Winter Challenge 2024 - Flat Iron Corner Building - Tom Langford.

[Jerry]

Tom looks great so far.

Always nice to see a mistake and you go back and fix it!
It makes the next guy more careful.

Jerry

[ACL1504]

Tom looks great so far.

Always nice to see a mistake and you go back and fix it!
It makes the next guy more careful.

Jerry

Jerry,

Thanks you, much appreciated. Mistakes I can make and hopefully the repairs as well.   

Tom

[ACL1504]

Time to work on the rear wall section. I want to have exterior stairs on this wall.

I need a set of stairs that will serve the second and third floors.



I don't want to cut the front of the wall section so I drew the two doors on the back. So the stairs are correct on the exterior, I needed to draw the doors and stairs on the opposite on the rear.

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Dang, I went and did it again.    I cut the door size to large as you can see.



For this fix, I used a 2X4 and glued it to one side if the door opening.

[ACL1504]

[ACL1504]

Now this is much better.



I set the door in place to hold the 2X4 until the glue dried.

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Once dry, the 2X4 was cut and sanded flush to the rear of the wall.



Back in a few, need to get a cold Diet Pepsi.

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As I was still working on the rear wall, I added bracing to the front and two side walls. I used HO scale 8X8's for the wall bracing.

I've mentioned this on past builds but will do so here as well. I cut a piece of strip wood at an angle and use it to run along the edge of the bracing to remove any glue that may have squeezed out.

This isn't a necessary task but I like to have neat bracing on the interior even it it will never be seen.

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I extended the bracing on the front to cover the lower portion of the front wall section.



This also gives me an area to glue the lower wall to the bracing.

[deemery]

Good move on the bracing to hold the shop fronts into position.

dave

[GPdemayo]

Oops..... 

[tom.boyd.125]

 Tom, this scratch build will be a nice looking addition to the A&S RR !
Tommy

[ACL1504]

Good move on the bracing to hold the shop fronts into position.

dave

Dave,

Yea, it was pretty much a requirement for the support of the front.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Oops.....

I agree Gregory!

T

[ACL1504]

Tom, this scratch build will be a nice looking addition to the A&S RR !
Tommy

Tommy,

Thanks you, much appreciated. I'm glad that I will be able to fit it into the area.

Tom