Abandoned building complete

I decided to make the abandoned building an old rope shop.  It is in bad shape with broken boards, broken windows and lots of weathering.  The roof was built board by board with tar paper style covering made from facial tissue sprayed with light gray spray paint applied.  When the paint was dry I separated the tissue sheets keeping the painted part which I cut into scale 3 foot wide strips.  After I glued the strips to the roof boards I tore parts of the strips revealing the boards.  I then applied dark gray chalk.

On the deck is an old style rope machine I scratch built from a variety of old photos.  I sort of built it with a little imagination.  There is a very weathered sign on the front.  

At the base of the structure is a stone style foundation built using commercial card stock stone sheet.

Now again I need to come up with an idea for the next model.  

Abandoned building model start

 I have started on a new model.  It will be an abandoned building in bad shape.  Not sure yet what it was before it was abandoned but some kind of shop.  

I have decided to stay with this blog for now.  I fixed the "warning" problem.  I have also been looking at alternate blog sites but so far none appeal to me.  I did set up something on a site called word press but I have not posted anything there and do not particularly like it.

Above is the start on my model.  It is just the front of the main building and a porch/platform.  It will have a large sign at the peak of the roof.  There will be an open double door to allow some view of the interior.  The windows were made using wood strips and there is plastic in the windows simulating broken glass.  No commercial parts so far.

There will be junk inside, on the porch, and around the model.  There will be a "shop" structure adjoining this structure. 

Small two story house model

 I decided to build this model before I decided what it would be.  It is a small two story house with different people on each floor. There is an exterior stair case and two level smoke stacks.  

There is a figure on the upper landing.

The only time consuming aspect of this model was adding the shingles.  

.  Thanks for viewing my blog.  Stan Knotts.