I finished the lake, By J. Red Horse

[Jess Red Horse]

Hi guys, I tried to go to bed but couldn't sleep so here are todays pics from my finished lake.

This is what it would look like from a helicopter,

Now what would bring all these rescuers out too the lake.....

Oh yah, the old lady just learned to drive a stick!!!

Check out the poor tow truck driver on the ladder...

No lake would be complete without a couple skinny dippers!

Wonder how 2% milk is made?

While this poor kayaker was checking out a sub he stayed down to long,

We have a floater officer!!!

I plan on having an X-Files scene soon,

Now for a shot of my place and my Evil Hot Rod, I live in an old army qwanset hut.

Now some one asked about heavy earth movers for my quarry, well here you go!

Chopper Dave doing a little hill climbing?

This is my Train station yet to be installed,

And finally I began to work on my road plan , the white lots are for interchangable buildings, I'm working on a collection of different building lots that can be changed when I get bored with my towns look, so far I have about 12 different buildings on moveable lots or yards.

Well thats it folks, next I get to build interchangable mountains and hills, also picked up about 54 trees, some pine and 4 real nice big strange trees.

today was a busy day.

Hope you like my progress.
Jess Red Horse, Mayor of the Town of Black Stone.

 

[jbaakko]

Looking good! Can't wait to see more.

 

[UP2CSX]

Jess, LOL, I like that sub. I guess drunks drive into lake all over. That quarry needs another color than pink though. I looks like they are havesting cake frosting.

 

[Jess Red Horse]

Jess, LOL, I like that sub. I guess drunks drive into lake all over. That quarry needs another color than pink though. I looks like they are havesting cake frosting.

Yup, I agree, but this is the color of pipestone when it is unearthed and before being treated with bees wax??? What can I say, I could change the quarry over to some other product but I'm not sure what, I wanted something original?

I chose the pipe stone because it is our sacred stone for making our pipes and is found in only one quarry in the whole world so I wanted something that is not found on layouts else where?

I do think the color is funky, maybe I'll repaint it too the tone of red we get after appling the bees wax it is darker and not so pink.

Thanks for the reply my friend.
Jess Red Horse of the " Strawberry Cool Whip" Tribe.

 

[Old 97]

Great pics Jess and I love the story line.

 

[Yoc]

Jess, if that is what raw pipe stone looks like, stick with it. It's certainly unique.

 

[Rotorranch]

Jess, if that is what raw pipe stone looks like, stick with it. It's certainly unique.

I agree, but I think it might help tone down the color with a coat of a flat clear. I wouldn't think the raw clay would be quite so shiny.

Rotor

 

[Jess Red Horse]

My pipe stone is slimy looking....

, I'm looking into this, If I find that the pipe stone is too slimy looking than I'll dull coat it, if not I'll just cahnged the quarry sign to red, Red Horse Strawberry Frosting Company....LOL!...AH, NO!!!

Maybe dull coat, I'll test a small patch first.

The pipe stone comes out of the ground as finished rock and as I'm sure Native pipe carvers everywhere would wish it would carve as easy as clay it can't be concidered clay thats for sure...

 

[OldGettysk]

Nice pictures and stories !!!!!!! Keep up the good work and will be watching for more !!!!!

 

[Rotorranch]

I found a couple links about pipestone that were pretty interesting.

http://www.nps.gov/pipe/historyculture/quarryprocess.htm

http://www.pipekeepers.org/

http://www.sacredland.org/historical_sites_pages/pipestone.html


Thanks Jess... you have taught me something I didn't know!

Rotor