HO Scale Brick Building - Saloon

An HO scale model of the John Nicholas Saloon and Beer Hall located at 11th Street and Bailey Street in Florence, Arizona. Likely built after 1886, the building was a saloon by 1889. In 2026, the building is now an insurance agent's office.

The detail in the brick work is fascinating and renders really well in HO scale with a 0.4mm extruder at 0.2mm layers.

The model features interior wall, door, window, and framing details. Parts are separated for printing in different colours or for easy painting.

glazing.zip contains an SVG file for the door and window glass. Print the file on overhead projector sheet and cut out the door and window glass manually, or send the SVG to a Cricut machine for easy cutting.

The parts are designed for a close fit, so some light sanding will be needed to get parts to go together.

Printing

Print with 0.4mm extruder at 0.2mm layers:

walls.stl - print 1

sanding_stick_wide_doors.stl - print 1
sanding_stick_windows.stl - print 1

Print with 0.2mm extruder at 0.1mm layers:

ceiling.stl - print 1
ceiling_joists.stl - print 1

door_double.stl - print 2
door_single.stl - print 1

flashing.stl - print 1

floor.stl - print 1

roof.stl - print 1

window.stl - print 5

Supports

walls.stl - In your slicer, manually paint supports on the underside of the door and window openings.

No other parts require supports.

Assembly

Sanding Sticks

Glue fine sandpaper to the curved side of sanding_stick_wide_doors.stl and sanding_stick_windows.stl and trim the sandpaper flush with the sides of the parts.

Use these sanding sticks to clean up the arches at the top of the doors and windows. I find that only very light sanding is needed to clean up any remaining support material and to smooth the layers of the arches.

Glazing

glazing.svg contains outlines of the door and window glazing. I get excellent results cutting these parts out of overhead projector sheet on a Cricut. The SVG file readily imports into Cricut Design Studio and the parts cut cleanly.

You can also print this file onto overhead projector sheet and carefully cut out the glazing material with a sharp hobby knife.

Sills

The door and window sets include the sill part for each door and window.

Glue the door and window sill parts into the openings, with the flat side of the sills facing up and the face of the sills pressed into the recesses under each opening. Press the sills down firmly on the opening bottoms.

Frames

Glue the frame parts into the door and window openings from the inside of the walls.

Doors

Assemble the door halves back-to-back, sandwiching the glazing between the halves.

Press the doors into the openings from the outside of the walls, locating the assembled doors against the frames. The doors should hold in place without glue.

Windows

Assemble the window halves back-to-back, sandwiching the glazing between the halves. Note that the interior and exterior windows are different: the exterior window has a drip rail detail at the top of the window. Ensure that you assemble the windows with one interior and one exterior window.

Press the windows into the openings from the outside of the walls, locating the assembled windows against the frames. The windows should hold in place without glue.

Floor

Glue floor.stl into walls.stl.

Ceiling

Fit ceiling.stl into the recess in walls.stl, with the plank and moulding detail facing the interior of the building. You may need to flex the part to slip it past the brick detail at the top of the walls.

Ceiling Joists

Fit ceiling_joists.stl into the recess in walls.stl. You may need to flex the part to slip it past the brick detail at the top of the walls.

Roof

Fit roof.stl into walls.stl, seating it flush against ceiling_joists.stl.

Flashing

Fit flashing.stl to the top of walls.stl.