Making headway on the Reverberatory Furnace Building. Since they will be
so spindly and fragile, I'm going to wait until the building is
installed on the module before I add the dampers on top of the stacks.
After I
cut the stacks from pink foam insulation, I covered them with aged red brick from Scalescenes
printed on matte photo paper, and then cut the angles at the base of the
stacks using the jig below that I fabricated from scrap Crescent Board.
The
stone caps on the stacks were cut from 0.05" Crescent Board. I first
cut the square opening using a 0/5" square mortising chisel with the
drill removed. I simply hammered the chisel through the board using a
piece of scrap pine as a backer so as not to damage the chisel edge.
The
clerestory was built of sheet balsa and coffee stir sticks. Since
photos of the prototype showed the vents open at different angles, I cut
the vent doors from .03 styrene and attacked them at different angles
to a piece of styrene strip which I then ACC'd above the openings as seen below.
While I still have to build the scale house addition and install signs
and lights, I'm getting burned-out on large stone and corrugated iron
buildings, so I am going to take a break and build some company houses!
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