I few people asked how I make the buildings I have never done any how to videos, but I try to take pictures as I go along. Here are some of the bookshop. I include a picture of the real shop I saw and fell in love with and decided I definitely wanted to try and at least attempt to capture. The real shop is in Scotland I relocated it to Somerset, where the layout is based. Having a photo to work from is a big help! The main feature of the shop front are the two arches, from the real photograph. The door can give you scale as it’s easy to work out the height of a door. So in my mind the door is layer one. Layer two is the cream windows in the first photo of my parts, the arches are layers 3 & 4 each stepped out to be a little wider than the one before it, you could use a compass to do this, but much easier with computer software, I use freehand and photoshop. The parts are then assembled on top of each other and you get a lot of depth this way. I have a compass cutter and a plastic sheet with heaps of circles to use as a guide to help cutting. The key I think is a scale drawing to start with, then you have something to work to and start with the door. The mouldings in the corners either end of the sign are just old bits of sprue primed and painted, leftovers from kits are perfect for this and you can make whatever mouldings your imagination conjures up. Windows built up in layers the same way, as I say the original building is in Scotland I added writing to move it to Somerset. The upper stone part is based on two buildings in Bath, about 40 minutes from me, and where I took the picture to copy the more ornate window. Named after a friend of mine who is an avid reader, it came together to be relocated to my fictional town of Havisham somewhere in Somerset. I am trying to capture the feel of a slightly Georgian town as the underlying theme, but with the buildings having lots of variation in colour, materials, and shape. As is found in many towns around where I live, I’m always out taking photos for reference and looking at old historical ones. So Havisham is inspired by lots of real places, I do it for fun really and the layout is at my dads as I don’t have room for one! Best Ben

Posted by Pickwick Line at 2021-08-27 18:53:19 UTC