I spotted this very modellable brick workshop while enjoying the Long Itchington beer festival at the weekend. It's not an exciting building but would be very useful in a semi-industrial setting on a model.
At first glance I we have a pretty rectangular structure with a big door on one end, a small one in the side and a couple of windows. The large door is possibly a later addition judging by the bricked up opening above it.
Modelling wise, the pitfalls would be curved brickwork above the doors and windows. I've never worked out a way to produce this to my satisfaction as it has to fit flush with the wall face. Maybe the way is to make it from the same plastic sheet flipped over and scribed, then let into the surface. Dunno - it has to be carried out neatly or the result won't be any good.
The corners could be fun to. They aren't hard right angles but curved. If the model was made from Wills sheet they could be sanded to shape but Slaters embossed sheet wouldn't provide enough "meat" to do this.
On the side, there's a painted sign. Not sure how old it is but there's fun to be had producing it from a print your own transfer kit on the computer.
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I thought when I read the title that you were holding a brick workshop seminar :-) This is an interesting structure with several not so obvious challenges as you have spotted. I haven't found a way to model arches apart from laboriously carving and shaping bits to fit in to the embossed sheet. It's much easier with brickpaper or scribing your own, of course, but neither are that attractive propositions...
It's amazing the challenges that present themselves when you look closely. I feel much better about the arches knowing a master like yourself has problems with them too.
A master? Well, thank you Phil, I'm hugely flattered...but it takes one to know one...
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