A Warehouse For Ordgait

Hi Chris,

Hopefully they'd be impressed. maybe more so when it starts to take shape and actually look like a building rather than a pile of parts.

Once I get more of the fascias done, I'll start on the supporting carcasses. Then things will start to look better.

Cheers

Toto

 

Shall be done oh great builder of monumental epics.

 

Cheers Ron,

I'll be back into it tonight when I get home.

 

Hi Pete

Go for it. Luck won't come into it. Skill and determination

Have fun and mind the pictures

Cheers

Toto

 

Well,
the production line continues, done some more of the factory front facias for my extension part of the build.


They are coming on a treat,


and another,


My new 4" clamps arrived through the week. strong things I'll tell you.


and some of the wee ones as well. i have some ledges and stuff to get into tomorrow and I need to start pulling the fascias all together. After that I'll move onto the original warehouse sections which go to the rear of the building.
Once I have a few of them made up and some basic dimensions confirmed, I'll start building the whole thing into a carcase with supports and strengtheners etc.
No rest for the wicked.
More tomorrow.
cheers
toto

 

Been out for some supplies this morning. Car tyres done first and then hit hobby craft.
first on the list was some greyboard,


and some foam board,


I couldn't find a roller in Hobby craft, I was having to order one so I bought this one from B & Q,


its a semi hard type. not foam but like soft plastic or rubber.
next up was some alchohol pens ( lucky i'm over 18 ..... just )


and some brick type colours,


and a box to keep all my crap in for when I'm on the road.


and thats it. Now back to the business in hand.
cheers for now.
Toto

 

Hi,
Not a bad afternoons work done. Pritt sticks rule ok. I started bringing all the parts together,First the lower walls.


Then the first ledges and the first floor itself.


Then the next ledges and the second floor,


and there we go.
doesn't look much but there is a lot of work goes into them. Especially when you are doing at least three at a time.


I still have the corners and the top coping edges etc to do but I think I'll leave the coping edges until I have decided how the roof is going to go. Pitched or flat ?
I'm pausing at the moment to decide the way ahead at this stage. as its not a build as was intended " out of the box ( file ) I have to think it through caefully. I may even start on the main ( original building walls / structure as this will allow me to gauge the distance between the main building walls and the " extension " walls that have just been built.It will also allow me to start building the internal supporting frames.
thats it for now.
cheers
toto

 

I've been prepping up for tomorrow,
some more wall section base layers and some brisk fascias ready for working on.


This is going to be a big build. what have I let myself in for ....
The various brick fascia components ready to be individually sliced and diced.


job done, just the windows to be cut out ready to glue to the back layer.


eight more of them and probably not enough yet. There are still some bespoke shorter sections required.


Above are the support sheets awaiting gluing onto card prior to the finished window sections and ledges being fixed to them.
I had intended doinf a running session in the shed tomorrow ( and a track clean ) but this build is going at full tilt now and i don't want to stop whilst things are doing well so unless that changes for some reason tomorrow ........ I'll keep on building.
I promise I will get around to giving my track cleaning wagon its initiation run very soon. ( apologies for now Gormo )
right,
now to see what everyone else is up to.
cheers for now
Toto

 

That is most certainly a job for tomorrow ...... Or is that now today.

Still a long way to go but I think I know where I am heading with it. I'll use the same roof idea to join the two different levels together as John has used in his low relief factory kit. ( the freebie one )

The main structure shall have a flat roof. I'll be a lot happier when the wall supporting structures go up and the building is self supporting. That'll be next weekend at the earliest though as I still have more external walls to go yet.

Cheers

Toto

 

Hi Gary,

You are correct. The writing on the underside between the ground and first floor is visible. Guess who did not double the ground floor wall thickness.

The upper floors are ok. You can only really notice it when looking from the underside which won't be possible once the kit is planted on the layout. The thing is though, once you have done it on one ground floor module, you gave to carry it on throughout otherwise it would be more noticeable.

I'll get away with it for this attempt ........ But I do really need to try harder .......

Cheers

Toto.