NTS&B Bigville Bank and Mis-Trust building completed

The third and final Bigville building is compete and installed.  May have to add some more detail to the inside later.   Here are some pictures of the initial concept and finished product.

 Paper napkin inartistic artists concept drawing

 Finished building

 Finished building lit up

Bigville

 RR-Track rendition of Bigville

NTS&B Daffy Duck to the rescue-new Bigville building started

Finally started the new Bigville skyscraper (tentative name is Bigville Bank and MisTrust).  Building is being made out of Plexiglass, and will be approximately 15" wide by 17" deep by 28" tall, with another 2" tall penthouse on top.  I knew plexiglass is a pain to work with.  After I got it cut out (which is what I thought the hardest part was going to be), I tried to remove the protective paper from the plexiglass so I could start what I thought would be the second challenge (getting glue to hold the pieces together).  The plexiglass I used was quite old, so the paper would NOT come off.  After working over 1/2 hour, I managed to get about a 6x6 square done.   I then went to the manufacture web site, and they suggested to soak the paper with a product made by Duron. Duron is now out of business,  so after numerous phone calls decided that was a dead end.  I then called Home Depot, and they suggested a plastic paint scraper or another piece of plexiglass which should not the scratch plexiglass if used carefully.  That worked a little better than nothing, but was still almost impossible to get the paper off, and left much of the glue on the plexiglass.

I finally had the idea to try heat to soften it up.  I found my very shy Daffy Duck hair dryer (he must be shy, because he kept hiding under towels in the back of the linen closet, and Kathy said she didn't put him there).   The heat worked great on all but the most stubborn parts.  I then discovered rubbing alcohol worked fairly well on those parts.   All in all, it took about most of my spare time for 3 days (and 2 very sore thumbs), to get the paper off 5 pieces.

Here's Daffy at work, along with some progress pictures.

 Daffy to the rescue !!

 First attempt at gluing sides (took 3 more tries before I finally got it to hold)

 Penthouse fabricated and painted, but not complete.

No that's not magic.  There's a stealth building under that penthouse.