If your photo is not “square on” you can do this. If you’ve got a drawing program, import the photo, then either trace over the image, or some programs have a “save as a line drawing” feature.
Your resulting line drawing will be in perspective, same as the photo. But you can grab all the lines to make the top and bottom of the wall parallel. This should straighten out the windows as well, but you may have a problem about their size.
With the top and bottom of the wall parallel, make a door the size you need by resizing the entire picture (line drawing). Now you’ve got a view of the wall with the door the right size, and you should be able to measure everything off the drawing.
You may still have to fudge the windows to a rational size. They should be in one foot increments, so you can adjust a window that figures out to 4’ 2" by 6’1" to 4 by 6. Or you can just eyeball the dimensions to what looks good.
no real construction progress to speak of im working 6 days a week and the last two weeks I have been working on finishing detailing my Bachmann D&RGW coaches & combine they are a project I started like a year ago but kept getting side tracked with other stuff.
I dont think I will be starting construction on the depot untill January I have alot of material I need to get for it first plus I have alot going on through the end of the year with work, holidays & trips, Im going back to Indiana next week for a few days and mid December Im taking the train to Denver to spend a week with my mom then theres my nephew’s and both my sister’s birthdays and im sure shoveling snow lol I hate this time of year!
Take your time, work at YOUR own pace, You will like the end results better. Don’t forget all the GOOD place’s to see in and around Denver. Lot’s of good shoping too. I lived in that area from 84-90 and my wife has family there.
I was browsing the Sketchup site and saw that too. Sketchup is a free download and has a cool feature where you pick points on a photo and basically trace it. You will need a dimension to get is to print to scale and I don’t know if the doors were standard 80" that homes use today. Eight foot doors for depots was common then (and now) but use a passenger for scale. Most people were shorter back then except for us Scandanavians!
I have built a number of G scale buildings both for indoor and outdoor use.
A useful trick I have used a lot when I’m not totally certain of the dimensions or how the final product will look is to buid a “study model” first. These are typically built of 3/16" foamcore board available at most arts and crafts supply stores. Hobby Lobby often has it on sale. I cut this into walls and roof pieces, then carefully tape them together using 1 1/2" masking tape. I’ll photocopy my walls full size, cut them out and using spray adhesive, glue them onto the foamcore building. Occasionally I"ll even colors these photocopy pictures to see how the color scheme looks too. A building like this takes only a couple of hours at most from start to finish, and is cheap and expendable. My experience has frequently been that what looked good as a plan will not turn out as I had hoped; this method saves me a disappointment after many hours/days/weeks of work and a lot of $$$ in materials. A study model is exactly that, not the final finished product. Don’t get too fancy or be afraid to make as many changes as you want to acheive the look and feel of what you really want. Then use that final edition as the basis for the final plans; determining wall and roof sizes/heights and locations of doors/windows when you go to use the good materials.
Along the lines of the original question, don’t forget that there are books on the market giving the structural standards of various railroads. I had one on standards of the Pennsy (Loaned it out and never saw i again), and it showed a standard design for about 6 passenger stations for different sized markets along with equipment sheds, freight stations, even down to the lettering for official railroad signage! If one of these is available for the particular railroad you want to model it should be invaluable to the scratchbuilder.
Sorry for the late reply, havent checked this topic for a while
No, sorry, all I have is the single picture. It was a limited edition Disney collectable somewhere in the 1/24 scale vicinity. I’ve read that some Disney books have line drawings of the original Frontierland structure which only existed for a couple years before being replaced by a larger structure that was an almost direct copy of Ward Kimballs Grizzly Flats station, which ironicly was a relocated stage set from a Disney movie set.Thats the station there today.
Is this something like what you were looking for? It is an HO scale kit that would be interesting to scale up. I could do a quick sketch of the footprint, front and maybe one side pretty quickly if you are serious.
I’m guessing that the bay window has a head height of 11’ - 12’? If that is an 8’ tall door with transom and trim … or the window is a double hung with 3’ tall panels and 36" sill. Hmm.
O.K. Last one. Check out p.19 of the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of the Gazette. Seems like the Kimball’s station is based on the Pottsville Branch Depot on the Lehigh Valley Railroad?
Is this something like what you were looking for? It is an HO scale kit that would be interesting to scale up. I could do a quick sketch of the footprint, front and maybe one side pretty quickly if you are serious.