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Re: City Buildings - perhaps a new city standard??? :)
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Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:18:50 GMT
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Hey Steve, a couple of thoughts...
having made 100+ structures taken to nearly as many shows over the last 13
years, it's been tough to find a consistently well-working standard. Lots of
conflicts with track clearances and plain ol' tablespace at the top of the list.
My city buildings are tending towards no set footprint standard so that I can
better capture details and features. Gaps between buildings have detailed side
cornices, alleys, firescapes, etc.
My greatest challenge is integrating the cafe corner series-style of stucture
into city blocks consisting of roadplates builtup with a 2-plate thick x 7-stud
deep sidewalk. Those tiled CC sidewalks look wrong and I'll probably rebuild
all ground sections.
As I tend to take different combinations of buildings to shows, I typically lay
gray baseplate in a block, arrange buildings to suit, then outline each
foundation with tile to anchor. Last, alleys are plated. This may be done
ahead of time, as I did before attending Brickfest 2009. Of course, doortreads
and steps are built to match up to the 2-plate sidewalk.
dan parker
In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have been refining my thoughts on a city building standard where it minimizes
> wasteful brick usage (bricks not seen) and maximizes city visual appeal and
> density. There have been several standards in the past that I used before and
> strongly considered their merits.
>
> So I tried building 16x32 buildings that are have "fronts" on two sides. This
> way the front and back are both fronts. A second building size is 16x16. These
> are intrinsically three sided and can be used at the "end" of a city block and
> gives a nice wrap-around look to a street scene. Note that these 16x16 builds
> will shift the building by ½ road plate side-by-side so 16x16 buildings will
> have to be used in pairs as “bookends”.
>
> These buildings can be organized in any order side-to-side which maximizes
> flexibility in layouts over time. It also creates two streets views for the
> price of one! And they travel very well due to their small foot print which can
> sit on a single base plate.
>
> They integrate well with the road plate system too but with one caveat. Streets
> can be laid out in any length in terms of road plates. Parallel streets are set
> 16 studs apart. Now here’s the caveat, the road plates that connect the parallel
> streets need to be either ½ “buried” or HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS cut in half. The
> cutting in half means that you get two ½ length road plates and in most cases
> they are needed in pairs anyway for a city scene.
>
> Two two-sided buildings are found at:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=371520. One is dark red, the
> other in yoda brown (aka dark orange???). I not completely happy with all the
> facades but rather than rebuilding for now I’ll just continue to forge on and
> make a couple more buildings, including two end buildings and a taller middle
> building.
>
> Shameless advert…
> My goal is to have a small version of this city standard at BRICKFEST ’09 where
> there are ~200 AFOLs reg’ed and the Emerald Night will make it’s debut. NO NEED
> TO WAIT TIL JUNE! ;D 8P
>
> SteveB
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