I decided to get sone Christmas break projects started. I did the randy brown kit first. I’ve always enjoyed his stuff. Well designed. Easy to assemble and good fits.
Seams go down with slope as far as I know. Think it’s supposed to represent steel. Do steel roofs have horizontal seams on slope?
Not a biggie, but… If the main building has what looks like a standing seam roof, I think we can agree the shed is not the same. Look at the images for this kit on his Website if you think I’m wrong. ♂️
Ahhh, I see your point. Although looking at the website, it almost appears as though Randy used the same material for the roof on the shed, but provided the kits with something else. Either way works well enough for Z-scale. Being that the shed roof color is the same as the main building, I think you can get away with running it the way Joe did. Funny, but I have an issue on nearly every building I’ve completed, and if I tried to point them out today, I couldn’t because I forgot what the issue was in the first place. That’s Z-scale for ya - or old age…..
I think what Bryan is saying is the roof sheet on the shed LOOKS like it was glued on rotated 90 degrees from how it should have been. That piece of roofing material looks more like lap siding, not roofing like what is on the main roof. But hey, that's the beauty of model railroading, you get to build it up however YOU like it!
This Bryan agrees with the other Bryan, and Robert Ray. It looks like a different type of roofing material, like overlapping shingles on the shed/addition.
So I’m looking and looking. I certainly thought it was a steel roof but as I look perhaps it was lap siding. So I assumed steel…can’t rotate it cause super glue bonds instant. So I did a double layer. so a little more weathering but….I know the shed is layered cause I did it haha. Another thing I like about this forum. Great eyes…great people
I’m with you Robert. You want thing as right as possible. The digital photography and close ups just change everything….once you see it….you can’t live with it.
That is the dilemma with digital photography and the quality of cameras today, even on the average cell phone. The quality is “too” good. It is easy to see even the slightest slip of the paintbrush, or a roof panel lifted up a nanometer. My opinion is, it all matters what can be seen with the naked eye. If the naked eye can distinguish the issue on my layout or projects, then I call it an issue. I think if I tried to rework every flaw I pick out viewing digital photos of some of my projects, I’d never get one completed.
Don't you guys notice what I often do? I will build something, post with happiness and joy, THEN, I throw it out and build a better version. I look at the photos, which always expose the flaws, then my OCD kicks in. And sometimes I don't notice the flaws, and one of you guys find them. Once pointed out, it becomes and Optigrab Eye Magnet untill I do something about it.
Exactly.... Although for the purist that can scuff off and change road numbers and do it well, more power too ya'... I find it hard enough to find the time I need just to do all the other things I need to on my layout.
I have been working on a Railroad Hotel using the same electronic magnetic footprint as the Cherrie Poppin's has, so I can fit it next to the Depot on my Christmas Tree Layout. I am going for a little extra style, using turret bumpouts, because they are difficult to do, so I need to challenge myself. I am going to fit in a room light effects microcontroller like I used in the Motel 6.
