Calamity - Prototype Building - The Bakery

In Silver Plume there is a very cool structure simply known as the Bakery, with the word Bread printed on one side of the false front. It occupies a corner lot with a false front all the way across the main street side and a partial one along the side street. The odd false front gives the impression that there was intent to build up higher on that corner, and maybe at one point there was more there. I might treat myself to a little research along that line. This is one of the structures I had earmarked as a building I wanted to scratchbuild and include as part of Calamity. Since I'm on the road I thought I might be able to mess around with some matt board and put together a little prototype of this structure and see how the proportions looked after I scaled it up to 1/56th scale. What I failed to do on this trip was to bring along a couple of minis to check to see how they looked against the structure. If nothing else is was a nice way to spend the evening.

Here is some bacon for you:

The Bakery in Silver Plume. Note the very fancy trim on the false front

Laying out the bakery on the back of a piece of matt board. I picked up a back of about 20 sheets from Hobby Lobby for 5 bucks. Leftovers from matting pictures. (8"x10" a nice size to work with. I guess they frame up a lot of 8x10 pictures, you can get 5"x7" as well, a pack of 20 for 4 bucks)

The pieces all cut out.

The Bakery Front

The Bakery, Front and Side. These two sides and the false front itself will be planked ship lapped style.

The Bakery, Back and Opposite side. These will both be done up in a board and batten style; vertical planking with smaller boards covering the cracks between the main boards.

Ultimately this could serve as the core of the building when I start the build. Some things will need to change, the side and back windows will have to be narrower and the fancy trim on the front added. Should be fun though.