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[Scott]

You have to keep your hands busy.....

 

[thebritfarmer]

Very nice Scott, you have a knack for these things !

 

[desk11desk12]

Great work! Some people have all of the talent.

Those buildings would look great with some Black Hawk western figures.

Carlos

 

[Scott]

Thanks gents. They make great wild west buildings. I'm trying the boom towns around Civil War camps with slap dash construction. A small table saw is on my wish list when I start working again.

I'm going to finish the Mill next.

 

[Gideon]

That's really neat. Are you going to pick up the Tommy Atkins Cowboys and Shootout at the OK Coral sets?

 

[Scott]

No...... but they would go well with the buildings.

 

[wds0855]

Whitetowerminiatures makes some nice wild west personalities in 54mm, Wild VBill, Wyatt Earp, etc.

Walt

 

[Scott]

Thanks Walt. Those are fun figures!

 

[theBaron]

Well done, Scott! You really caught the weathered look of those clapboard buildings set out on the prairie.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Scott]

I'm glad that's how you see that. They don't look that rustic to me until blown up in a photo. The subject might look off it was too well machined.

 

[theBaron]

The color helps, and the gaps here and there, make the boards look to me like milled lumber that's been set out to the elements long enough.

Even around here (eastern PA), in a year's time, an untreated pine board will go silver-gray, and warp/cup/shrink, and we don't have too much in the way of extremes.

You might want to vary colors, too, as you add buildings, and have one or two painted, and then fade the color. Red would be good, just for barns around here, because you'd have cattle. Those slaughtered for meat yield the blood for the color, and those kept for milk give milk for use as the base for the paint. But there, too, in a season, it would fade and weather, and have to be renewed every season.

I look forward to seeing a whole town

Prost!
Brad

 

[Scott]

Epic Fail!

I'm trying to do this! It's the Wild East in the CW

 

[thebritfarmer]

The color helps, and the gaps here and there, make the boards look to me like milled lumber that's been set out to the elements long enough.

Even around here (eastern PA), in a year's time, an untreated pine board will go silver-gray, and warp/cup/shrink, and we don't have too much in the way of extremes.

You might want to vary colors, too, as you add buildings, and have one or two painted, and then fade the color. Red would be good, just for barns around here, because you'd have cattle. Those slaughtered for meat yield the blood for the color, and those kept for milk give milk for use as the base for the paint. But there, too, in a season, it would fade and weather, and have to be renewed every season.

I look forward to seeing a whole town

Prost!
Brad

Some good suggestions Brad. Would this be classed as milk paint? or does this era predate that?

I too think a whole town would be great.......I always thought a manaufacturer could pick up on a Streets of the Old Wild West

 

[theBaron]

That's a good question; you may be right, but I'm afraid I don't know. I do know that that's what farmers around here used, going back to the 17th century and up through the start of the 19th, when chemistry was advanced enough to allow large-scale commercial production of paints. White paint used powdered metal, usual lead, in the same way.

Prost!
Brad

 

[thebritfarmer]

Thanks Brad, should have googled it first LOL



http://www.milkpaint.com/about_history.html

 

[Nick Nasta]

You have to keep your hands busy.....

Those store fronts are great!
Well done and such a good idea.
Nick