Still trying to find some good O scale birds to put along the top and yes, there will be bird poop!
As for weathering, not all my buildings are like this. I've noticed that many modelers weather stuff identical to each other. But structures are maintained by the owners on an individual basis, so they shouldn't be weather exactly the same. This building which I'm currently referring to as, "The Unaka Company" in my layout concept was built in the lat 1910s or early 1920s and has never seen much exterior work. Now there's a war on, it's going to stay as it was, at least for the duration...
I decided to put some stairs onto the end of that loading dock/ramp I built for that structure on the back of the layout. There’s a door right next to the edge, and I could see some redneck types putting a stump or something to hop up there. I think a company would have put stairs there but probably wouldn’t have put a handrail. So, I took some O scale lumber, a straight edge, ruler and cutting grid and made some stairs:
Then, I weathered them and put them into place at the end of the dock. I like how they turned out and I now realize I was right that they should have been there:
The door to the right has the notice that the company is no longer accepting applications from men in certain draft categories, which was a very common thing in the WW2 years. The door to the far end has the business times and there's a warbond poster next to one of the freight doors...
