High Rise / Skyscraper building kits ??

[bill937ca]

too bad his photos are usually washed out and hard to see how he models these.

jeff

 

His description says the glass is decaled not openings with glazing.  Sounds like a big hunk of styrene.

 

"You are bidding on an N scale (1/160)  high rise hotel. It is scratch built from styrene.  It has been painted off white and decaled for a Hilton Hotel  as shown.  It measures 10" high, 14" wide and  11" deep. It has a pool on one end (it is recessed a bit lower than the deck area) and a tennis court on the other. The right side is a parking garage.  The 'glass' is decaled. The building is finished off with matte clearcoat."

[quinntopia]

too bad his photos are usually washed out and hard to see how he models these.

 

Yeah, I saw this other day, and the poor quality photo's really throws me off.  Someone put a lot of time into these buildings, and even the worst digital camera can take a photo better than these.  And why would you purposefully want to hide any flaws in your eBay photos? That just leads to all sorts of problems.  I don't get it, but these issues keep me well away from these auctions.

[cteno4]

nother one

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110584347784&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

 

jeff

[cteno4]

more

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140452223015&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140452225170&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1075

 

second one looks quite nice and almost looks to have balconies?

 

cheers

 

jeff

[mariaclarie]

I also like that building and its price too which you people mention here. But still i do not wana buy it. Have not any attractions in your offers......:(

[mariaclarie]

I like that building and also its prices mentioned by your people here. But still i feel there is some thing missing for which i have to buy that one.

[Scaper]

I know the fellow who made these. He's going to eventually sell some more. As for myself. I've got all my stuff in boxes still from my move. That all said I hope to get modeling soon :D

[Bernard]

I know the fellow who made these. He's going to eventually sell some more. As for myself. I've got all my stuff in boxes still from my move. That all said I hope to get modeling soon :D

 

Scaper - Good to see you back! Hope you get your buildings out of storage and would love to see more photos of them.

[Scaper]

Well here's the update. I finally got through all my boxes. I organized all my unbuilt kits and made a detailed list as to what was in each box. I have over 50 boxes packed with my models and unbuilt building kits.

 

I hauled up several kits and hopefully will get back into building some stuff in the next week. :D

 

It's been tough working and getting re organized from my move.

 

I'll post some pics in the comming week.

[bigford]

glad to hear the move went well!!! NOW start building

[cteno4]

another new one, interesting, looks like the windows are printed walls.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300500171433&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_853wt_878

 

jeff

[Martijn Meerts]

$100 is rather expensive for a few sheets of styrene and some ink.. At first, judging from the photo's alone, I thought it was all cardboard...

[quinntopia]

I agree with Martjin...here's another one....I've seen this builders work before and - as I think the photos show - this is real quality work!

http://cgi.ebay.com/N-Custom-Built-High-Rise-Tower-Building-W-Hotel_W0QQitemZ110618743323QQcategoryZ69811QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D10%26pmod%3D110584347784%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5399735803635224824

[Scaper]

Jonathan's work is as good as anyones!

 

Here's a link to his newest project...amazing!

 

http://zahkunst.net/BuildingGotham/

[cteno4]

i agree, its not worth what it looks like, just an interesting design/approach for some to noodle on.

 

sorry i meant to post the weston model by jonathan and forgot. it really is a nice one and very interesting use of the atlas high rise panels, exactly what i plan to do with my kits when i get to it! i even have an assembled atlas rectangle i picked up for $5 at the train show i hope to tear apart for the panels. the panels are pretty easy to make if you want with tinted acetate and just scribe in the lines they have, just have to be very square and even with your straight edge and use a plex/plastic scriber.

 

also an interesting simple penthouse for the tomix high rise is to use a first floor section on the roof! just need to put some hand rails across the open areas, but then it looks like a large office on either side and a large open patio in the center on each side. you see this sort of thing in a lot of swanky high rise top floors.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[quinntopia]

Good ideas Jeff.  I really like that you're 'recycling' already built Atlas skyscrapers rather than cutting up unbuilt ones!  They seem so rare (or are they? ) that I'd be hard pressed to cut one up (although I basically did, so I don't know what I'm talking about.  Maybe I should just shut up ).

 

On a similar note....I got inspired by the photo on P. 64-65 of the Tomix Diorama book (and sorry to those of you that don't have one...its a favorite of mine!).  The creators of that city scene used the window sections of the Tomix High Rise to create some pretty unique looking skyscrapers.  Basically, added their own structure around the glass section, and what appears to be painting the small window rectangle rows.  They look good and don't look like so many of the other ubiquitous high rises now out there (my original one included!).  Plus, these buildings are still in good supply and they're pretty cheap for what you get.

 

I can imagine all of us sitting around looking for these things on eBay at $100 a pop in a few years!

 

I'm also going to do a 'do-over' on my 'Greenmax modular building'.  My original design was uninspired and I am not at all happy with it, but seeing some of the stuff done by others (well, at least the Greenmax promotional folks!) gets me sort of thinking a bit more creatively a second time around.

[cteno4]

yeah well the one i got for $5 had some glue mucks along the corners. was first thinking of doing a bunch of vertical slats on them from strip styrene and corners to cover them up, but more thinking now of chopping them up for parts...

 

did you also see in the diorama book how the turned the tomix high rise on its side to create a large walkway above tracks in the big station. quite cool as the corner windows became sort of skylights along the top corner of the walkway. would be a very tall walk way so maybe they were also offices or something above the tracks as well...

 

im finally getting back to planning my basement layout so starting to think what kind/size of high rise modern stuff i would want in it. starting to think more medium level and topping most thing at 10-15 stories and not going for the taller stuff as i probably wont have the room for a big build up. although may try to engineer a thin highrise 3D backdrop in one area with taller stuff maybe. cheat and only do a 1/3rd depth.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Scaper]

I know this kind of a double post... but I thought I'd post my latest building on here.

 

If you want to see all the photos of this building and how I made it, you can see them here.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55063726@N00/sets/72157625184595567/with/5233741708/

 

I made it from this little building here.

 

Here's some pics of the final building..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've kept the top unglued as I still want to be able to slide the back off so I can add lights and adjust floors when it comes to building the city.

 

I got the signs from a business magazine...the take the train sign came from an insert in the HO Walther's Catalog. Everything else is pretty self explanatory.

 

Again there's more pix on my flickr page I posted.

 

On to the next project. :D

[Kamiyacho]

It is interesting to me how much the period one is modeling impacts the type of buldings which fit in.  I've frequently wondered why people are making such tall buildings as when I lived in Tokyo in the 80's we had, for example, an apartment on the 4th floor of a 6 floor building and my office on the 9th floor of the nondescript TBS Kaikan building in Akasaka was one of the higher spots around (one could see Fuji-san on a good day). Most of the buildings in the Roppongi 1-Chome area in those days were not very tall except for the then-new Ark Hills complex.

 

But I noticed on my last trip that the old TBS building has been replaced by this taller version and there are many fantasic new structures so Japan today looks much different than what I am modelling.  For those who have  collections which include the latest trains, tall buildings are perfect. 

[cteno4]

ok here is a serious model to finish! ho scale world trade towers built with girders structure!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320635822145&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_949

 

this guy does some serious ho scale high rises!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Bernard]

ok here is a serious model to finish! ho scale world trade towers built with girders structure!

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320635822145&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_949

 

this guy does some serious ho scale high rises!

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

He sure does! I just took a look at the other models he has up for sale and the NY building is also impressive.

[cteno4]

someone is putting up 6 hexagon atlas kits on ebay this week. had some mega project they decided not to do...

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Atlas-N-Scale-High-Rise-Hexagon-Buildling-SEALED-NIB-/270696655252?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3f06c72994#ht_500wt_949

[cteno4]

few more interesting high rises up again on ebay

 

http://shop.ebay.com/greggerson/m.html

 

jeff

[cteno4]

this guy has been doing these. look like mostly printed, hard to see from his images how much relief is on them. perhaps he is using decals as he does a lot of vehicle decaling as well.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Modern-High-Rise-Office-Building-/310291621115?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item483ed264fb#ht_791wt_845

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hard-Rock-Casino-Hotel-/300505888413?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item45f78bf69d#ht_839wt_845

 

http://stores.ebay.com:80/Adams-trucks-N-trains/_i.html?_fsub=15961393

 

cheers

 

jeff

[Bernard]

this guy has been doing these. look like mostly printed, hard to see from his images how much relief is on them. perhaps he is using decals as he does a lot of vehicle decaling as well.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Modern-High-Rise-Office-Building-/310291621115?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item483ed264fb#ht_791wt_845

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hard-Rock-Casino-Hotel-/300505888413?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item45f78bf69d#ht_839wt_845

 

http://stores.ebay.com:80/Adams-trucks-N-trains/_i.html?_fsub=15961393

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

Yes they do look like decals or just printed on foam core board. For me the most interesting one is the "Taco Bell"

store, but most of the structures look too boxy, I guess that due to the lack of contour.