In October 2009 I added the third building to town of Dos Manos on my 1/24th scale In-ko-pah Railroad. However, it was unfinished – there were no signs or interior details. At first I had planned to make it a dress shop, but couldn’t work up any enthusiasm for modeling the details.
Eventually I decided to turn it into a bakery, with an upstairs residence. At long last, it’s finally finished:
This area seemed to need something extra, and a swamp cooler was just the ticket! I scratch-built it from stryene. The vents are actually made of small scale clapboard siding. I’m not sure if it’s HO or N scale, but the spacing is .030". Then I added strips of .010" thick styrene. The wooden support platform is also made from styrene, textured and painted to look like old wood. I also repainted to corrugated metal roof, giving it a coat of white paint with a little rust showing through. I wimped out on the upstairs residence interior – there are only a few simple details inside, with dim lights and lace curtains hiding most of the interior.
The bakery interior is fully detailed and lighted:
If you look closely, you can see pink pastry boxes on the shelves. The small, highly detailed cakes in the window were purchased from a doll house supplier, but the large cake and everything else was scratch-built.