Just not nearly as good as THIS:
Well Chicken Ranch may be historic but not nearly as historic as Mustang Ranch that was outside Reno. A few years back Mustang got caught owing a whole bunch of back taxes so the government forclosed and took over operations. The place was backrupt and closed within a year. Only the government could operate a bar and brothel into bankruptcy.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Edit for clarification
As per Wikipedia
āContrary to a popular urban legend circulated by email, the Mustang Ranch was never operated by the US government. It was operated by the Bankruptcy Trustee appointed by the United States Bankruptcy Court on behalf of the United States Government.[11][12]ā
Rick Marty said:
Well Chicken Ranch may be historic but not nearly as historic as Mustang Ranch that was outside Reno. A few years back Mustang got caught owing a whole bunch of back taxes so the government forclosed and took over operations. The place was backrupt and closed within a year. Only the government could operate a bar and brothel into bankruptcy.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Mustangs aināt got squat on roosters!
Rick,
Do you know why Bruce thinks tuna casserole is better?
Rooster ā said:
Rick Marty said:
Well Chicken Ranch may be historic but not nearly as historic as Mustang Ranch that was outside Reno. A few years back Mustang got caught owing a whole bunch of back taxes so the government forclosed and took over operations. The place was backrupt and closed within a year. Only the government could operate a bar and brothel into bankruptcy.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Mustangs aināt got squat on roosters!
Rick,
Do you know why Bruce thinks tuna casserole is better?
Rooster, I donāt know but the whole thing smells fishy to me(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Sorry, I have no idea why this struck my warped mind as funnyā¦
I actually did get some work done on the flats last weekend, all centering on getting the base coats of paint on the remaining buildings. There are 3 buildings on 2 panels, with a total of 5 colors, each needing two coats. Might sound like Iām whiningā¦ because it was tough with all those borders and insets and not wanting the paint to runā¦ ok, yeah, Iām whining. It was fun though, once I started elevating the work so that my back wasnāt constantly hooked over it!
Hereās the opera houseās base coats.
And hereās the other two buildingsā¦
These colors were supposed to be more grayish; and though this pic might look fine, both hues were certified puketaneous. So after the obligatory base coats, I knocked them down: the blue with a gray paint & wipe, and the green with a forest-green paint & wipe.
Those P&Wās took as much time as the base coats, because these later coats of paint really dig in and set almost immediately. Maybe itās more so with the flats; donāt know.
Lastly, I did a second paint & wipe on the blue, to make the mortar stand out. So hereās the result of all that.
The green still needs its mortar treatment. And the opera house has all its secondary layers in store.
Thatās about it. Thanks for hanging with me on this, and for the humor along the way,
===:>Cliffy
Cliff Jennings said:
Sorry, I have no idea why this struck my warped mind as funnyā¦
Step away from the glue pot and go outside and breathe deep!
Another booking for the opera house !
D street music back in the day in the hood^^^^
Rooster played cello (1st chair) over his older sister back in the day in the hood
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Cliff Jennings said:
I actually did get some work done on the flats last weekend, all centering on getting the base coats of paint on the remaining buildings. There are 3 buildings on 2 panels, with a total of 5 colors, each needing two coats. Might sound like Iām whiningā¦ because it was tough with all those borders and insets and not wanting the paint to runā¦ ok, yeah, Iām whining. It was fun though, once I started elevating the work so that my back wasnāt constantly hooked over it!
Hereās the opera houseās base coats.
And hereās the other two buildingsā¦
These colors were supposed to be more grayish; and though this pic might look fine, both hues were certified puketaneous. So after the obligatory base coats, I knocked them down: the blue with a gray paint & wipe, and the green with a forest-green paint & wipe.
Those P&Wās took as much time as the base coats, because these later coats of paint really dig in and set almost immediately. Maybe itās more so with the flats; donāt know.
Lastly, I did a second paint & wipe on the blue, to make the mortar stand out. So hereās the result of all that.
The green still needs its mortar treatment. And the opera house has all its secondary layers in store.
Thatās about it. Thanks for hanging with me on this, and for the humor along the way,
===:>Cliffy
You think too much
Rooster ā said:
You think too much
Not sure whether to agree or disagree with youā¦ Still thinking about itā¦
John Caughey said:
Cliff Jennings said:
Sorry, I have no idea why this struck my warped mind as funnyā¦
Step away from the glue pot and go outside and breathe deep!
John, sorry, itās not the glue.
Itās the acetone! Youāve heard that old song, right?
Sung to the tune of āOh Shenandoah.ā E Major; sotto voce; sentimentale.
Oh Acetone, I long to breathe you,
Way-hey, my rollinā eyeballs!
Oh Acetone, I long to breathe you,
Away, Iām bound away, 'cross the wideā¦ the wideā¦ theā¦ what was Iā¦
You are correct, that was terrible
Anyway should be MEK, evaporates slower and easier to rhyme with
And yes I have been spray painting this evening
You read my mind Jer, Iāve been wanting the second verse to be about MEK, but havenāt quite nailed the lyricsā¦ I mean, Methyl Ethyl Ketone is a tough rhyme. But, if one keeps the acronym,
Been MEK long years since last I MEK youā¦
Naahā¦ has to be sounded outā¦
Oh Emmy Kay, I long to see youā¦
Cliff Jennings said:
John Caughey said:
Cliff Jennings said:
Sorry, I have no idea why this struck my warped mind as funnyā¦
Step away from the glue pot and go outside and breathe deep!
John, sorry, itās not the glue.
Itās the acetone! Youāve heard that old song, right?
Sung to the tune of āOh Shenandoah.ā E Major; sotto voce; sentimentale.
Oh Acetone, I long to breathe you,
Way-hey, my rollinā eyeballs!
Oh Acetone, I long to breathe you,
Away, Iām bound away, 'cross the wideā¦ the wideā¦ theā¦ what was Iā¦
Stickt them outside year round for 5 years and report backā¦either way excellent work even if you cheat !
OK, back to business on the flats (and yes, I know Iām the main culprit in derailing my own threads), I focused on completing the painting yesterday. Hereās the opera house, with wash-painting (filling in the grooves with dark brown) done. Shingles have also had a wash-wipe of black. Not perfect by a long shot, but Iām happy that the dark brown took as well as it did, after all those prime and paint coats tending to fill the grooves.
I decided to put on a couple coats of Krylon clear flat. But to not screw up the smoke plex, I used the same window patterns to cut bits of cardboard to set in as masks. Then I sprayed the krylon.
Then came window, door & sign installation.
And final balcony painting.
Next will be the windows. The test cuts of some silhouettes worked fineā¦
===:>Cliffy
Can you really call them flats when they arenāt very flat? Nice job, Master Cliff.
Jim Rowson said:
Can you really call them flats when they arenāt very flat? Nice job, Master Cliff.
itās his railway. he can call them what he wants.
wait, how envidious we all will be, when he starts on real buildings for the frontstreetā¦ (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif)
Through the week Iāve been cutting, highlighting and assembling the curtains. These were all designed in the same cad drawing, but were cut with the āCricutā my wife gave me a few years ago for Christmas. Since I pleaded a lot for it, Iām glad to finally have a project to use it on! All of this is just felt; nothing really fancy. Iād thought to put lace in, but there wasnāt a clear way to do so without getting deeper into curtain designā¦ Since thereās been so many pieces and time required already, honestly I just wanted to pinch this thing off asap.
The back surface of the walls needed design, cutting and assembly as well, and that was yesterday afternoonās effort. All these pieces were cut and drawn on by the Cricut, which has pretty amazing precision. Itās not possible to get this detail with a laser (at least mine); and the material would just torch up.
The materials I used were felt, cardstock (manilla envelopes), pre-printed paper, adhesive colored vinyl and foil.
Hereās the window boxes all assembled, and during testing.
Then final assembly. The opera house was more involved, because of its two street lamps.
Hereās the dual-building flat.
Lastly, the building with the party going onā¦
And on that note, Iāll declare this a wrap!
At least for the build part. The next effort will be āplantingā these on the layout.
===:>Cliffy
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