I am a carpenter, standard doors are 36"*84" for exterior and access ways. Interior home and office doors are 80" by 30" or 36" and closet / bathroom doors are 30" or 24"
excellent..excellent video..I have always admired scratch building and using prototype photos to do it..this method explains the process very well. Thank you.. Tom And...Happy Father's Day
Awsome info I will have to try this technique and see were it can take me looks like a great way to do background scenes for starters Thank for sharing
Thanks, Vinny. Always good to hear from you. I hope these videos on preparation for scratchbuilds have not become too tedious for people, but I thought they were important to share. I'm looking forward to this build too. It is going to be about the most intricate and complicated build I have done with all of the brick and stone sections interconnected. It should be interesting.
Scan your scale ruler and paste the image at 100% into your Publisher document and (if possible ) lock it. Then you can import your image next to it and do your size adjustment to match the ruler there on screen, using the standard- size guidelines you talked about while working on the paper copy.
New flat roof over the train room is a 2:12 pitch does not seem that much but over the basic 20 feet gains a little over 3 feet. Then to run it into the existing roof it gains almost another foot. Crazy... Now back to modeling
User tip, It helps gain on RU-vid if your END Card links to another channel or playlist. With similar theme, video or tags - For instant linking to the BBCv2 playlist. The playlist if full of links to other similar channels doing the same thing, or link to some of BNSF6951 builds etc. Link to good playlist, videos and channels. Do this will increase the odds of your videos show up in the right drop down list and end video blocks that fill in post video end.
Now that I'm asking, The phot program I used to use years ago no longer exist for Windows 10. What do you use to Fix parallax, keystone and barrel distortion in your photos?
Thanks for that tip. I will be sure to do this. I was trying to link the 3 videos I have on a similar subject, but this makes sense. I think I will go in and change those.
Its a lot to ask but can you take us thru the actual steps of scaling the picture for printing in HO scale with your program, if you have the time? Its kinda confusing to me at the moment..lol
Looking at that photo, it is apparent that the front door is at the base of the tall tower. That tower seems to stick out forward of the front of the building. Using a 2D photo, how to you determine how far that that facade protrudes towards you in the photo? I’m guessing it’s a proportional guess.
Can you tell your audience where you purchased the 1:160 Transparent Scale Ruler? It obviously states C.T.T INC Dallas, Texas! Yehaaaaa! I Conducted a search I could not locate such item. Please respond. Best regards Spanky 😍 Your Videos!
+Spanky Fuentes I bought mine in a hobby store in Fort Worth about 15 years ago. Vinny (bnsf6951) has one just like it. I haven't seen one for sale in a while. I didn't realize this until after I made this video. Watch ebay. Might be your best bet.
Great video Ron!! I have one question though,where did you get the CTT ruler? I have a 1/25 scale for my model cars,but have not been able to find any more.
I purchased mine in a hobby shop in Texas years ago. Sadly this company does not make them anymore and I have not been able to find something very similar recently. I will keep my eyes open and let people know if I find one because you are not the first to ask.
I don't think there is one magic setting. It depends on how much you have zoomed in on the building in Google Earth before you printed it. I just guestimate, print, measure, repeat until I get it right. As for the ruler, can't remember where I got it and can't find one like it on the internet. Vinny (bnsf6951) has the same ruler.
I have one that I bought from my local hobby shop decades ago. - C.T.T. Inc. Dallas, Texas - Item No. 9160 - I tried Google and the new Walthers catalog search to no avail. C.T.T. Inc. in Dallas, Texas, like many other small hobby businesses may have gone out of business. If you have access to spreadsheet software like Excel, create a list of "scale inches"/"scale feet" = real inches. I use the following formulas: Scale Inches = Real Inches =A7/160 where A7 is the cell holding the number of (Scale-Inches) you want to convert. Scale Feet = Real Inches =E7/160*12 Scale inch = 0.00625 Scale foot = 0.075 Best of luck to you Bob Reynolds.
OK, at the end of this video you say you're going to build this structure up and will show how it's done, step-by-step. I've looked thru' your videos list and can't see anything that looks like it. What are the videos called? Are they up? Why not just name them 'Town Hall pt1', 'pt2', 'pt3', etc?
Well, for a host of reasons the project was abandoned about 1/3 of the way done. Mostly because I made some changes to the layout and no longer had space for it. Now I'm just planning to model the platform.
+chidragon60 Well apparently the suppliers I was aware of have all quit selling them. I'm looking for a new supplier for Clear rulers in both in in HO scale. I will keep you posted when I find something.
I am giving this video a thumbs down because, we are new to all this and there are a lot of needed details left out which has left us in the dark about all of this.
Ron, I love your content and appreciate it. Your intro is about 32 seconds too long. Nothing is gained and time is wasted with yours (and so many similar intros which are the information equivalent of clip art). If you think you must still ask to subscribe, like, and hit the bell (doubtful that you do), then move that to the end of each video.
This video was one of my earliest with a long intro. I have pared down the title sequence dramatically since then (4 seconds). As for the front end call to subscribe (I don't say "like"), that is a RU-vid recommended best practice, It lasts all of 5 seconds, and considering that 70% of my views come from nonsubscribers, I'll keep it.
