| |
Looks nice. The see-through nature of the thin-walls make it seem a little
too "empty" though. I know how you feel about exteriors coming before
interiors, but you might want to try doing a little something, perhaps in
the lobby, just to make it look like a real building from the outside.
Perhaps just putting some walls, plants (i.e. interior ones), and benches in
the lobby would give it a more realistic feeling.
"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message
news:3BAAC69A.96B0BACA@uswest.net...
> Although this building is new to the net, I actually began building it
> last year after a huge sale of 4561s from Walmart. The building took
> all of the 1x2x3 trans light blue thin wall elements from over 40 sets
> (I've forgotten how many came in each set). Suffice to say a long time
> in the making....
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6920
>
> It is kind of reminiscent of one of the WTC towers, but that is purely
> coincidental.
>
> In my flurry of creating buildings, I just would complete the shell and
> move on to another (or more realistically-- start a building, and while
> waiting for parts, start another, etc). Interior detail work will have
> to come later, which is okay with me because as I have said before,
> buildings are just pretty train backdrops:-) This one happens to sit
> next to my version of Tom McDonald's Spamcake Diner (Minneapolis) on the
> TCLTC layout. I still think that it would be neat if every LTC had a
> Spamcake Diner on its layout!
>
> -John
>
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: New Building (light gray)
|
| (...) Thanks, Brad, and of course, you are absolutely correct. I do plan on one day finishing the interior, but I was just too excited about building more buildings at the time and so just I forged on to newer things. Thing is, when you start a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
7 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
