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Author Topic: The founding of Broken Hill Update 27/7/13 Building nr. 4  (Read 6684 times)

Offline Groove51

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The founding of Broken Hill Update 27/7/13 Building nr. 4
« on: January 28, 2013, 10:15:49 PM »
After drooling over and playing with Za Zjurman's brilliant Hickory Flat I found myself with a bad case of Old West town envy. So I placed an order with Sarissa to start my own little town. I'll try and create slightly different buildings than ZZ so we can also combine our towns to a city.
The first building is going to be Mr. Lee's Laundry. (I'm thinking Bob Murch's Dr. Koo. :D) The sign still needs to be painted and I haven't figured out what to do with the roof yet but the basic build is done.


I've started my second building. It's the office of William Henry Oakes, physician. Since ZZ has the undertaker it felt only right for me to get a character that can keep people alive.
I wanted to try and do this a bit more fancy than the laundry building. So I've added some balsa and I am actually quite pleased how it turned out. Then I blatantly stole ZZ's wallpaper idea and stuck that on. So here are two pictures of a wall in progress.


I have finished this one as well, apart from roof and sign, so more pictures to come.

So far I am enjoying myself!
Groove51 ;)

« Last Edit: July 27, 2013, 04:36:38 PM by Groove51 »

Offline Za Zjurman

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2013, 10:21:58 PM »
Welcome on board  ;D
Looks good Groove. Is that shoe-polish on the balsa-wood? I've been thinking about some weather rules for Fistfulll of lead. We can try them out next week...

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Za

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2013, 10:39:35 PM »
Shoepolish and badab black on the mdf, just devlan mud on the balsa wood. :)

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2013, 11:07:05 PM »
Telling you, this stuff is like a sickness...I thought I was done, then I knocked out a rules set, and now I'm planning on building/buying several more additions to the town...
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Offline Whiskyrat

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2013, 12:03:12 AM »
Nice start there Groove.

Telling you, this stuff is like a sickness...I thought I was done ...... and now I'm planning on building/buying several more additions to the town...

Glad it's not just me ...... Old West is the new crack cocaine.  o_o

Offline Poiter50

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2013, 04:13:34 AM »
Likewise. I picked up 4 Aetherworks buildings at Cancon 2013 in the Bring & Buy (really, really good buy) and was contemplating one of the in construction versions but had second thoughts.

Nice start there Groove.

Glad it's not just me ...... Old West is the new crack cocaine.  o_o
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Offline Groove51

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2013, 07:15:43 AM »
The town is inspired by Broken Hill Australia but mostly because when thinking of a good name for my town the TV series Flying Doctors popped into my head. lol

Offline The Breaker

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2013, 07:53:32 AM »
I have been to the house of one of the men who "discovered" Broken Hill. Needless to say it was very large and very nice.
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Offline Elbows

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2013, 07:55:45 AM »
I imagine the proper Broken Hill...wasn't?

Offline Ray Earle

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2013, 10:35:34 AM »
Nice start on the buildings. the interior details look good.

Completely off topic is Broken Hill where part of the original Mad Max was filmed?
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Offline Elbows

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2013, 12:23:14 PM »
Ah, okay - so not unlike Tombstone (one of the more successful silver mining areas).  Cool.  I'd be lying if I said I knew jack sh_t about Australian history, especially that time frame.

I'd also like to learn about the turn of the century Russians who were so enthused with American Old West stuff that they had copy-cat clothes, firearms etc....in Russia! 

Offline joroas

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2013, 12:34:18 PM »
Yes, Australia as a Wild Westy background is underrated, who can forget Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly or Quigley Down Under.......  :o
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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2013, 08:46:13 PM »
Let me know how the weather rules turn out. I've done a sand storm and rain to limit visibility, etc.
-J

Offline Groove51

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2013, 09:59:00 PM »
I finally finished the two first buildings and I decided that I wanted to hand paint my signs. So here are Mr Lee's Laundry and the office of Dr. William Henry Oakes.






I'm also quite pleased with how the roofs have turned out. I used some asphalt that's used for train model building. And since this basically a big sticker it takes about 5 minutes to do a roof. Result! :D

I'm putting the finishing touches on building 3: The Land Office owned by Reed & Reed and I have started construction on building nr. 4: Lady Heather's Bar & Hotel. It's all slowly coming together. ;)

Offline Groove51

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Re: The founding of Broken Hill
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2013, 10:23:58 PM »
I guess that would be 'Lady Heather's' lol

 

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