North Pole Square of The Polar Express

[Jerry]

Well Merry Christmas!!  All aboard for the Polar Express.


Great start I'll be in the caboose following along.


Your allowed to drink there away from the kids on the rest of the train!! 


Jerry

[postalkarl]

Hey Carl:

I will be following along on this one. Looks great so far.

karl

[carl b]

Thank you Jerry and Karl! Appreciate you both following along!

[postalkarl]

Hey Carl:

you are quite welcome. By-The-Way do you know what Karl/Carl means?

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Hey Carl:

you are quite welcome. By-The-Way do you know what Karl/Carl means?

Karl

This should be good.....

[carl b]

do you know what Karl/Carl means?

I thought it meant a "strong, sturdy" fellow?
There's sure a lot of C/Karls in the modeling world!

[Janbouli]

do you know what Karl/Carl means?

I thought it meant a "strong, sturdy" fellow?
There's sure a lot of C/Karls in the modeling world!

That could absolutely be right , the word for strong/sturdy fellow in Dutch is kerel and in German it's Kerl , but the historic meaning of Karel , kerel , Kerl is "free man of non-noble standing".

[carl b]

Your explanation is good enough for me Janbouli!

[carl b]

For mortar, kids white chalk was simply scraped off and brushed into the walls. I wanted a very subtle look here.



Every wall is now supported by its own .05" chipboard back, with extra wide openings for each floor of windows.. Leaving a narrow piece of chipboard between the windows was too weak, so I went back and filled in those vertical spaces with stripwood.



Construction of this many walls was very tedious & took much longer to build than I estimated. Here using .01" styrene for the curved trim sections.



Windows are loaded, 4X4 sills, decorative trim & clear acetate applied on the two story and three story wall sections. All units are the same width: 2 5/8". The 2 story is 3 3/4" high, the 3 story is 5 1/8" high.



Working on the next larger 4 story wall sections. Large arched window on the first floor is completely surrounded by curved walls & ceiling. I first used thick paper card here, but switched to .02" styrene sheet for the 2nd unit. The card suffered a bit after repeated handling.



Appropriate size styrene strips were shaped around the front arch.



Now with three paired walls finished. The four story walls are 6  5/8" tall.



Till next time...close the front door...

[postalkarl]

Hey Carl:

Wow those two wall look just beautiful.

Karl

[PaulS]

The two mirrored wings look fantastic Carl !!
A lot of work involved but the end result is most impressive.
Looking forward to the next installment,
--Paul

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Carl.

[vinceg]

Great work, Carl. Nice detail on the build thread, too.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking fantastic, Carl.

The photograph showing you holding the knife - are you busy cutting out little notches so the brickwork looks to continue around the edges?  I can see a lot of things here that would have taken a lot of time.  You are doing a tremendous job.

Cheers, Mark.

[postalkarl]

Hey Carl:

I don't know if you know this or not. Your real name is Charles as Carl/Karl is German for Charles.

Karl