08-02-2014, 02:44 PM
I went back to Petaluma last month and found a building just down the street that I like better than the prototype I posted above. It has a similar function, a feed warehouse, although this is for poultry and not dairy cattle:
I've come to prefer foamcore for this sort of project, but I'd gotten a slab of balsa at the craft store for another project and discovered that, among other things, balsa, especially if sealed, makes a good start for distressed concrete. So I transferred the dimensions of the mockup in the first post to balsa:
I have a sheet of brick paper left over from another project, about the last I have from the late lamented Paper Creek Model works, that I will use for the brick section here:
I can use various Grandt Line nut-bolt-washer castings to detail the walls.
I've come to prefer foamcore for this sort of project, but I'd gotten a slab of balsa at the craft store for another project and discovered that, among other things, balsa, especially if sealed, makes a good start for distressed concrete. So I transferred the dimensions of the mockup in the first post to balsa:
I have a sheet of brick paper left over from another project, about the last I have from the late lamented Paper Creek Model works, that I will use for the brick section here:
I can use various Grandt Line nut-bolt-washer castings to detail the walls.