FOS' Pub Crawl Build

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I widened the width to 12.5 feet. To give you a 1:1 idea of how it would be, I've added a photo of my layout room. The room is 11.5 feet in width.



Plenty of room for a bar, stools, small two chair tables and behind the bar room.

Fast forward here and you can see the difference in the old and new walls. I did move the doors and window more towards the center.



More in a few.

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Here is a look at the front with the new width addition.



As mentioned, the 8' was just to small for me. The photo below shows the rear wall width in front of the new front wall.



More on this new wall addition tomorrow afternoon.

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The left end bar is now a stand alone structure.





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The roof panel shown below is the kit roof as it came. Notice the laser cuts for the rafter tails are cut into the top and not the bottom. Just for those inquiring minds, the panel could have been turned over. However, the laser cut down the middle allows you to bend the roof panels down.

If I reversed the roof panel, it wouldn't bend down and would have to be cut in half for the rafter tail locations to be on the bottom of the roof.



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Here is how I solved the problem.

I used a piece of spare cardboard and marked the rafter tail locations on it.



I then flipped the roof panel over and marked the rafter tail locations on the bottom side as shown below.



Hopefully another update tomorrow afternoon.

[GPdemayo]

I like all the changes.....looking forward to seeing it in Tahope. 

[Oldguy]

The bar for biker fight scene in A Bronx Tale couldn't have been much wider.  Good call.

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I like all the changes.....looking forward to seeing it in Tahope. 

Greg,

Thanks, I've decided to go with the separation of the buildings. It will be in the northern point of Tahope just south of the turntable roundhouse area.

Tom 

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The bar for biker fight scene in A Bronx Tale couldn't have been much wider.  Good call.

Bob,

I remember that movie and the fight scene. I agree, it wasn't much wider.

Tom 

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I'm finally back at the work bench with a decent attitude. And, yes, I'm still behind on the thread.

I like the idea of The Rusty Keg being a stand alone structure. This way i can create a little scene between this one and the rest of the Pub Crawl.



The following photo shows how it would look with the wider front wall and one structure.



More in a few.

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I cut a new side wall for the Irish Pub and added two small windows.





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Here is how the two structures will look next to each other. Plenty of room  between for a bar fight or shooting.





Note: I opted to not add windows to the right side of the Rusty Keg. More on this later.

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I wanted to add a concrete base to this building. I used 1/16" X 4" plain basswood for the base.




Since the sheet is 24" long, to long to fit the work bench, I used the upper deck of the layout to mark the outline.




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Once the main outline was done, I cut the outlined section off and moved back to the work bench.  I then cut the base to fit the building.



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I then drew in the sidewalk expansion joints using a metal ruler and a sharpened #2 pencil. I then traced the pencil lines with a new #11 Xacto blade using very light pressure. Once the initial lines were drawn, I used the back of the #11 blade to define the joints.





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