You all know those cheap USA style Piko Buildings that are realisticly to small for anyone to run a shop from let alone live in....Well i have quite a few that ive collected and shyed away from using because my railway isnt very wild western but i needed a terrace of shops and houses to form the Town square and cover the Tunnel / mountain that im building the upper station for my shuttle line sits on So.......
The town Square with the Shuttle line station above... The long ex station buildings will form the other side of the square and will be Restaurants /Bars but are sitting where the terace of shops are required ... The Barnhof building with the canopy is turning into the Station Hotel and the large red roofed building in the forground are about where they will be so.......
Collection of parts from two shops
And two houses
Take out the windows build a wooden frame reglue and you end up with a terace of Houses that have a more British feel but more importantly look as if they are big enough that people might live in them...this is made from the two houses and is now a terrace of 4 the back and floor will be exterior ply as it wont be seen against the Mountain and it will have floors and rooms with lights and furniture im thinking to paint each house a different colour all the windows are being sprayed white and will have new plastic all im short of is another 2 chimneys
The porch is going to stay and is the door to one house i could have cut a hole and fitted it to the wall like the others but i think it makes it look more modern and not a victorian brick built terrace
All i got to do is do the same with the two shops and that will be the four sides of my Town square if this cold weather stays the same il be in the shed again tomorrow
The town Square with the Shuttle line station above... The long ex station buildings will form the other side of the square and will be Restaurants /Bars but are sitting where the terace of shops are required ... The Barnhof building with the canopy is turning into the Station Hotel and the large red roofed building in the forground are about where they will be so.......
Collection of parts from two shops
And two houses
Take out the windows build a wooden frame reglue and you end up with a terace of Houses that have a more British feel but more importantly look as if they are big enough that people might live in them...this is made from the two houses and is now a terrace of 4 the back and floor will be exterior ply as it wont be seen against the Mountain and it will have floors and rooms with lights and furniture im thinking to paint each house a different colour all the windows are being sprayed white and will have new plastic all im short of is another 2 chimneys
The porch is going to stay and is the door to one house i could have cut a hole and fitted it to the wall like the others but i think it makes it look more modern and not a victorian brick built terrace
All i got to do is do the same with the two shops and that will be the four sides of my Town square if this cold weather stays the same il be in the shed again tomorrow
great conversion tony. looks miles better already
