Download the June 15, 2026 Crew Call (Vol. 5-11)With Mike Rose!

Scott was kind enough to volunteer to laser cut a pair of kits for a building.

And

I will never do that again.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

And I don't really remember how much of this we talked about before, if at all, but these are the P&E offices.

And, you know, it's kind of a normal building except for the gable ends on the roof, and that's what turns it into some extreme

weirdness.

It never ceases to amaze me that the most mundane building, like some architect on LSD has to – sit back and say, well, how can I just complicate the hell out of this

thing? It has to be a kit batch.

That's the only thing I can think of.

It was probably modified at some point.

But a modeling friend of mine down in my modeling area, Chris Murley, took the liberty of measuring the entire building and doing a scale drawing for it, which I gave to Scott.

And he also came up with a lot of prototype pictures for me.

And he asked me if I would construct a bottle for him while I'm building mine.

So this is really the first time I've ever built two of the same thing at the same time.

It's very efficient, but it's a little weird, you know, cause I've never, I've never had to do it.

You may have, you've probably done it for all I know.

Well, I'm, I've not only done it on several occasions, but I'm about to undertake a three, a threesome, uh, where two of the models are an O scale and one is an HO,

but it's

the same building.

So we'll get to that.

That sounds interesting.

O scale, interesting.

There were some, you know, ups and downs with the laser cutting, but not so much with the building, right? It was more the inserts, right?

Well, so,