Modelling an Ex-Industry

Have you heard of a deconstructed pie? It's made so the crust is not necessarily where you'd find it - in fact, it may top the pie filling! That's what was on my mind as I demolished this local industry as I built it! Wanting to fill this yawningly large space - formerly a Montreal Street scene but now between th Outer Station and tannery, I'm moving the Outer Station, the CN telegraph repeater station, CN Express and now an ex-industry to make effective use of the space:

Close-up of the planning process in action!

A shopping list of what might have graced the newly-available real estate:

Besides pie, I was thinking of K-D Manufacturing, a Montreal Street industry that remains as a weedgrown field of foundations. I decided to model a former industry, one that had long since left. I needed a foundation, and found a neat graphic while searching online:

I assembled the elements, gluing the two graphics to a piece of foamcore.

I cut out some pieces, intending to make a three-dimensional effect. I painted the edges of the foamcore, and glued the cutouts and the whole foamcore piece to a piece of thin styrene:

Here's that three-dimensional effect of broken concrete, along with some residual walls taking shape:

I added some girders and wall remnants to the foundation, along with assembling some details:

Details added:

On the layout, now to scenick it into the scene!

Oriented and scenicked in:

Changes are coming to the Outer Station!