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A friend of mine is a modeller, who specialises in dioramas, he has modelled many UK fire dioramas to an amazing level of accuracy.. He is a little eccentric and very wealthy but uses his free time and money and amazing model building skill to produce one of a kind builds.
He wants to build an open top build of Engine 8 Ladder 2s firehouse, now i asked why, as there are far more attractive and decorative and historic houses in NYCs 5 boroughs than this one, his reply was he looked at many pictures and knew I had been to NYC many times, and although I have never been to this house it was the one that jumped out at him as an artist.. So he wants to build an open diorama, I am doing the trucks for him as I do them myself, but as for the firehouse. I have no knowledge at all of its interior or layout, or even history, I know it was refurbed at some point with the apparatus floor shortened etc, but beyond this I cant help him.
Is there anyone out there who can provide an idea of whether they use just one floor of the office block they are built under or two floors, using online photos he can model the apparatus floor and at a stretch the batt rig bay... But i cant help him with the internal architectural layout.
Any help would be appreciated to get me off the hook!!
Cheers
JT
He wants to build an open top build of Engine 8 Ladder 2s firehouse, now i asked why, as there are far more attractive and decorative and historic houses in NYCs 5 boroughs than this one, his reply was he looked at many pictures and knew I had been to NYC many times, and although I have never been to this house it was the one that jumped out at him as an artist.. So he wants to build an open diorama, I am doing the trucks for him as I do them myself, but as for the firehouse. I have no knowledge at all of its interior or layout, or even history, I know it was refurbed at some point with the apparatus floor shortened etc, but beyond this I cant help him.
Is there anyone out there who can provide an idea of whether they use just one floor of the office block they are built under or two floors, using online photos he can model the apparatus floor and at a stretch the batt rig bay... But i cant help him with the internal architectural layout.
Any help would be appreciated to get me off the hook!!
Cheers
JT