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Old 10-05-2022, 02:33 AM
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The daily press printing house

I thought of a newspaper editorial office and printing house and, surfing through the images in the www, I found few interesting facades. One of the most original was the pretty big printing house of Sankōdō Corporation in Fujisawa-shi, at Old Tōkaidō street. I was impressed by the interesting mix of the traditional shape of the facade plus a tiled front canopy and the modern materials and remaining walls design, so I decided to choose this one.

I copied the office facade from this photo image (much later I found more images of the building at Google Maps Street View) and I designed a (slightly smaller than the original) printing house workshop hall on the rear of the office building for my Nekomura diorama. This time I didn't use computer printing but the scratch building out of few colored thick paper sheets with cutouts made with a modeller's knife and the doors & windows drawn by hand with a 0.1 mm black marker and glued from the inside which is my favorite way. Only the electrical box was cut out of the pre-printed drawing. The proportions were established by eye, as usual, so the building is not identical to the original (which was inevitable but the model was not thought as a replica of the original shop); it is slightly more narrow and I neglected the overhanging left side. I didn't make the complex set of loading ramps, canopies and a shed on the rear of the hall; I could add them later if the location on the diorama will allow it.

Later on I found the building address and postal code on the Sankōdō webpage and I looked at the Google Maps (for top view) to find out the roofs shape and they proved to be flat or nearly flat so I made them flat (except the front gabled part). The original roof was covered with the light colored trapezoidal sheets or sandwich panels but I decided to make an experiment and to use a fine sandpaper which could imitate in this scale the gravel covered flat roof very well (although it terribly spoils the scissors or knife when being cut). I am pleased with the result and I hope you will be pleased too.

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