Well I got my items from Plustruct yesterday evening and today I started to build my Tavern Interior. I am working on my bar and tables in the bar. I hope to have some pictures this evening,
One of my favorite things to do is to build interiors from scratch. Some pics would be great!! I am in the process of trying to decide how I want to do the fixtures in a couple of sleepers I am working with.
Yeah, I’m afraid I’m hooked, too. I assembled a DPM “First National Bank” building last week, and just to see what it would look like, I put it down over an illuminating bulb on my layout. Empty. The big windows in the front just show too much. I immediately grabbed some foam scraps and a couple of people just to have something in there.
I got into scratch building interior when I did a Diorama for a contest that Walthers was holding here in Milwaukee ( I am actually outsode of Milwaukee but go there a lot) I did the wood floor thing bank tellers counter the vault and offices. I had a robbery scene and a nice chandaler from a doll house supplier that looked just right. I didnt win anything but since then I wanted to do interior for another building and This DPM building is the winner.
Heres somethings a scratch built, The TAbles and the bar. I just set these up to show whats happening. I am planning on putting an upstairs in here where the billards will be gonna take awhile till I am done.
I bought a figure set of Woodland Scenics “Rebels” which you mght want to look at. Guys in leather jackets and their ladies in tight sweaters. Just the kind of folks you’d find hanging around a pool hall.
Mister yeah I saw them I am thinking of getting some of them and just repaint the outfitsand maybe change the way they are standing etc. Nows the time there should be a pool hall set of figures made.
The greatest thing about building scale interiors nowadays (say, since 1998 or so) is the phletora of images you can get from the web for wall/flooring detailing, and color print on matte paper. Wallpaper, paneling, wainscotting, rugs, carpeting, paintings, signs -even electrical outlets and other such flat wall fixtures, etc. Grab the image, scale it to the right size, replicate if need be to fill a large area…
So much better than clipping glossy color photos of such items from Family Handyman and Mechanics Illustrated as I did in the 1980s…
Merten has a set of drunks figures you can use too.