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Today I was working on the Essex and got all the lighting in place in the Hangar deck and really learned how to work with those surface mount LEDs. I also spent hours wrestling with trying to get a staircase into Nighthawks that wouldn't take up so much room that it would wipe out the restrooms or the kitchen. The problem is two fold. The building's footprint is nat large being 24 scale feet on the side and the 1st floor ceiling height is 11 feet. That makes for a stair case challenge. In the Netherlands they solve the problem with deep buildings and very steep, almost ladder-like staircases.
After trying straight and various turned staircases, I finally capitulated and put it outside. That too might be a problem since I don't know how much room is in the alley way.
Here was one of the earlier attempts. In this one it forced the kitchen pass through all the way to the wall. I was using 7.5" rise and 10.5" tread. I changed that to 9 X 9 and it helped, but still killed half the kitchen and had the stair running up past two of the windows. If I was still in the design phase, I would have structured the windows around the stairs, BUT THE WALLS ARE ALREADY GLUED TOGETHER. Every attempt led to similar problems.
So here's the final version. You can see how long a stair is when it's going up 12 feet, plus there's 3 feet of foundation too.
I had thought that I had all the stairs designed, but lost the version that had it. So I will have to open that upper window to make it into a door and now have an extra door on the first floor. If it was a bar, there would be a ladies entrance in the early 50s, but it's a cafe and doesn't need one. The door next to the outdoor stair is to the kitchen. Oh well... I take ideas now. I have the Rusty Stumps stair kit which is perfect to craft the wooden stair case (if I can find it in the shop... I've been looking, but can't seem to find it... I know it's there somewhere so I'll keep looking.
Here's the LEDs taped and painted on the flight deck's bottom.
