| Colonel O Truth | 09 May 2011 8:19 p.m. PST |
Hi. As requested by one or two people, I have posted a Wild West Building tutorial on my blog: colonelotruth.blogspot.com I hope it's useful. Thanks for all the nice comments about Leadwood! Colonel O'Truth |
| Arteis | 09 May 2011 9:48 p.m. PST |
Fantastic tutorial, Joe. Some really good (and unique) ideas, like how you do your windows and signs. |
| Colonel O Truth | 09 May 2011 10:13 p.m. PST |
Thanks Roly! Ready to get shot up again soon? |
| Paintbeast | 09 May 2011 10:54 p.m. PST |
Very cool. I've been making my buildings with wooden frames, placing each plank individually. It is so time consuming I might make my next batch the way you suggest now that i see you can get good results in this manner. When I do a corrugated tin roof for a western town I cut dozens of identical sheets roughly 1.5"x3". Before assembling the roof I mark the rivets by making indentations in the styrene with a dulled pin or rounded bit of brass rod….flip the piece over when your done and you have rivets.
For a banded tin roof I also cut section, but they are longer…and the rivets are marked into the joining band before it is glued in place. Here is an example of what I am talking about… picture This is part of a modular Bayou/Swamp/Bog board I am making for Malifaux (the Wyrd Miniatures game). The left side of the roof is old banded tin and the right is patched over with corrugated tin. |
| jgibbons | 10 May 2011 3:38 a.m. PST |
The scanning the siding and overprinting the sign looks awesome!!! James |
| Colonel O Truth | 10 May 2011 4:26 a.m. PST |
Thanks, Paintbeast! That's a seriously cool roof! Thanks, James. Glad you like it. |
| Cacique Caribe | 10 May 2011 7:46 a.m. PST |
Very, very cool!!! link Dan |
| skyking20 | 10 May 2011 9:40 a.m. PST |
Many thanks for being so unselfish!!!
sky |
| Paintbeast | 10 May 2011 9:55 a.m. PST |
@ Colonel: Would you mind emailing me the files for your signs? Your process has given me an idea…I would just need an image of the boards and a separate sign image. I think if I open them up in Photoshop, I can weather the sign. paintbeast@yahoo.com |
| Colonel O Truth | 10 May 2011 11:01 a.m. PST |
Thanks, everyone. As ever, I'm really pleased by the response I've had, so of course I'll keep blogging my ideas/methods. Paintbeast, I can send you the image file for the boards background, but I don't keep the text files themselves after I've used them – they are all one-offs. I just set up an appropriate rectangle in a spreadsheet, type the text, print, and move on.
Let me know if you still want it. |
| Paintbeast | 10 May 2011 11:32 a.m. PST |
That will work. I'll send you back what I come up with. |
| Geoff B | 11 May 2011 3:12 a.m. PST |
Excellent work and tutorial! |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 11 May 2011 7:26 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the education. |
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