Author Topic: Whitechapel project WIP (Read 6344 times)

Skrapwelder · « **on:** November 02, 2007, 01:53:14 PM »

My current project. A bunch of buildings for a Whitechapel type setting for Gothic Horror and VSF. The buildings are modular and come apart floor by floor. I'm casting wall pieces and then beveling the edges where the wall sections glue together. My eventual goal is to have about eight each of the long and short wall sections with different window/door treatments on each.

I've run up against a wall, so to speak, and could use a bit of help on the rain gutters. On this type of building, is the rain gutter a trough at the top of the wall, or is it something else entirely. In the pictures I've been able to find it doesn't appear that there are eaves or any kind of roof overhang. And where does the water go?

Thanks,

Mike

Hammers · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:10:55 PM »

Now that's a work top worthy its name! The Professor's workbench looks like a show room at IKEA.

Those walls, do you cast them in dental plaster or resin?

Skrapwelder · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:14:18 PM »

Resin, Smooth On 300 to be exact. Good stuff.

Hammers · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:15:20 PM »

...but pretty expensive, isn't it?

Aaron · « **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:27:44 PM »

Sorry I can't answer your question, but those look great! I'd bet you could find a company who would be happy to cast them. You might make a few bucks, but at the very least it would save you some time and resin. I have selfish motives, as I'd love to own a few.

Plynkes · « **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:32:21 PM »

There's nothing wrong with IKEA. The chair I'm sitting on and the desk I'm typing at came from IKEA.

Most houses in Britain have an overhead gutter (or troffin as we call it around here) running down the length of the house and a drainpipe on the corner of the building leading to a drain in the ground.

I think those were common by Victorian times.

TadPortly · « **Reply #6 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:34:09 PM »

Blimey, these look stunning! The attention to detail is just amazing. Can't wait to see the finished articles.

With regard to guttering, there are some pictures of Workhouses in Whitechapel here which might help:

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Whitechapel/Whitechapel.shtml

The Derelict London site might also have some useful references:

http://www.derelictlondon.com/derelict_london_com.htm

This site might also be of help:

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/london.html

Hammers · « **Reply #7 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:45:13 PM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

There's nothing wrong with IKEA.

Maybe, maybe not. I was refering to the look of show rooms, not IKEA products per se. The unhumanlike neatness of the Proff's worktop, besides his prolific output of quality, makes me feel pitifully inadequate. Thus I strike out in frustration at him ;-) :twisted:

Lowtardog · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:48:39 PM »

As Poly says the gutters would run along the length of the tiles roof edge. A down pipe could be at corners of the building or in the centre (where terraced houses are concerned. Later houses with indoor tilets and water would also have waste water running into the down pipes into a stack for the sewer,drain.

Plynkes · « **Reply #9 on:** November 02, 2007, 04:13:15 PM »

I like IKEA showrooms. I'd like to live in one. I especially like the plastic fake computer equipment on the desks. Makes you feel like you're trapped in a paranoid Philip K. Dick story where everything seems normal, but something is not quite right...

Skrapwelder · « **Reply #10 on:** November 02, 2007, 04:15:16 PM »

Thanks for the feedback. Finding the right words to look for like Troffin makes it a lot easier.

The Smooth On runs me about $80 for a two gallon set. Based on calculations for my Arnica buildings I should be able to get between 10 and 15 buildings like the one on the right out of that.

While I probably won't offer these up for mass sales on the Arnica website I've already promised to make them available for purchase once complete.

Tad- Thanks for the links. I hadn't seen the Derelict London one before. Some great pictures in there.

Mike

Plynkes · « **Reply #11 on:** November 02, 2007, 04:18:17 PM »

Sorry, but I think troffin is from my local dialect. Lots of English people look at you blankly when you use it, I find. It probably won't get you very far at all in the UK at large.

Skrapwelder · « **Reply #12 on:** November 02, 2007, 04:24:28 PM »

It got me to Troughing, more results than victorian rain gutter

SgtPerry · « **Reply #13 on:** November 02, 2007, 05:00:44 PM »

Hi Mike,

That's an impressive project. Your buildings are nothing but gorgeous! superb work!

Olivier

Aaron · « **Reply #14 on:** November 02, 2007, 05:05:12 PM »

I completely missed the fact that you are the talent behind the Arnica stuff! :oops:

News:

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Recent

Author Topic: Whitechapel project WIP (Read 6344 times)

Related Topics