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New ACW Log Cabin 54mm (1 Viewer)
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Lewey Gun Vick
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It looks really cool!
It also has a removable roof and interior!
Vick
It also has a removable roof and interior!Vick
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A nice looking piece, will be interesting to see the inside when it is released.
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I will get this probably for my AWI figures. Its a nice building.
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Britain's has some very nice scenics! I need some opinions though, does anyone think the Pub from the Jane Austen series would work for Normandy?
Vick
I need some opinions though, does anyone think the Pub from the Jane Austen series would work for Normandy? Vick
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I think that it is a bit too British Vick.
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Not to be a rivet Nazi, but is the Britain's cabin a log cabin, or a clapboard-sided framed house? It doesn't detract from its appeal, of course, and it will make a wonderful scenic piece. But I can't really tell from the pic.
And to Vick, I think you're right, I think the pub could pass for a building in any of the towns in Normandy.
Prost!
Brad
And to Vick, I think you're right, I think the pub could pass for a building in any of the towns in Normandy.
Prost!
Brad
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Thank you for the opinions gentlemen!
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I think it is a clapboard-sided framed house, the sides look far to smooth to be a log cabin in my opinion
Vick
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Clapboard sided houses were very prevalent during the Civil War. The WB house is a clapboard.
Mike
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(In my best impression of Gary Cole as Lumberg from "Office Space") "I'm going to have to...go ahead...and disagree with you on that one"
We had them here in PA since Colonial times. They might not have been balloon-framed (also known as stick-framed), which building method became wide-spread in the 1870's, if I remember correctly. But clapboarding was used here in the Middle Colonies, and in New England, I'm pretty sure, well before the Revolution.
But the responses since my last post confirm for me that my eyesight hasn't gotten that bad yet, and that I did see this piece as a house with clabs, not a log cabin.
Prost!
Brad
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If I'm correct, then I say yes, though I'd add, I would expect to see that level of workmanship in a town, along the coast, rather than in the backwoods country of the colonies.
Remember that at the start of settlement, nearly every finished product had to be brought over from Great Britain, until people got settled and got past establishing farms to produce food, and basic manufactures. By the late 1600's, you could point to a settled zone along the coast, which was consolidated and pushed outward towards the interior.
By the 1740's there were several iron forges dotting the interior here in PA, for example, though that "interior" is what makes up the suburbs of Philadelphia, and the areas around Allentown and Reading.
Producing lumber for building is a case in point. For the first colonists, you could build log structures faster than structures with more finely milled lumber. But as more settlers came, and the colonies became more established, finished goods like that became more readily available.
So to find a house like that out in what is now Butler County above Pittsburgh, say in 1750, that meant that someone had to cart the lumber up from the coast, or spend the time to mill it himself. Possible, but not as likely as a simpler log cabin.
But it could pass for a house in the Delaware Valley, or in Jersey, in the 1770's.
Prost!
Brad
Remember that at the start of settlement, nearly every finished product had to be brought over from Great Britain, until people got settled and got past establishing farms to produce food, and basic manufactures. By the late 1600's, you could point to a settled zone along the coast, which was consolidated and pushed outward towards the interior.
By the 1740's there were several iron forges dotting the interior here in PA, for example, though that "interior" is what makes up the suburbs of Philadelphia, and the areas around Allentown and Reading.
Producing lumber for building is a case in point. For the first colonists, you could build log structures faster than structures with more finely milled lumber. But as more settlers came, and the colonies became more established, finished goods like that became more readily available.
So to find a house like that out in what is now Butler County above Pittsburgh, say in 1750, that meant that someone had to cart the lumber up from the coast, or spend the time to mill it himself. Possible, but not as likely as a simpler log cabin.
But it could pass for a house in the Delaware Valley, or in Jersey, in the 1770's.
Prost!
Brad
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I don't think it is being marketed as a log cabin. on the WB website is called an 18th-19th Century Farm House
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Good observations all!
The building offered is a framed and clap boarded small home. The model is selectively compressed, but based on a small house that stood Virginia during the American Civil War.
The style of the dwelling is much more common by the second quarter of the Nineteenth century but generally differs from Eighteenth century New England construction, or structures in the new settlements to the West in the Eighteenth century.
As a historical note I would like to add that what we now refer to as clapboards were also called weatherboards. Although we are accustomed to seeing milled or sawn materials today, the earliest ones were often riven, or split. These are often in shorter lengths and typically increase in width from the ridge to the foundation, if there was one.
After a dwelling was erected, whether it was log or timber frame construction, the next order of business to improve it was to cover the exterior often with board and batten or weatherboarding. As a result, unless the building was temporary, it was usually covered within a year or two of construction.
I was also stunned to find out that window glass appeared on the frontier fairly early as it was often a cheap ballast to use in the barges used to ship other cargos. Glass making was one of the first domestic industries here, followed by pottery and brick making, at least in the Southern colonies. Most simple houses in the Western frontiers of Ohio and Kentucky had window glass by the end of the Eighteenth century.
Where I live it is not unusual for early buildings to be uncovered during home renovations or additions. In some cases the original structure is log construction with one or more exterior layers applied over the years.
A building like this may even survive into a later period by becoming a summer kitchen or an out building.
In the village just south of me an original home built in the 1820s survived to be used as an office, and later addition, a carriage shed after the new main house was built in 1839.
Fun stuff eh?
Ken
The building offered is a framed and clap boarded small home. The model is selectively compressed, but based on a small house that stood Virginia during the American Civil War.
The style of the dwelling is much more common by the second quarter of the Nineteenth century but generally differs from Eighteenth century New England construction, or structures in the new settlements to the West in the Eighteenth century.
As a historical note I would like to add that what we now refer to as clapboards were also called weatherboards. Although we are accustomed to seeing milled or sawn materials today, the earliest ones were often riven, or split. These are often in shorter lengths and typically increase in width from the ridge to the foundation, if there was one.
After a dwelling was erected, whether it was log or timber frame construction, the next order of business to improve it was to cover the exterior often with board and batten or weatherboarding. As a result, unless the building was temporary, it was usually covered within a year or two of construction.
I was also stunned to find out that window glass appeared on the frontier fairly early as it was often a cheap ballast to use in the barges used to ship other cargos. Glass making was one of the first domestic industries here, followed by pottery and brick making, at least in the Southern colonies. Most simple houses in the Western frontiers of Ohio and Kentucky had window glass by the end of the Eighteenth century.
Where I live it is not unusual for early buildings to be uncovered during home renovations or additions. In some cases the original structure is log construction with one or more exterior layers applied over the years.
A building like this may even survive into a later period by becoming a summer kitchen or an out building.
In the village just south of me an original home built in the 1820s survived to be used as an office, and later addition, a carriage shed after the new main house was built in 1839.
Fun stuff eh?
Ken
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Very interesting Ken, will there be furniture produced for the weatherboard, like there was for the Rorke's Drift hospitol?
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