Kitbashing a bakery for Richmond Harbor
A Walthers Cornerstone kit is the starting point for this HO scale project/Tom Griffiths
The Walthers Lancaster Farmhouse kit makes a perfect starting point for this kitbashed combination commercial/residential structure. PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR
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rowing up on Staten Island in New York City I became aware of a building style that was fair- ly common throughout the Island, a storefront built off the front of an exist- ing house. Sometimes this occurred where a store gradually expanded to surround a home that was already there, or sometimes someone decided their community needed a store and they remodeled the front of a house. In both cases, the storefront was con- structed on the street side and made as deep as was practical. Usually the new extension was the full width of the house, but there was no hard and fast rule. Occasionally the store was offset to one side; sometimes the new struc- ture would wrap around two sides of the house. The store might include all or part of the ground floor of the house, or, if the house was set back far enough
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RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award........
on its lot, the only intrusion on its orig- inal footprint would be an internal doorway, perhaps replacing one of the windows. As it was such a “signature” type of building, I have always thought that someday I would like to model such a structure for my layout.
Recently,
A minimum of $100 and a Dremel Rotary Tool Kit with a variable-speed Dremel 3000 rotary tool and acces- sories are awarded to the monthly winners of the RMC/DREMEL KITBASHING AWARD. Entries must consist of at least two photos (high-resolution digital pic- tures should be at least 3,000 pixels wide; color slides or 5″×7″ or 8″×10″ prints are also acceptable) and a short text. Models must use at least 50% commercial compo- nents; unused entries may be held future editorial use.
Walthers introduced a set of structures for their Cornerstone Series to model a complete group of farm buildings. A house, several styles of barns, and a va- riety of outbuildings were produced. Prominent amongst this set of struc- tures was the Lancaster Farmhouse, a small, two-storey, “plain vanilla” farm- house with a T-shaped footprint. As soon as I spotted it, I decided to get one for this project, as there were many buildings just like it on the Island at one time. Virtually identical houses (and stores) were common all across
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