Time to do something with all the parts and pieces I’ve been collecting. The building is made up of a Piko engine house that came to me in post hurricane Katrina condition. I figured that as long as it was already in pieces, I could put it back together in what ever order I wanted (Humpty Dumpty would be proud). I got rid of the original engine house doors and added some garage style roll up doors. I also made a new roof, new entry doors (to fit my scale), some loading docks, and a gantry crane.
Hey look- there’s me standing on the front steps…
The gantry crane supports are from an Aristocraft signal bridge. I made the beams out of scrap plexglass. I used some old O scale wheels for the crane trolly even though you can’t see them and I’ll probably never actually move the crane (pointless details just to waste time…)
The loading dock doors are made from sections of the old engine house roof. Initially, I couldn’t find any brick to match the Piko sized brick. Then, while rummaging through more parts and pieces, I found some roof panels from a Colorado Models kit bash. The roof tiles were just about the right size. I flipped 'em upside down, slapped some paint on 'em, glued the garage doors in and… Who’d a guessed?
I don’t normally do interiors, but when you light the building up at night, you could see right through all the windows. It looked kinda empty for a manufacturing company, so I filled it with some small scale machinery that I had (I just knew all this junk would come in handy some day).
-Kevin.
