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Erik Goddard
- Apr 2
- 1 min
Ho Ming "Building #2"
The building interior and exterior are now complete, except for the fire escapes: coming up next.
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Erik Goddard
- Mar 5
- 1 min
Ho Ming Building #2
Here are some scenes of the interiors of the #2 building: Chen's grocery on the first level: One of the low-rent apartments on the 3rd...
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Erik Goddard
- Mar 5
- 1 min
NYC Chinatown retro building number 2
2021 Working on the companion to the Ho Ming building
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Erik Goddard
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Ho Ming: Overview and Modifications
Ho Ming is the name of a Chinese restaurant on the ground floor of a NYC style retro building I made, the type you might find in...
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Erik Goddard
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
La Salle de Lecture: water flop
And then came the second layer, and disaster. Between the first layer, and the second, a line remained. It's impossible to remove, so...
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Erik Goddard
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
La Salle de Lecture: water
The interior needed to be sealed completely while building it, and now was the test. Sure enough, the first layer passed with flying...
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Erik Goddard
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
La Salle de Lecture: sign
Not sure about this sign. As it stands right now it seems distracting. I'll wait and see how the rest of the scene shapes up and see if...
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Erik Goddard
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
La Salle de Lecture: origins
This is a store front display of a bookstore with a twist. Since this involve some water features, each of these simple pieces you see...
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Erik Goddard
- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: final
With some trim, some final touchups, a little paint, adjustments and love, the dio is done: 13 Emerson Street, 1:24 scale diorama. I will...
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Erik Goddard
- Jul 12, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: the cars - final
I built the cars early in the project. I assembled them to the point where it looked like a head-on collision, so some of the parts...
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Erik Goddard
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: finishing the exterior details part 2
There were a couple of main jobs that needed doing and a ton of little things such as the normal tidying up of trim and what not. The...
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Erik Goddard
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: finishing the exterior details
With the buildings in place, it's now time to make them look like they've been there awhile. I made a mistake here. I should have made...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: Securing the buildings
The three building sections: left, middle and right wall were originally meant to go on top of the base, then I would place the sidewalk...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 23, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: the middle wall door
I knew I wanted a weathered door for that back wall. So I painted the undercoat a dark gray and added a little blue highlight. And then...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: the middle wall
The back wall is made from foam. I use that a lot for brickwork. First it's carving the bricks and cutting the window and door holes:...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: the bay window and shop overhang
I wanted a bay window for the right wall shop that looks like a classic storefront window display. The shop itself is kind of vague, so I...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
13 Emerson Street: the buildings
Because of the 1915 time period, of course these buildings would likely be brick. I made both walls out of foam board. Since this diorama...
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Erik Goddard
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min