The interesting painted signage on this limestone building at the foot of Brock Street made me want to model it, especially when repurposing my layout's central peninsula into the CP (and CN) trackage in front of City Hall along Ontario Street. As always, space constraints kept me from modelling its full length, or even width. So the basis of this kit bash was finding sympathetic structures in my stock. This turned out to be a $7 build!
The top wooden storey is a $2 train-show find. It wasn't even assembled, it was four walls held together with rubber bands. The bottom storey is a $5 Walthers feed storage shed. I removed the roof and noticed that it fit on the upper-storey perfectly! I removed a lot of the station's wainscotting, revealing that pale yellow styrene.
Test-fitting the structure in the available real estate. I tried a couple of options for the limestone south-end that bore the cool lettering. I decided to use the office of my former Manitoba Pool Elevators concrete grain elevator!
Time to dress it up a bit. Not wanting to have all the limestone paper glued to structures I've built being the same, I printed this page a little on the pink side. I noticed in prototype photos that the limestone here was darker-looking, probably due to its workaday location and the passing of sooty steam engines directly behind it! I painted the upper storey brown; starting the limestone wrapping:
I printed off some doors and windows, largely found on Pinterest, and decided to glue these on rather than cutting holes and trying to find window frames to fit:
I filled the upper-storey window openings and weathered the wooden surface, added the first-storey printed windows, and applied lettering using white and black gel pen:
Opposite end:
Now in place on the layout. Dollar-store modelling clay used to adjust the height under the end. Final scenicking and details to be done...
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