Yeah I was able to sand it and stain it after 24 hours easy.
So the prints came out great for the railing. . . Bruce should be happy and can get off my back. Pictures will be on Tuesday likely after I am done. . .if I get done. I think I will make it but it’s gonna take a late night tonight and tomorrow.
Piece of cake, not much time but it should be finished enough to be considered done
Well no way I am going make the deadline. I still have quite a ways to go. And an evening won’t cut it.
But I am extremely happy with how this is turning out.
This roof side isn’t done and therefore isn’t attached it’s just sitting there.
Same with the railing styles, it’s just propped up in there to show it off.
That’s a fine looking building you have created. Great job! It is done enough to get voted on for sure. Don’t cheat us out of that pleasure.
IMHO your colors work well. The green for the doors helps them stick out. The red window frames and railing contrast really nicely with the pale green (or is that tan?) for the siding.
You know, this is nothing to do with your model, but I wonder why they made that little triangular peak at the top of the front wall. Why not just take the regular wall all the way up? Or make that triangle bigger and save the wood. The triangle adds design pizazz for sure, but that seems like a weird thing to spend time on in a boom town.
Thanks Jim. And the main color is just a sand tan color. As to the weird triangular peak and not taking the false front all the way to the top is any bodies guess. Honestly I never quite understood false fronts anyway, seems like a waste of materiels. But they are very period and I do like them.
Another funny thing about that weird peak is there is a building down the street from this one that has the same exact detail. In fact it took a few looks at pictures to tell it was indeed a different building. Bet it was built by the same guy or at least with the same set of plans. But when you really look it is indeed a different building with that same bizarre detail.
But that is one of the things that drew me to this building when I first saw it. It’s just a little different and I always knew I would model it. So glad I I was able to make it a MIK build. Fun project for me.
Yeah. My Mik build from a few years ago had a similar (though slightly more pronounced) feature.
I would love to know if there was some actual purposeful reason for it other than embellishment.
Very useful bad hiding bad guys with rifles when it comes time to clean up the town, but usually only when a water trough is there for the newly departed guy to fall into.
I don’t see a water trough in any of the pictures but may need one now.
Thanks Dan,
I kinda figured it was something along those lines. My thought was that it certainly gives the building the appearance of being larger. And since this was a male dominated time period we all know that men like to “project” that “things” are larger than they really are. I can see competing saloon owners whipping out a tape measure and measuring.
Honestly, I assumed it was just to support signage.
that would make sense but in a lot of cases, this one in particular there isn’t much signage. But I also believe that engineering and architecture were not always of the utmost importance and I can believe that one set of “plans” were used many times.
I wish I could find it but somewhere there was a picture of a false front saloon and behind the front face was a canvas tent structure. I think it was in the Yukon.
**First, the false front was often added to impermanent structures such as large tents for stability. Tent colonies were commonplace in the early years of westward expansion and the gold rush era. People would flock to an area and the quickest, easiest and most affordable dwelling to put up was the tent. As prairie or mountain winds whipped, and the colder weather moved in, settlers would shore up the sides of the tent with logs, making somewhat of a “half-cabin.” Others, in many cases businesses being run out of tents, would add a false front with a formal door. This gave an impression of permanence, as well as providing additional security to the contents inside via the proper locking door on the front.
No pics of a tent but interesting Photo Blog: False Front Architecture the Trademark of the Old West | Life...Death...Iron
In the movie “Paint Your Wagon” No Name city had a number of wooden fronts and Tents in back…
And in the series Hell on Wheels, the entire town was wood floor / wood front tents that could be packed up and moved. I’ll assume that was fairly accurate.
Love that series. Have watched it all the way through twice
My favorite musical! With Clint Eastwood singing a couple songs, and quite nicely too. Fave song: Wand’rin Star, with Lee Marvin, track #2 in the below.
The Burke turned out pretty awesome, even slightly unfinished.
