Stopping by the Korber Models booth at York, I picked up the Lewis & Sons Manufacturing Company kit. They were on sale and were just he right size for a project I had in mind. I wanted to have an abandoned building in the industrial section of the layout. I painted the sections to my liking. Going a little heavy around one of the window openings to simulate that there had been a fire in the building. This window would get boarded up using balsa wood then stained. I added a hoist that I got from Finished Models and a roof vent from Scenic Express.
One of the windows I broke out a bar and removed the plastic from that area when I applied the plastic sheet to the inside of the window frame. I randomly scored some of the plastic to simulate cracked glass panes.
After getting the building on the layout, I added some ivy vines to the walls and the surrounding ground cover was given the over grown look. I also added some over flowing trash cans from Finished Models around the building. The whole scene turned out pretty well. At some point, if I can find a figure holding a can of spray paint, I will add that to the scene along with some graffiti to one of the walls.
