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From: Mike Dickinson mdickinson002 AT stny DOT rr DOT com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:20:17 -0500
Subject: My Latest Project
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OK well this is my latest project. The Field& Wright furniture store at which I started working in 1978. The real address is 100-108 North Main St Jamestown N.Y. Google the address for comparison. The new owner have put in new windows and repainted the building. Notice the brick trim, it was painted red during my time there

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Real Building Main Street and First St sides My Building

I started with a DPM M.T. ARMS HOTEL kit. This is designed as a low profile building With two corner walls at a 45 degree angle. This angle was used as the Southwestern corner of the model. The model is 4 show windows wide, with the door at the 3rd window from the right.
Main St. and First St. are .165 thick. Blank and Alley walls are .040” with .022” brick veneer.
Alley wall is .040” sheet styrene with window and door cutouts. Cutouts were cut to allow a brick veneer on each side of the windows and doors to show. I attached the brick veneer before I added the 1 brick veneer. After everything had set up, I cut the 1 brick down to the ½ brick show and attached the windows. On the model most of the windows are painted over. I just put a .010” sheet over these windows and painted walls and windows together.
Blank wall is .040” sheet styrene with a picture of a wall on .010” sheet styrene printed on it and glued to the .040” sheet. This was an experiment that came out looking good. First St. Wall was the hardest because of the different thickness of the Hotel and bottom walls. To get an even inside wall I had to add several layers of styrene pieces. The bottom First St. corner has a door cut from the hotel and the rest is .040 styrene. More added styrene. The next part done was the roll-up corrugated door. This was done according to the MR article by Thomas Klimoski. I was able to contact him for advice and help by email. Same with R Stephen Milley for the custom windows he made.
Alley Wall Blank Wall w/ Picture

When I put it on the layout I will need to cut out 1/2” plywood to accommodate the extra height of the First St. and Alley wall. I would like to add the street on the First St. side to angle down to the same level as the lowest part of the corners. I plan on using blue foam and sanding it to the contour of the street. I will use thin Gray foam sheet to represent the roadway.


Still more work to do on the roadway. Same goes for the Alley. I would like to put a picture in the Alley that shows the alley and building and sky above it.

Same goes for the Alley. I would like to put a picture in the Alley that shows the alley and building and sky above it. This might not work because the available space for the picture is 1 ¾” wide by 9 ¼” tall. The roll up door Mechanism is Lego technics parts and 2 X 2 blocks.

PLYWOOD CUT OUT

Notice the brick trim, it was painted red during my time there. As the left picture.

This brick trim will be a separate project later.
Sorry for the long story. This has been a major project for me.

Mike Dickinson
Jamestown NY
ELRR
Swede Hill Div.
Jamestown N. Y.


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