the inside of the
completed structure
(32) – very simple
styrene modeling.
Almost all my struc-
tures have remov-
able roofs, for future
access to replace
window glazing, add
lighting if desired,
and so on. You can
see the roof con-
struction for this
structure (33), which
is heavy cardstock
amply reinforced. I
modeled the sides of
the clerestory atop
the roof with styrene
clapboard, to sug-
gest louvers in the clerestory.
An end view of the ice house (34) shows where drive-up cus-
tomers would purchase ice. A small-town ice facility like this
would likely manufacture small amounts of clear ice for con-
sumer sale, but would have limited ability to produce ice in
the quantities needed for icing refrigerator cars around peak
harvest season.
I present an overview of the ice house and deck here (35). The
deck is entirely of stripwood, pre-stained and built board-by-
board, and supported on bents hat were constructed using a sim-
ple fixture to ensure that they would be identical.
33: The ice house roof is made
from heavy cardstock, thoroughly
reinforced inside with quarter-inch
square balsa and with cardstock
roof formers to ensure matching
roof pitch with the building ends.
The outside of the roof has mask-
ing tape cut into strips to simu-
late rolled roofing, and painted
medium gray.
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