The bad side of town, or the wrong side of the tracks Final update: 7-7-19

great job.

Dick

A spray of bullet holes. Yikes! That really is in a seedy section of town.

P.s. Nice job!

Really fabulous work!!  Who knew a MTH townhouse building could ever look like what you have created! 

That is FREAKIN' AWESOME!

Chief Bob (Retired)

Front doors look too good.  Rough them up a bit, too.

Thank you guys, glad someone saw the bullet holes. Rod, what are you suggesting for the front door? Bullets not enough? I think when I get it on the layout a guy will be hanging around the door.

I really like what youve done to the place. I agree that the doors need a little work, maybe a place where it was kicked in? Then covered with something that looks like it came from an old pallet.

Ok, I think I can come up with something tomorrow. Stay tuned.

probably the only reason the shutters look odd to me is because i had a job one time painting them.  the center slats of shutters pivot at the ends, so if either of the sides rails were missing, all the slats would fall out and not really look broken in fractional pieces like that.

just sayin'

Well done!

Peter

Gee, with that poster on one side, and a few above mentioned tweaks, that would fit into my mining ghost town..makes me think of Rhyolite, say, before some of its structured shells deteriorated further, or maybe Jerome.  These kits can be well bashed.

Very nice work.

It reminds me of my days commuting to Temple in North Philly, which brought trepidation then and now, lol. I wouldn't want to model that on my layout, though.

Very cool!

Oh man, this is too much. Fantastic job. I didn't recognize that it was the same building.

Rough neighborhood. Nice work. 

Andy

If you go back into that neighborhood to fix those doors I'd bring some protection. You never know who you might run up against, especially if you're the landlord! LOL!!! Great work!

Given the look of the gal hanging out of the window, you'll need some "protection," all right. . . . .

Here's what I did with some house's .

Guy

Nice Guy. When I saw the first picture, I was expecting old green to be on the houses. The old siding on our old house was white but where it was chipped was yucky old green. I guess it was coated over a few times before the shingles were applied some time later.

JDFonz posted:

Thank you guys, glad someone saw the bullet holes. Rod, what are you suggesting for the front door? Bullets not enough? I think when I get it on the layout a guy will be hanging around the door.

I don't know, maybe some busted panels or a sprung hinge.

Wigville RR posted:

Here's what I did with some house's .

Guy

Terrific work on the Wigville...

MELGAR

Amen to Wigville comments!  Maybe not so much now, but those look like east Ky. and W.Va. coal camp company houses, the Ky. ones visiting relatives when a kid, seen in the past.   I will have to build some for coal and logging camps.  They should only look so good.

Wigville RR posted:

Here's what I did with some house's .

Guy

These houses are awesome. What model did you start with?

Thanks for all the like's , the house's are Weaver Cass House's I just took black paint and rub it on with a cloth to get that look . The clean one's are in town on the other side of the track , the weather are by the rail yard and I had to put the hobo next to them .

Well, as requested, I did a little work on the front door. Kicked out a lower door panel, broke some glass, and added a couple more boards to the front. I do think it looks better now, thanks for the feedback. Anyone else out there wrecking their housing? Nice job Wig on your structures. They look pretty tired.

JDFonz posted:

Well, as requested, I did a little work on the front door. Kicked out a lower door panel, broke some glass, and added a couple more boards to the front. I do think it looks better now, thanks for the feedback. Anyone else out there wrecking their housing? Nice job Wig on your structures. They look pretty tired.

Nice work!

Thanks Sean!

JDFonz posted:

Well, as requested, I did a little work on the front door. Kicked out a lower door panel, broke some glass, and added a couple more boards to the front. I do think it looks better now, thanks for the feedback. Anyone else out there wrecking their housing? Nice job Wig on your structures. They look pretty tired.

How'd that hooker get in that window'...  Worse ~CAT house I ever seen'... 

JDFonz posted:

Well, as requested, I did a little work on the front door. Kicked out a lower door panel, broke some glass, and added a couple more boards to the front. I do think it looks better now, thanks for the feedback. Anyone else out there wrecking their housing? Nice job Wig on your structures. They look pretty tired.

Much better, now about the glass around the bullet holes and the chipped and broken brick.......!  I used to live in that neighborhood.      

Great job! I have considered adding a similar scene so you have provided me some ideas.

Very impressive.  If I were visiting your layout, I would not want to be standing near that part of your layout.  In fact, I would probably bring some protection and brighter lights if I had to fix a car derailment near there.

I finished another building. The fact is, this is the backside of the 1st building. Because I am compressing the scene, I cut the building in half to use down at the other end of the block. I’ll have a few houses and sheds in between these buildings. I’m pretty happy with it. This is really a rough neighborhood! 

You really captured the sleaze. 

Great work!

Well I’m pretty happy with the results. I wouldn’t want to live in this neighborhood. This is my take on the rough side of town that I am currently working into my cityscape. Buildings are MTH and Lionel and model power, heavily weathered and damaged. Cut them in half for compression of the scene. There will be a road and skyscrapers behind these structures.

WOW great work.

Great work!!!!

Thanks fellows.

That's a neighborhood that I'd have to be carrying my gun to visit!