At the request of my wife, my next model will be a fish market on the dock. I have constructed the basic building and installed interior details. The details will be somewhat visible through the front open windows and the fact the structure will be located at the edge of the layout. This market will sell fish, fish bait and ice.
Above you see the front area facing the dock and the right side. There will be a small building at the back of the right side which will be the ice storage.
Above is a high level view showing part of the interior. The table in the center is used for cutting and preparing the fish and has several plies of fish on it. I made the fish piles from white putty which I textured and painted. There are four figures working inside of the market.
Above is a railcar shipment of a very large fish. It is a humous postcard from the early 1900's.
When I was a young boy my family (my mother, brother and I as my father was mostly deployed in the Navy) would spend several weeks each summer at my grandmothers cottage located on a sort of island on Lake Ontario, with a tenuous connection to the main land creating a river on the inside of the island. The only way to the island was by boat and our cottage only had an icebox- no refrigerator. Thus we had to get ice every few days. We would row to the nearby dock area where they rented boats, sold fish and ice. Sadly I have no photos of that, only memories. Thus my fish market sells ice along with the fish.
Next I need to add a roof, signs and the ice shed at the rear.
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