Dick, I probably didn't make myself clear when I posted. I once built
the traditional style Leigh Valley branchline station backward because I
thought it would look better that way at the time. It was very easy to
do, perhaps because I've spent much of my life looking through a view
camera, which makes everything backward and upside down. In my opinion
the laser type kits are made to fit together has they were designed,
which is usually fine. I thought about doing that with the laser cut
Banta bakery kit. However I concluded that it wouldn't work without many
fights and obvious loss of structural integrity. Likewise, I've found
modifying any resin type of building with doors and windows cast in
difficult as I'd like to move them. Of course that was, I thought, the
major reason for the NASG modular building kit.
When I put together my roundhouse (mostly plaster) a couple of years
ago, I had CC Crow make up a larger version of one of his Sn3 3 stall
engine houses. At one time he had made a wall section that was too
large. When I inquired about what I was trying to do, he mentioned
that he thought we could use that "mistaken" wall section that could be
combined with his corrected version. What he didn't tell me was that he
only had one wall section--but not the mirror version! That mirrored
wall section ended up with well over a dozen splices but I was
determined to make it work. I find working in plaster, sans the dust,
very rewarding. There were a few On3 guys that formed Crummy Products,
which used to occupy a warehouse directly behind my present studio; they
put together some techniques for working in plaster, especially for
splicing wall sections and filling in window openings. Unfortunately
I've forgotten many of them, since they've been gone for many years.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
>
>
> Bob--
>
> As for bashing laser-cut kits and resin kits -- Well, I must disagree
> with
> brother Werre. I have resectioned and spliced two Classic Miniature
> citrus shed
> kits to create a fully three-dimensional building. Because I am a visual
> thinker, I did not find it particularly difficult. But I can surely
> understand
> why one with a different set of cranial neurons would "see" it
> differently. My
> interlocking tower on the cover of the latest "1:64 Modeling Guide"
> (Vol. 11 No.
> 3) is comprised of components of two elevated crossing shanty kits
> from Banta
> Modelworks, a scratchbuilt cardstock roof, BTS shingles, and various
> plastic
> structural members. Similarly, cutting and splicing resin kits doesn't
> bother
> me either. See my upcoming "S Curves" in the April 2011 issue of "Model
> Railroad News" for examples.
>
> Dick Karnes
>
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