28mm Wild West Ranch

[Admiral Benbow]

Absolutely stunning terrain piece, Gazjones, and welcome to our board!
 

[Col.Stone]

lovelylovelylovely

[duivelindoosje]

more than fantastic

[Gazjones]

Did you paint on the wood grain? It looks more like strips of balsa wood on your foamcore it's that good!

All planking was just scored into the foamcore using a fine tip ballpen.
The only wood on the whole ranch are the fence posts and verandah struts.
Oh yeah and the water trough is made from a lollystick (popsicle stick)

Painting woodgrain shows my sad life..

Gaz

[Brian Smaller]

Great model. Thanks for posting.  Another idea to be copied is fled away on the 'to do' list.

[Wirelizard]

This sort of ranch could easily be adapted to other eras - add a few Model Ts and guys with tommyguns and suddenly it's a stronghold of bootleggers or smugglers between the wars! Add mutants, possibly zombies and some more rusted corrugated iron and it's a post-apoc or AC57 setting.

As I think I've said before, this is why I keep an eye on the Old West board - the most inspiring buildings of any of LAF's boards!

[Hawkeye]

Foamcore!? I'm stunned - it's absolutely superb! And thank you for the pics of a game in progress - it looks amazing. Brilliant stuff.

[Remington]

Spectacular. Very impressive woodwork!

[Hitman]

 
Absolutely AWESOME!!!!!
 
Regards,
Hitman
 

[FifteensAway]

okay, gaz, wash your ranch is some Really, Really Hot Water so it shrinks down to 15 mm size - and then send it off to me!    Very nice.

Now I'm thinking of how to sculpt up some 15 mm rattlers.  Don't know why that came up from checking out your work, but it did.  Maybe it was watching True Grit, the John Wayne version.

[jet]

When I was in university, I met a guy whose grandfather was in a travelling circus (seriously) and this kid could do sleight of hand tricks, and I mean the real business. Funny thing was, even after he showed me what he was doing in slow motion, I still couldn't spot it when he was back at full speed.

What am I saying? You tell me its foamcore... you claim it's textured with a ballpoint pen and paint... then, I go back and look at the original photos. I don't see it. You have blindsided me with your skill. I've seen other buildings on these boards with more details, masterfully rendered and realized but, I have to say, in terms of capturing a mood, these are the best scratch-built buildings I've ever seen.

I take my hat off to you sir.

[Gazjones]

Thanks! to all you Guys for your wonderful comments....you're great!!

Gaz

[Gazjones]

I'm going on now like an old maid..
This is one more pic taken of the back of the ranch with natural sunlight, i thought it was atmospheric, hope you Guys do too.