New Farmhouse – Painted Version (1 Viewer)

[Dave@Traverse]

We've just posted the painted version of "Hatchet Creek" farmhouse on our website, traversedioramics.com. You can follow the links for additional pictures once you get there.

We're now taking pre-orders, and the product should be available from us and at retailers in a few week's time.



In case you didn't catch my last post on the unpainted version, here's a few additional details: The farmhouse marks the first of our Homestead Series, in which we'll represent dwellings and various outbuildings in 1:32/30 scale. This first homestead we're calling "Hatchet Creek." The farmhouse is modeled after a real Western Pennsylvania home built sometime prior to the 1850s. It's log structure and narrow clapboard siding is typical for the period, extending back at least a century. So it works well for AWI along with ACW displays, and even FIW and Western, too.

The farmhouse features interior detailing, including a stone fireplace with mantel. The roof is removable and reveals a main room, shed-style room, and second floor. The second floor itself features a cutaway and is also removable.

We're also working on a detailing kit which will include muttons for the windows ("grills" in modern lingo) as well as a functioning 6-panel front door.

Enjoy!
Dave


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[Gustavflyer]

Wonderful, I am in!!{sm4}

 

[mestell]

I purchased this farmhouse along with the new Traverse Dioramics smokehouse at the Chicago OTSN show last week. I have already used it as a backdrop in many photographs of both my ACW and AWI figure collection. These I have posted on the W. Britian and the First Legion forums and the photos show how nicely this product compliments ACW and AWI figures.

This farmhouse, by the way, is based on the historical Hupp/Cox house which was located in western Pennylvania and was built prior to 1851. It was dismantled and moved to an open air museum in Ireland and restored to show an example of Irish imigrant life in America (Cox was Irish). Traverse Dioramics version of this house is very similar in detail to the original with the exception of some minor concessions for the manufactureing process as can be sen in the photos below of the actual structure. Traverse Dioramics is creating an early American homestead series called Hatchet Creek that will provide structures that can be used to create an 18th/19th century American homestead. The log smokehouse is out now and compliments the farmhouse very nicely. Muillions for the farmhouse windows will be available in a few weeks and are made to easy fit into the windows. A dogtrot shed is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Mike