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and heres the decking started:
the dimensions are 20 scale feet by 8
and here's on of the dowels i'll use for the pilings. it's a 3/16" dowel, so 9" pilings.
does anyone have any suggested improvements to the landfall scene?
can't wait to start mixing up some sculptamold....
Nice start on the groundwork by the way.
i built the framing out of scale 3x10s. i added two more boards after this picture was taken so that i could put it up against the roof to see how it fit. there's a new issue now....when i put the framing up against the roof, it protruded out past the lower walkway by a couple of feet. it's not supposed to according to the drawings. it's supposed to end plumb with the front edge of the lower walkway, and frankly,....i don't know what i'm going to be able to do about it. i'm thinking this may be my only course of action: cutting the front roof panel and removing it up to where the balcony roof joins it. first picture is the start of the framing from the little wedge of siding on the right end of it:
i added some bracing and put it up where it is supposed to be.
i don't know if you can see what my dilemma is, but i only have two hands and can't put the roof panel up so you can see the discrepancy, but trust me, it's there. the shingles on the roof panel cause the balcony roof to protrude too far away from the building face. i think my only fix is to remove the roof panel around the balcony roof framing so that i can glue the framing directly to the top plate of the wall and the siding wedge directly to the gable wall. i could sure use some opinions here guys.
Tom
the balcony roof is supposed to stop at the support posts (or a few scale inches beyond them_, but when i butt it against the roof panel, it extends a couple of scale feet beyond them, due to the thickness of the roof panel with the shingles. the way i see it, i need to cut the roof panel around the framing so the balcony roof framing is sitting on the top plate of the front wall and the gable on the gable wall. if i do that i think it'll work out pretty well.
i suppose i could shorten that triangle to make it fit, but i think that would deviate from the drawings too much and would look funny. that was actually the first cure i thoought of. maybe i'll build a mock up of it tonight and see how it looks.
it's going to be an easy cut to mark out or cut, but i'm planning on bench time tonight so i'm gonna give it hell.
Tom
2 different thicknesses and sizes. so i should be set.
this has never happened to me before,
i'm sure it happens to everyone, this is the first time it's happened to me though and i'm uncomfortable feeling this way. i'm sure my buddy ed will help me get through it.
problem is, the diorama for this thing is 2'x4', so i gotta finish it and get it off of the coffee table and out of the way. i just installed a gooseneck lamp on the second story rear door (the one at the top of the stairs), and when i tested it, it didn't work. i didn't need that. i threw my hands up in the air and grabbed a sam adams.
it's been an endless string of small frustrations like that, that are just beating the hell out of me.
that won't take that long..