Jean’s been after me to build up my town a bit, so I decided I needed a hardware store and a cafe. These are rather small buildings but are made to 1:20 and made to complement my bank.
The front is a single piece of corrugated plastic (about 3/8" thick). The ends and back are made of the same material and covered with Precision Products brick sheet.
Openings were cut for the windows. All windows were custom made as I wanted different sizes. They are glazed with 1/16 or 1/8" acrylic, depending on what I had on hand. The hardware windows are built up with styrene and glazed with acrylic as well. I found some old junk and stuff and placed them in the windows.
Since I was sort of detailing the hardware store, I thought I’d go ahead and “populate” the windows with people that I’ve operated with over the years. I scaled pictures to 1:20 then printed them on vinyl, mounted them on plastic and glued them behind the windows. The hard part was finding pictures that would work. Most of my photos have been taken outside, or could not scale correctly.
I started off by modifying a “Fine Folk” figure. The hat was replaced with a cap; beard and glasses added. Plus an early RCS controller in his right hand.
The cigar is just a piece of brass rod.