Sunday, October 31, 2021

 Parking lot for Generic Canneries - Part II

This is my second post about building a parking lot. Lest anyone think I am exceptional[ly dull] in this regard, let me direct your attention to:


Conrail's Onondaga Cutoff - making a highway bridge: 



Back to it...




Another overall view:





Left by itself, the parking lot would dominate the scene - the concrete colour and the size of the parking lot make it stand out.

Any parking lot located in tight confines needs some good guard rails:

Note the weathered hopper :)

The guardrails consisted of a bamboo skewer cut into lengths, painted grey and pushed into the pinkfoam board.

The "rails" are strip left over from another project - they were already painted grey.

Never throw anything out


Affirming one of the golden rules of model railroading:

"Never throw anything out". BTW, rule #2 is:

"Everything has a use depending on how imaginative you are"



Filling in the details


Two things to notice at this point:

1. The small gap in the fencing, awaiting the construction/arrival of a detail; and
2. The scenery is still at the base or flat stage without much texture.

The shack/shed was a fit for the space, so I was ready to add the next layer of scenery - shrubs and junk.



But first I went back to the parking lot and added a water spigot to hose down truck trailers and then added the missing fencing:


And added some hazard signs for the building corner to help trucks driving at night. These signs were left over from the bridge scene I posted about many months ago (again, never throw anything out!).



With everything in place, the scene looked like this:



I added a picnic table for the workers (behind the shed) as a last touch.

And then toned down the whole scene with pastels...


I decided to keep the parking lot relatively clean because it is a new parking lot, but everything else got some grime.

The above photo indirectly highlights the next (and last) project for the layout. A lighting valence.

The scene is all paint by numbers work. It helped to have the shed pre-built (an early Covid project) and to have ready-made junk sitting around. I'd really love to have some truck trailers sitting in the lot and maybe that is a winter project.











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