Tmo kitbash '24 build challenge

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Thanks Tom and Tyson - you guys are motivating me to continue printing, cutting, folding and gluing.

I wasn't ready to pick up my Olfa knife and start carving up cardstock yet, so I decided to do a little research on manufacturing in Hazleton.  Aside from coal, the only other big business was in textiles prior to 1970.  Turns out one of the key textile companies in Hazleton was the Duplan Silk Mill, which oddly enough, was the largest silk mill in the world prior to closing in 1953, and guess what?  It was within a half mile of the Hazleton Shaft Colliery.  And another thing?  Made of brick.  600,000 square feet of it.

There's a picture of a small part of the complex here:  image.jpg (1351×900) (loopnet.com)

Boom!  Not a perfect match, but my brick and windowed warehouse complex is going to be the former home of the Duplan Silk Mill - now since repurposed.  However, I decided that I'm going to paint the brick with a Duplan logo that will be checkered and faded.

But where am I going to get a Duplan Silk Mill logo?  Turns out everything's on the internet if you look hard enough.  Someone on ebay at one time had a 15-year pin from the company:

   

So, I'm going to pull the "Duplan" off the button through the artifices of an app on my computer and blow it up to the right size to fit across the brick 2nd story of my first section of the warehouse, build a stencil and paint the side of the building with it.  Bash indeed!