Corrugations and Religion

The Will HO/OO Corrugated Iron Church is a "good ol kit" that lends itself to kitbashing. A number have been converted into engine sheds for OO9 layouts.
It has been a few years since I attempted a structure kit, so this is a good and cheap one to practise on. Here's my take on it...

First step: square up the windows.Using a 90 degree chisel and files, remove the otherwise lovely stained glass window frames and make them a tad more agnostic

New window frames were 3D printed to suit (more on that to come)

Initially I was going to use it as a community hall or similar; dance halls, schools of art and various secret (mens) societies were common in the earlier West Coast Tasmanian towns.
I intended on keeping overall dimensions and shape the same, apart from the front vestibule that was just too church-ish for my liking.

The Zeehan School of Mines is one such inspiration:

Browsing photos of mining boom towns, and false front inspiration struck:
A bit of Evergreen styrene, the original kit door and a few more holes to fit windows and we have ourselves a different flavour.
False front buildings were not as common as 'normal' front structures, but there were enough around to make this plausible. The mix of corrugated iron and weatherboards was common enough too. Curiously, many photos of corrugated iron structures have the corrugations running horizontally on the walls as per the Zeehan photo above, unlike the kit.

The structure was then shortened for aesthetic and layout size purposes

The lean-to at the back where a priest would take shelter from his herd had a fairly substantial chimney built into it. I replaced the roof with offcuts from shortening the main roof. The back wall will need something to hide the ugliness of the misisng chimney.
Looking closer in proportion to the Zeehan Printing Office now:

New windows that are a little bulkier (and hide my poor efforts at filing the openings to size) have been printed, but yet to be fitted.

Hopefully it won't be long before more progress can be made :)