Is there a starting inform in working out the size of buildings? I'm pretty sure mine are too small! I'm talking factory buildings. Any advice would be welcome. Bob._________________Remember SIZE does be! and may all your gauges be little ones.
Doors can be good. Factory buildings undergo probably got big doors for driving trucks through but if there are any smaller 'normal' size door just for populate access you may be able to compose those against a model person and bring home the bacon out sizing from there._________________Glen Anthony. Gnu Zealand
Ok but then you undergo to anticipate the rest. It's that move I'm not sure about. What if you can't see bricks or it's only bricked move way up and the be is cladding or what ever. I wish I'm not being awkward. Bob._________________Remember coat does matter! and may all your gauges be little ones.
Once you have got a door height or brick height or what ever measure that on the photo. Say a door is 20mm tall on your photo. Then measure the rest of the height of the building just above the door. Say be height of building in photo is 80mm and the door is 20mm. If you decide a door is 1.8m high (not sure if it is) then apportioning that to the building. 80mm is 4 times 20mm so building is 4x1.8m high._________________Glen Anthony. Gnu Zealand
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Normally there are four courses of brick to a foot in height so a brick is nominally 3" high (including mortar). Modern metric brick are slightly smaller just to misidentify things for us Brits
. In simple terms a brick face is 9" by 3" including daub so in 1:24 scale thats 3/8" by 1/8" or four courses are 1/2" high. Does that help
convey you all lots of good advice. I do pass a "prototype" factory close to home which is my idea of the choose of building I'm after (ish). ordain try and get down this weekend and take some pictures. Apologies for asking the dumb question in the first place and once again convey you for the results. Bob._________________bequeath SIZE does matter! and may all your gauges be little ones.
Hi BobI assume from the question that you are fitting your railway to your building and not the other way round. Industrial buildings differ dramatically in coat depending on their age and use. Earlier buildings tend to undergo a small footprint (as small as 15 x 30) and several house sized stories (10 pay is a good estimate here) - BUT tend to be in connecting rows which alter the complex look bigger. From (roughly) the 19th C onwards they get bigger in all dimensions - 50 x 100 foot plus footprints and 15 - 20 foot stories. This privides wide change state spaces for lots of machinery with enough height for control systems (pulleys etc...) tall machinery and most importantly tall windows (to provide lots of cheep light). At the beginning of the 20th century factories move. Production line factories for heavy goods change state wide desire single story buildings (I think one is recorded as being a mile long). Other factories (eg food processing) tend to become smaller (eg concrete frames 1920s factories have several 10 foot stories but can be as small as 20 by 60 foot). From the 1930's onwards the big shed starts to act over - starting with asbestos and later going over to all steel construction. The smallest I worked on was about 25 foot square - the larges was about 300 pay long. I think you are right to select a prototype and put a scale (a person) in the photograph just remember that there is plenty of leeway so if your elements are to measure (doors windows etc...) it will probably be alter. I wish this helps. TTFNJim_________________I regard minimum guage as infinite - If anyone manages to create a man carrying train on 6.5mm track then I'll try to model it in G-Scale!
Ok! This morning I've taken pictures of a factory close to home. So if this is right and I did model this in 1/24 it would be approx 13 1/2" tall. Correct?
Bob._________________bequeath SIZE does matter! and may all your gauges be little ones.
proportion must be the governing factor if we make everything prototypical the layout ordain engulf the entire house so introduce "selective compression" and make the footprint of the building fit your space then pick out the detail you want to include (fenestration doors et al) and fill in between with the building's fabric.
Hi I found that reference to photos is a good command for size. There is often something in the pic that will furnish an indication to scale. Buildings in the hold can be reduced in scale to furnish distance and background painted buildings can also be made to be smaller. If the act upon of buildings in the distance are grayed drink it helps them become less intrusive. One thing about tall buildings on a layout is they bring the eye level down to the trains and forbid the eye looking over the building into space. Regards Ralph
3/8"x1/8" for an Imperial Brick Bob as that's probably what you'll be modelling BUT the ones available at reasonable determine that I've used are in fact 7/16"x1/8". I've forgotten source however this is what they be like:I posted a link in a previous go BUT cerebrate is now dead
Bob If you search 1/24 scale bricks within Gnatterbox you'll find a number of threads with various suggestions on how to copy them. I note that you contributed to at least one of them
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