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9. A large chimney, complete with three flues, was added for the ovens located in the basement of the bakery. Deciding that the house was just a little bit too plain, the author added the spool trim at the peak of all three gables. He also added foundation walls to the store, which extended the height of the house foundation by the same amount, and then sheathed it all with sheet brick materi- al. 10. Here you can see the foundation added under the store, which also adds to the height of the house foundation. The brick sheet ties the whole thing together. The floor in the store doorway still needs to be installed. Note how the “weathered copper” of the storefront roof and the chimney flashing draw your eye. A little
thing like the chimney flashing really pops out when highlighted in this manner. 11. An aerial view shows the battens on the copper storefront roof. You can also see how neat the store roof looks. The tarred seams are not highly visible, unless they catch the light. You may get a few wrinkles in your roll roofing. Don’t worry, hidden roofs like this one frequently had flaws like this. Note the large patch the author included for added interest. 12. The sloping wall behind the storefront is seen here. It, too, is covered in roll roofing. The gap at the bottom allows the flat portion of the store roof to slide underneath, blocking any light leaks from the interior, but al- lowing the roof itself to remain removable if needed.
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checked that everything fit well. Any misalignments or out of square edges were carefully sanded until they were correct.
When the left wall was done I did the same thing with the right one. You will recall that a little extra was allowed on the side walls at the house end. They were trimmed to their final length now, making sure that the addition would be square. With that done, each side wall was glued to its respective edge of the floor, and, in the case of the left wall, to the house’s corner, as well. The storefront was only used to help posi- tion the walls, and I set it aside as soon as the sides were tacked in place. More cement was then flowed onto the floor- wall joint and left to cure. Once it was set, the short wall next to the porch was installed. Pieces of ¹⁄₈″ square styrene strip were glued in place to re- inforce these joints.
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
Storefront woodwork and roof
Using .010″ smooth sheet styrene, I cut a frieze board for the area above the windows. It was glued to the novel- ty siding and made the same height as the Tichy brackets in three pieces, one across the top of the windows on the front wall and one on each of the side walls. The ones on the side walls were made as wide as the Tichy windows and the end post framing them. I measured the length of each of the three frieze boards, divided them into roughly equal spaces, and glued the brackets into place taking care to en- sure they were plumb and square to the wall. Raised rectangular panels, .020″ thick styrene cut to leave a 3 or 4- inch border around each side, were ce- mented between each bracket and the next. When the glue was dry, I cut some styrene soffit material wide enough to extend just a bit (a scale inch or so)
past the outer edge of the brackets. This was glued into place on the tops of the brackets and the top edge of the frieze boards. Next, I glued some HO scale 2″×4″ strip just below the top edge of the siding across the front wall, along with a shorter piece on each side wall. These will serve to support the top edge of the roof sheets.
Making the storefront roof involved
a bit of fiddling, but all it really took was time and care. Here is how I did it. I measured from the top of the main wall (on top of the 2″×4″ strip) to the front edge of the soffit and added a scant 3″ to get the width of the roof sheeting. After cutting the pieces for the roof and placing the first one across the front of the store, I held it tight up against the top of the wall and checked underneath to see if it was laying flat along the outer edge of the soffit. It was, so I used blue painter’s tape to
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