The Town of Upsheet (Wolf?) Creek: Captain Blood's Pics!..... UD:28/09

[Mason]

Excellent Paul, I have high hopes for this thread  ...........High Hopes, that's a good name for a western town 

Cheers, mate.
 

High Hopes?
Yep, I can see that.
 

The livery stable will fit in nicely.

I'm getting confused with all the Bibbles, Bubbles and Bobbles stuff now!

I certainly hope it fits in, mate, as it is far too late to do anything about it now.
As for Bibbly, Bobbly, Bubbly stuff: You aint the first!
 

Never underestimate the power of a good name.  I would have missed this thread only for the locations great title 

Great work here Mason.  The livery is particularly nicely painted.  Im looking forward to seeing the lot all together.

Cheers, cheetor.
I am looking forward to seeing it all together too, mate.
That will mean we can get a game going.
 

The livery is beautiful...and again serves to remind me that is one major feature I do not have...

Really?
I thought that you had covered pretty much everything.

Nice work Old Timer. I especially like the broken down gate, 

Cheers, Gramps!
I shall have to have a word with the Marshall, he should be stopping this sort of thing from happening.

That is a lovely building

Thanks, Deedles.
Much appreciated.
 

That's another gorgeous building Paolo. Wel done. You are giving Bibbly a run for his money!

Thank you, Riccardo!
Dont tell him, though, I wouldn't want to upset him.
 

[Legionnaire Bert]

Anyways, I finished the Bank today.
Then I took some pictures and could not get the damn flash to stop going off.
I carried on regardless, but they all came out crap.
I shall try again tomorrow when the Missus is there to show the trained monkey (me... ) how to use the camera properly.

Here is one of the photos, darkened and turned into monochrome with the Edit function so that it does not look so bad.

Again, you are too harsh on yourself, Mason - nowt wrong with this picture mate. Trained monkey? Who said you were trained???

All of a sudden that model out front you had used for Strange Aeons looks absolutely spot on for the Old West setting, just as it looked completely at home in the 20's setting. Superb multi-era usage from Master Mason...

I think I will play a bunch of no-hoper outlaws - the Rumpo Kid and his gang. We put the desperate into desperadoes, except it isn't there, erm...

Ah, whatever - reach fer yer long irons! 

[Legionnaire Bert]

Here is a much-doctored picture, trying to get the colours right, rather than the blurry washed-out effect that I managed...




Proper piccies tomorrow.
 

I can't see any cash point - what kind of cowboy operation are Upsheet Creek banking trying to pull here? 

[majorsmith]

great looking livery! i like the barrels too, where are they from?

[Mason]

I think I will play a bunch of no-hoper outlaws - the Rumpo Kid and his gang. We put the desperate into desperadoes, except it isn't there, erm...

The Rumpo Kid...?
 

Ya nutter!

QAlthough, I do like that idea.
It would excuse you for all sorts of tactical cock-ups too.
Clever boy.
 

I can't see any cash point - what kind of cowboy operation are Upsheet Creek banking trying to pull here? 

 
Pack it in now, Bert.
 

great looking livery! i like the barrels too, where are they from?

Thanks, mate.
The barrels are resin and from PMC games on ebay, but I am not sure if they sell them any more.

[Constable Bertrand]

I can't see any cash point - what kind of cowboy operation are Upsheet Creek banking trying to pull here?  

Lol

I was shocked in your mordheim thread when you told of your plan to make buildings that were multi genre. But you're right. The bank and barn are spot on!

Time for a foray into A steam train Paul? See what your local stores have this holiday season.

Cheers
Matt

[Mason]

Cheers, Matt, although I cannot envisage the Bank seeing any other use other than OW....hold on, there is always VSF!
 

As for a steam train....watch this space.
 

[Constable Bertrand]

Ooh a train 

My amazing wife is getting me supplies to kitbash/scratchbuild a train for Christmas, Mrs Bertrand is great. Or should I say I'm gathering materials and putting her name on it

Cheers
Matt.

[Legionnaire Bert]

Now a train sound slike a great idea! That will be one sweet scenic piece - I look forward to seeing more!

[OSHIROmodels]

I dont think James has ever been tempted by Old West, even though Mama Mute has probably tried to tempt him in the past.

Apparently we'll be doing the Lone Ranger at some point...

Apparently...

Lovely buildings by the way 

cheers

James

[Mason]

My amazing wife is getting me supplies to kitbash/scratchbuild a train for Christmas, Mrs Bertrand is great. Or should I say I'm gathering materials and putting her name on it

What a thoughtful missus you have!
 

Now a train sound slike a great idea! That will be one sweet scenic piece - I look forward to seeing more!

Well, I do have a few ideas for the 'scenic' side of things but I can also see a few games played 'on' a train as well.
That is my [BOX] project for next year...
It should tie in nicely with this project.
 

Apparently we'll be doing the Lone Ranger at some point...

Apparently...

Lovely buildings by the way 

Is he trying to get you to dress up in that Tonto outfit again...?
 

[Eric the Shed]

Just seen this Paul - Fab Start to the project..

ummm...should I go west after Shedwood?

[Malamute]

Is he trying to get you to dress up in that Tonto outfit again...?
 

He didn't take much convincing

[Legionnaire Bert]

Apparently the Lone Ranger kept a few silver dollars tucked aside for when he visited his exceptionally tall cherokee mistress in the whore house. It was high hoe silver...

*ducks thrown objects, departs*

[Mason]

He didn't take much convincing

 
Tart!

Apparently the Lone Ranger kept a few silver dollars tucked aside for when he visited his exceptionally tall cherokee mistress in the whore house. It was high hoe silver...

*ducks thrown objects, departs*

 
Stop it!




Back to the Old West.....

I recently decided that the board I would be using for the Old West games is a little unwieldy to keep lugging up and down the stairs whenever we play so had decided that it needed to be cut in half.

It is four foot square and difficult to manoeuvre about now that I have moved.
I did not have to consider stairs before...




It is made out of two 2x4 sheets of MDF fitted together with two batons that hold it together and in place on my table.

The only problem being that I not only screwed the baton to it and then filled the holes created, I then covered the whole thing with the textured wallpaper.
So I have no idea where the screws are now.
I also glued the baton in place, so removing the baton was not going to be easy.
I would need to cut the baton whilst it is in place and then slice through the covering afterwards.

Another strange coincidence is, knowing that I wanted to cut it in half anyway, I decided to use it to stand on whilst wallpapering a bedroom ceiling last weekend.
It seemed easier to throw the board on the bed and stand on it rather than move the bed out of the way and do things the traditional way.

The up shot of this is the board covering decided, rather conveniently, to split straight down the middle where the two sections of MDF are joined.
At least I wouldn't have to worry about cutting that in the right place!

As I still had a few small decorating jobs do today, I decided that the board could be sorted out at the same time.
I thought recording the process here may prove useful.




So, the board batons were cut earlier on  and the board was now in two pieces.

The wallpaper covering had ripped but that was not a problem.
I actually ripped it some more to make irregular shapes that I could work with.

These ripped sections were then roughly painted over with a mix of burnt umber and yellow ochre paints (the two colours used in the original process)....











They were then liberally smeared with wood glue....



...which was then mixed into the paint with a little water added to stop the whole concoction from drying out too quickly.




This has then been generously covered in various scenic crap that I was not likely to use in a hurry to get various different colours and textures on the board.

Here is what it looked like before leaving it to dry out...






I now need to leave it for a couple of hours and shake the excess off.

I will take a picture of the result later.




I hope it looks as I intended....