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Still waiting for the last of the window material. Leaves some time for details We used a combination of magnets and magnetic tape to fasten roof sections. It's not perfect but it does facilitate getting into the buildings. The shrubs and bushes alongside the buildings are completed...

Setup with both buildings

Assembly of building two

Thanks Louis. We should be able to assemble the second building tomorrow. More pics to follow.

Great looking groundwork!

Finally, received some more 0.005 clear styrene, so work continues on the upper windows.

I was interested in this piece when it was first announced. I'm going to stay calm until I see it available for order. Call it healthy skepticism.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm looking forward to completing the factory complex we've been working on and seeing how well it photographs.

Thanks, Mike, Joe There is a second work hall to match the first. I envision an extension off the right side with some large oil tanks. We'll see if I can convince the elves to do another section.....

Thank you! Waiting for a few more supplies and we'll be into the final stretch. Looking forward to playing with this base. Longer term, it has been designed for an expansion to the right side of the two work halls. I've got some ideas for that but will wait until this one is finished.

The combination of model an riders is my favorite "set" to date

A few test shots

Moving the building onto the dio board

Thanks guys Assembly building 1 The tolerances for our scratch built pieces is quite high so fitting everything together proved challenging. I don't have the styrene for the upper row of windows yet. scratch built hinges made from tin can. Roof trusses

Girder in place More windows Fitting the pieces together to see how it looks

As you can see from the pictures, the "glass" in the windows is way too clean for a dirty old factory. After some experimentation, we settled on white glue thinned with rubbing alcohol. We also found cleaning the clear plastic with alcohol prior to applying the glue provided better results as it...

Hi all, we've been away for awhile enjoying the summer as best we can, but now the dio elves are back at it. We've done a bunch of work on the factory work halls. One of the challenges we had was how to do the brick work on the buildings. Trying to carve and paint 1/30 scale bricks was not...

I wanted to break up the dirt areas so they didn't appear so uniform. We tried combinations of different materials including the ultra fine dirt I apply to my models as weathering and various sizes of sand. None of it looked good. In the end we took advantage of some of the unevenness in the...

Cutting out the "glass" for the windows. We used 0.005" clear styrene for the glass and cut it on the Cricut

More work on the roof trusses Test fitting Added some reinforcing to the corners of the truss Laying out the ribbed seam metal roofing We used card stock to join the center sections, the V section, of the roof together. The center section of roof with the ribbed seam metal...