In-ko-pah RR: Serenity's Sandwich Shack

[Ray Dunakin]

Hi, everyone! I've been pretty busy the past few months and haven't gotten much modeling done or had time to post much. But I finally got a chance to work on a small project. It's a little sandwich shop, the first of several structures I plan to build for a little town called Grandt Cliff. It's made from Sintra PVC foam board and styrene strips, plus corrugated aluminum for the roof. It's named after one of our grand-daughters.

I was going to hold off posting pics of this until it was finished, but I'm so tickled with the way it's turning out, I couldn't resist. This has been a really fun build!

I've finished painting it, including many hand-painted signs. Still have to add the corrugated metal to the main roof. Also need to add some light fixtures and other exterior details, and glue the porch to the building. Also need to finish the surrounding landscape, and the stairs/path leading up to the building on either side. Eventually I'll build and detail the interior too. Here's how it looks so far:














Enjoy!

[legend]

That is so real !!!!!!!!! fantastic work Ray
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[Leon]

Awesome work on the sandwich shop Ray!

[Tojo72]

Very cool build.

[Ray Dunakin]

Thanks, guys!

[TRM]

Some fantastic building as usual Ray! Nailed the realism!!

[Ray Dunakin]

I wanted to have stone stairs going up the slope to the shack. To do this, I made a form out of foam core board:






Then I used curved tweezers to place small stones in the form, added some 1/4" hardware cloth, and then poured in some thin mortar:








The mortar wasn't quite thin enough to get into all the spaces between the stones, but that's fixable:




I rubbed thin mortar into the gaps, brushed off the excess with a wet brush, and after it set I sanded off some of the residue and it turned out fine:




Here's how everything looks so far. The building itself is almost finished. I just have to add the lighting and a few other minor exterior details. I also have to finish the landscape around the building. And later I will build and detail the interior:

[Leon]

Nice work on the stone stairs Ray!

[deafpanzer]

Am afraid you are going to serve us real sandwiches in smaller scale next... stairs look GREAT!

[S e r z h--Rest In Peace]

Nice to look at this work! Very realistic!