inspiration wanted - dockside building

[Hugh Norwood]

I have had to move the engine shed on Angst to accommodate the way the backscene fits in when the two halves of the layout are fixed together for transit. So...

I have a space at the front on the extreme right hand side of the layout that needs a building. It can be quite high - there's around 8 inches headroom, but not a lot of frontage - but it can "extend" off-scene.

Ideas welcome.

Many thanks

[Graeme Dunbar]

OK my geography of Ankh Morpork is not great, but in the dockside area there will be quite a lot of foreigners. Tall suggests a tower or pinnacle of some sort. Perhaps a temple to Offler?

Otherwise as it's dockside then a tavern or the Seamstresses Guild, hem, hem... might be found? (There are plenty of suitable Fantasy Wargaming figures available for players who have reached puberty that would grace any window and I'm sure there would be a place above the door for a red LED.)

[Darren Hedges]

I'm not too sure of the Geography of A-M either, but if you are looking for something tall and thin how about a clacks tower?

Darren.

[Hugh Norwood]

Many thanks.

I had thought sometime ago of a clacks tower - but it would have to be working, and I wasn't sure about machanising a semaphore tower.

And then TP changed the semaphore method in his books from the simple two arm system to a matrix of black and white squares (also see the TV version of Going Postal). Actually, the light system would be easier to model... (but the waving arms would be more interesting to watch)

I like the temple idea - I'll have to think about that one. I was considering a History Monks raked sand garden somewhere else on site.

As to seamstresses - yes  - it is a dockside... And as the saying goes "Red light at night, sailor's delight"  Watch this space is all I'll say...

[Hugh Norwood]

Decided on something like this. Based on part of the Leeds "waterfront".
Knocked up using a CAD package...

[Graeme Dunbar]

Ahh! Pork futures? Re-annual wine wareouse? Scumble bond house?

[Stephen Hart]

the covered loading area on one side and recessed "balconies" for loading on the other might give some character to the warehouse type building

(From Shipley)

this page shows a view of the recess covered by the loading bay

http://www.towpathtreks.co.uk/aboutphotodisplay.asp?ino=392

[vulcan]

Thanks Steve, just the thing for the projected canal area on my, so far, imaginary magnum opus although I have got a Metcalfe warehouse to butcher modify.

If it helps, Hugh, I've got some detail shots of Black Country canalside locations which I will attempt to upload.

Cheers

Ken

[garrywhiting]

http://www.towpathtreks.co.uk/aboutphotodisplay.asp?ino=392

ARGHH!!! Stephen , are you deliberately trying to frighten me by posting pictures like that !

[Andy_Elms]

See also:

http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/gloucester/docks.htm

Gloucester Docks was used for the Ankh Morpork quayside lcoations in The Colour of Magic.

[John Varley]

 ::)

Garry,

It should be the one behind the camera which would give you nightmares!!

John