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Help with warping Evergreen sheet styrene walls

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  • Member since
    May 2024
  • From: Melbourne, Australia
Help with warping Evergreen sheet styrene walls
Posted by Zardoz02 on Friday, May 24, 2024 2:36 AM

I'm building a simple trackside hut in HO scale. What I'm modelling has walls made of weatherboard with an upper strip of rendered timber so I'm using 1mm clapboard and 1mm sheet styrene glued edge to edge. Like so:

Holes for windows and doors are then cut. It seemed straightforward but I'm surprised by the amount of curvature that has developed in the two longer walls that contain the window and door. 

I'm looking for a simple way to reinforce the walls without adding too much extra complexity to the markup and cut-out process. 1mm is clearly a bit thin for this job but the clapboard only comes in 1mm thickness. Some further internal reinforcement perhaps? 

Suggestions please?

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Friday, May 24, 2024 10:21 AM

HI!

     When I make buildings I always use .040 Square strip at the bottom of the eaves inside and around the perimeter both inside and out of site.This also stabilises the building and prevents twisting of the entire building after Painting,

  • Member since
    March 2022
  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Saturday, May 25, 2024 8:54 AM

Zardoz02

I'm building a simple trackside hut in HO scale. What I'm modelling has walls made of weatherboard with an upper strip of rendered timber so I'm using 1mm clapboard and 1mm sheet styrene glued edge to edge. Like so:

Holes for windows and doors are then cut. It seemed straightforward but I'm surprised by the amount of curvature that has developed in the two longer walls that contain the window and door. 

I'm looking for a simple way to reinforce the walls without adding too much extra complexity to the markup and cut-out process. 1mm is clearly a bit thin for this job but the clapboard only comes in 1mm thickness. Some further internal reinforcement perhaps? 

Suggestions please?

 

 

A mm is not to thin.  It just needs to have a bit of structure behind it.  I'd recommend a couple of slall angle sections lenthwise a third and 2/3 way down running lengthwise (but not where windows and doors are).

 

  • Member since
    January 2020
Posted by Space Ranger on Sunday, May 26, 2024 6:45 PM

Think: If this were a real building, how would it be constructed? Frame yours accordingly.

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