Manchester, Vt. Creamery on the Rutland Ry.

Here is the latest scoop from Bill Badger...George Dutka 

George, since you seem to be in building mode on your blog, here’s my latest project. I like doing mockups to see if a prototype will fit before building it. Manchester had a rather modern (ca. 1921) creamy which survives, but much modified. I left a space for it on my layout, but I had no idea if the space was right, so I counted bricks, drew it and built a mockup from pad of paper backing cardboard. I tend to go a bit overboard on mockups because I want to get a feel for what a finished model will look like and I know mockups tend to live on and on. I also get a good idea how to build the real model and what ready made parts to buy.

In this case the prototype is five bays deep, but I could only fit three. Don’t tell. This the front of the original, on the upper level, now buried under later additions. This is my shortened mockup with a quick and dirty front elevation colored in from my print. I found a plastic straw for a stack.