Building the Docks - part 3 - Some Warehouses

In my second post of this project I talked about the modification of the lighthouse for my docks and whilst I was finishing this the first of my warehouses arrived...I decided at this point I would complete all the construction before the pieces got a coat of paint.

If you want to start reading this project from the beginning head here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-docks-part-1.html

The buildings shown below were sourced from a guy called Troll Trader on ebay...I bought two buildings - the boat house

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390999102598?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

and the extended warehouse

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391052029655?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Construction was easy using pva glue and some masking tape.

The base buildings can be seen in the picture below. The warehouse actually comes in two parts which I decided to glue together and base these on a thin sheet of ply.

These make great buildings for the water frontage. I should also add that they come with a vast number of crates ....I'll feature these in another post.

I am not particularly keen on the mdf finish so these were modified. First up I ran a low brick wall around the base of both buildings using thin blue foam.

Window edges were then added using the same blue foam. This time I left it plain .

The walls were then coated in pva and given a covering of sand. The warehouse walls are going to be rendered.

The roofs were also given the sand treatment not before I added some wooden battens and covered the windows with masking tape. These will be given a black paint job to look like roof felt.

Just need to add paint...

As these were being finished off the next parcel arrived...this time it was a warehouse model sold by Warbases

http://war-bases.co.uk/BUILDINGS/MULTI-28MM?product_id=243

It was quite a plain building so I decided to clad this in timber (using coffee stirrers). Whilst researching this project I noticed that a large number of waterfront buildings are indeed timber buildings.

Again cladding was very simple - pva glue. It was also a great workout for my chopper !

The windows have been covered up...

This one will eventually have a corrugated roof.

So the waterfront grows...

As I am writing this the last of the buildings has arrived...the factory and outbuildings from Sarissa. These will feature in my next post.

Until next time

Part 4 can now be found here

http://shedwars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/building-docks-part-4-industrial-complex.html