3.8. American Box Company
Originally this was to be a freight transfer house. However, after reviewing hundreds of reference images, I came across the one below, scrapped the freight house plan, and went in a whole new direction.
Given that I had no clue what the rest of this building looked like, I used the present-day specimen below, also from Jersey City, as a guide.
DPM kits are a mainstay of downtown business bashes, but the backs of some kits are also ideal for making generic factories, such as this one. As it happens—and perhaps not surprisingly—I have an enormous stockpile of DPM parts on hand. With their unbroken rows of windows, the back walls of Reed Books and Erik's Emporium were ideal for bashing this industry.
Those familiar with DPM kits know they don't have mitered corners, and the edge detail used to compensate for this is pretty lame. This type of building would suffer significantly if I'd attempted to utilize the same corner treatment, so I mitered all of the corners—a tedious task made less onerous by a miniature table saw.
The wedge-shaped space made the building much more interesting; indeed, it became my favorite kitbash.
Incidentally, that low addition on one end was designed to fit under the elevated line, vaguely like this:
I'd started work on the el, assembling this section from strip styrene, plain girders, and pieces of lattice from Micro Engineering.
The curve over the box company building was a tricky bit of planning.
