When I started to roof main building, something didn’t look right. Took a while to realize what was wrong. Now I’m debateing to leave it or toss it and start over.
Siding is upside down? I would leave it.
I have made the same mistake when children interrupted me mid glue.[(-D] I am the only one that has ever noticed it. So just leave it.
I am a bit of a perfectionist to the best of my abilities and to fix the mistake is very low on my list of to-dos.
I think the gap between the roof and the bottom, draws your attention to the sideing-- is a bigger problem?
I´d say correct it. Otherwise, it´ll be one of those things you know are wrong and it will always remind you of that mistake. Can be quite annoying!
If that side is towards the backdrop and not readily visible - don’t worry about it. But if that’s the front - it’s very noticeable, as soon as you see the upside down wall along with the end wall that is the right way 'round. ANd it will get worse over time as it natually ‘weathers’ from dust in the air and so forth, which will settle in the overhang of the siding, further exaggerting the fact that the boards are layered on upside down.
–Randy
I don’t know…
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When I ripped out the “spare bedroom” layout three years ago, I found a building that I built and installed two of the window castings upside down.
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I never noticed it until I took the layout down.
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Since you know about it, it might bother you. I doubt anyone else would notice it very easily.
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You need to make the call.
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-Kevin
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Naw, it’s just not right. Fix it. Woodone is right about the gap. But I’sure that will be fixed in the final stage of building, because Unclebutch’s buildings are great when he’s done.
Mike.
I agree: fix it or it will always haunt you. I’m embarrassed enough when I realise I’ve done something wrong, but it’s even worse if someone else has to point it out to me, even if they’re doing so with the best intentions.
I recently learned that the dozens (if not hundreds) of links I’ve posted here are verboten, and that, to me anyway, is extremely embarrassing. If I had the time, I’d start searching in order to remove them, but I’d guess that most are buried so far back that it’ll take a newbie’s first post to dig up even one of them.
Wayne
I’m on the side of the ‘fix it’ group.
Besides being noticeable and not looking right, every time it rains, there is a risk that water will collect behind the siding. [:-^]
Rich
I’m kind of a realism snob in some ways, yet I must be the only one that thinks it looks fine.
The photo is pretty close-up. You’ll never look at it with your nose about touching the roof, LOL.
But I can see if its one of those things you know is wrong, it could haunt you until its fixed.
I’ll rebuild it, already hurts my eyes.
The gap on the bottom would have been covered with roofing and flashing.
That is the front of the building.
It don’t never rain in Kowereville
Thanks for your input
I guess I’d agree with the others.
It’s something that no one else will notice, and even if they did, they wouldn’t care.
However, if you’re like me, you will see it everytime you look at it.
9 people out of 10 might not notice, but that 10th person - and every 10th person thereafter, will be all too happy to gleefully point out what an idiot you are for buildign it upside down. Or perhaps more accurately, 8 out of 10 won;t notice, 1 in 10 will notice but not say anything because they know we all have bad days, and the other 1 out of 10 will be sure to draw everyone’s attention to your goof. Of course, if you ever saw that last guy’s layout, it would have moder vehicles lining the streets while 1920’s era steam locomotives roll by pulling stack trains with extended vision cabooses on the rear end. Rivet Counter Type A. Type B doesn’t even have a layout, they are so paralyzed by the fear of getting something wrong, the never even get started. Not saying it’s right, it’s just how (thanfully, a very small minority) some people are. They’ll ignore the 50 other structures that are so well detailed that people that used to live or work in them, or lived near them, know EXACTLY what they are, and concentrate on that one tiny goof. I don’t knowingly associate with such people, but sometimes you don’t find out until later.
Plus you already noticed it yourself - so it will bother you until you do fix it, even if no one ever sees it. It’s not like this has been there for years and you just now realized you goofed up, or someone finally, after all these years, noticed and pointed it out (at least, that’s not the tone of the orgiginal post).
–Randy
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…and that is why I have always been so reluctant to let model railroaders into my train room.
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I can be that way too. I see the flaws in my own work everytime I look at it.
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Interesting, it never seems to rain in Centerville either, but the grass and trees are always green.
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-Kevin
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Once it is on the layout, stick a big tree on that side of the building over hanging the roof so it hides it.
It’s always cloudy in Plattsburgh, but it never rains. Hmm…[*-)]