Does anyone have engine workshop drawings?

Hi all,

I'll post it down here, seeing as I want it for modelling purposes, but does anyone have any idea what standard drawing number is - or even better have - the drawings for the engine workshop as still extant at Halfpenny Green airfield in Staffordshire, please?

I need it to model - surprisingly - Halfpenny Green for FSX, but am having real problems finding a drawing with the same building and a readable version of the drawing number.

Thanks in advance.

Ian P.

Hi Ian - you have no doubt spotted it on the HG thread - but for an update on this one the building number on the 1944 plan appears to be 7041/40 for the WORKSHOPS I have images of over on the HG thread...
Cheers,
Martin

Thanks Martin,

I shall hassle DoRIS and see if I can get a drawing to match that number.

Ian P.

IIRC that building is the same as Goxhill and HOSM.
Have drawn the Goxhill example but the drawing number is 10863/40 for the TBC type.
The drawing number for the Romney type was a four digit number 5851/42, obviously a more basic design . . .

Having dragged my backside back into gear and started work on this again (I'll start a thread if anyone is interested), I'm now modelling this in Blender. So far I've done the Post Office basic model as a learning tool and have just started on the original Watch Office - however the Workshops and Stores buildings are still eluding me. DoRIS have no record of either drawing number, nor do epic amounts of internet searches.

I can probably model the Wing and Engine Workshops from photos - I'm getting better at it now - but the 7060/40 stores is merely ground marks remaining in what is now the car park.

Therefore, I still need help, if anyone can...

1) On the wing/engine workshops, the interior courtyard is now covered by what appears to be perspex. I doubt that is original, so does anyone know if the central area was originally covered, or open? If the latter, I'll need to beg permission to get in there and find out what doors are where.

2) Also on the wing/engine workshops, does anyone know what the original main doors were in construction? One is now a roller shutter and the other end wall has been completely rebuilt (not very well, by the look of it) so I have no references to work from. Would they have just been double doors, similar to those on the armoury?

3) 7060/40 stores. Anyone? Anything? Pretty please?!

Cheers,

Ian P.

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Modelled, but only partially textured, Post Office in FSX

I have a plan of the Main Stores at Moleswoth, which should be the same basic design if not the same specific drawing number. (this one refers to AM Dwg. 7804/40)
However, it's a 1950s modification drawing, so the internal layout may not be quite the same as it was originally.

Here we are.
It's a heating installation drawing, so please ignore the gubbins:



Normal TB construction applies; 4.5" brick walls, piers at 10' centres. The main building sections are 30' span, 10' high at the eaves.
The fabric store ("propeller shop" by this time) is 20' span with 9" thick walls, 20' high at the eaves.

Thanks very much, Paul.

Sincere apologies for the delay in replying - I wanted something to show, rather than just saying thanks... Hopefully these look something vaguely like you would expect them to?

Texturing isn't complete yet - the doors and gates have no detail, the air vents are missing, I need to create a cement rendered version for HG and the corrugations on the roof are too big, for starters, but I think it looks vaguely correct, compared to the drawing and the few photos I have found online.

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Cheers,

Ian P.

I appreciate its been a while since this has received a reply but I have some details.

I know your 3d CAD (?) build looks the business but are you aware that the windows, for example, are missing from what was the tall Fabric Store ??
Your Cad drawing looks to be the Main Stores and NOT Main Workshops

I was aware of the short wall projecting out from the front but not so that it was in fact, a total rectangular with a front gate. I have a photo of this from the Stores building at Caernarfon airport
This mystify me slightly as I am sure the Goxhill example had steps leading up to the loading doors at the front ? ( I shall check on this)** as it was several feet above ground level which I have presumed was the level of the truck bed when reversed up to the Store
Also as I recall, all the doors were of wood construction FLB.

I recently lost the 'driver' for my scanner so cant submit the photos as I only have 'hard copies' but If i can help with your build then I will see what I can turn out . . .

My drawing for the Main Stores has the Open court yard and again all the doors were of Wood; FLB


Ian

** Seems to have been what the farmer put in, a ramp actually, to gain excess to the higher level.

Typical. I just found this thread while hunting for clues to what doors the Fabric Store would have - just after I've finished putting together the Main Store + Fabric Store for Thurleigh. Could've done with those measurements two days ago....

I read "span" as width, is this right? Just curious, as with a height of 20-ft and a span/width of 20-ft that would make the face (with the doors in it) roughly square, whereas every FS I've seen is much taller than it is wide. Certainly not square-ish.
I had to guesstimate mine in order to match the RSP with photos.

(Mine won't be as textured as Ian's, as there's a trade-off in detail vs performance in xplane).



Also, I note not everywhere had the courtyard, as Thurleigh's is not present.