Old Fishing Store (21310) - Tiling and Roofing Complete!

After a long hiatus, we hit this hard over the weekend and finished everything but the last step of the build.

We started off with finishing the top section of the swinging wall. Visually, there is nothing too much that stands out - it continues with the green tile motif of the rest of the building. There is a vent at the top left of the wall, which swings out just as the bottom section does.

Again, we are such fans of this access design - it's very easy to operate and provides a large space for hands to get into the building and arrange things. It's also a very sleek design that hides very well once the walls are swung back into place.

The next step was to build the roof trusses - these were very standard triangular trusses. I guess you wouldn't really expect much more than the basic for a rundown fish store.

The cobbled together roof over the porch is another character building component to the set. It definitely looks run down and gives the impression that it has been repaired multiple times over the years using whatever materials were on hand. Not many of the original boards remain and the rest look like they are on the verge of falling apart.

The roof provides much the same story - it's clear that patch repairs have been made over the years as leaks have sprung up. I'm not sure how much of the original roof remains under all the random bits of flotsam that have been nailed up.

Some of the local wildlife seem to have taken a liking to the patchy roof - I guess it offers a plethora of sturdy landing spots and is high enough to give a good view of the surroundings and any tasty morsels that might be lying around.

As one would expect, there is an orange tabby cat on the prowl for scraps and defending his scavenging territory from the pesky seagulls.