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Terry
These most recent posts are beginning to show your color selection and weathering off with great effect and advantage. As an artist you can see the final image in your minds eye before many of us and know the steps it takes to get to your final goal. Those of us who lack that artistic eye can't see the forest for the trees until a bit later when other objects begin to sprout.
Now that the buildings are coming together your choice of small details really begins to pop. I like the mail in the door slot, the clip board next to the door and the Office sign above the door. All original touches. The lamp over the door is nicely weathered and shows quite well against the walls. It all fits. Each of these details helps to make the scene look like an everyday slice of life. Nothing garish. All belongs in the scene very believably. I also like your photos taken from more of a ground level position. T
This project is really taking shape quite nicely. Your artistic eye and vision are beginning to come to the forefront.
The following comments are meant for Robert G. After a few disasters involving quite a few lives lost in public spaces like theaters and schools in the USA, I believe common sense established building codes that all doors in public spaces must open out (or in the lingo of a former window and door salesman have a right or left hand out swing. So that in a panic situation a mass rush towards a door exit doesn't end up in a jamb of bodies pressed up against the door preventing exit because of people smashed up against the door.
Keeping that in mind, doors that are placed at the entry of a home generally swing into the living space. That allows for tighter weatherstripping on very windy days (wind blowing against the house compresses the weatherstripping between the door and jambs). It also tends to make the hinges be out of sight and tamper proof for burglars.
Most, but not all areas in the USA, have also established a code for doors from living spaces that exit into a garage. Those doors must swing into the garage space (a left or right hand out swing). There have been examples of insurance cases where claims were not paid if there was an explosion of an automobile or gas tank of some sort stored in a garage and the door was blown open into the living space thus spreading the fire within the living space at a rapid pace. This last code is one most often ignored by architects and builders out of convenience and making the most of a small garage space.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
Thoughts on interior? 1/48th scale coming from DOWN EAST!
Terry
Mountain Goat, thank you for such a kind compliment. They feel good once in a while.
Terry
That's the kind of detailing I would pay attention to as well.
Looking great so far.
-Steve
Terry
Terry
Do you model 24/7?
Some great elements introduced in you details here.. the sagging door scraping on the deck boards, the phalanx of acetylene tanks inside the doors and the weathering of the finial.
On my computer screen the finial looks like a bit of verdigris has begun to show, the weathered finish created by a mix of salt air on copper, brass or bronze. That would be in keeping with your coastal Maine location.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
The tanks are tanks, but not SW. They are less realist but actual.