Scratch built house

[Petey]

Built from 1/8" Masonite.

The house is part of a bridge diorama.

Please feel free to ask me any questions about building the model house.

 

 

Scaling the building. Houses generally follow standards, such as door sizes, to get a reference for the rest of the building.

 

 

 

Building the foundations on a substrate so as to fit into the diorama.

 

This model has interior walls so I can display house lighting.

 

 

 

Designing and building a sequencer for lighting each room in-turn, as if someone was going from one room to the next.

 

 

 

[cteno4]

Very nice! 1/72 scale, correct?

 

love the room lighting changes, I’ve wanted to do a little arduino nano program to turn on and off like 4 or 5 leds so rooms randomly light and go dark.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Petey]

On 9/4/2022 at 9:55 AM, cteno4 said:

Very nice! 1/72 scale, correct?

 

love the room lighting changes, I’ve wanted to do a little arduino nano program to turn on and off like 4 or 5 leds so rooms randomly light and go dark.

 

cheers

 

jeff

Yes, the scale is 1/72. This project was my very first modelling experience, and had no idea about scales or rail gauges of models. The museum was adamant that the bridge had to take up a certain display size, including some of the river banks on both sides. After estimating the actual size, and the space given, the best scale would have been 1/72. And so I started building the bridge to that scale. It was only after the idea of including figurines and road traffic did I learn that I was not using a more conventional modelling scale. Anyway, OO scale seemed close enough, and in certain circumstances HO scale too.

 

I am not familiar with Arduino nor Raspberry Pi. I learnt Basic programming many decades ago, but since then I could not find enthusiasm to learn Python, or whatever they use these days. So, I now just stick with what I know, and that is simple electronic circuitry. At 68 y.o., time is more noticeable and I become more choosey in what I want to spend time with, and programming is not one of them... Then again, as one of my favourite sayings, "It ain't necessarily so". I just might change my mind after all. I may have an opinion, but I also like to keep the mental door ajar.

[cteno4]

Petey,

 

actually 1/72 is a big modeling scale, just not for trains but close damn close to OO!

 

yeah it’s a new learning curve for C programming for arduino, not as easy as basic, but so many libraries out there now you can get away with finding stuff already written and learning enough C to adapt it. I’m dyslexic so programming from scratch is torture for me but I’ve done well in scripted languages for my professional work. Nice thing is a $2 nano processor can do a ton of hardwired circuit work, but I also agree a good old hard wired circuit can just do the trick!

 

cheers

 

jeff