First Project in the house: Revising the urban onetrak module

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Since it usually shows "backwards" from the way I had initially intended, and this ends up having a big monolithic building between the public and the rest of the module (in the background of this photo).


So I'm going to change the front around and replace that building and loading shed with a chemical company:



And I'm also thinking about redoing what would now become the "back" to provide a bit of a backdrop:



The reason for THAT is to enable some cool photo ops:







Thoughts?

[Dave V]

Okay, I would start by making sure that one structure in between the tracks has road access.  In fact, a little street running would be very hawt.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

A good point Dave, but the building access is from the other end. There's a bit of room there between it and the building behind it. Not sure how "real" that'd be.

[wcfn100]

I think i'd try relocating the brick building next to the tracks. It really compresses the scene to me and could get worse if you're going to add large buildings to the backdrop.

Jason

[daniel_leavitt2000]

One word: FOUNDATIONS

[Ed Kapuscinski]

One word: FOUNDATIONS

Oh yeah, definitely.

But those come after I get placement figured out.

Oh, and it's missing something else too... an SW1500... lol.

[Philip H]

Ed,
if the prupose is greater public-side train exposure, then I think your change to the chemical plant is a good idea.  Now all it needs are some loading racks.  As to the photo ops - while i Know there are prototypes of tracks passing between buildings at close quarters - thers one on the Metro Red line I keep meaning to photograph - they are almost universally paved.  SO either the buildings in question need another orientation, or its time to get out the road goo.

Glad to see you modeling already - puts good kharma into the space for later.

[sizemore]

Give us a high angle shot looking down. That one Pola-esque building with the tar-paper roof looks more like an island than a properly placed natural edifice in the scene without a foundation and some concrete and asphalt near it. Maybe an old beaten and patched roadway following the tracks...think Curtis Bay, north of the railyard before the oil refineries or the turnoff to the ancient B&O coal yards.

The S.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Did some assembly last night of the building for the chemical company:


Good thoughts on the paving there, I might do that.

I think I may scale that back building back a bit, and at my wife's suggestions, I think I'm going to be omitting the other (tan) steel building.

[MichaelWinicki]

Ed, that scene strikes me as being a little too lush with vegetation.

Maybe even a little more debris tossed about. 

[John]

i think the building on the left is too close to the track also .. there needs to be a dirt lot in there somewhere

[MichaelWinicki]

i think the building on the left is too close to the track also .. there needs to be a dirt lot in there somewhere

Good point on the dirt lot.

These old manufacturing lots just "oozed" with toxin crap all about them... With the ability to stifle the growth of plant life-- at least in patches. 

Then you've got your obligatory barrels and pipes and what-not.

Maybe even a well-worn path along the tracks where teenagers and vagrants have used the area for a variety of purposes.

[DKS]

I don't have a problem with the buildings being tight up against the track; that looks pretty much the way a lot of the industrial areas of NJ look, anyway. And instead of dirt lots, I'd expect to see swaths of decayed concrete, with strips of weeds growing in every joint.