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Nice, if basic.  It is a single piece of cast resin with cast-in windows and doors etc., and very heavy at 5 pounds 4 ounces.   Dimensions are 11 3/8 by 5 1/2 by 4 high.  Of note, it is listed as 1:50 scale but looks quite big enough to even pass with 1/32 figures around it if you made the doors taller.   The lights consist of two outdoor security lights, one front and one back.  The signs are, as with the Feed and Seed, made of paper, and glued on, but look good enough I will leave them in place.  Note also, if you remove the signs, the flat area under them (to which they are glued) is not ribbed like the building surface, so you will have to replace the sign with your own of the exact same shape or become a real artist with a Dremel and cut the ribs into the resin.  Simple, but big, detailed, good looking and priced low.  Nice. 

 

I ordered two, you'll see why below.

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I ordered the three-way power feed, too.  It also seemed nicely priced.  Here they are with the hobby shop, too.

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No base.  Here is the inside. 

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This is what I am going to make with them: I passed this every morning for the last decade driving to my office.  I am also going to cut out the front doors and windows and put in an interior and interior light inside. 

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I had to spend all afternoon changing the battery on my sports car.  Dang thing is hidden and nearly impossible to get to . . . so I had only a few minutes but I insisted on unwinding in the workshop for a while.  Ten minutes with a bandsaw got me to here.  Just the look I want. 

 

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I am going to depart a tiny bit from the real building, which is apparently a creasote pole storage building: not too exciting.  I am going to make mine a boat building company, with two big doors and a people door as shown below.  All three doors will be open and I will do an interior so you can see two boats being built inside.  It will be in a spot on the layout high up so you look almost directly down its length, so it ought to be cool - and it will definitely be fun to make.  I am going to replace the cast-in window with a transparent one and add that set of doors on the side, but a longer shed, with windows and another door.

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I'm going to be watching you bashing, already gave me some ideas. On dads farm we had 2, and were connected toward the end with a covered breezeway like. Had overhead I Beam and tackle when working on tractors or other equipment. Had oil burning stove in one, and a coal stove in other, (we burned a lot of corn cobbs in that one). Dad also had an office in one, were the window is on left side. One had concrete flood, other dirt.Double sliding doors on one and overhead on the other. Had arrow painted on top, of course North.

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