I'm kitbashing to create backdrop buildings with large roofs that hide some trackage. The original kits come with some vents, fans, air conditionaing and other roof details. I'd like to get some more of the same quality. Any ideas?
Marshall D Abrams spake thus:
Walthers used to sell packages of roof details, pretty good plastic moldings. Do they still list these in their catalog?
You don't mantion scale but Walthers just coma out with N scale Modular Industrial Building kits. One of the packages includes bunch of roof top details.
They also make this series on H0.
You might also consider using the orignal items, making molds and casting some duplicates for your own use.
Peteski
Marshall Abrams:
Go online and do a search on 'HVAC' to find reference photos; also, look out your window, taking sketches and pictures. Then obtain a bag of balsa blocks. Shape the evaporators, large ducts, etc., from these blocks; cover with styrene or cardstock; add louvers and grills cut from old diesel shells or built up. Paint silver with appropriately placed rust. Cheaper and more fun than buying $20 bags of details that don't go very far anyway, and you get something nobody else has, which is becoming a rarity nowadays.
Cordially yours: Gerard P.
"Go online and do a search on 'HVAC' to find reference photos; also, look out your window, taking sketches and pictures. Then obtain a bag of balsa blocks. Shape the evaporators, large ducts, etc., from these blocks; cover with styrene or cardstock; add louvers and grills cut from old diesel shells or built up. Paint silver with appropriately placed rust. Cheaper and more fun than buying $20 bags of details that don't go very far anyway, and you get something nobody else has, which is becoming a rarity nowadays."
You're advocating modeling?! HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's wrong with you? Have you no principles? Everyone knows that anything you use on a model railroad MUST come in a box preferabably with walthers on it.
A courier with a package has been despatched to your residence. It contains a bottle of hemlock. I urge you to drink it for the good of the hobby. ;-)
Eric
NYCfan:
Heh heh. I'll put it with the others.
Cordially yours: Gerard P.
One thing I've seen in regards to this, and I have adopted - make sure the large aircondition units have bases - a piece of thick styrene, cut to a little larger size than the hvac unit itself and painted a weathered/dirty concrete color, works very well on flat tar/tar paper roofs (use LiveLocal at 25/30 m/y resolution in industrial areas of Philly, Newark, New York for some (well, tens of thousands) of examples). Also prototypical, and somewhat cooler, for older (refitted) buildings, add a steel beam framework (Plastruc shapes are good) to support the hvac unit - steel beam can run angled between side and front/rear supporting walls, or be supported on beams/interior supporting wall sections, or any combination - the idea is that something solid is supporting the unit and it's not just plopped unsupported in the middle of a tar paper/metal roof... Walthers HVAC units are pretty nice, BTW, once you paint them up - this detail package is worth purchasing...
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