A little more design work on buildings for the backsceen, with a continuation of work on the retail park.

This is the style of structure I am going for

Although it is based upon the rear of the building (which if i remember correctly is completely block built construction rather than clad in metal), my design is slightly different to the prototype in the radius of the roof (I started building it years back pre google earth, so the dimensions were all estimated from this photo. I have now gone back and made a much better job of taking dimensions which showed that roof radius apart (its about 10mm too high in the centre) the only other main difference is that the 3 shop units are all the same width (whereas the prototype has a pair of long units for the Homebase store, and then 2 short units for the smaller retailers next to it. Still at the end of the day it dosnt need to be an accurate model of a prototype, just in the style of...

This drawing is a hybrid of the prototype and the model details, (it still needs about 20mm taking off the length and and extra 10mm hight in the centre), also need to double check the sizes of doors etc.

Construction so far has got a core of 80 thou plasticard in 2 parts (each 2ft long), There is some damage from storage where the origonal glue bond has failed in the corners which will need fixing, and a rough edge on the bottom (the original building was about an inch too tall and was chopped down, the resulting rough edges were never tidied up at the time as it pretty much corresponded with the end of the layout it was originally intended for. Because of the same rebuild there is also a need now to modify the size of all the doors to add the hight lost when the size was cut down.

Once the core is repaired, the intention is to then clad the building in South Eastern Finecast block embossed sheet, adding in the I beam above the door ways, a long with a bunch of extra details after painting (aircon boxes, lights, wiring etc). On the left hand side there is a large covered area suspended by wires from the wall. Finally there are a couple of fire doors that will need adding, along with the window strip along the top (that I havent worked out how I am going to model yet...)

Hopefully should look pretty impressive when its finished........