I had no idea what this building's purpose really is at Wassen, but it's quite distinctive, quite grand, and looks like it could be the town offices and/or town hall. It turns out it is the Schoolhouse - thanks to the commenter who has corrected me here.
A few random shapes were cut out Metcalfe N scale stone sheets (this is a stonework pattern printed onto card) and these were tried on for size on the layout.
Windows were marked, re-marked, and re-re-marked on the backside at various angles resembling the parallel and perpendicular, such that my cutting pattern on the first-marked wall looked more like a tartan.... Pick a line to cut along... any line...
Pieces coming together in the four prep stages:
- windows cut out
- backed with white card
- 'windows' drawn in and sills marked with a mechanical pencil (and a ruler at times)
- a start at some overlay and detail added around the entranceway
The most 'interesting' side with the 'grand entrance' door faces the church, but I'm going to spin it 90 degrees and have it facing the front of the layout. This side has some interesting 3D features - as you can see, it is three layers deep, compared to the sides which are flat. These layers are being modeled, albeit heavily compressed. The real thing has an unusually laid out window pattern on this main entrance side (almost implying that the floors are not level, but I decided to make them line up a little better, at least between the outside and middle levels. Some artistic license, mixed with laziness and a dash of forgetfulness being applied as required.
Levels stuck together:
The inset door is from an offcut from when I shortened my brown house at 'Upper Wassen'.
2 comments:
That's the school.
www.search.ch is a great resource for this, although the track plan at Wassen station is out of date (pointwork removed from mainline at crane end of station).
Thanks for that!
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