I have finished the front of The Toole’s Buildings (yes, plural even it is just one building) with some detailing. Once in place, the building will be viewed from a distance of at least 1 m, so I haven’t gone into the the fine details. The model is based on a photo I took sort of front on. Until you start the construction you don’t know the details of the facade. They may not be determined from your photos. Instead of going back to do more photos, I have used Google Street View. The position of the pediment is quite interesting. Instead of being centred, it is ‘pushed’ to a position above the right column. The right section of the front is also wider than the left and middle section.
I haven’t decided how the painting should go. Do I do a ‘nice’ job on the full front, or do I leave the right back with peeling paint. I don’t know how the building looked like in 1963.
The shop to the left will be a supermarket and the one to the right a ladies’ hair salon. I tried to find some appropriate images of the interiors on the net without success. Instead I tried my hand on AI. Here are prompts and the results.
A 1963 vintage women’s hair salon interior with customers, mid-century décor, linoleum floor, retro salon chairs and hooded dryers, bouffant and beehive hairstyles on female clients, hairdressers in classic mid-60s uniforms cutting and styling hair, women wearing dresses and skirts typical of early 60s fashion, magazines on side tables, warm natural light through windows, nostalgic 1960s atmosphere seen front on no windows at the back (I forgot to prompt ‘no windows’)
1963 Australian supermarket 4 aisles cash register to the left customer at the cash register employee at the register fluorescent lighting front on view a few consumers along the aisles cigarettes tinned goods soft drink juice deli fruit
