Thanks everyone! I got the word on the stress test and it was entirely normal. So I'm going to assume that the discomfort I was feeling in walking up 3 or more flights of stairs and long hills was being out of shape, with nothing organic going on. It was nice to know.
All the appliances are printed and ready for paint. I cut a floor for the building and starting working on a 'stone' foundation based on some Chooch self adhesive cut stone wall. I wanted to raise the building up a couple of steps to have it conform to the way some of the others are sited. This is one of the three structures on my layout THAT I DID NOT BUILD. I bought it about 12 years ago from a local Bucks County, PA O'scaler who had a vast layout. I got there late in the sale and bought three things: this corner structure, a beautiful wood water tower and a small elevated crossing shanty. I described rebuilding the the shanty years ago in this thread as well as making new coal chutes and suspensions for the water tower. I'm finally getting to the actual building.
I made duplicates of some of the appliances so I can paint them the three 1970s colors. I'm going to pull logos from the Internet to make wall decor decals for some new and some legacy appliance brands. I'm thinking: GE, Fridgidaire, Hotpoint, Whirlpool, Kitchenaid, Motorola, Zenith, Sylvania, and maybe even Muntz. I'm not going to include Wolf, Vulcan, or SubZero since I think my store's just too small. So far I only have two TVs on display. Both are console units. I like how the fridges came out.
Here are all of them fit on the floor plate as I drew them in SketchUp. There's going to be a back room behind the wall where the stoves will be. If anyone wants to print some appliances, I can send you the STL files. They're not too big. You'll have to put them through your slicer to make them print files. The slice files are big.
Here's the layout of the foundation walls. They'll be two to three steps up from the parking lot level. I also have a Bar Mills little model of a sidewalk elevator that I'm going to incorporate with this scene since they'll need a way to get stock to the basement.
The walls will be glued the edges of the floor and the building glued on top of this after all the interior work is done. Because the structure is all built up, I can't get through the roof and work top down. I'll have to treat it like I did with the Bronx building. The back room will also be where the lighting circuits will be set up. I'm going to do the same arrangement as I did with other structures using the surface mount LEDs on copper foil and an LED driver chip. I was thinking of also using the blue/white LEDS to give more of a florescent light appearance which would be prototypical for a 1960s vintage appliance store. I'm using some scrap Masonite and there was a big saw kerf in it from the chop saw which I filled with another piece of the same material. I will probably use a photographically created parqué floor like I used years ago on the Victorian Train Station.
I also sanded the spackle on the engine house and did one more layer of touch up filling. Next week I'll begin putting on ground cover. Have to go the hobby shop tomorrow to pick up a model I ordered and I'm going to pick up some W-S fine gravel for the storage lot and order some more 36" brass tubing for the chain link fence.
Have a nice weekend. Work will recommence on Monday.
