice/roof treatments. Main floors with a few differnt shops, warehouse, entrance options. Some elevated entrances with basement windows below. Several fire escape styles. Any building could be constructed 3 floors to as high as you wanted to go. When I get some actual usable stuff together, I'll start a thread under my name. ANy thoughts...? GM64 |
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 15, 2017 13:09:18 GMT -9
More like 'curiosity'. Are you going to have corner buildings? How do you see the alleyway in back?
I'm glad this project is inspiring you. I still think I'm going to do a repaint of Tommygun's Big Building (His textures don't fit anything I need, but it has always intrigued me) and may do some enlarging of the Mainstreet models. To go from 1/87 to 1/56, they would require a 1.55 times enlargement. Then breaking up and rearranging to fit on a page. Another reason I lost interest back when
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 15, 2017 13:21:42 GMT -9
More like 'curiosity'. Are you going to have corner buildings? How do you see the alleyway in back? I think the alleys/backs could just be plain brick walls with a single door and fewer, simpler styled windows...like the Illinois models. Corner building...? 2 fronts with custom corner entrance...? A wrap around storefront or awning..? Maybe some cobblestone street tiles as well. fancy in front, crappy in back.... |
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 15, 2017 13:28:58 GMT -9
when you do a search for tenements, it seems that they had lots of windows on the back generally. As many as on the front, but not as fancy. Some even had balconies, but those weren't as common I don't think. Merchants on the bottom level may have had service entrances at the back. What I meant by corner building is more like the Tinsley building you posted. Stuff on the front and one side  Are you thinking of doing bases? cool |
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Post by grendelsmother64 on Sept 16, 2017 20:10:33 GMT -9
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Post by coreyhaim8mydog on Sept 17, 2017 16:25:23 GMT -9
So something like this: 3d scale by grendels_mother64, on Flickr This was a couple of hours of goofing around with sketchup to get an idea of what might work. The building on the right is a free 3D model from the sketchup warehouse. The other buildings are what I drew up....and textured with an elevation drawing I found online. The cardstock model would be like the 3 buildings together....with original textures. The idea that you construct a solid box, then tack on the textures. Options would be: 3, 4 or 5 window widths with several different windows. Several different styles/colors of brick. Optional building sides....for alleyways. Several styles of cornice/roof treatments. Main floors with a few differnt shops, warehouse, entrance options. Some elevated entrances with basement windows below. Several fire escape styles. Any building could be constructed 3 floors to as high as you wanted to go. When I get some actual usable stuff together, I'll start a thread under my name. ANy thoughts...? GM64 This is incredible. If you do have PDFs, ever, I'd love to buy them. |
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Post by coreyhaim8mydog on Sept 17, 2017 16:29:05 GMT -9
New York tenements of the period had windows mostly on the front and often had a building in back. This was called a "double decker" IIRC. The mortality rate in the back buildings, which had less air and less light, was incredibly high.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 24, 2017 9:47:01 GMT -9
This has really gotten me looking at historic buildings that can be incorporated into designs. Today I took some photos of the old Citizens Security Bank of Englewood, now a beauty shop. Actually an early 1900s building, but the brickwork is wonderful, and I've been looking for old photos to get an idea of how the windows originally looked. The oldest photo I have found is from the 70's. I really wish I could find the original windows. BTW, this bank held the note on Harry Truman's haberdashery. The bank later picked up a savings and loan, as a separate entity, for which Truman was the head of 'depositor acquisitions'. Kind of a questionable deal with ties to the Pendergast Political Machine. It was from this position that he leaped into politics    If we could go to the 1920s, the Vaughn building would be interesting. And I still want to do a NYLife Building knock-off, and Anheuser-Busch brewhaus knock-off |
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 25, 2017 18:29:31 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 4, 2017 12:28:41 GMT -9
No, I haven't forgotten about this. Since I had yet to build any of Dave Winfield's models from his August Release Party, I am going to try to finish the DB5 tonight, add panels and doohickeys to the engines of the food truck, and get started on lightning's 15mm big boat. Then, it's back to these projects -- Tommygun's modular big building with textures from the Illinois Main Street site, and the Citizens Security Bank |
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