The building itself is scratchbuilt from DPM brick wall components, styrene, parts from the increasingly notorious "scrap box" and signs printed up and resized.
First off, measure the space to get the footprint of the foundation where you want to put the building. Then cut the foundation out of styrene and gather the rest of your materials - DPM wall components, styrene, and some scraps...
Next assemble the DPM wall components, kitbashing them with an Xacto knife to cut to fit where needed. The foundation is your template - cut walls that fit this on all four sides. Since the back wall on my layout will be out of viewing range, I used a blank sheet of styrene here rather than the more expensive brick wall.
In the next step add the door and window casings frmo the DPM kit. Then, fill in the front door with an additional wall piece and front doors made out of styrene scraps and parts from the scrap box. The black piece that splits the front doors is actually an axe handle from an O scale axe I had from a previous layout.
Test fit a roof piece and you then have the bare bones of the building. It is then onward to the funnest part - the detailing. For my tavern/pizzeria I made the following details from parts in my scrap box:
* An exhaust stack from a small piece of aluminum tube
* An air conditioner from an O scale wheelbarrow taken apart and turned upside down
* An electric meter/power connection from the bottom part of an O scale jackhammer
* Various signs resized and added into my windows with scotch tape
* A pizza delivery van from a Hot Wheels 1/87 model of a GMC panel truck
Here are a few pictures of the finished product. All in all this is an easy, fun project that gives the RR it's first bit of flavor.
Next up : The Wall
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