Lunde Studios The Bon Ton

[rpdylan]

wow Mike- some serious work going on here! This beauty better be up front! ha ha!  Your build is giving me inspiration for a build of my own that has some detailed interiors!
   

[madharry]

Thanks very much Bob.
The scalescenes kits take a lot of time but I am only going to build this once........... The structure will feature right upfront on a tram layout. A Magnoral cyclist will peddle around it................so the time spent will be worth it in the end. I am testing the look in a darkened room to make sure the LED's light the building correctly and there is not light leaking from the walls.
Mike

[madharry]

Here are a couple of pictures showing the lighting so far............difficult too see the effect because of the flash.........

[madharry]

Time to seal up the first three floors. The lift shaft determines the separation between the floors...........

[madharry]

I have been busy making more goods to sell - sofas, armchairs, fridges, ovens, wardrobes and bookcases..........
Mike

[jbvb]

Your Bon Ton is coming out well.  I met Mr. Lunde at the Amerst (W. Springfield, MA) show a couple of years ago and bought one of his kits (not yet built).  He also had a table this year.

[PRR Modeler]

Looking very nice Mike.

[S&S RR]

Mike


The interior detail looks great!

[Janbouli]

Great detail Mike

[madharry]

Thanks very much James, Curt, John and Jan.........
Pressing on here is the next floor. The floor is made of 3mm foamboard. It could be called something completely different. It is a thin foam sandwich with outer layers in thin card. It is very light and easily cut with a blade. I measure a floor then cover it with Scalescenes flooring detail and then add the furniture and figures. The lift/elevator shaft in the middle is foamboard cut to a scale height of 8 feet and covered in kitchen foil with doors added. It supports the next floor and I add PVA to the top of the lift shaft to glue the floors together. I add view blocks of foamboard to the lift shaft to prevent the viewer from seeing the LED's in the far corner. The view blocks are covered in pictures of window displays downloaded from the net to create the illusion that there is more to be seen.............

Mike

[madharry]

I'm finished.
The last floor had 22 pieces of merchandise and a few figures fitted. I added the canopies to the front together with the signs and finally the roof.
Unfortunately I have nowhere to pose it at the moment. The pictures do not really do it justice as the flash cancels out the LED's. There are ten LED's fitted along with sixteen figures and over a hundred pieces of Scalescenes items - sofas, armchairs, mattresses, beds, divans, bookcases, wardrobes, chests, ovens, washing machines etc....
suffice to say I got to use a lot of cardboard and quite a few blades......................
Mike

[dick green]

Awesome job, needs a place right up front to show off all the details
Dick

[madharry]

Thanks Dick the kit was a lot of fun. I hope to plant it right upfront so it can be appreciated.
Mike

[PRR Modeler]

It's a work of art Mike. Very well done.

[madharry]

Thanks Curt, all my mates at the model railway club loved it. Thanks once again for the compliments.
Mike