Railworks America

Started on some classic Victorian style houses for the game. Here's progress of the first one.



Some more progress on the house.



At most times Victorian houses were tall, thin houses, usually they were long and was more of a mansion then a regular old house. You would usually see Victorian houses in the wealthy part of town. They were built during the late 1800's and into the early 1900's.

Awesome. Maybe I should get you to make all the buildings for my route.

NDORFN wrote:Awesome. Maybe I should get you to make all the buildings for my route.

Unfortunately I wouldn't want to do that, would be too much work and don't have enough time.

But if you would like me to build a couple buildings I would be more then happy to do so, but I won't build all of the buildings, just a couple. I'll require photo's though of the actual building.

How does it look now. Will attempt to put night windows on it as well.

I guess its because I live out in earthquake country, but our Victorians were never brick.

I've seen a couple of brick ones, I'll also do some wood versions as well.

Lots of those in East Coast states, usually clad in wood, most often painted white. Often with some kind of front porch. Usually surrounded by big mature trees.
I'm thinking Maine cities such as Portland, Lewiston and Augusta.
These would look great on the Portland Terminal route.

I'm afraid your version does not fit into the Victorian style - it appears a cross between Scottish Baronial, a little Brownstone (with a strange roof design), and some sort of 1960s "Mod Podge" thrown in.

Except for Queen Anne (brick) and Romanesque (stone), both of which do not resemble your model, all other Victorian subsets (Italianate, Gothic Revival, Folk, etc.) are always constructed of wood, as this is one of the signature elements that make up the style, as were the carpenter elements added to the eaves and elesewhere.

Note that even if you changed the textures to resemble wood siding, there are other details needed to bring it into the Victorian style, not the least of which would be altering the porch (with dormer) and changing the windows. Below are several examples of Victorian style:

Eastlake:


American Folk:


Mansard:


Queen Anne:


FWIW.

I might try to also build some of these ones.

Here's the thing I used for reference for this other model.



I did some things on it different to lesson the poly level.

Hack wrote:Below are several examples of Victorian style:

Eastlake:
American Folk:
Mansard:
Queen Anne:

Mansard is definitely the ones I see everywhere in Maine.
Your Eastlake picture made me go into severe hyperglycemia.

*** EDIT: Actually, American Folk is definitely the ones I see everywhere in Maine.
I read the captions wrong.

Nice stuff, Marc. The only ones we don't really see out here in So Cal are the American Folk. Most older areas of Los Angeles, like Silver Lake or East LA near Mac Arthur Park are loaded with Queen Ann's and Eastlakes. There's even an Eastlake in Redondo Beach about 3 blocks from the ocean. Beautifully restored. Pasadena also has a lot of Victorians reaching up into the foothills. Looks like a lot of work for JP, those sure would set any one's route a cut above.

I'm sure I can build them, just have to cut out some detail to keep the poly level low.


Here's a little progress on that Mansard house.

What do you think of it so far.



In the rear of the Mansard a tornado shelter.

And the Mansard House for Railworks. So far what do you think of it.

Man, that was quick - nice going!