It took longer than I had planned, but I have finished building the structure of the N-scale Cedar Key freight depot. Detailing of the building will come later. The visible structure of the depot from the floor/loading platform up is 20 lb. paper or 67 lb. cardstock. The floor, walls and roof shingles, and the small window by the office door, were printed from files in the Clever Models Texture Collection Vol. 1. The other windows and doors were printed from files for the Wright's General Repair Shop model in the Clever Models Waterfront Collection. The trim boards are individual boards cut from printouts of siding, and darkened with a brown felt tip pen.
As mentioned in a prior post, the freight depot appeared to have a covered loading platform running the length of the building adjacent to the open platform. I have not found a photo of that side of the building, and have invented the set of openings used in the model. There is a photo that shows a solid wall adjacent to the ramp from the open platform to the general dock. I added a wall to separate the covered loading platform from the warehouse and office areas. with several freight doors.
The model is braced with wood strips. Nine inch long pieces of cardstock are, after all, quite flexible. Wood strips were added around the tops of the walls. As the siding on three of the sides of the depot extended below the level of the floor, a wood strip was added to the bottom of the long wall to hold that wall at the correct height. Wood strips were also added to the sections between doors of the wall between the covered loading platform and the warehouse to counter the tendency of the sections to curl up. A brace was added across the middle of the structure to counter the tendency of the long walls to bow.
The roof was braced with cardstock to maintain a consistent shape. The cardstock forming the roof warped a lot, but almost all of the warping was removed by holding the roof tightly onto the walls until the glue had dried.