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In-ko-pah RR -- Bakery finally finished!

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#1

In October 2009 I added the third building to my town. However, it was unfinished – there were no signs or interior details. At first I had planned to make it a dress shop, but couldn’t work up any enthusiasm for modeling the details. Eventually I decided to turn it into a bakery, with an upstairs residence. At long last, it’s finally finished:

This area seemed to need something extra, and a swamp cooler was just the ticket! I scratch-built it from stryene. The vents are actually made of small scale clapboard siding. I’m not sure if it’s HO or N scale, but the spacing is .030". Then I added strips of .010" thick styrene. The wooden support platform is also made from styrene, textured and painted to look like old wood. I also repainted to corrugated metal roof, giving it a coat of white paint with a little rust showing through. I wimped out on the upstairs residence interior – there are only a few simple details inside, with dim lights and lace curtains hiding most of the interior.

The bakery interior is fully detailed and lighted:

If you look closely, you can see pink pastry boxes on the shelves. The small, highly detailed cakes in the window were purchased from a doll house supplier, but the large cake and everything else was scratch-built.

There are loaves of bread wrapped in cellophane on the shelves here. The one small, highly detailed cake in the window is from a doll house supplier, but bread rolls and large cakes were scratch-built.

The bakery is named Cora’s Cakes, after one of our grand-daughters.

The door to the upstairs residence is at the side, between the bakery and the rock shop.

Also, I paved the road in front of the buildings:

And I’ve created a new improved webpage for my Dos Manos buildings. There’s a photo of the town, and you can click on each building in the photo to see detailed reports of how the buildings were constructed plus additional photos of the completed structure: http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/IRR_Dos_Manos.html Enjoy!

#2

Dang that looks good; I’m ready to pop in and see if Cora’s has any Bavarian cream filled long johns/eclairs/cream puffs.

#3

Excellant, Ray. Again, the details as well as the building are outstanding.

#4

Very nice work, Ray. It really impressed Jean! Great pictures, too - I’m having fun just scrolling through them.

#5

Really, really nice Ray! Those buildings wonderful in the extreme for sure!

#6

W O W ! ! !

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That’s a great model

#7

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#8

Wow thats amazing Ray. Do u keep the buildings out all the time?

#9

I’ll take a dozen apple fritters, please.
AAAA+++++!

#10

The modeling is beautiful. Chocolate cake for everyone with a favorite beverage.

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Doc Tom

#11

As usual …beautiful work Ray!
:wink:

#12
Shawn said:
Wow thats amazing Ray. Do u keep the buildings out all the time?
Thanks! Yes, they are outdoors 24/7. Although, I have been covering them with plastic during rainy weather, before I paved the road, to keep the sandy mud off them. The road solved that problem.
#13

What did you end up using to pave the road?

#14

Looks great Ray. Another fantastic building :smiley: You said “but bread rolls and large cakes were scratch-built.” - don’t you mean scratch baked? They look good enough to eat.

#15

I used concrete mix reinforced with galvanized rod and hardware cloth as the base. While it was still wet, I topped it with a layer of high-strength mortar mix, colored with “charcoal” cement color. Later, after all the buildings have been finished, I plan to add another thin layer of mortar to bring the “pavement” up to the structures a little better.

#16

Hi Ray,
Just catching up on this thread. Very nicely done!!!
The cooler is perfect.
What are you using for your lights, clear beads?
That is a perfect set of buildings, for a small desert town.
Thanks for sharing.
Rick

#17

Thanks. I meant to post pics of how I made the ceiling lamps along with the rest of the step-by-step, and somehow overlooked them. I plan to get them posted on my site this weekend.

The ceiling lamps were made from two different buttons. The base is a brass-plated plastic button that had a white plastic dome. I removed the dome and drilled out the center. The “glass” part of the lamp is a clear plastic button shaped kind of like a big diamond. I hollowed it out from the back using a drill and a dremel router bit.

The two pieces were then glued together. I drilled holes through the ceiling, and glued the lamps over the holes. Grain-of-rice bulbs were inserted from above.