Sidewalk thickness

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I was going to order some sheets of styrene.What is a good thickness for HO sidewalk.I am using the Busch roadbed that is quite flat.I thought maybe .20 mm or 30mm.Thanks Bob

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.030 is what I use. It matches a commerically available sidewalk I use.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/171-682

I was incorrect, I should not trust to memory all of the time. I use .060.

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I use .060 or sixty-thousandths.

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How high is the sidewalk you’re trying to model? One HO scale inch is roughly equal to .011" (0.0108267719" to be more precise), so .030" styrene would be suitable for a 3" high sidewalk in HO scale.

I used .060" here:

…and .080" here:

Wayne

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Thanks guys for all the help and pics.Really appreciated.BOB

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You can buy squared sidewalks from Walthers. I have quite a few with the Asphalt Roadway set from Walthers. Bob Hahn

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Very nice work on the city scene, Wayne. May I inquire as to the manufacturer of the three-and-a-half story brick building in the top photo? I have a spot on my layout that is just begging for such a structure! I scanned the Walther’s catalog in both the Kibri and Vollmer pages but didn’t see one like it.

Did you do much kit-bashing on it?

Thanks, Ed

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The sidewalk I use is http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/171-682

The picture below shows the sidewalk used in the parking lot.

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Thanks for the kind words, Ed. [:)]

That building is a bottling plant, I believe, from LifeLike. I did kitbash the building to get a different footprint, but it’s been a while and I don’t recall the specifics.

Here’s a view from the other side:

…and a more over-all view of the complex:

The business occupies a city block, with the bottling plant representing offices and a small shipping/receiving area (the two roll-up doors nearest the office). The next large door is for coal delivery, and is adjacent to the plant’s power house. This, along with the adjoining warehouse/shipping area was built with MDC wall sections from one of their 3-in-1 kits. The loading dock is scratchbuilt from .060" sheet styrene. The main factory building is a Walthers Vulcan Foundry kit, with both long walls facing the aisle. The unseen backs of all parts of the complex were made from plain .060" sheet styrene.

From above, you can see the shape of the office area.

Wayne

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The guy with the blue suede shoes and the hound dog here is standing on a sheet of .040 styrene. That corresponds to about a 4-inch curb height in HO. A 6-inch curb would be about .070 inches.

I trim the sidewalk around the shape of the buildings, so that the buildings sit down below the sidewalk level. This gives the structures a more built-in look, and it eliminates light leakage underneath the walls if you illuminate the buildings.

All of these sidewalks were painted with acrylic craft paint. I chose a shade of gray a bit lighter than the color I used for the roads, which are made of Durhams Water Putty. The lines are drawn on with a ruler and a number 2 pencil.

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I, too, used 0.60 styrene for my sidewalks. I added 0.10 underneath to create the gutter. I painted them with Rustoleum Texture spray paint before finishing with concrete color paint.

markalan

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I, too, used 0.60 styrene for my sidewalks. I added 0.10 underneath to create the gutter. I painted them with Rustoleum Texture spray paint before finishing with concrete color paint.

markalan