Hello all,

Here's my recently finished 1/18 French bakery. I've spent around 32 hours on it. But, I think it was worth the time.

Excellent-any in progress shots? Can you say what materials you used?

Finished? What makes this a bakery apart from the sign on the outside? Should there not be an oven, shelves, tins, trays, etc. etc?
Nice building and damage work ... but I would hardly call this finished. At this scale, there are so many possibilities to detail the inside, nevermind the rubble that would come from the damage.

The building it's self is finished. Needs more insides!!!

there is only one thing to constructively criticize upon my freind.; The sign for the bakery does not look like it is from the time period. The font looks like a more modern typeface, something one would see in the 1970s, when more block like fonts became more in style. An educated guess would put the construction of the prototype of this building, and the erecting of the sign somewhere in between 1900 and world war 2, and there were many different styles of lettering that were popular during that time. while i could not find any photgraphs online of bakeries, i did find some other french signs from the time period.

A car dealership in 1930s france:
http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Images/Aug08/19_Mercedes_Benz_Supercharged_Cars_1/467473_803156_3539_2519_10679237131.jpg

1920s paris:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Paris_Montmartre_in_1925.jpg/600px-Paris_Montmartre_in_1925.jpg

It is very nitpicky i know, but the sign's font kind of detracts from the look that french towns had around the time period.

If you made the sign with a printer, i'm sure that there are plenty of free fonts online that look the part.

Other than that, the bakery looks very well done, and i cannot wait to see it in a diorama and with rubble, ovens, and a few stale croissants on the counter.

Well done until now.
I also agree with everything said before.
One more question: What did you use gor the glass. It looks really good!

Claude