Terrain- Building 4 & 5- Shops

Patisserie

This is the second building that I envisioned going in a row alongside my Blue House. The Bakery is the 'Village Bakery' kit from TT Combat. Great little kit and a reasonable price for what you get! 

As with the Blue House, I extended the footprint to include a yard. Neither this kit or the shop below have a back door, only a central window on the ground floor of each. I created extensions for both to incorporate a back door and cover up the bare window space, then used the sill and closed shutters to simulate a new, offset window instead. 

I left the side walls reasonably bare- apart from the brickwork details already on the kit- because this would be the middle building in the row. I added a couple of resin barrels from Serious Play Scenics and a Dixon Miniatures bicycle for detail. Chimney pots are Lego pieces again. Signage comes from a wonderful set of Normandy signs that I found online somewhere. As with the Blue House, the yards and the outhouses are made from foamboard, capped by cardboard tiling.

 

The freehand on the shop sign is supposed to be a croissant, which I thought fit the sign shape suitably. Moving on...

Charcuterie

The final building for the row is a Dairy, which is the 'Village Shop' kit from TT Combat. It could have been any form of shop, but the selection of signs I had, particularly for going along the outside wall, steered me in the direction of a charcuterie. It also influenced my colour choice for the building, as I thought a light tone would contrast with the other two buildings at fit its function too.

The side wall with the awning is on the other side on the original kit, so I swapped it to be on the outside of my row. The signs are backed on card, as per, and the posters are from a selection I found online and printed off. The milk churns were odds and ends left over from one of my kid's old toy farm sets.

The side wall that butts onto the middle building/ bakery (not pictured) has an open space where a window features on the original kit. I left off the sill and shutters because they wouldn't allow the buildings to fit snugly next to one another. This means I always put this building alongside another, although I sometimes split the other two up and use them differently. Doors and back gates are coffee stirrer lengths for planks.

As with all my earlier buildings, I went back & tiled the roofs. I'd done that for the outbuildings, but not the main ones. They look much better now, I think, but I don't want to see another 10x8mm piece of cardboard for a good while- at least until I start on my next building project...