Sailormatlac 2012 Resolution Challenge

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Did some work on Legrade main building. Next are the truck loading bay and boiler house. I had to fudge the proportions a little bit to make room for this interesting structure.





I put about 3 hours trying to recreated the Legrade billboard. THe original one is so weathered you can hardly recognize the pig. THe funny thing is that I found a 1933 picture of Disney three little pigs that fitted perfectly over the billboard... Hum... Let's just say they had a source of inspiration! Even the arm movement was the same! I used Adobe Illustrator to redraw everything in vectors. Modify details, clothing and arm position and the golden cane. It's funny how they translated Meat Packers with Salaison which means Salting. Sure it sounds better than abattoir with its macabre connotation!!!

I'll print it to scale tomorrow. Colors are an educated guess, I could ask my dad, but I'm pretty sure he don't remember it at all since this building war about half a mile from Chemin de la Canardière.



Sorry about the crappy pictures. My train room lighting is deficient. I'll try to build up the light valence this week-end. It's hard to work on a model in half-obscurity. I'll had a few shelves over the valance and between the actual library for my railroad and modelism books.

Matt