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Dioramas: Buildings & Ruins
Ruined buildings and city scenes.
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Mini-Art Industrial Buiding
repynot
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 02:52 PM UTC
Does any one know the height & width of the Main gate
on this kit?
http://miniart-models.com/index.htm?/35515.htm
Biggles2
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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 07:20 PM UTC
This is one of MiniArt's more interesting houses, and attractive looking, however there is a visual discrepancy in the 2nd floor level. The arched door on the main floor doesn't leave enough room for the floor of the 2nd level - they just squashed the two floors together too much. That being said, it's still a nice looking building. The large arched door is the standard door MiniArt uses for garages/barns. It measures 3 1/8" (80 mm) high, by 3 3/8 (85 mm) wide.
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Posted: Friday, April 01, 2016 - 09:29 PM UTC
Great. Thanks!

That's about 2,8 meters when converted.... enough room for at Centauro
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Posted: Friday, April 01, 2016 - 11:45 PM UTC
If you look at the picture of it from behind the discrepancy is painfully obvious. It would take some crafty masonry to get that floor right for anyone occupying it.
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Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 06:46 PM UTC
The size of the second floor may be because of a pretty common thing done in the model railroad biz in Europe. They have offered a slew of scale building kits that have a in scale ground floor while the above floors are scaled back in order to save some space.
I remember in the 80s one of the German companies came out with a new series of "constant scale" buildings with upper stories in the same scale as the ground floor. It was so significant at the time that they made a big advert deal out of it. Just sayin'.
This could be along those lines?
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Biggles2
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Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 08:05 PM UTC

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It would take some crafty masonry to get that floor right for anyone occupying it.


It would take more than that! A second kit, or another kit with same masonry pattern for inserted stone courses. Cut up this kit into sections and place insertions between window and archway. Then level the top so everything is even. And also raise the sides accordingly. More trouble than it's worth. I'll just use the kit as is and ignore the discrepancy.
easyco69
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Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 08:56 PM UTC
The gate is the same in all the kits.
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 - 04:15 PM UTC
IMHO, they should not have put a window above the barn door.

Here's a similar situation with a Belgian Ardennes farm (in 1:1 scale )




H.P.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 - 04:48 PM UTC
From what I see here



The model is prepared to have a floor on the left side of the house but not on the right, which is just one big open space from floor to ceiling.
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Posted: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 - 05:20 PM UTC
Having work in Building Standards for 36 years the building as portrayed is quite feasible since the owner and builder will have agreed a look and layout they wanted.

Looking at the reverse of the part, the floor heights would appear to be different, involving only the inclusion of a couple of steps between internally.

Having a window that is below knee height or a roof that you have to stoop down to se out a window is not as unusual a feature as you might think. Especially if the room is purely a small store room or even the accommodation for a farm hand or family member. Falling out of or through the glass of low level windows is only recently fully legislated for even in Scotland. Pre proper Building Legislation safety glass and window height was just a dream.

An alternative even to the above is that the owner and builder simply wanted a window in keeping with the rest to give light within a garage and might have no floor to obstruct the light.

The parts could easily be altered to give the building a more modern appearance by changing the garage doors to French windows, patio doors or a bay window to make accommodation at ground floor ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, all very legal by even current Building Standards !

I see nothing wrong with the pieces of this nice kit

Nige
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