Sunshine, Palm Trees and a Food Industry...

Thanks Gormo.

The area to populate is very shallow, the left side has a floor area of 1" x 7", the middle area is a 12" taper, down from 1" and the right side is 2" x 5" in size. The diagram explains it better than words.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Great ideas Gormo !

As we discussed on the phone earlier today, I do have an office desk with a telephone on it which could (or will) come in handy as part of the interior detailing. I had also been thinking about the fire hose reels and a way I can make these. I'm sure a 7mm punch will come in handy for making a hose reel or two !

Currently I have installed the water mains for the fire hose reels and will add to this in due course. Originally it was to be a main line, but I think the reels will be a nice addition.

This pic gives an idea of how shallow the building is...

Water main pipe close up...

At the moment, I have given the model a base coat of acrylic white (poster paint) and will follow up with another layer at a later date. Still plenty to do yet !

Cheers, Gary.

 

I have a plan, hopefully it will work out !

Cheers, Gary.

 

Now that depends if I'm willing to put the ground and piers in underneath, plus all the associated plumbing and pipes, rats, cockroaches, alligators (well it is Miami...)

Actually, it might be easier if I do close it off...

Cheers, Gary.

 

So I have scratch built two fire hose reels...

I started with an eight millimeter hollow punch and some thin sheet styrene. I punched out more than enough circles for the reel wheels.

To this I added a small block of styrene to space the reel wheels...

and then capped them off. I rolled this across a glass sheet to make sure both sides were square (?) with each other.

A feed pipe was added to the back of the reels. I bent up some 1mm diameter Evergreen rod (#211) and glued this to the back between two pieces of 1mm square strip (#142).

Careful measuring insured that the fire hose reels would be 3 scale feet from the floor, and that the bend in the pipe would line up with the main water line above.

This was then painted red, except for the pipe below the reel. Here I used a 0.4mm bit and drilled through the 1mm diameter pipe. Some 0.4mm brass wire was bent into an L shape with a loop on one end. The longer section was passed through the hole, glued then trimmed off flush with the back of the pipe.

The spacer block between the reel wheels was drilled through with a 1mm diameter bit for it to take some thin diameter black electrical wire. The wire was feed through the hole and a small dab of CA was applied to hold it steady whilst the wire was wrapped around the spool.

Once the wire was wound on to fill the reel, the end was feed through the loop in the wire and trimmed off.

The base of the reel was then painted red. After this had dried completely, a small dab of CA was applied to the back of the reels and they were positioned on the wall of the building next to the roller doors.

Given the three foot rule, I don't think the fire hose reels look out of place.

One other job was to scratch build a fuse box and conduits.

A simple rectangular box was made from styrene sheet and had raised sides. Small off cuts of styrene rod and strip were cut and glued to the inner face of the box. A small door was made up from thin sheet and I lined the edges to form the fuse box door. A small piece of strip was used to make the handle and locking latch. The box was painted a mid grey colour and the internals were picked out in red and white.

1mm diameter rod was used to represent the main feed conduit and two pieces of 6.4mm diameter rod (#219) was used as conduits exiting the box from the top. These conduits went to smaller junction boxes and the conduits ran on from these, one to a light switch besides the roller door and the other to the deeper section of the building to the right.

A lot of bending the 0.64mm rod to get it around the large steel support beams.

The fuse box just adds another little piece of detail to the internals of the building. A small dispatch desk will go in as well as a few dispatch notices etc on the wall.

Cheers, Gary.