Hi guys,
Well Im in a bit of a snag here with my layouts and there progress. Im supposed to have already started my HO layout and be starting my N scale one too. But I have a situation. Work is killing me right now lol. But thats not the reason why. Some of you might member me mentioning my parents getting a divorce a little while back. Well its still unknown to me what is going on with them and I still live at home being 18 years old (yeah some of you are going why are you still at home, your 18 hahahaha). So with that said I talked to my dad about starting new things and he said that I would be better off waiting till they know for sure what is going on. So I agreed cuz I dont want to jump right in and start a new layout and then find out that I have to tear it all right back down again to move to a new house with my dad. So I will be doing some modules in the meantime to keep me busy.
I started to think about what I could do. I mean there is TONS of stuff but as I was coming home on the toll road with my dad I saw the Caterpillar Equipment Rental Facility by my house. Ive seen it EVERYDAY on my way home but I never thought of modeling it before. Thats exactly what my next module will be. I plan on making this a large but not to large module. Maybe something like 2' x 3' square. It wont have any trains on it, well maybe just a single track running along the back wall of the facility or along the front of the module next to the street, thats still undecided at this point. What I do know is I want a LARGE building with 4 or 5 service bays for the CAT equipment to be serviced and worked on when they need repairs or are brought back to the yard from a job site.
I plan on building this large CAT Rental Facility using the Nu-Line Strutures Moden Concrete Warehouse walls. Ill have a small 2 story section which will be an office and then the main part of the building will be 3-stories with 4 or 5 of the large cargo doors that Nu-Line makes as Service Bay Doors. I also want to detail the inside of the service bays maybe.
Along with the building will be a HUGE yard for Construction Equipment storage. Also have a small parking lot across the front of the building with a sidewalk and a 4 lane highway in front. The entire facility will be enclosed in Nu-Lines Concrete Retaining walls and the entrance to the yard and where the service bays are (service bays are in the back of the building) will be steel gates that Nu-Line also makes. I plan to have the whole module be the CAT Rental facility with a BIG yard.
heres some pics of some CAT rental stores I found on Google to give you an idea of what I am talking about:
http://forum.bauforum24.biz/forum/uploads/post-541-1110789259_thumb.jpg
http://www.reinderssouthpark.com/images/Battlefield-Rentals.gif
here is a picture from google earth of the actual facility by my house:
Google Maps
this CAT Rental store just under went a huge remodel in which the old building was torn down and a new one was built right behind it (you can see the foundation for the new building behind the old one) It is now almost finished. There is also a cement plant if you go left and down a little bit (if you go down the street "wright" till it deadends; you'll see a big white building, drag down to the street "Town Center Dr." and all along the top of that street you will see the cement plant. Google Earth Rocks!!!
Well Im in a bit of a snag here with my layouts and there progress. Im supposed to have already started my HO layout and be starting my N scale one too. But I have a situation. Work is killing me right now lol. But thats not the reason why. Some of you might member me mentioning my parents getting a divorce a little while back. Well its still unknown to me what is going on with them and I still live at home being 18 years old (yeah some of you are going why are you still at home, your 18 hahahaha). So with that said I talked to my dad about starting new things and he said that I would be better off waiting till they know for sure what is going on. So I agreed cuz I dont want to jump right in and start a new layout and then find out that I have to tear it all right back down again to move to a new house with my dad. So I will be doing some modules in the meantime to keep me busy.
I started to think about what I could do. I mean there is TONS of stuff but as I was coming home on the toll road with my dad I saw the Caterpillar Equipment Rental Facility by my house. Ive seen it EVERYDAY on my way home but I never thought of modeling it before. Thats exactly what my next module will be. I plan on making this a large but not to large module. Maybe something like 2' x 3' square. It wont have any trains on it, well maybe just a single track running along the back wall of the facility or along the front of the module next to the street, thats still undecided at this point. What I do know is I want a LARGE building with 4 or 5 service bays for the CAT equipment to be serviced and worked on when they need repairs or are brought back to the yard from a job site.
I plan on building this large CAT Rental Facility using the Nu-Line Strutures Moden Concrete Warehouse walls. Ill have a small 2 story section which will be an office and then the main part of the building will be 3-stories with 4 or 5 of the large cargo doors that Nu-Line makes as Service Bay Doors. I also want to detail the inside of the service bays maybe.
Along with the building will be a HUGE yard for Construction Equipment storage. Also have a small parking lot across the front of the building with a sidewalk and a 4 lane highway in front. The entire facility will be enclosed in Nu-Lines Concrete Retaining walls and the entrance to the yard and where the service bays are (service bays are in the back of the building) will be steel gates that Nu-Line also makes. I plan to have the whole module be the CAT Rental facility with a BIG yard.
heres some pics of some CAT rental stores I found on Google to give you an idea of what I am talking about:
http://forum.bauforum24.biz/forum/uploads/post-541-1110789259_thumb.jpg
http://www.reinderssouthpark.com/images/Battlefield-Rentals.gif
here is a picture from google earth of the actual facility by my house:
Google Maps
this CAT Rental store just under went a huge remodel in which the old building was torn down and a new one was built right behind it (you can see the foundation for the new building behind the old one) It is now almost finished. There is also a cement plant if you go left and down a little bit (if you go down the street "wright" till it deadends; you'll see a big white building, drag down to the street "Town Center Dr." and all along the top of that street you will see the cement plant. Google Earth Rocks!!!