hi all, Whenever I get tired of stuff in the garden I get around to building “something”. (Yes, most of the time I do the drawings first 
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Yes, the Dutch doors work. The “rope” to close them is a few strands of wire, suggestion from SWMBO.
That’s the herd, needs to be painted to conform to Grison standards. Very special goats in Grisons, none of this “Generic Alpine” stuff!
Why is the barn roof built that way? Looks like something you’d find in a warm, dry climate, not the Alps.
Hmmmmmm, have you heard about the smell of Billy goats? :lol: :lol: Well, the roof just got finished, it’s a stone roof made from styrene. Still needs to be painted, unless I can convince everyone that it’s that very special Billy Goat marble. 
(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/F-PIX/StoneRoof02_s.jpg)
(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/F-PIX/StoneRoof01_s.jpg)
Should look similar to the sample piece I built some time ago.
And I thought global warming was seriously afflicting Switzerland!
Nice job, HJ.
Looks like cutting each “stone” was a lot of work. I’m working on two Lionel kits from the early 80’s. A water tower and depot. They both have Cedar shakes for the roofs.
Two large bags of shakes for the depot alone. I get dizzy just looking at the bags!
Ralph
Beautiful rustic apperance.
Very nice! Where’d you get the goats? I might be able to modify some of them to look like bighorn sheep for my layout. The ones I’m currently using are almost twice the size they should be.
Verrry in-tres-ting, Hans. What are your logs made from? What kind of roof/stone is that? Do you have any pictures of a prototype?
-Brian
Thank you Gentlemen!
(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/F-PIX/StoneRoof03_s.jpg)
The roof is painted. Used that stone texture paint, time will tell how much touch up it will require The goats are from POLA. Part#331939 The logs are hardwood dowels, shaped, distressed etc. Same construction method as the hay barn using round toothpicks to pin the logs. The proto view is in Volume 2 of the “Farmhouses in the Grisons”. It’s a good reference source. Similar barns can be found in the Google image libraries.
I really like that HJ. I’ll see if I can find a logical place for something similar; perhaps a cattle or horse shelter. Thanks for the idea and the post.
Richard Smith said:
I really like that HJ. I’ll see if I can find a logical place for something similar; perhaps a cattle or horse shelter. Thanks for the idea and the post.
How about a pig sty ? (ran across in my image search)
(http://www.travel-images.com/switz222.jpg)
-Brian
not too baaaaaaaad…sorry couldn’t resist…Looks nice!
cale
HJ
If you haven’t done so already, may I suggest that you put a couple of clear coats on the roof. It keeps the “rocks” in place during the rain storms. If you look at the destructions on the stone texture paint can, you will probably find that suggestion there, as well. Then, apply another coat each spring.
Wow, that reminds me of some of the structures I use to see around Garmisch Gemany. I always wondered what they were for.
As far as the smell of goats, I can say from 1st hand experience (stuck in the back of a goat truck traveling through Turkey in 75) they are quite unpleasant smelling creatures 
I’ll say goats smell bad.
My wife agreed to take a pygmy billy goat from a cousin a month or so ago. The pen was over 100 feet from the house. It stunk so bad at my front door you would have swore the goat was at your feet. This was within 10 minutes of the goats arrival.
Said goat was promptly returned.
Ralph
Hehehehe
Hubby comes home leading a billy goat behind him.
Wife: “Oh, no!”
He: “What?”
Wife: “we have no room!”
He: “He gets to stay in the house 'til I finish his stable”
Wife: " What about the smell!???!"
He: “He’ll get used to that, too!”
Hehehehe
Snicker!
Good one!
You get used to the smell…goats make great lawn mowers…better than the smell of a gasoline mower.
The main trouble occurs when you find that they tend to eat just about anything. There goes the bikini right off the back of my sunbathing girl friend…no points in my favour there. Next was the destruction of a few good plants around the pike. No I don’t have many great plants, as I’m not a gardener, but the few I have make my pike look just a bit better…!!!
Good thing was that the goat was on loan, and being that it was still small and tender; made a great BBQ, for about a dozen of us.
The owner enjoyed it too, until she realized that it was her goat, and nearly killed me…!!!
I live today, only because there was a replacement available within several miles and I was able to aford it…!!!
Fred Mills said:Hmm... wonder if I could rent a goat for my next beach trip? ;)
The main trouble occurs when you find that they tend to eat just about anything. There goes the bikini right off the back of my sunbathing girl friend....
Ray Dunakin said:Yeah, you load that goat in the car when the girls from HD are up to their tricks, there will be a lot of fun any which way you look at it! :lol: :lol:Fred Mills said:Hmm... wonder if I could rent a goat for my next beach trip? ;)
The main trouble occurs when you find that they tend to eat just about anything. There goes the bikini right off the back of my sunbathing girl friend....
