Well, since the cable is out due to the storm nd I can't go outside due to the storm I managed to get this done today. Its the next in my series of Foamboard structures and the first to represent wood instead of stone. Not bad for a first try, I think, but let me know what you think!
Not a bad idea! One of the things I really like about this medium is just how LIGHT the structure is. Since the layout will be on foam insulation board with a lattice work frame I am specifically trying to keep the weight of scenery down (goal Number 1 of our new layout: MOBILITY!). Additionally, this building went up really fast...about six hours total. There are still a few details I want to add but overall not a bad little project.
Thanks Lowen, this really was a fun build. Cutting the boards in was a bit slow but worth it in the end.
That's one reason it's catching my eye. He's capturing that certain "feel" many of us have in mind. The old, wild west. These will really make his railroad fit well. Boxcab E50
That is the thing about these buildings that I like. They really could fit almost anywhere "out west." Don't know how many of these I have seen in small mountain towns in Colorado, but they really are everywhere. I hope to do a two-story structure next, either another saloon/brothel or a hotel.
I always marvel at some of the prototypes. How their false fronts were at times quite tall. Wind and weather catchers, in my mind. I've always wondered... Boxcab E50
The false front building made things look much larger, thus more important, than they were. In a strange way it was a marketing plan for western towns. Larger was better in the wilderness. For some reason it was equated with "permanence" and civilization. I suspect it was influenced by the early tall buldings in New York and Chicago.
Very nice, me likes a lot. Hey, I still see some old false front buildings here and there, always thought it was interesting.
Thanks Steve. There are a lot in your neck of the woods. The real deal is up around Snow Flake and St. Johns, down at Tombstone, Bisbee and of course there are the movie false fronts over at Old Tucson Studios.
Right, I do understand the reasoning behind those facades. It's just that in so many cases, construction techniques surely must have been rudimentary. At least at first. So, how rugged a structure was, must have lead to a few falling in storms- Where such a result would not have normally been expected. Boxcab E50
I have seen the prototype "shored up" with large beams and even metal rods on the back side of the facade, likely to avoid this very problem! I actually thought about it for this model, and may still do it.
