HO Scale Rusticated Brick Hardware Store

HO scale model of a 1940s-era lumber or hardware store, featuring rusticated concrete block walls and interior details.

Rusticated concrete block is concrete block with a decorative outside face cast to resemble rough or worked stone. This style of block appeared in the late 19th century and was used for homes, utility buildings, and commercial buildings. This model is inspired by a 1949 photo of the Davis Lumber Company in Hutchinson, Kansas, found on this site --

https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2018/05/24/throwback-thursday-lumber-yard-building-history/12144695007/

I used Polymaker Polyterra matte PLA for the walls; the effect looks pretty good.

The walls in my sample model were printed at 0.2mm layers with a 0.4mm extruder. The walls look good but would look even better at 0.1mm layers with a 0.2mm extruder.

Parts are separated for easy painting or for printing in different colours.

Printing

This part needs supports:

• walls.stl, with manually-applied supports on the underside of the door and window openings only

Print two each of the following:

• flashing_middle.stl

• window.stl

• window_front.stl

• window_lintel.stl

• window_sill.stl

Print one each of all other parts.