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Monday, December 9, 2013

Calamity - Prototype Building - The Bakery

In Silver Plume there is a very cool structure simply known as the Bakery, with the word Bread printed on one side of the false front. It occupies a corner lot with a false front all the way across the main street side and a partial one along the side street. The odd false front gives the impression that there was intent to build up higher on that corner, and maybe at one point there was more there. I might treat myself to a little research along that line. This is one of the structures I had earmarked as a building I wanted to scratchbuild and include as part of Calamity. Since I'm on the road I thought I might be able to mess around with some matt board and put together a little prototype of this structure and see how the proportions looked after I scaled it up to 1/56th scale. What I failed to do on this trip was to bring along a couple of minis to check to see how they looked against the structure. If nothing else is was a nice way to spend the evening.

 Here is some bacon for you:

The Bakery in Silver Plume. Note the very fancy trim on the false front



Laying out the bakery on the back of a piece of matt board. I picked up a back of about 20 sheets from Hobby Lobby for 5 bucks. Leftovers from matting pictures. (8"x10" a nice size to work with. I guess they frame up a lot of 8x10 pictures, you can get 5"x7" as well, a pack of 20 for 4 bucks)

The pieces all cut out.

The Bakery Front

The Bakery, Front and Side. These two sides and the false front itself will be planked ship lapped style.

The Bakery, Back and Opposite side. These will both be done up in a board and batten style; vertical planking with smaller boards covering the cracks between the main boards.

 Ultimately this could serve as the core of the building when I start the build. Some things will need to change, the side and back windows will have to be narrower and the fancy trim on the front added. Should be fun though.

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6 comments:

  1. Simon Quinton December 10, 2013 at 12:16 AM

    ooo this will be good. Look forward to seeing the next installment

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    1. HeislerDecember 10, 2013 at 5:20 AM

      I wish I could take it a little farther than this but I deliberately didn't bring any glue with me. Transporting an assembled building on the road is tough. Will try and knock off another prototype tonight though.

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  2. UnknownDecember 10, 2013 at 9:33 AM

    You certainly are good with scratch building Kris. The precision it takes is well beyond me. I would like to know the story behind the false front too. It does suggest that they intended to put on a second floor, maybe for living space. But maybe they just wanted to create the illusion of grandeur at the time it was built.

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    1. HeislerDecember 11, 2013 at 10:28 AM

      At this point I'm just kind of messing around with these. Its common to make mockups of buildings for model railroads to make sure that what you want to build is really going to fit. I'm also trying to get used to working in this odd 1/56 scale. I really am regretting not having a couple of miniatures with me this week so I could see how everything is working together. The false fronts were there to make a small building look bigger so that whole illusion of grandeur thing is definitely going on here.

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  3. SeanDecember 11, 2013 at 9:47 AM

    Very neat building. I have some very large matt boards warping in the garage that I had intended to use for building things. Thanks for the reminder.

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    1. HeislerDecember 11, 2013 at 10:30 AM

      Working with large sections of matt boards is a pain, although if I decide to use it as the actual core of these buildings I'll need some bigger pieces. For making mock ups its fine though. If you need to unwarp it apply steam and then set it on a flat surface and put something heavy on top of it, that should take care of the warp.

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