Your off to a great start! I really like the front of the building. It sure brings back memories when I use to shop at one. I see that you even found a picture of an alarm bell. Now you can use one that I did on my 3D printer. I don’t know about the slopping loading dock. Can be a big problem on an existing layout. Can you make a two versions. One with a slopping loading dock and another with a non slopping loading dock?
I can make a flat model railroad friendly loading dock, but for myself, I am going with the Dremel out 1/2" x 1" of plywood plains to get the more convincing sloping dock for myself. After all, a little extra work yields an even more awesome model. With a foundation template I can get very accurate placement and it will just look so much better.
I had the day off Jury Duty, but have to call in tonight and tomorrow night. My butt is sore from sitting on hard benches for hours on end and my knees are shot from persistent "All Rise"s all day while people were pulled into the back room after coming up with all kinds of excuses why they cant be on the jury. So back to the modeling, I made a bit of progress on the Safeway project. Today I drew up the interior wall design for all the departments against the wall: I also assembled the basic building shell: And I printed the interior wall sheets and installed. This is the Bakery, Produce, and Frozen Foods side: And this is the Dairy, Seafood & Poultry, and Meats side: I'm not the only one working on this project, Walter is doing some details and Clyde is giving it a go too. So I whipped up a Floor Plan to work with:
Love the walls and flooring! With the walls up, it gives me a better idea what can fit along the walls. Hopefully I will have all the printing done by Friday.
A bit more progress today... Clyde made all these interior details on his 3D printer, and brought them over today, for which I placed inside to admire. I made the two roof parts that go over the flat roof area. Those have copper electrical contacts and super magnets underneath them. This will allow a removable roof for interior inspection, as well as provide power for the domed roof interior lighting. I'm still thinking on how best to make the arched roof section, I just know I want it removable:
Rob, Looks great! Nice graphics as well! Clyde, Nice job on the detail parts! Great team work so far. Scott
Safeway Build Continues: I figured out how I am going to build the roof today. I decided to use COB Edison Filaments for the interior dome roof lighting, so I tested one to see what kind of voltage I would need: Next I started building that part of the roof, and mounted the filaments to the underside of the arch like this: I had to wait a while, using heavy blocks to weight the roof down, while the glue set. All so I could have a snug roof fit. I am making the roof removable: Then I did a test of the arch lighting, and adjusted the resistance for acceptable illumination at 12V: Next I wanted to verify the light intensity was not too high for the model with the roof on, so I replaced the roof and fired it up, Check. The roof is held magnetically, so it snaps in place with authority: I wired in all the other LED lighting, and added small segments of solder braid to act as electrical contact brushes, to bridge the electrical from one side of the store to the other, through the arched roof: Then I tested the whole model lighting and found it was OK: I took this photo to remind me of all the light leakage points that need to be painted black before I glue the top panel over the roof: I'll fix the light leakage tomorrow when I button up the roof. So far so good!
Rob, It is safe to say, you just keep raising the bar. The lighting, not to mention the electrical work is impressive! I really like how the Safeway letters look. Scott
I’ve always thought when I build I try to capture the look. You are flat out duplicating the look in a way rarely seen in any scale. I think back at your timesaver switching layout. Man I enjoyed that one. You made silos your hoppers and I thought wow! Thus however is upper echelon work!
Wow! The details and signage really makes this model pop! You’ve nailed it once again with your fantastic model building! This building is definitely eye candy in Z scale!
Hard to follow up the Safeway with a post. But I have been harvesting old watches for parts, mostly gears. The watches that had the best size gears were the Boluva ladies watches. I had to make a screw driver out of an X-acto knife blade for those tiny screws. Scott
