Waterfront Project | Building Wrap Up
In our last article, we finished the final two buildings in this series, the MTL Surf Shop and the MTL Taffy Company. We still need to build several of the pier sets in the series but I have the feeling I’ll need to do a bit of cutting and chopping of these piers in order to fit the final scene, so I’ll hold off on these until the layout construction begins.
After having built and photographed each kit, I’d put it up on a shelf and move on to the next. Today I decided to have a good look at them altogether, to see how well they work visually as a group. I know I’ll have to add weathering here and there on these kits in order to make them blend together, so I thought I should take a couple of photos for an objective reference.
I have to admit, I did enjoy the feeling of satisfaction seeing this group of buildings together! It’s also fun now to look at them and begin visualizing where they’ll go on the upcoming layout. The additional pier kits, I can now see, are going to play a huge role on our layout, lining our waterfront and adding definition and purpose to our small Florida town.
The next step will be the actual track plan but for the moment, I just wanted to share some photos and thank all of our readers for taking this Waterfront Project construction journey with us here at Ztrains.
- John Cubbin
Category: Z Scale Basics
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Always impressive John.
Hey John. They look good; can’t wait to see how you lay them out. I’m particularly interested in what you do with the repair building. Because of it’s need to slope into the water I’ve found it looks awkward next to the piers (sort of out of place.) I’ll wait to see how you incorporate it into the overall scene.
Take care, Jim in Boston.
Thanks guys.
The repair building is going to be interesting, I think I’ll either set it away from the other buildings and docks, this would allow for the ramp to feed into the water. The other option would be to build a simple boat lift from styrene. I could then keep the repair shop nearer the docks, maybe have some sort of cut-in for the boats to position themselves to be lifted.
I need to dig up more period photos to see how this was handled back in the early days.
John
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Impressive collection for sure. It does have an old neglected feel to it. I am interested to see how the track is incorporated into the overall scene.
I have a loose idea of the overall scene but I’m sure that will get tweaked as the track plan gets firmed up. I’m looking to have some layout ideas together by this weekend (March 10 / 11).
John
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Hey John,
Every chance you get… hurry up! :)
I cant wait to see how you’re going to lay out all the buildings, they look great by the way.
Mike
Hi Michael,
Just working out a few kinks on a different Z project… I hate multitasking! I look to pick up on this very soon, please stay tuned.
Thanks for following!
John
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