So it’s been a couple of years since I started the Pawn shop building as part of the MIK challenge and at the time I had the grand idea to try and whip out both buildings but I never had the time nor energy or a method to make the cinderblock building.
Well a few years later, a random trip to meet someone in Everett to exchange/swap train cars, I just happened to make a detour to TAP Plastics and buy a 4x8 sheet of 3mm PVC board.
With that on hand, I started the tedious process of scribing cinderblocks…
During this past 2 years I also was able to acquire slightly more information about the building including the lean too. It has a small man door and a roll up garage door.
While I was at TAP, I raided the $1 scrap bin for acrylic scraps… I then used a piece for the door and window sections and MEK’ed styrene to make the windows.
I’ll probably use the acrylic for the other buildings as well.
Glued a roof and front sign area…
This basically forms the main structure. For the small 20x20 lean to on the backside, I bashed that up with 1/8 styrene, covered the walls with some .030 scrap to represent the plywood sheets they used to cover. It looked from the photo to be a slightly non air tight siding work, so I built in some sloppy 4x8 sheets. I’ll probably slightly sand them to get a bit of texture.
Next up is making shingles once again for the lean too, and covering the flat roof with the concrete patch stuff like I used for the other building.