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Re: Pictures of the completed GMLTC Plummer Building model
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Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:34:20 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, John Gerlach wrote:
Very nice! Well done, all. Excellent design.
Few questions:
The internal support structure: Bearing in mind that I have never built
anything of this size: I would have never thought to include this. Was it
needed? Why? To support the various roofs and roof structures?
TLG support: are you able to share how exactly TLG helped out? Did they
supply all the bricks? Some? Gratis?
Grays: it looks as if you combined old gray and new gray on the lower levels.
Did you? If so, I think it loooks really good. It adds some realism.
I am very impressed with this building. Again, excellent.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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As we were building it, we would tell people the internal structure is to
prevent the walls from going ( ) , as well as keeping all the floors straight
and level. Since this model will probably be moved around between different
Mayo Clinic buildings, we had to make sure it could travel! The base is two
layers of 3/4” plywood, glued and screwed together. It’s pretty solid.
TLC allowed us to order some specific tan bricks, at a good price. We could
have gotten them elsewhere (PaB, Bricklink), but it would have ended up costing
a lot more. We ended up using almost all the bricks we asked for, most of the
extras will go back into the GMLTC club collection, to be used in other
projects. Some will end up in big projects being done by other train clubs.
We also ordered 2x4 light grey bricks for the base, they ended up being the
‘new’ light grey. We combined it with our existing supply of ‘old’ light grey
bricks - I think it looks quite good. The actual building the first two stories
are more tan colored, but we needed some sort of color division there, so we
went with grey. My first impulse was to try and get faded white bricks (they
often turn tan with age), but it would have been very difficult to get that
many!
Glad you enjoy it. Again, we’re very pleased with the way the model turned out.
It took a lot of time, but it sure was fun!
JohnG, GMLTC
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