Port Pacific Fire Department Headquarters

I'm a huge fan of Emergency! so in the past my layouts have always included a fire station. The Port Pacific & Metallikahmish carries on that tradition.

The F.D.H.Q. building design has space for six trucks inside the building and three more vehicles parked outside. There are also crew quarters upstairs and a helipad and helicopter on the roof.

In designing the station I got inspiration from several 1:1 scale fire stations, taking different elements from each. Some photos of these:

Neighborhood fire station just a few blocks south of Robson St. in Vancouver B.C.

New fire station on 4th Avenue South in Seattle.

Fire station in downtown Taichung, Taiwan

Helipad design...
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With those photos/ideas as inspiration, I went to the scrap box and got started. The whole station was built from styrene and building components I had on hand, including


* O scale fire station kit
* DPM wall components from the remains of the kit used on the Northlake Tavern building.
* Lego, O scale building parts and the bottom piece of a plastic vending machine toy canister
* Detail parts and custom garage doors to be added later.

The photos show the progression starting with the vacant lot across the street from Northlake Tavern Pizza.

Starting with the remains of an HO fire station I'd built previously, I then added a styrene base plate for the building addition. The building was then built up starting with the apparatus floor - using the vehicles themselves to measure the minimum space needed to park them.

Once it was built I then added styrene O scale shingles exterior sheets for texture and to blend the two main sections of the building together.

Then I painted it in tan, red and brown.

The blue roof is meant to match that of the Port of Portland fire station at PDX.

Here are the pix:

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Will come back to this project later for detailing, including:

* Adding the removable garage doors
* Detailing all of the vehicles
* Adding art to the side of the building
* Adding signs

* Adding Fire Prevention Week and EMS Open House week banners
* Detailing the helipad

Next time : Short Bridge Over The Douglas Canal