General Purpose Building

I made this building to test some techniques and ideas, with no particular use for it in mind.  It's been used as a General Store, a Marshall's Office and a Bank, all with changing the sign on the front.

This build uses 2mm sheet balsa with the usual pencil scribed planking for the walls with a basswood frame added to the top for extra strength.  The doors and windows are 3D prints.

The flooring, which is basswood ship's decking is glued to a piece of 5mm blue foam which is in turn glued to the 2mm thick MDF base.  The fence posts and rails are matchwood.

The fence at the rear is made of firelighting splints, which are thinner than coffee stirrers and cheaper than balsa wood.  All of the components were stained before assembly to avoid the PVA glue from preventing the stain from colouring the wood.

A removable 'tar paper' roof was added from a piece of 2mm MDF with masking tape as the tar paper glued to the MDF with PVA rather than it's own low tack adhesive backing.  Texturing on the base was a mix of brown decorators caulk, PVA and sand which was painted when dry.

 The finished building with its Beaverlick Bank sign