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  | AN ONGOING NEWSLETTER | August 2006 |
Either you were stupid when you entered, or stupid by the time you left. It didn't matter. You were still stupid. This article was originally more a review of the Plasticville Police Station than anything else. I only got the kit as part of an ebay lot, and was at a loss as to what I would do with it. It's not all that interesting a kit. Except for the building front, it is identical to the Fire Station. The centre piece in the roof may be different, I don't know: My kit was not complete. Unlike the Fire House, there are no opening doors. It's just a square box with a removeable roof.. The only changes I made were to grind off the raised 'Plasticville Police Station' above the door, to add an interior floor level with the top of the stairs, and to add a sattelite dish on the roof.
Then Doug told me what he was doing with the same kit, and I realized I was getting lazy. Stupid Club got some renovations. No way I was going to be outdone without a struggle! I cut off the chimney, and built up the roof-location lip in that area with plasticard. I also closed the front windows with card. Then I started to work. The pictures tell the story: I cut a new upper floor from Cintra, and walls for an upper storey. It's only half-size so that much of the upper floor is a balcony. The low wall surrounding the balcony is topped with a handrail made from wire & pearls. The pillars at the corners are cut from chopsticks. The roof has an opening access hatch, with ladder rungs set into the wall below it. |
The ladder rungs are wire 'staple' shapes, with pearl spacers. The hinge on the hatch is just 2 eye-rings set on a wire staple The locating pieces inside and the outside lip on the roof stiffen it (not that it really needs it) and there are a couple of wooden blocks representing A/C units to use as removal handles. The awnings over the back windows are from dollar-store 'Candy House' kits. I trimmed the base of the chimney, and glued it to the roof, so I can use the building in its original form.
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