My bank barn

[skypup]

I scratch built this bank barn using scribed 1/4" stock over balsa. Roof is strips of 3M 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper epoxied to a white plastic roof. The neat thing was trying to weather using the old steel wool/vinegar rust concoction. It was my first try with this stuff. I had my doubts at first but it works well.

A bank barn has a high door butted against a hill or ramp for bringing in the hay. On the other side is a low door where livestock are kept so that hay can easily be taken into the barn on one side and dropped rather than lifted to feed the livestock. Clever those old timers.

 

[NH Mike]

Interesting structure skypup and nice to see it was scratch built. Man, talk about an old school weathering process!!!! Will it be part of a farm scene or a stand alone abandonded building?

 

[skypup]

fire drill

Interesting structure skypup and nice to see it was scratch built. Man, talk about an old school weathering process!!!! Will it be part of a farm scene or a stand alone abandonded building?

I am seriously thinking of setting it on fire and having a 19th century fire department respond. I haven't decided yet. I am going to have two 4x4 sections of table with a bench in between to create a dog-bone. I'm not quite sure how it will fit. I was thinking of some type of house, a silo and corn cribs. A pond would be nice too.

 

[JazzDad]

burning it

Sky, my wife thinks that every toy or model I had as a child I also burned. I don't know where she would have come up with this notion.b

 

[skypup]

Sky, my wife thinks that every toy or model I had as a child I also burned. I don't know where she would have come up with this notion.b

It started getting serious for me when my neighbors started thinking that too!

 

[Cjcrescent]

It started getting serious for me when my neighbors started thinking that too!

Back in the 1980's, while I was the contest chairman for the SER, (Southeastern Region of the NMRA), we had an unusual entry in the contest. A member had completely scratch built, board by board, a small house, painted and furnished it, and then burned it to the ground. Because of the way it was built, it actually burned down the way a real house would, and the remains looked just like the pictures of house you see that have burned. He did have many, many pictures of the build process, and other pics showed the house complete. But he wanted to enter a structure that was not a "standard" entry into the contests.

While he garnered a ribbon, he didn't win the contest. He did win a special judges award at the banquet for his ingenuity.

 

[skypup]

Back in the 1980's, while I was the contest chairman for the SER, (Southeastern Region of the NMRA), we had an unusual entry in the contest. A member had completely scratch built, board by board, a small house, painted and furnished it, and then burned it to the ground. Because of the way it was built, it actually burned down the way a real house would, and the remains looked just like the pictures of house you see that have burned. He did have many, many pictures of the build process, and other pics showed the house complete. But he wanted to enter a structure that was not a "standard" entry into the contests.

While he garnered a ribbon, he didn't win the contest. He did win a special judges award at the banquet for his ingenuity.

That's carrying realism to the 9th degree! I'm working on an old farmhouse for the barn.