St Ruth

Good luck with the build- I will follow this with interest as I have a hotel to build soon, too.

 

If you are lucky, bus enthusiasts will have photos somewhere. Alternatively, aerial photos might help. As it is a relatively modern building, there could be plans in the local records or planning office - either of the original or modifications. There might even be old holiday brochures for Penzance in an archive somewhere. They usually had photos f the buildings.

 

Anyway, isn't St Ruth a fictitious place? You can do what you like!

Good to see the mock up Andy - assume you will model the scaffolding too in the final one?

 

Why the single sheet of card? Is it to represent the concrete/stucco finish on the facade?

Anyway, isn't St Ruth a fictitious place? You can do what you like!

 

It is indeed, but I generally find that things are more convincing if they are based on reality - making stuff up often results in things that would never really happen.

 

assume you will model the scaffolding too in the final one?

 

(in the style of the Churchill dog...)

Err... noooo.

 

Why the single sheet of card? Is it to represent the concrete/stucco finish on the facade?

In the dim and distant past when I made card buildings and didn't know any better I used to be quite happy to overlook the bare edge of the card at the corners of the building. Then I read how Pendon did in in Model Railway Constructor and I decided that I needed to do better. I'm sure that there are other ways to avoid having bare edges, but the finish on this building doesn't offer many ways to hide the joins. It still might go pear shaped, in which case it will be rethink time.

 

That's my take based on very little experience, but you're the buildings expert. How would you do it?

but you're the buildings expert. How would you do it?

 

hardly an expert...besides...most of my model ones have stone or metal cladding...with the real ones rendered or insitu concrete

 

I have been thinking about purchasing one of those tools that cuts foamboard neatly and I was wondering if they do one for card so you can cut at 45 degrees?

 

Alternatively, if you score the card and then bend inwards, could you run a line of model filler down the exposed corner?...

I have been thinking about purchasing one of those tools that cuts foamboard neatly and I was wondering if they do one for card so you can cut at 45 degrees? Alternatively, if you score the card and then bend inwards, could you run a line of model filler down the exposed corner?...

Good suggestions... I'll investigate the 45 degree cutter option (picture framing?) but fear that might mean a trip to the dreaded H*bbycr*ft... dreaded since they dropped most of their modelling stock in favour of knitting, sticking glittery things to other things and other such pursuits (struggling to avoid straying into gender stereotyping here, but I think it's safe to say that they have re-prioritised their target demographic)