I seem to remember from a few years ago, a lengthy forum thread showing a detailed project of assembling a large modular building. It was very well done with a lot of photos and progressed through the entire project. I don’t remember if it was DPM or Cornerstone but that probably doesn’t matter. I’ve searched the forums several times with no success. Can anyone point me to that thread? I’m getting ready to kitbash at least four buildings and was concered about the thought process of how to proceed (small subsections, one wall at a time? etc). Thanks.
Tim,
i can’t point you to the thread but I can share my experience. A few months ago i built both a DPM and a Cornerstone modular buildings, each three stories tall.
I put sub assemblies together first–first floor front, first floor right side, second floor rear, third floor left, etc. Then i assembled the front wall sections, rear sections, etc. Finally I brought all of the walls together.
I found the Cornerstone kit to be much easier to build. All of the parts fit very nicely and Ambroid Safe Weld liquid cement worked very well. The DPM kit required a lot of sanding to get the parts to fit properly and a lot of interior bracing to get the walls straight and square. I finally resorted to using contact cement for assembly after four brands of liquid plastic cement proved ineffective in bonding the parts together.
Good luck!
at the risk of being repetitive … try a google search restricted to the cs.trains.com site
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:cs.trains.com+modular+building+tcf511
let us know if you find what you’re looking for
Thanks to both of you who replied. I did find the thread with a modified Google search restricted to cs.trains.com. For anyone who is interested. This is the full link.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/132455/1490041.aspx
The thread is very thorough was done by a member named Last Chance. Some of the photos are missing but it certainly useful to me.
I can tell you about DPM. Fot them you need a flat edge (I like a 2’ metal level I have) and use that as your block to make sure the roof is level, yes you start at the roofline as you can sand the base level but the brickwork will look funky is done the other way. Make sure you square up your collum peices to your straight edge. I like to cap my structures with thin styene painted to look like a cement capstone. When you do corners use a modeling square and with DPM you need bracing just like a wood structure but in dealing with plastic, you can use premade corner braces (I make my own buy gluing an L out of 1/8" or larger styrene and squaring the out side and then cut a diaginal ppeice to size to stengthen it).