We've all seen these sites. Large painted hoardings surrounding a once elegant building, now reduced to rubble and a modern monstrosity being erected in its place. Or just an empty field with nothing happening for months at a time. Sometimes the new buildings are started, but then left half-built, due to economic or other reasons.
But any building site can be a great little scene to model. Lots of detail can be added, depending on the stage of the demolition or new build. The size can also be made to fit whatever you have available, from space for a single house to a supermarket, tower block or football stadium.
Perimeter Fencing
Fencing around a building site has to serve two purposes - to keep people out, as they are dangerous areas, but also to prevent items from being stolen. Quite often, the fencing is in the form of hoardings, large painted panels of wood designed to keep dust and debris from flying out at the passing public.
Sometimes the fencing is strong steel mesh, which allows a view of the ongoing work, should there be any.
Inside the fencing, around the perimeter away from the main construction, there may be site offices, portable toilets, containers and stacks of materials on pallets.
For demolition scenes, skips of various sizes can be added, along with piles of rubble and old window frames, fireplaces and chimney pots.
For a fresh build, with just the foundations started, there could be lots of rusty rebar grids and a few upstanding columns.
For more advanced stages, including up to adding the roof, scaffolding and ladders can be placed to allow the little people to get on with the various jobs.
The ground cover could be dusty sand, with tyre tracks criss-crossing from the site entrance. Or you could model a wet, soggy, muddy site, with puddles everywhere.
Potential kits you can include:
- KX035-OO Building Site Hoardings & Construction Signs
- Site Offices:
- Security fencing:
- AX064-OO Portable Toilets
- Palleted materials:
- LX194-OO Loose House Bricks
- LX222-OO Rebar Mesh Sheets
- AX175-OO Bulk Bags
- Roof trusses:
- LX486-OO 17ft 6" Roof Trusses
- LX029-OO 26ft Roof Trusses
- plus many more
- LX419-OO Scaffolding
- AX395-OO Bell-style Cement mixers
- LX350-OO Drain & Manhole covers
- AX053-O 8ft Sewer pipes
- Gas & Water pipes
- LX110-OO Skips
- Saw benches
See also our ready-made Building Site Bundles
- SMS-BP7 - Building Site Details Pack
- SMS-BP8 - Building Site Details Pack
- SMS-BP9 - Building Site Detail Pack
Let us know what you've made
Whatever you do for your own building site scene, please send us photos as we'd love to see what you've created.