Terrain in Progress

 With the weather finally warming up, I've been able to start on a project I've been champing at the bit for since Christmas. One of my Christmas gifts from my wife Gina was an MDF kit from Atomic Lasercut Designs, a small US-based designer of MDF scenery kits, representing a pawn shop.

I've made some good progress on it, painting most pieces separately before assembly - the exterior was sprayed with "Sahara Beige" artist's spray paint from Montana Gold, while the interior was primed white and painted a cream color using craft paint. The base plate got a coat of gray primer, followed by successive drybrushes of lighter shades of gray for the concrete sidewalk. I printed a wooden floorboard pattern from Sarissa Precision off at my local Staples with their fancy laserjet printer, and carefully cut that to size and glued it into the building's footprint. The walls have been slotted into place and glued to the base and each other, and the corner cladding, covering the joins, glued into place. 

The doors, door frames and windows, as well as the sign that goes over the store, I want to do in red. Unfortunately, the "Fire Red" spray paint I got ended up more of a bright pinkish-red, almost neon, so I'm going to repaint those by hand to get more of a fire engine red. 

I'm hoping to have this building mostly done by early next week; there's a few interior pieces I won't be able to prime until middle of next week due to weather, but the building itself should be done. And that's doubly good, because another kit from Atomic Lasercut Designs arrived yesterday!

This one is a blank storefront, designed to be customized, and has a smaller footprint than the pawn shop does. I've got some resin interior furnishings from Oshiro Model Terrain and Miniature Building Authority that I'm going to use to turn this blank storefront into a Automat-style ramen restaurant; seating for customers and vending machines that cook your selected noodles right in front of you. What can I say, I got inspired when I saw "Noodle Vending Machines" on Oshiro's website. This one will have an identical wooden floor to the pawn shop and probably be in largely similar colors overall. Maybe a different color interior?