Anyone model an abandoned warehouse?

I believe the NJ High Railers have a large one on there layout.

Maybe one of the guys has a picture handy.

Peter

I abandoned any thoughts of building one! Couldn't resist. Why not an abandoned warehouse? In this day and age, it's as common as a cold. I would imagine most cities have several. Our area of northeast PA is full of them. Many have become places of refuge for homeless folks. I would love to see examples. 

Don

Found it!

Peter

Here are some more pics including the old fisher body plant number 21. The Dodge plant is long gone but I remember it being a fixture for many a years before it was finally torn down.

I think you are onto something cool to model. Man are those photos you took mesmerizing in a weird way. They just get the imagination flowing!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. The collapsed roof would really be a cool effect.

Not exactly the same thing, but I took a couple of batches of pictures of the demolition of a local theater.  I made two posts about it at a wargaming forum. If it's all right, I'll just paste those posts here.  Possible inspiration for folks.  One thing you see quite a bit in the city is industrial buildings that are only partially demolished.  Whether due to abandonment of the project, to preserve part for use, or to clear away part of a lot for sale, I'm not sure.

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An old theater is being torn down 2 blocks from my house so I hopped a fence and took some photos. I wanted to get in the building, but the sides were intact and there was a moat (exposed basement and water) blocking the way from the front as you can see in the pics. I'll probably go back tomorrow to try again. Meanwhile enjoy the post-apoc'ish goodness. Hopefully it will be of some inspiration. I surprised just how much rebar there is in busted up concrete.

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Second Post.

The demo has continued sporadically and I got back to take a second round of pictures as they reached the front of what was the stage, near the back of the building. I took alot of interior shots through doorways relying almost entirely on the flash to illuminate the darkness for scenes that I couldn't see until after I took the picture. However I chickened out at going up the stairs (which appear to go all the way to the roof) since the stairwell was pitch black and I hadn't brought a flashlight.

I also went around the side of the building to take some pictures of how vines had begun to overtake the walls. About twice as many pics in this one than the last, but I think you'll agree that they are better and worth a look

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Depressing, is right.  Especially Detroit, if you are a car nut.  They are supposed to

be trying to do something to preserve the old Packard plant.  I like to visit and have

modeled old mining ghost towns, but urban abandonment is just depressing, when

you think what they made, and the jobs that are gone.

 I'm thinking some WWII & war game terrain modelers would have some inspirational pieces

But that would be mixing work and pleasure in a bad way  

I've worked on the old Packard plant covering for another mechanical company in an emergency. And I know the internals of the Highland Park Model T factory on Manchester St pretty well too. What's left of it anyhow. I watched a bunch of those disappear day by day. They tried turning some of it into some kind of shopping center.

I found an old Ford wrench atop an I beam in the clerestory ceiling of one building

If I did an abandonment, it would be the Michigan Central Station..in semi scale?

On my RR we have the old Bellevue Brassiere Company and the unwanteds have taken over. And keep in mind you dont have to have a large footprint to create this blight and show an abandoned look.

My club has the Downtown Deco model of the burned down Fireworks factory.

Love the Bellevue. Nice work!

Do I detect Homies in the Bellevue building?

Also a poster advertising a Oregon beer in a Detroit building.

John, Checkout some of Norm C's work. He has done warehouses, though ratty, not "bombed out".

Dave G.

Don, I erased a portion of text about the layers of advertising on the side of one of the buildings my buddy owns (bread was 3¢).

The peeling billboard did a great job at filling in the blank. Nice touch.

Here is another idea I used for the abandon building concept and i used it on the Mohawk Valley RR store layout that Jim Policastro and I built and was featured in OGR. It was a broken casting from Downtown Deco Kit that my friend Jack Smith sent me. and with a little detailing used as a scene to fill a corner on the RR.

Nice idea and good pictures here, but I hardly have rom for all the good buildings I want on my small layout. 

Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier. Here's a boarded-up Warehouse that I built for my wargamign club.  Some of the details may be a bit innacurate, but it was an easy build. It's made from "Dust Tactics Warzone Tenement" kits with Histology Specimen embedding boxes for the metal board-up windows and various other bits and bobs attached.

Here's another one. This time I used the printed cardboard floor sections to board-up the windows.

I made a bunch of other buildings  based on the same kit, but many of them have the open-window disease that often afflicts buildings that wargamers will be placing miniatures inside.

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