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2011 challenge - THE GREENBUCK HOTEL

Modeling
#46

the deadline well in the past finally i find a little time to go on with my hotel. i got a question. from the pic below - which color would you think adequate for a cattletown hotel in the 1800s?

#47

Honestly Korm,
I can’t see a difference between 1 & 2, or between 3 & 4.
But I like 6 or 8.
Ralph

#48

the difference is, that one and three let the color below them shine through. see the diagonal stripes.

1 and 2 are toothpaste. (2 was applied twice)
3 and 4 are crackfiller (4 as double application)
6 is two drops of black ink (stamp-pad refiller) with a squirt of alcohol.
8 is just one drop with a squirt.

all were pinselled on with a stiff brush.

#49

I have to agree with Ralph.
6 or 8

#50

I’ll go with the 6 or 8 but has anyone looked at a late 1800s color chart? I know I’m counting rivets but…

#51

I like 10 or 11. It has a more natural look to it.

#52
Geoff George said:
I have to agree with Ralph. 6 or 8
Me too. Ink/Alcohol will be my next color experiment. It's way simple and looks good too.
#53

10 is polish repair liquid for furnitures. (just one application)
11 is the same, with a wash of the ink-alcohol mix over it.

so you all seem to be in favour of going for a look of aged untreated wood.

edit: Doug, where do i find that colors?

#54

Korm,

I think that a hotel in the 1880s would have fairly new paint, not unprotected, weathered wood.

Take a look at this photo from the 1880s. It is well painted.

#55
Steve Featherkile said:
Korm,

I think that a hotel in the 1880s would have fairly new paint, not unprotected, weathered wood.

Take a look at this photo from the 1880s. It is well painted.


I tend to agree…
However your building your RR Korm
:wink:

#56

Ya,
But that’s a resort in Hot Springs.
Hotel in a mining or logging town might not be so pretty.
Ralph

#57

Still think in 1880 it would have been painted when built to protect the wood.

#58

Is the hotel new in 1880, or 30 years old?
Ralph

#59

lol…good point!

#60

well, this part of the layout with its station is meant to give the impression of one of the railroad towns, where the great texan herds were loaded during the second half of the sixties and the beginning seventies. (something that remembers of of abilene or dodge city)

#61

Even though cow punchers would be dirty and dusty after their trek they would have pockets full of cash to spend. It needs a fancy paint job! And lots of bath tubs!

#62

Well, here is Deadwood, KS in the 1880’s, at the other end of the cattle trail.

Here’s the 7th Cavalry, in 1890. I just had to throw this one in. :stuck_out_tongue:

Another shot of Deadwood.

If you are modeling the 1880’s, a repetitively prosperous time, most buildings had paint. If you are modeling the 1930s, the paint might be peeling, but the building would still have color.

#63

i did a little web search.
if i am not misstaken, the mining and logging towns were mostly unpainted.
but the other “western” towns seem to have been mostly painted.

adding the thought, that the lower level of my layout (2 1/2 foot to 5 foot height) receives less light, than the upper level, i think, i should build this town with most buildings painted.
(adding some outhouses and sheds showing weathered wood)

so at the moment i am thinking about a somewhat “aged” white, with window and door frames in a dark green (to go with the name “Greenback”)

seems, that further investigation and testing will be needed.

edit - i am astonished, how widespread the cavalry had their camp.

#64

done (the thread, not the model) - as far as possible. :male_detective: :man_mechanic:

#65

here is the (first ) follow-up of this speedmodeling: