Today is a big day for this build! By the end of today barring any major disasters I will have screwed all this together and we will have the basic diorama set up of 3 walls and the floor/base, be sure to check back in a few hours, have still gotta paint up a load of fiddly bits in the grey and glue them on first, once that’s dry we will be good to go 
WOw how nice! I can’t to see it compleled! 
:whatever: :eyeroll:
Aaaaaah still a long long way to go before completed, I still have a lot of the interior to do and also the roof and closing wall to properly box this thing off but as far as a standard diorama goes it will have its main basis
Sadly yesterday I had a change of heart on how to actually screw this together, I was going to screw some of it from the inside using L shaped brackets and the big wall was to have some holding it in place from the outside and would have been covered by the main grey walling buuuut I figured a way of doing it all from the inside. That basically meant In had to actually finish the big grey wall part plus all the little fiddly bits, paint them and glue em etc. I am now just waiting for the last of the glue to dry and then will be screwing it all up today for sure
Attempted to pop up a pic of the finished long wall but my photobucket is under maintenance at the mo, hopefully will be all sorted by the time I have this all screwed in
Yaaay finally got the bulk of this screwed together Some pics for you guys
OK so that’s my progress so far now that it’s all been screwed together! Am having a much needed weekend break from this build as I’ve spent pretty much every spare hour I’ve had on this, sometimes up til 3am some days so if I do anything with it I will most likely be playing with my actual figures in it lol
Hope you guys all like it so far, I dare say I’m approx halfway through this project, I’ll be focusing on the interior areas now and will do the roof and the wall that will box this off last
Nearly got the brickwork finished on the support columns, currently working on those plus the other supports that will be made from the dowels which will prop up the middle areas of the upper floor, soon as done I will post some fresh pics for you guys
I like this post… It’s y’know, exciting.
I like Zuul on her bench, just hanging out watching her soaps.
Alex
haha i know, ive nearly finished the support columns now but have had a wee break from hammering it while i build a foam core pack for my sons book day at school, nearly finished that now though so i’ll be back to hammering away at this after the weekend 
i think you need some support on the bottom, the middle is sagging, this looks amazing so far
You’re Absolutely right Joe, I have 4 dowels cut and ready to act as the cylinder style support columns, I think they are green in the movie so I just need to finish off the bottom interior i.e venkmans office, the guys lockers and need to finish the stair case off with all the spindles and newel posts plus bannister and I also need to sand/file a bit off that upper floor as it’s not sitting in as flush around the sides as I would like, soon as all that’s done I can pretty much put the bottom floor to bed and fix those supports in I’m just about to paint up the brick work that are gonna cover the wall columns too but have been splitting some time over doing this and my sons pack for his world book day at school so as soon as I’ve finished that (I’m on a deadline lol) I’ll be hammering away at this full pelt again
I might pop pics of his pack on here somewhere but I don’t want to shame myself next to the seasoned builders on here lol
That’s some awesomeness there. Really digging it.
I just have to say, this is absolutely amazing. I just got my first wave of Diamond Select figures in, and in thinking about how cool it will be to have the rooftop diorama, I started considering making other display pieces (for my GBs as well as for other properties).
I stumbled upon this thread by chance, and your work truly is an inspiration to me. Thank you for keeping up with progress pics, and also that post detailing your process. Can’t wait to see how this all turns out!
Real nice work! I can’t wait to see the finished project.
Awesome and thank you for the kind words, I’ve not had the chance to get much work done on it over the past couple of weeks as its my 2 sons world book day event coming up with school so I’ve been making them their outfits, both want to go as ghostbusters so I’ve nearly finished one pack made out of foamcore and about to start the other this week so still been busy on ghostbusters themed stuff lol, once that’s out of the way I’ll be working at this full throttle again to get it finished
here are some pics just so you can see what I’ve been up to while I’ve not been hammering away at this project, still a tad more to do on the pack but my son’s happy so far, my other boy should have his finished soon so I can crack back on with my fire house
Aaaargh this project ended up on the backburner a bit as all my time and cash has had to go into the new tattoo studio I’m opening next month!!! Soon as I have that health cert and registration fee paid then I will have all that free money back to spend on this huge dolly house again 
I am however decking the place out full of ghostbusters themed pics and posters though for fun so I’m gonna bob a few pics up soon on a new thread, see if any manchester 'busters out there fancy a ghostbusters themed tattoo at a discount for my 'folio. I reckon a pretty mean looking terror dog would look pretty damn swish on somebodies back or arm this summer in time for the new fillum
Hi all, I know I’ve been away for a while setting up my new business but I’ve begun to work on this project again having freed up a little more time anyway here are some pics for all still interested, have now completed the slimer tank, stained the newel posts and spindles, glued them in place (not touching it now for 24 hours, was extremely delicate work!) and also finished the additional support columns for the upper floor and have completed the painting and gluing of the ground floor walls. Will hopefully have the banister rails and staircase panels complete and glued by tomorrow, also the guys lockers should hopefully be cut today.
Hope you enjoy the new pics!
Probably going to post another set of pics in a weeks time rather than update after every teensy bit is completed, feel free to drop me a comment or question and will get back to you asap 
OK here are this weeks pics, have ordered the columns for Venkmans office from a company called Miniland in Canada so they will take a while to get here so for now I’ve been working on as many bits as I can before they arrive.
Hope you guys enjoy the new pics
These lockers aren’t finished yet, i need to print some walnut panels to insert into the squares on the “doors”. Opted to position the plaques above the doors instead of on them as the gap at the top just looked too bare.
From today I will be working on the upper floor banister rail around the gap for the staircase and if the balsa wood strips turn up today I will also make a start on the front of venkmans office, by next week I will hopefully have it for the most part built up and the foam cut and at least patterned for the upper floor walls, my big aim is to have this done and dusted before or by xmas
So cool
Couldn’t resist popping another couple of pics on now the upper floor is beginning to take shape, I’ll post another in a sec of the whole thing built up so far
Ok that’s it for now, have cut two foam board panels for two walls on the upper floor but I have now ran out of the stuff so it’ll be a couple of days before I can get my hands on any more, I also have a couple of last minute bits to finish for our big Halloween party on sat night so I’m gonna be fairly busy anyways, I’ll pop another update on this time next week anyways, I should have at least the front part of venkmans office done by then and 2 of the walls at least patterned
Hope you all have a fab ghostbustery time this Halloween, I’ll catch you next week