It's that time of year again, I've been planning for my annual holiday layout at the historic Redford Theatre in Detroit.
Over the past couple days, I've been working on a custom River Leaf Model's kit of the theater. I sent Andre a couple photos and within a week, had the kit in my hands ready for construction. While it's not an exact model of the theater, he got the feeling of the facade, which is what I was looking for. Obviously a full sized model of the theater would take up an enormous amount of real estate, and would dwarf the ceramic village buildings I use on the layout, so he scaled it back a bit for me.
My kit building experience is limited to some plasticville buildings, so this was a new one for me. Luckily Andre made a very easy to assemble kit, even with no directions (due to his having never built the kit himself since it's a one of a kind). He included some computer drawings of the building to assist. I still have a ways to go before I'll call it finished, but it's getting pretty close.
