One of the charming architectural styles of the inner suburbs of Sydney is the Art Deco style apartments such as those built between 1930s and 1940s. I have loved the old style features so much that I have lived in these style apartments in different times of my life and wanted to have a model this type of building on my layout.
Final Touches
Final Touches
This is the finished model placed with brick fencing and lawn I will also add lighting too. The car in the foreground is a kit bash car to represent a 1948 Ford Anglia Tourer
The search begins
Having trawled through the internet looking for apartment buildings, most of them were either the European style buildings or New York style apartments. There was none commercially available that had a Art Deco appearance with curved frontal facade until I searched Shapeways and found and ordered the NSW small modern signal box https://www.shapeways.com/product/NSW-modern-brick-signal-box-small
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Colour and Apartment Name
I painted the building a red brown brick colour with a touch of orange and also decided to give it a name since most apartments at that time were given a name to give some prestige. My apartment has Court in it so I decided to use Court and Trafalgar represents the road that it is on, so it is called Trafalgar Court. I tested a number of fonts on the computer to get an Art Deco type font.
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| Above: Testing Art Deco font style |
