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:
Hedley Junction - a post on making a river: http://hedley-junction.blogspot.com/2021/10/water-for-riviere-malbaie.html
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:
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| 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.
