Heres a old door and screen i picked up... added some old weathered pop signs....have to add a old door handle to the door and scronge up a handle out of the parts box for the screen ;) do some more vallejo washes and Mig pigments.....and i think it will be just about done ;D Craig
You'd better start looking for a really, really BIG penny if you're gonna "sell" that one to these guys! ;D
Man your wife must LOVE IT when you drag stuff like that home!
Sadly, I live in a two bedroom 1300 SF condo, so there'd be no place to hide it!!
Looking for that big penny now :o ::).....Fred, wife don't give me a hassle at all on what i bring home. Just couldn't pass it up when i seen it. Love the colors on this piece and when i added the pop signs it made it that much better ;D Here's a picture on were i got it at! Really like the big sliding door on this building the colors are great. This wont be around long there tearing it DOWN :( Craig
Nice!
Got any more pictures of that building?
The two will be definitely used as inspiration for my next project (currently in the planning stages)
-Marty
That dual panelled slider is great!
Craig -
Is that a model... in 1" scale? You built it? Magnificent!
I take it this will be part of a photo backdrop for some of your auto models, or is it something else?
It's nice to see someone else here model in a LARGE scale.
Carlo
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Carlo, Its a real door and screen that i pulled... out of this old farm. I just added some of my old pop signs to the door that i had saved for this purpose....I been looking for some old barn wood for some time now ;) want to do one wall in my garage with this old stuff....make it look like a old wall of a building?? or something like that. I have some Crazy ideas.... ;)have to see how they will play out. Craig
Marty, I do have some more pictures of this farm.....but the ones i have left show the building falling down :( and in bad shape. Are you looking for pictures like that?? I do have some pictures of another cool barn i took a couple weeks ago on a trip i took up north of a barn that's not falling down. Chuck, I went back today to see if i could get that sliding door I wanted that door for quite some time now....Its one of my pictures that is my favorite's ;D and this is what i found >:( I though they were going to start tearing it down today but they started over the weekend. I talked to the owner today and said he would sell me some wood?? But all the stuff i wanted was on one other building had the same paint that was on the door i grabbed. Im pissed >:(
What a great looking door.
Jerry
I hate to see old farms torn up. Can't they just go on forever proudly and honorably? I wish more of those old structures could be preserved somehow but wood does have a lifetime.
Anyway, Craig you are one devoted collector. Well done.
John
John, I hate to see old farms disappear too....Ive seen way to many in my area get torn down :( Ive noticed if the roof stays good it last's. Once the roof goes then the rest follows. This one farm has been empty for a long time since the 80's i think.....been watching it for along time. I don't know what it is about old Barns but i always had a strong interest in them at a young age ;) Here's another 2 pic's.... check out the old light in upper corner of barn the shade fell off and was laying on the ground....i grabbed it ;D Craig
Thanks Craig,
I was just looking for inspiration.
I will be building that dual paneled slider!
On an episode of this old house the wall to the master bedroom was old galvanized corrugated.
The bedroom door was a slider too, I went ga ga over that.
Lots of classic signs around and an old furniture cart for a coffee table!
They also used weathered siding inside somewhere, really a neat house, one of my favorites.
I believe it was in Mass.
-Marty
This sort of destruction has been going on for hundreds of year over this side of the Pond , and on far more prestigious buildings than the farms in these photos . For example , since WW2 I believe there have been around 400 stately homes destroyed because people have been unable to keep them going . What is more upsetting is the thought of all the millions of man hours of skilled craftsmanship that have been wasted . It wouldn't be so bad if the materials were all reused , but a good proportion of it has either been burned or used as hardcore . Bastards .
Grrr , don't get me started ,
Nick
Good photos Craig. There are lots of old decrepit barns around the village here and some great weathering references. Once we get settled in, I'm planning on taking a few photo excursions to record some of these structures before they're gone for good.
Paul