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This wall of the Dry Goods Store faces the tracks. I glued in a piece of stripwood behind the left window and populated it with various items to represent a shelf or desk top inside. Will likely add a stick or can holding the window up. The right window has newsprint covering part of the window. Additional rotted area on the lower left.
This picture highlights the features inside the left window a bit better.
This wall was originally a solid wall. I took Brett's lead from the O Scale version of BlueSky in which a door was added to this wall. I felt the wall was too bare and decided to put in a service window. This window has horizontal sliding windows. I installed a large counter sill on the outside for cutomers and delivery personnel to submit orders, etc., and a light to illuminate the area. I'll have a couple of "bar stool" style chairs here for sitting and loafing. The loading dock will be along this wall. Inside the window I placed another stripwood piece to act as a desk or counter that will have details placed before the walls go together. Note the service "buzzer"
This wall was fetured earlier and was a solid wall that I decided to add a solid door and a screen door. I have now added a small light and door "buzzer". This door allows direct access to the BlueSky Complex from the CookHouse out back.
Illustrates the solid door partially open inside.
Here is the front of the Gorcery and Dry Goods Store. I added a screen door in front of the original solid door, added signage and a light.
View of the cracked open screen door...
Those not familiar with BlueSky, there is a service station component with a gas pump and various service station items. I decided to make my service station a Texaco brand. I fashioned the sign by gluing two identical signs back-to-back. I then ran a strip of thin paper painted and rusted along the edge. The sign framing is all styrene and NBWs. Rusted and weathered to taste.
This concludes the main detailing and finish of the Dry Goods Store walls. Time to glue everything up...
Appreciate that Brett and thanks much for your council on several issues including the dreadful "ICE" sign, such a good call! It snuck in on a couple of the pictures before removal....
That is some really fantastic and inspiring work my friend. Knitting or lawn bowls is seriously looking to be a better option than trying to compete against your artistry.
I cant wait for more.
I second what Wes said, this is Chuck Doan level detailing.
Gald to hear that Alan, spent a good bit of time on it as it's right out there and really shows!
Hey Wes, appreciate the sentiments for sure. However, my/our address is planet earth...Chuck's is somewhere else!!
Thanks Steve. I studied the manual to get a feel for the roof overhang as I haven't gotten that far yet of course. Once I decided that, I scraped along the boards carefully with the edge of my #11 blade, then did some targted sanding mostly on the front edge of the boards followed by some light brown chalk leaving more paint up undet the future eaves.
Hi Phil, I really look forward to your critique and certianly thank you for your thoughts but you may have left out a letter in dub...maybe an "m"...more fitting for my mug.
I tell you so many great builds going on the forum right now. So get back at it! This is simply a marvelous outstanding and fantastic build!
Jim
I always look forward to your critique and you certainly made my day. Thank you very much for that. I really do enjoy trying new things with each build. I have always liked the look of old grocery stores and gas stations and love the old screen doors you see occasionally. BlueSky was the perfect opportunity to try and model them. I also love the look of framing showing through broken and missing clapboard siding, so once again BlueSky was ripe for this experiment. Another thing that Brett promotes in most, if not all, his kits is to detail each wall before assembling the structure. This allows the wall to be manipulated and postioned to facilitate all the wonderful details he recommends. I do spend a good bit of time as a result making sure I think about the adjacent wall and how the details may need to carry over to give the right effect, since I'm working on one wall at a time. I slid in a picture here of the back lower corner of the Main Barn on BlueSky to illustrate this point.
An example of planning ahead when working on detailing walls before assembly. I wanted this back corner to appear rotten and worn due to the plumbing leaks and roof run off. By forward planning I made sure the two walls, once put together, appeared as they were together all along and deteriorated.
Thanks for the tip on the screen material. The idea of using natural "logs" for porch supports is a really good one. I have seen just what you're talking about in several pictures of old porches I have researched. I'll keep you posted on how that goes.
Thanks again Jim and sorry for the lengthy and slightly off topic response.
Well...there's that proud father! How ya been Justin? Appreciate you checking in and thanks for your thoughts.
Since we are both working on the walls, I am following you to see what I might want to do to my walls on Shelby's Marine. Thanks for all your posts on the Blue Sky and your description and how to of your details.
Jim
Appreciate that Wes and I think about your comments often and look forward to your thoughts on things as well.
I know I am late in the game here on the screen door, but take a look at the material they use for silk screen. I have used it and I like it.
That service button with the wire is great! And the sign too. Clever.
Mitch
Very clever, and a nice addition to the project.