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Author Topic: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production  (Read 7064 times)

Offline odd duck

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4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« on: January 31, 2015, 04:33:00 PM »
Hey Chief! That crackpot Von Oopzt has really done it this time, he just did'nt set his laboratory on fire, he blew off the top floor of the Schumway Building andthe fires spread to the surrounding buildings!!
GOOD GOD Clancey!! the lodge is next to the Schumway let's get rolling Boys!!

Offline von Lucky

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2015, 09:02:06 PM »
I think we're all in for a ride.
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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2015, 04:29:32 PM »
 o_o

 lol

Sounds promising  :)

cheers

James
cheers

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Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2015, 09:42:13 PM »
It's Super Bowl sunday here so you guys on the other side of the ocean get a head start !
Go Seahawks!!

Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2015, 06:52:59 PM »
OK a bit of a delay, as I had to work out a  base size  that will work with my whole pulp city layout and my game table.
Finally decided 18'x18' is th way to go. My entry will be a street section of three buildings with the center building having the top blown off and on fire the two flanking buildings having damage and secondary fires on their roofs.If I have time I hope to add firefighters and fleeing occupants.
I've been using wooden craft boxes as the base for most of my buildings but as they are hard to find now only one building will be made with them . I have found some cardboard ones about the same size which i'll use for the center building and the third will be out of foamcore

test run of layout

first attempt to etch brickwork into the cardbord box and paintig experiment sorry about the poor quality photo the brickwork turned out OK  the paint ing obviously did'nt
« Last Edit: February 09, 2015, 07:16:22 PM by odd duck »

Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2015, 07:01:46 PM »
sorry having trouble getting the pic.s up !!

Offline pocoloco

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2015, 08:11:37 PM »
Like your plan and the size of the project, keep going!  8)

Offline von Lucky

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2015, 08:59:33 PM »
Just under 4 weeks to go - all the best!

Offline dampfpanzerwagon

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2015, 08:59:33 AM »
Great use of cardboard boxes.

I hope the brickwork works out for you.

Tony

Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2015, 05:49:13 PM »
The cardboard boxes take the inscribing well but you have to hold a piece of wood behind the piece you're working on it does'nt take as much time as most people think


just measure on the corners


and scribe a line between the marks with a piece of metal that gives the size of groove you want


then I use a screwdriver and steel rule to mark the end of the bricks.



I did'nt show the piece of wood being held behind because I was holding the camera
this is my progress so far

the first two stories of the center building won't have exposed brick.I messed up on the windows of the second story so that's a redo. any imperfections on the upper stories should be covered up by window frames and sills.

Offline von Lucky

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2015, 08:25:39 PM »
This is shaping up to be something impressive.

Offline Duke Donald

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2015, 12:13:31 AM »
This is huge! A section of a street of multi-storey buildings! And me who were worried my build was a bit too large!

Offline pocoloco

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2015, 06:19:04 AM »
It seems that I need to check on those wooden craft boxes more closely seeing your work, I think I can source them with moderate price tags.

Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2015, 09:18:48 PM »
It seems that I need to check on those wooden craft boxes more closely seeing your work, I think I can source them with moderate price tags.
they are quite usefull, and cut down build times ,if you don't mind having the size of your building predetermined for you.
as I mentioned they are hard to find in the doller stores now ,but I believe you can order them from china in 20- 50 size lots
on ali baba . I have a bit of a stock pile which is enough for my needs at present so I have'nt looked into it.Quality of the wood and varience in dimensions occur so I prefer to see what Im buying.

Offline odd duck

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Re: 4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2015, 09:36:14 PM »
OK a bit more progress to report replaced the story with th missaligned window and worked out the configuration of the upper stories of the Schumway building. The upper 2 1/2 stories won't be there in the finished entry I'm doing a intact and a damaged version of the upper parts of all three buildings so I'll have more gaming flexability.

Got the bricks inscribed and storefront layout worked out on the right hand  building which is going to be a Stationary store.



and started work on the Damaged-burning rooftop

 

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