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Jean's been after me to build up my town a bit, so I decided I needed a hardware store and a cafe. These are rather small buildings but are made to 1:20 and made to complement my bank. It's almost ready to put outside, but I thought I'd go ahead an post what I have. I don't think the weather will allow me to put it outside for the next few days.
The front is a single piece of corrugated plastic (about 3/8" thick). The ends and back are made of the same material and covered with Precision Products brick sheet.
Openings were cut for the windows. All windows were custom made as I wanted different sizes. They are glazed with 1/16 or 1/8" acrylic, depending on what I had on hand. The hardware windows are built up with styrene and glazed with acrylic as well. I found some old junk and stuff and placed them in the windows.
Since I was sort of detailing the hardware store, I thought I'd go ahead and "populate" the windows with people that I've operated with. I scaled some pictures to 1:20 then printed them on vinyl, mounted this on plastic and glued them behind the windows. The hard part was finding pictures that would work. Most of my photos have been taken outside, or could not scale correctly.
The buildings will go between my gas station and bank; they'll replace the barbershop and drug store. The old buildings will move to the other side of the street for now.
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The roof pieces were made from some styrene I had on hand. I painted them with a textured paint and then added some roof vents. Screen backs up all the vents, to help keep out the critters.
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The front is a single piece of corrugated plastic (about 3/8" thick). The ends and back are made of the same material and covered with Precision Products brick sheet.
Openings were cut for the windows. All windows were custom made as I wanted different sizes. They are glazed with 1/16 or 1/8" acrylic, depending on what I had on hand. The hardware windows are built up with styrene and glazed with acrylic as well. I found some old junk and stuff and placed them in the windows.
Since I was sort of detailing the hardware store, I thought I'd go ahead and "populate" the windows with people that I've operated with. I scaled some pictures to 1:20 then printed them on vinyl, mounted this on plastic and glued them behind the windows. The hard part was finding pictures that would work. Most of my photos have been taken outside, or could not scale correctly.
The buildings will go between my gas station and bank; they'll replace the barbershop and drug store. The old buildings will move to the other side of the street for now.
The roof pieces were made from some styrene I had on hand. I painted them with a textured paint and then added some roof vents. Screen backs up all the vents, to help keep out the critters.
The cigar is just a piece of brass rod.
