A photo build of a scrapbox miner's shack.

I'd like to landscape Skid Row number two behind the boilerworks as soon as I can so have to press on building the shacks.  Here's a pretty well blow by blow account of the making of shack number two.

The first piece to suggest itself from my scrapbox was the false front from an old Kibri Wild West plastic structure that I built and scrapped years ago.

I cut across the middle with a razor saw. It must have bent as I had to true up the bits after.

The rear wall from another Kibri kit plus a couple of doors  , one salvaged from an earlier incarnation.

Window opening becomes enlarged for a door.

A bit of cutting and patching fills in an oversized door aperture.

Yep that'll do.

Ready for cutting to make the rear wall

To create a sprung board, I cut down the seams alongside the board then turned the side over and thinned the area out with my Dremel and a stone.

The board end was prised out.

A bit of plastic siding was cut for the opposite side and the shack assembled.  The windows were removed for painting the body.

Primed with acrylic grey rattle can car primer.

A light wash of Raw Umber acrylic was put on followed by a light black wash.

Bottom board rot added and the windows replaced.

A cut down plastic corrugated roof was found and cut to size, primed with red oxide, given alight wash of black and dry brushed with white before fitting.

I added a smoke jack and "running water supply" from an oil drum mounted on a plastic stand from an old military kit

Water piped in with brass wire treated with blackening etch.

Probable location