4 alarm blaze on ninth!! a Odd Duck production

[odd duck]

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!!

[von Lucky]

I think we're all in for a ride.

[OSHIROmodels]

 

 

Sounds promising 

cheers

James

[odd duck]

It's Super Bowl sunday here so you guys on the other side of the ocean get a head start !
Go Seahawks!!

[odd duck]

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

[odd duck]

sorry having trouble getting the pic.s up !!

[pocoloco]

Like your plan and the size of the project, keep going! 

[von Lucky]

Just under 4 weeks to go - all the best!

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Great use of cardboard boxes.

I hope the brickwork works out for you.

Tony

[odd duck]

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.

[von Lucky]

This is shaping up to be something impressive.

[Duke Donald]

This is huge! A section of a street of multi-storey buildings! And me who were worried my build was a bit too large!

[pocoloco]

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.

[odd duck]

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.

[odd duck]

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