Beef Processing Plant underway

I have been working the east couple of weeks on the Alfred Packer Meat Packing Plant.  This building is based on a processing plant in Toronto, Canada from 1916.  Slightly shrunken but still will become a large building on the layout.  The second building is slightly smaller and will be to the right of this building.  There will also be a large cattle outdoor pen as well at the far left end that can unload four cattle cars at once.

This building is the place where cattle are herded into and "processed" on the second floor- killed and butched up to be blunt  The parts will go to the second building that is a cold refrigerator and storage area.  Glad we are vegggie people!

The four towers are done but not glued to the side walls and just stood up. The roof structure (in front of the models) gets a clerestory next and lots of weathering and will live in-between the four towers.  The tile roof is interesting and prototypical but too bright for me.  Dirt is coming.

I diverged from my usual act of weathering the walls when flat on the table.  This kit has LOTS of corners and pieces as you can see.  Interesting architecture, overlaps, etc etc.  So I air brushed the parts in the base colors I selected - light grey for the building walls and off white trim and windows.  The four towers were an interesting build.  The trapezoidal roof was a bugger.  I wish they had made the top structure with 3D printing instead of five pieces of wood.  Much interesting language emitted from the work cave but I got them done.  Weathering will hide all my mistakes.  Next step is to weather the walls and especially the corners, roofs and loading dock - which will get a metal corrugated roof after weathering.  Then assembly building one.

The building will not look pristine for sure.