I local railroad friend showed me how to run beer and soda cans through a crimper to make respectable looking corrugated metal. Since I only drink water and an occasional coffee, I had to visit a local recycler to find some beer cans. The dealer looked at me VERY quizzically when I asked if I could buy some of her cans. She told me "no."
Luckily, there were some gentlemen there who I assume were homeless, who were most happy to sell me all the cans I wanted. I had to make two trips yesterday.
I realize there are some fine Qunoset huts available commercially, especially from our friends at Menard's. I wanted to model a local structure.
Here are some photos of the prototype:
I started by gluing the end pieces to some Crescent board. Then, I made panels to glue up the sides. The clips from Harbor Freight are an invaluable help:
This is the structure as of this morning. I wanted to show it before the paint starts going on. If this were "real life" it could plausibly be an old Quonset Hut that got converted to a bar, with beer motif:
In hindsight, I would have saved myself a lot of labor, had I found one of these and threw some paint on it:
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