Had a bit of a change in focus for the last week or so and been tinkering with a building. Actually it's just another excuse for not getting on and sorting out the traverser on Cramdin really! This is a building for the Winchester club OO layout to fill in a rather large gap along the rear of the baseboard. It's on a slightly larger scale than the buildings I've created for Cramdin being about 3 feet long.

The thing is a pretty crude construction of bits of MDF and card with the roof clad in corrugated plastic. Here's an overall shot. Can ya see what it is yet?

It's supposed to look like a fairly seedy and run down stadium at a dog track. It's a freelance design but location is inspired by Catford (I think) being next to the railway but I've lifted design elements from Walthamstow and the dark recesses of my head. It has a sort of art deco ish sort of frontage planted in the middle of a cheapo corrugated iron main structure. Signs and things to add here.

Originally the idea was for it to be brick below the cladding but I couldn't be bothered to faff with brick paper and stuff so I thought I would modify a Jim S-W idea of using Plasticote textured paint to give a concrete render finish. This is actually suede effect! To give it a more run down appearance I did use some brick paper on some parts, masked of ragged random areas then after spraying it all peeled off the masking. The idea is to give the effect of bits of the rendering falling off. Doesn't look too clever close up but when the 3 foot rule is in play...

The cladding has been painted with a gunmetal/silver enamel then roughly sort of dry brushed with my favourite Tamiya Nato brown to give a rust effect. This was then liberally dusted with Carr's rust weathering powder. Also there's a bit of Mig Russian Earth weathering powder applied in places on the rendering to make it look generally dirty. Must be the effect of passing steam trains.

More to do to it yet and also it has to be fitted in to the layout somehow.

Cheers

Dave