The founding of Broken Hill Update 27/7/13 Building nr. 4

[Groove51]

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. ) 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

[Za Zjurman]

Welcome on board 
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...

Regards,
Za

[Groove51]

Shoepolish and badab black on the mdf, just devlan mud on the balsa wood.

[Elbows]

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...

[Whiskyrat]

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. 

[Poiter50]

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. 

[Groove51]

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.

[The Breaker]

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.

[Elbows]

I imagine the proper Broken Hill...wasn't?

[Ray Earle]

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?

[Elbows]

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! 

[joroas]

Yes, Australia as a Wild Westy background is underrated, who can forget Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly or Quigley Down Under....... 

[BaronVonJ]

Let me know how the weather rules turn out. I've done a sand storm and rain to limit visibility, etc.
-J

[Groove51]

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!

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.

[Groove51]

I guess that would be 'Lady Heather's'