Hi everyone!
I have started to model an industry office. I don’t know yet what kind of office it will be.
With the little experience I have in modeling, I have concluded that it’s easier to paint the pieces on the sprues first. First, I began by painting the interior walls in black. Then, I am painting the exterior walls, the roof and the stairs.
Next step will be to assemble the model and to weather it. Maybe changing the brick color a little bit because I am not satisfied with the result.
I work in HO, but you might want to assemble the walls, finish the corner seams, than paint the exterior, so it’s all uniform in color.
I had that building in HO, but it was a Built-Up, all assembled.
Mike.
Hi Mike. Yes I think that next time I will only paint the interior walls in black while the parts are still on the sprues.
Thanks!
Those N scale multipane windows will likely obscure a lot of interior detail. If you really want to build an interior, knock yourself out as interior work can be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, layout visitors seldom look close enough to see such details, especially when they don’t know you actually want them to look for interior details! This is true on my HO scale layout and probably more so on an N scale layout.
If you really want the interior noticed, you have to add lighting to the interior of the building and light it all the time. Probably the fastest way to add an interior is to find an appropriate photo on the internet, then crop and print it out in N scale. Look for photos taken from the center of one side of the room, or from the front of the store/business. Crop/size the photo so it is a bit longer than the width of the room you are placing the interior photo. This way you can gently curve the photo so that the ends are touching/glued-to the front corners of the room with the center of the photo set back into the room. Make sure the interior lighting is in front of your photo interior and it should look pretty good. Add flooring material, a few pieces of 3D (or even 2D printed) furniture and a figure or two and it will look even better!
Keep in mind that any interior detail work should be for your own enjoyment as most of your layout visitors just won’t look that closely. For instance, my HO layout includes a television store with about 10 different TV sets visible through the large front window. Even though all the sets are modeled to look like they are all set to the same channel AND all the TV’s are backlit with a bright LED, not one layout visitor has noticed that on their own. Maybe if I modify the LED to flicker like an old B&W picture tube, the TV store might attract more attention. Anyone know of a way to model poor vertical hold in HO scale?
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