Re: New Silverton - *New Farmstead Cottage p9

[Constable Bertrand]

After some 10 years the New Silverton parish has finally gained a new church and house. The local minister N.D Wolfwood is particularly happy as the last 10 years hes been having his gatherings in the local hotel. Which has seen possibly a higher patronage than otherwise but has had the downside of frequent interruptions to the gathering.

Based on some mdf builds with some extra bits and details added.
First up is the frontier cottage. Featuring a brick chimney and cork brick fireplace, and a small veranda out the front. I added corrugated card to the roof to keep it in keeping with the town. The church and house have added corrugated card to keep them in keeping with the rest of the township. There's plently of corrugated iron in town with all the mining and industry around.





Heres the Church, the local gun shop, and the new cottage thats been put up.



A view of some of the buildings in town.



Cheers
Matt

[Malebolgia]

Ooooh, love those weathered metal roof plates. They look awesome and add so much to the buildings. Awesome finish!

[terrement]

Good looking stuff all around - buildings and people.

At the start of the thread some years back, you said

Thanks Joroas, Paul and James for the comment on the rust. I find it difficult to look realistic, I end up going too far, or too orangey. It's nice to see that reality has lots of variables and oxidisation occurs differently in different contexts. I think I need to find some more good rusty roof shots for reference.

Though I think you're fine, for anyone looking for such reference pics, don't forget Model RR sites and YouTube for weathering Model RR buildings. 

You also left Slim out of your posse back in the beginning.  Good decision, IMHO.  Always been troubled by that figure.  Between his stance and how high he's wearing his gunbelt I'm not sure how well he'd do in a firefight, though I'm certain in a typical TV western high noon, fast draw, life or death matchup like the show Gunsmoke had for its opening,



not only would he fare about as well as Marshal Dillon's opponent, the same would be true if he was up against anyone whose draw speed was faster than one that could be timed with a desk calendar.   

[Constable Bertrand]

Thanks Malebolgia

Terre, thanks for looking back into the archives
I was looking at heaps of refference images for the roof this time round, and what surprised me was the images often showed only partial weathering with some of the galvanised steel still being in place, thus the new approach this time around.

Ooh that's a quick draw! Much quicker than a desk calendar 

[OSHIROmodels]

Missed these mate, lovely 

[Tom Dulski]

 Fantastic weathering and rust affects on those building.

[FifteensAway]

Nice additions. 

And perhaps an after action report due circa 2032 or so?! 

Nice to see all the photos still show up from the original posts. 

[Constable Bertrand]

Thanks James and Tom 

Hahaha you know Fifteen I may have a bat rep by 2032 
Most games are more post apoc than pure Wild West. But I do have some Ned Kelly figures to paint so may try a round of fist full of lead.

Isn't it amazing that the old pics are still there. I've been posting to blogger since the beginning and thankfully that was added to the google business, so here's to another 30 years of photos being viewable.

So glad I've missed that photo bucket removal malarkey.

[CapnJim]

Nice job on those buildings.  Love the rusty effect on the corrugated roofs...

[Constable Bertrand]

I continued a few more lazer cut buildings, I picked these up from Dark Castle in Australia, https://darkcastleterrain.com/ they have a great range of terrain from a hunch of different manufacturers and designers, so watch out for scale as there may be a bit of design language change, but they had some really nice pieces at quite competitive prices. I picked this cottage up last year during their black Friday sale and it came out just as nice as I had hoped. They even had some small chairs and tables thrown in with the kit. I love it when designers fill up the lazer bed like that.

I created some doors at the same scale as my original Wild West terrain from Aetherworks (now no longer on their store) to unify the builds a little more. Otherwise just some paint, scatter debris, coffee stirrers and printed wallpaper on the ink jet.



The deputy is having a look around for any bush rangers. They seem to be long gone.



I leaned into the orangey rust a bit more this time around, perhaps some artistic license, but reality certainly offers plenty of variations. I added some coffee stirrers on the front for some fence pailings on the street side.

Because.. you know... a home is a home.



There's 2 rooms inside, and a 3rd as the back kitchen/toilet which slides away and can be removed to make a smaller house. I found some wallpaper designs on the internet and printed them on the inkjet, wouldn't to keep the pva more thick as water seeps through and makes the inkhet run. Thankfully I found the small bleeds I did get provided some appropriate weathering. Weathered buildings really give a licence to cover up errors, its great.





The Log cabin scaled a little larger  but as long as they aren't next door it's very minimal. I filled in a fireplace from cork bricks and coffee stirrers. there was a bit of a gap in the build otherwise and the cork looks lovely compared to flat lazercut rock design.



I also finally caved and bought some overpriced coloured birch seeds from Greenstuff at the local game store, goodness they are amazing and making the place look a little more wind blow. Thanks for the tip LAF. I guess New Silverton has or had some trees after all.



Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Matt

[Freddy]

I really like your collection, especially how you paint corrugated board.

[Legionnaire]

What a fantastic collection and I love how you've painted them up and added little bits and bobs to make the kits really, truly shine  !

I too have been experimenting with wallpaper designs printed on the inkjet. I find a Pritt stick does a decent job of getting it stuck to the wall.

[CapnJim]

Those cabins look grand.  Your figures should be tickled pink to fight over them!

[Constable Bertrand]

Thanks Freddy, I've chosen to keep corrugated roofing as a theme across my West and PostApoc terrain to lend a little more flexibility to the pieces.

Ah yes a glue stick would probably be sufficient wouldn't it, thanks Legionnaire! Great tip!

Thanks Jim, yes they love having a good shoot out in town and spraying lead around the place.

Cheers
Matt