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.
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New front door added and the old deck removed. |
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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.
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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. |
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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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