Hi BroadwayLion
That looks very impressive.
Your going to need bulk packs of cheap figures for that[:D]
Looking at the repetitive nature of the background apartment ?? buildings are they a computer done drawing. That Please could I have a copy of. Or have you drawn those the old fashioned way with paper and ink.
That background is going to look very impressive when it is finished.
You might not have any sanity left afterwords but that background is going to be very impressive.
regards John
Lion:
You’ve captured the look and feel of the subway nicely. Keep up the good work and the photos coming.
Joe
Lion.
That looks really great and I’ll bet this time of year it is a lot warmer in that subway then it is out side this time of year than it is in North Dakota. LOL.
Cheers,
Frank
I made one building back using PagePlus X6, and then having printed four copies, I cut and mounted them on a four foot length of foam board, using additional pieces of foam to vary the building depths as per the prototype. First my page, and then an actual photo from Prospect Park.
When viewed from the front street you can see that they are actually eight similar but separate buildings.
ROAR
They are typical 6 story NYC outer borough apartments similar to the Co-Op we lived in when I was in High School in Queens
Actually, the come under the title of “New Law Tenements”. The Old Law Tenements were “Railroad Flats” constructed of wood, and having one room after another like cars on a train. You had to walk through one room to get to the next, and there was only one tenant per floor. The New Law Tenements had to be made of masonry, every room had to have a window, thus there are air shafts in the middle of the building for these windows, and each apartment had to have two exits, thus all of the fire escapes.
Fire Escapes are no longer permitted on new construction, and so all of the exits had to be in fire proof enclosures within the building, but could also be in the form of exterior stairways, built as real stairways and accessed by doors, and not by windows. So a building built as a co-op or a condominium would not look like one of these, but surely some of these may have been converted to co-ops. Typical co-ops can be as much as 15 stories tall, Newer buildings can be of any height, the Franciscans just built a 61 story rental apartment building on their property, just across from NYP. Well, if you own the land, you’d better make the most of it.
ROAR
Likely the buiding I was talking about in Queens was a conversion it had window access fire escapes as well as interior stairs. I remember the Fire Department coming to replace the window guards on the fire escape because they had to be able to be opened without a key yet secure to prevent break ins.
Hi BroadwayLion
So if I have understood this correctly the three small lumps on the roof are light or air wells.
Is the big lump the top of a lift well / equipment area or a water tank?? I assume there would be a pretty hefty sort of water tank up top somewhere.
I also take it the ideal is that the small lumps are set back from the bulding edge say by the thickness of the foam board say about 1/4" making the total building depth about 1/2", And the big lump is two layers of foam board
And I should leave say a 1mm gap between blocks so they are seperate structures or do you think just steping them as you did is enough to get the seperation.
I to have “once my new shed is done” a large area to cover with urban development so big back ground flats are a must have.
regards John
Well, first of all, I have never seen the tops of these buildings. All of my photos are of the back of the buildings, taken from the track level, after all, that is what I planed to model. The offset rows of windows enclose the rear stairway, the stair heads are flush with the rear walls of the buildings.
In any event, I went to Bing, and pulled up the overhead view of these buildings. Here is what they look like from the top.
There is the rear stairway as I have said, in the old days this may have been used by tenents to hang their laundry on the roof. I am not sure if there are elevators in these buildings, but since you can see the front door of each building you can guess as to which roof house might hold the elevator equipment. If the elevators were hydrolic however (not likely in such old buildings) there would be not hoist house or equipment on the roof.
The little shadows are cast by the dumbwaiter hoist heads. Dumbwaiters have long since been sealed up upon fire department and building code orders. They were hand operated and their presense may indicate that these buildings did not have elevators.
The enclosed glass sky lights would admit light to the stairways and or hoist ways. You can see how much space the inside airways provide. In this case these are spacious and these must have been pricy digs in their day. Even today, even without elevators, you are not going to get into one of these buildings on the cheap, especially given theie location, location, location.
The passageways on top of the platform canopies are late additions providing handicapped access to the train platforms via an elevator. These elevators are hydrolic and have no hoist house, but can be used to gauge the size of what head houses a building elevator would require. These are not big elevators, but are larger than any potential head
The LION does admirable work, especially with your limited budget! Is the LION familiar with CG Textures website?
You can copy these building textures and use a graphic editing program (I use CorelDRAW X5) to copy, duplicate, resize and print building flats, interiors, machinery or whatever. When I need interior wall or floor graphics I go here and use the rugs, paneling, glass wall, marble, tile, brick or whatever, then cut, paste merge and blend… print it out on white stock, glue it to foam board to give it depth and you have a very convincing structure.
Thanks for your contributions, Lion…
Ed
Hi BroadwayLion
Thanks for the roof picture and your original art work very much appreciated.
I wonder with modern green concerns if the trees would up the rent / purchase price on the basis of improved amenity for the residents.
In the modern world of commerce probably
regards John