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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #465 on: August 22, 2013, 03:43:25 AM »
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Stared at the screen too long, now I have industrial layout envy.




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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #466 on: August 22, 2013, 07:43:44 AM »
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David,question about the buildings at the edges of the layout.How will you treat that outer edge,a finished wall,a modeled interior,or just close them off with the fashia.Or do you have something else  in mind?

I plan to finish the edge with plain sheet styrene that will be flush with the edge of the layout. Then, when I apply a surface treatment to the layout edge, it will cover everything, as if it's all one surface. I did the same thing with my diorama, but don't have a photo--I'll try to shoot one soon. I think it looks OK. I was tempted to do cutaways of the building interiors, but that's waaaay too much work.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #467 on: August 22, 2013, 09:06:14 AM »
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Damn! I looked to see if you had already covered that and managed to miss your answer. :(
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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #468 on: August 22, 2013, 09:07:58 AM »
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Damn! I looked to see if you had already covered that and managed to miss your answer. :(

No problem. It is a long thread.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #469 on: August 22, 2013, 09:53:34 AM »
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Looking good! Buildings on the outer edge of the layout really make the scene that its incorporated into something bigger especially in urban scenes. I will admit the small annex to the row at the top looks off to me when comparing the pictures you posted earlier, I was thinking more something along the lines of an open grassy area.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #470 on: August 22, 2013, 10:36:41 AM »
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I will admit the small annex to the row at the top looks off to me when comparing the pictures you posted earlier, I was thinking more something along the lines of an open grassy area.

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Humbly accepted. That annex was inspired by the building seen in the foreground below, along with many others like it.



The structure also serves to give the edge of the layout a more natural transition into a backdrop. I'm pretty certain the layout will have one at each end. So there may be more "annexes" to come.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #471 on: August 22, 2013, 12:50:07 PM »
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Humbly accepted. That annex was inspired by the building seen in the foreground below, along with many others like it.



The structure also serves to give the edge of the layout a more natural transition into a backdrop. I'm pretty certain the layout will have one at each end. So there may be more "annexes" to come.

Kinda figured you were going that route based on that picture. I was leaning towards the previous photo from that selection which showed a lot of "free range" between buildings.

I mean if this is the 40's...where are the kids going to play baseball! :D

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #472 on: August 22, 2013, 01:11:14 PM »
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I mean if this is the 40's...where are the kids going to play baseball! :D

In between the buildings, under the laundry--



As it happens, I've been thinking of modeling this very scene.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #473 on: August 22, 2013, 05:12:24 PM »
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As it happens, I've been thinking of modeling this very scene.

Hah! Beat me to it. Stickball for the win!

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #474 on: August 23, 2013, 05:04:45 AM »
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You have probably seen this, but here is your furniture factory:

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #475 on: August 23, 2013, 07:20:10 AM »
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You have probably seen this, but here is your furniture factory:

No, I haven't seen that. Hubba, hubba!

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #476 on: August 23, 2013, 07:27:43 AM »
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Chris that really does look like a certain kit . . . .
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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #477 on: August 23, 2013, 07:42:35 AM »
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It's a Jack Delano photo, but I can't find a link to it.

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #478 on: August 23, 2013, 08:13:58 AM »
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That's actually a Russell Lee photo, and that's the Swift & Company milk and butter fat receiving depot and creamery in Caldwell, Idaho. Photo is from 1941 and is from the "Office of War Information" collection, so no worries about copyrights.  Here's a link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178287559/in/photostream/

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Re: Jersey City Industrial Railroad
« Reply #479 on: August 23, 2013, 08:26:58 AM »
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