Ice machinery company start

This is the central structure of the ice machinery company and the largest structure in what will be a J shaped business against a wall corner.  The black card stock sections are where other parts of the structure will be attached.  I also plan to detail the roof with components such as a small water tower.

This structure was built using two walls of an old Magnuson kit.  The back walls are plain wood pieces since they will not be visible.  I added a covered entrance on the "front" of the building and put metal security grills on the lower windows.  The grills were made using pieces of etched brass decorative fence.   Two sets of corner windows have been bricked in.  There is a hoist above the vertical string of loading doors.  On the right end I installed a vertical vent extending up from one of the bricked-in windows.   The vertical vent was made from sections of square wood strip with sections of paper between them to simulated seams.  

Here is a front view.

And here is an end view.

The structure that will extend off the right end will be a mostly plain brick structure with minimal details to fill out to the end of the short wall section.  There is a covered column in this corner of the room so the layout is installed around that - makes for annoying scenic issues.  The structure extending off the left side will be a wood structure with a loading dock and likely an elevated conveyor.

As usual, the most time consuming part of scratch building without copying any prototype (or even worse copying some manufacturers kit) is the time it takes to design something that I like and looks right to me.

There will be more details to this section I have already built as the complex progresses.