coach joe posted:Alan the "modernistic" skyscraper is very interesting. Is it a curved rectangular prism or some sort of a tetrahedral?
The Art Deco is sweet, just needs some flourish at the tops, like the raptors atop the Chrysler Building.
Hi Joe....I am assuming you mean the one with the curved walls. Well....let me tell you the story: I was driving by a local second hand/antique store and I saw sitting outside their front door a display rack...you know, the kind that slides over a base/pole and then rotates. I turned around to take a closer look and decided to park and get out to inspect this potential "skyscraper". It turned out to be essentially three sided and basically triangular shaped display that was originally used for Remington gun parts, etc. and was made completely out of metal! Very heavy...! I saw some possibilities for a conversion so I negotiated an exchange of a 10 dollar bill for the display. When I got home I slid the main display off of the pole and then went to work on removing all of the pegs that were welded on the surface of each of the three sides. I then spray painted the entire thing with an aluminum colored base I found at my local Walmart. I wanted to find some sort of material that would allow light to pass through that I could use to "glaze" the three large sides of the emerging building. It occurred to me that ceiling light panels would be the way to go so a trip to Home Depot took care of that! I cut the light panels just a little larger than the span across each face so that when I pushed them in place, the bend in them would remain so as to create the look of the curved window face you now see in the pictures. As it turns out the pattern on the panels worked great and look like windows/ floors. I added modified CD holders as detail elements along and up the entrance side of the building as well as on the roof. So...now you have the whole story!!
