Tapered Buildings

[Drunkenclam]

Does any one know of any other building that are angled or triangle shaped execpt for the 2 sankei ones. Looking for something about 12-15cm tall not including roof fixtures. Or is it tome to break out tbe sharp knife

[bill937ca]

Tomytec has several with triangular corners.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10296022

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10296019

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10296015

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10296014

 

Greenmax once offered an almost windowless triangular add-on.  Later similar pieces were part of the 46-6 five story business building.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10007639

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10007639/70/1

[Drunkenclam]

Thanks for that. I have some of the tomytec ones. But too small for my purpose. I need something like the sankei one below. But maybe 2 floors taller.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10191769

[cteno4]

Clam,

 

Nothing like that I've seen other than the old greenmax one. I would look at just kitbashing two of the sankei together. Looks like the top two floors could be grafted easily onto another one. Maybe even able to salvage the first floor with the extra roof to make a one story wedge building for use elsewhere. The sankei kits would be easier than plastic kits to do this sort of grafting as easy to cut up, but downside is not wanting to fill cracks or paint them. But in this case it looks like a pretty butt on graft.

 

Jeff

[kvp]

Getting some of the taller Tomytec 4 side ones (office buildings) and shortening one side while cutting up the roof and the baseplate might work. It's just a single vertical cut on one side and some gluing to keep it together. Actually i'm planning to do the same with some cheaper unpainted greemax kits to fill 2 small triangle corners and a strip of narrow plots. Unpainted buildings are more forgiving to the occasional glue leak or slip of hand while cutting as it could be covered up, but one straight cut on a painted side should be doable. The roof insert could be repainted after cutting and sanding.

[Drunkenclam]

I'll bite the bullet when I get home from work and order two of the Sankei buildings

[cteno4]

Clam,

 

It just occurred to me I'm pretty sure I have that building (not built yet) if you want me to take some pictures of it to review before chewing any bullets.

 

Looks like a clean break for the top two floors that could get grafted on top from the picture.

 

Lemme know!

 

Jeff

[Drunkenclam]

If you can check the build instructions, that would be great. This is tne kind of what I was hoping for. I intended to cut a triangle out of the kato viaduct station at one in and insert this in its place.

[cteno4]

clam,

 

pm me an email address and ill email you a scan of the instructions and i can try scanning parts to see if the lables and cut lines show up for you to look it thru.

 

one thing they dont show is the other long wall not pictured goes up all 3 floors as one piece. the other one you see in the picture is in two sections, the first floor and the top two floors. it is one of the more obtuse instructions from sankei (you do really need to study them well for a while and test fit before diving into them!) but i think i got it pretty sussed out in 5 minutes w/o the parts cut out (always label them in pencil lightly before cutting out and dont toss the sprue piece in case you ever need to put them back to figure out a problem part number). 

 

it looks like it should not be too bad to whack off the back walls at the first floor line (just have to figure out where that is) and graft the second top two floors on top of the base one. you will need to trim off a bit of the top of the walls that is the roof wall. once walls are grafted together you should be able to just assemble a 5 story version. trick will be to cut clean lines where you cut the walls. of course you could just use a thin strip of colored paper or pin tape (this is where the handy nail design pin tape comes in handy) or tiny thin strip of styrene that you have precolored to put over the graft joint to hide it then put strips at the same place on the other floors to just be a building construction detail 

 

extra first floor looks like it could be salvaged and then just add a thin like 5-10mm strip around the top of the walls and inset a roof into it to give a little roof wall/facade. could use the extra bits of the sankei material on the leftover cutout pieces.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[velotrain]

When I first saw this topic, this was the sort of thing I thought you had in mind.

 

 

[Drunkenclam]

Well the order is placed and despatched from Plazajapan. Now to wait.

[Paroan24]

How about this one from CMR.  Pricey but cool.

 

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/gasandelectricbuilding-1.aspx

Edited November 18, 2016 by Paroan24

[Drunkenclam]

Very NYC that one :D

[Drunkenclam]

I'm more at home with a hammer than a craft knife and tweezers.

 

[cteno4]

Excellent clam! It grafted well there. the sankei kits are fiddly and take practice to do well, you kind of jumped in the deep end there as this is one of the more complex and unforgiving kits with those vertical ribs, but it came out great! Kudos!

 

Jeff

[Martijn Meerts]

I have that kit as well, but haven't finished it yet. It's not the easiest one, not just because of the ribs, but also because of the large surfaces that need to go together and have pretty much perfect alignment.

 

They are fun to build though, and having the correct glue also helps a lot. Something like the Tamiya craft bond seems to work well.