I need some kind of fancy strip styrene that would run along the top of a brick building from around the turn of the century. Something kind of fancy, because it’s going on city hall.
Thanks,
Greg
Grandt Line would be another place to look.
That type of trim you’re unlikely to find. You can, however, build it up bit by bit using multiple strips and bits of styrene. If you want it to look authentic, the best route to go is study some pictures of brick buildings and try to replicate what you find.
I don’t know of any sources of such trim ready made.
-Ed
Those are called Cornices, mostly, certain ones are called dentil moldings (in woodwork) or soldier courses (in simpler types of brick or masonery work).
They tend to project outward from the building and if supported from underneath, the supports are called corbels, in either woodwork or masonary work. Grandt Line does make them, see pages 996 and 997 in the 2006 Walther’s catalog, and SS LTD also makes some, on page 1019 and 1022.
Most of the government buildings i’ve seen done in brick either did the entire facing in brick, (where a cornice would be more of s soldier course or several different soldier courses built up) or else the corners of the building from floor line up are set with alternating limestone or granite blocks, each many times larger than a single row of brick. In that case, your cornice would again be limestone or granite to match, and usually pretty complicated built up shapes.
After you look at some pictures of appropriate buildings (or the real thing), go to the local home improvement store and get familiar with how various crown moldings and dentil moldings are built up from component pieces, and then you can apply similar techniques to built up cornices in stone or brick.
You did not mention your scale. Look into building kits by Walthers and others that have the trim you want and use the parts for scratchbuilding. You may find use for some of the other parts in future projects. This is usually called kit bashing.
Cornices that look like brick are available from DPM [:D] They sell bulk packs of all their building kits. Most likely find them listed on Walthers.
evergreen plastics, plastruct, and you may find some in the walther’s catalog…chuck
Oops, it’s HO scale. 1stplacehobbies didn’t turn up anything, but I hadn’t considered the DPM stuff. I was afraid I might have to build it, but I guess that won’t be too hard.
Greg
You might want to try some doll house supply stores (or the doll and miniatures area of ebay). When helping the wife with her doll house hobby I’ve found numerous wood and cast resin molding pieces that are used in the interior of the houses. Although these pieces are 1/12 scale they are for interior trim work and might measure out to be appropropriate for exterior 1/87 building masonary trim.
yeah, I looked at Walthers, they have two types of cornices, the pictures are just line drawings, I have have boxes of their stuff laying around here somewhere. [:O]
My wife does scrap booking and she has scissors that have fancy blades that make designs,I wonder if you cut strips of cardboard and painted them how it would look.Michaels sell them.
I enjoy scratch building and kitbashing (nothing too extreme) and DPM is a godsend. They have some very nice bags of building parts.
While not styrene these guys have qiute a few very interesting and unique photo etched items.
http://www.scalelink.co.uk/acatalog/Scalelink_Etched_Brass_Frets___Photo_decoupe_2.html
They should have something like what you need. Bruce
Thanks guys, It looks like DPM’s gonna be the way to go.
Bwftex: That is an amazing site, they have a lot of cool stuff. Not what I’m looking for in this project, but I added it to my favorites for when I need other odd parts.
Greg
This is the type of molding I had in mind when I posted earlier.
Trainwreck100,
While not styrene, there are a lot of early 1900s architectural details at the Scale Structures, Ltd. division of Jaks Industries:
http://www.jaksind.com
That is the century you mean, right ?
Bob
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