Misery gets a Laundry (1)

Following on the the LotOW game a few weeks ago I decided that the town of Misery needed a Laundry, one operated by Madame Lòng and her fearsome Black Dragon Tong!

First up, I took one of the Buildings I already had and decided to make a start with that. The laundry needed a sign and luckily google translate not only gives you the pronounciation but also the Chinese characters. So the double height building from received both and a nice lucky red paint job.

The building originally had a flat roof, but that wouldn't do. Instead of a shingle roof I decided to give it a tin one, just to make it a little different. This was a piece of corrugated card sprayed black and dry brushed up silver, since it's new. A stovepipe (from a soft drink straw) was added for the boiler. 

At the rear I added the drying area. Coffe stirrers were cut up to make the fence which was secured to some spare mdf bases with a PVA / superglue mix. This dries quick and strong but is not brittle like a normal superglue bond. The same spare bases were also used for the stands of drying linen. Cocktail sticks formed the poles with a thread making the line. Over this was draped a piece of masking tape (trickiest bit this!) to make the washing.

The next step is to do the internals. The room will be papered with a suitable design and separated with a Chinese style room dividing screed. I'll also be adding a suitably large barrel as the boiler. After that comes the Tong themselves and then the next part of their operation - the opium den.