It's been far too long since I've done any real modeling, but in an amazing stroke of luck, I actually got to do some last week. I've been wanting to make an old-fahsioned five-and-dime store forever, and now I've got one going. I started with two Miller Engineering K.C.'s Hardware kits, and grafted them together to make one nice-sized building. The hardest part was figuring out how to seamlessly merge the two building fronts. After I determined where to make the cut, I did it with an unusual tool: a big old paper cutter (which happened to still have a really sharp blade). Whack! Done!
The rest of the building was made up from various pieces of leftover wall chopped up and soldered together to make a wide two-story building with a single-story extension on the back.
The first detail part I made was the sign. After doing some online research for Woolworth store signs, I decided to use Scale Link etched brass letters, which I CAed to a long strip of brass.
After spraying the sign red, I sanded the paint off the letters. A shot of Dull Cote made the shiny brass look more like gold paint.
