Monday, July 16, 2012

Coldwater Seafood Company

Okay, I needed a bit of a break from the ore business and as I was looking at the surrounding neighborhood I saw an urban renewal project.  We all have those structures that we built a long time ago and as with any good wine our skills get better with time.  So, the Coldwater Seafood Company called out to me as a quick refresher project.  It's a plastic kit / kitbash that I must have done probably 10 years ago.  It was initially built into a hillside but now it's open in the back so that was closed up in another rehab probably 5 years ago when the layout went from a built in place one to a sectional, movable layout.
It needed a front entrance so I had a spare left from another DPM kit that I knibbled an opening for.  After some paint and some aging and a concrete lintel above it, walla, welcome fresh seafood customers.
New front door added and the old deck removed.

The original front.



















The structure also used to have a railed in deck on the side with a bunch of metal drums on it.  I didn't want to scare off the customers with the mystery drums so that side will receive a new deck and some more appropriate looking crates placed upon it.  That should be a little more attractive to seafood customers.

Original side view. The 2 story brick house across the street
from the Coldwater building looked so nice in comparison to
it, even without the yard being done that it helped me to decide
that I needed to do a renovation on it.
The back of the building wasn't anything special
but it will have a wooden structure add-on to both
the dock-side on the back as well as to the side
that faces the elevated ore track.

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