first attempt at weathering "tobacco barn" part2

Looks great!  I would say a bit more rust on the roof but other then that it would look great on any layout!  

yeah, ur probably correct,  i was looking at it and the stuff i used is actually powder it comes in a almost a makeup case and i put it on and like it, but had to seal the stuff and seal all the other work and now i can build up more rust color, the stuff is actually called rust.  i kinda like it, comes with a little brush and applicator and best of all it works

Does the algae grow on the north side like up here above the Mason\Dixon Line?

 

It looks nice. I've spent more time in SC. They didn't seem to have doors there. small little 'backy farms shut down by gov't subsidies. Got paid more to not grow it.

You did a great job!! 

 

Alan

Pelago,

   Great job, the rust looks real for the beginning stages, leave her be!

Need to due something hillbilly with the door however, maybe some leather straps as hinges in three places and a lift strap for opening the big wood door.  Maybe some dirty hand prints on the edge of the door!

 

PCRR/Dave

Awesome!  You have really captured the essence of the barn and the finish and weathering on the sides is just wonderful.

 

Nice work!

 

Happy railroading,

Don

That looks great, We're really enjoying following your progress. Thanks for sharing.

Looks very good, Ira.

That really looks good, Ira.  Very nice job.

 

Art

Amazing work!  I'd love to have one on my layout.

Looks good.

OUTSTANDING!

ATTENTION ON DECK!
HAND SALUTE!

mywife is trying to obtain pictures of her grandfathers farm (Robeson county NC from civil war to now)  probably like all the other farms in the south

I like it.  I also like the suggestions that were made by others.

 

0- walt

Looks good to me!!!

Excellent work.

better than i could do.

It looks great!  The neat thing about weathering is almost anything is acceptable from a light dusting to heavily weathered.  There is no 'right' way to weather, you don't have to 'stay within the lines'.  

Nice, looks like a lot of them I saw growing up, we used to go to NE Tennessee every summer to visit family and there were countless barns like this. That said, I don't recall many having an open area like that. But you got the general look down very well.

"would you put this on your layout?"

If you get it here we will make a spot!! Very nice structure.

I would not have recognized this as a tobacco barn, as it is different from the ones

I am familiar with....I may have driven by and walked by ones like that in the Smokies, Cades Cove, and just north of Gatlinburg.  If I get back, I am going to take a closer

look at some of those.  There are plenty of log barns in that area....I guess I didn't

know what I was looking at...thinking those were all the usual hay and livestock barns.

With the photos in the "Finished" posting, looks like there are plenty of prototypes.

Good model!

here are some barns

You did your homework.  I am hoping somebody has a photo of the ones I have

described to post on here, possibly the poster near Louisville who is researching

a bourborn distillery, to show the contrast.  Just drive I-64  between Louisville and Lexington, Ky., and there is no shortage of them.  I just never thought to photograph one, and all those relatives are gone and farms have been sold off, where I could have gotten into one again.  Log ones like you have modeled are unique structures I was not aware of.

made me think of something!!

a real down home STILL A REAL BREATHING CORN LIKKER MAKING STILL!!

Got just the place to put one, and it would of course need a small log cabin, right?

 

I don't believe they had cabins near the stills. These were temporary, weren't they? They did need a good stream close by for water. Good tasting water.

 

colorado,

You jogged my memory on another unique log structure...the top/roof support and door for a "root cellar" or cold storage for provisions. Two or three logs on top of a hole with one side dug-out and sloped for the entrance. Some were used into the early 1900's until electric and affordable refrigeration became available in rural areas.

 

Unfortunately, those relatives in eastern Kentucky who explored the county around.

prospecting for and drilling gas wells, and could have stumbled on and identified the locations or former locations of stills, are gone, also.  I would expect still sites  were back up a "holler", away from a road and easy access, and transportable by pack mule and "drag" (sled)  in case "revenooers" were rumored to be in the area.  Any abandoned or ruined cabin with a rough wagon road up a creek bed might have been too accessible for tastes, and obvious as a possible site.

i think i have all that is needed to make a still!,  got figures that would fit, got a electronic flickering fire to go under still, think i could make copper "vats" or "pots"  and tubing would not be a problem

hmmmmm

The Federal varmints would get in their Piper Cub planes, would locate a branch head, then follow the creek and search for smoke as well as worn trails,lean to sheds, cabins,etc. 

 

However one local farmer built his still in the basement of his feed barn which was downhill from his house. He ditched and ran terra cotta pipe up to the house and up into a fireplace flue to keep smoke from showing at the barn. The arrangement drafted very well and he was only caught after many profitable years when the odor became too prominent for a fairly new near neighbor who reported to the local Constable [unfortunately he had recently sold them the land to build on]. He only served 15 months, escaped once and got 3 months added to the original "year and a day" sentence.

As I am building a layout that takes place in Tennessee in the 40s, you'd think a still would be a requirement.

The problem there is that several of Mom's uncles were moonshiners (and all WW1 vets) and any still they had was way up in the woods where nobody could see it until they were standing next to it. My Dad spent a crazy amount of his youth hunting and trapping up in those hills whenever he could. He recently told me he never saw even the remains of a busted up still in all that time. Mom says she saw parts of a busted up still when she was a kid on one occasion.

I truly doubt they ever had shacks next to them.

The local legend goes that the 'revenooers' came a'calling at the local store one afternoon. "You better not go lookin' fer them Richardson boys," the old timers told them, "they's all been t' France in the Great war and larned all kinds of stuff thar!"

An hour two later, echoed gunfire could be heard from law enforcement totally unprepared for the interlocking field of fire, connected trenches and bunkers dug from the side of the hill around the still site.

Limping back a few hours later to where they'd parked their cars, empty-handed and all wounded to some degree, the 'law men' silently threw their empty weapons in the back of their cars, to the laughter of the same old timers who said, "We'd done warned y'all about goin' up thar!"

So, once my layout is built, if anyone asks, I'll tell them there is a still on the layout, but it's authenticly placed, so therefore hidden from the prying eyes of any O scale "Revenooers"...

I'm actually disappointed that putting a still out where a visitor to the layout could see it would be so incorrect as I was looking forward to building one.

"odor"

all right now ya gotta remember i am a chicago boy and i can recall odors, Saigon, DaNang

TiaJauna, Hong Kong, Bang Kok, everywhere in africa,(that place all stinks) 600 degree asphalt, South side of Chicago

but what odor from a still??

While stills are traditionally thought of as a home business in Appalachia, I cannot

see why they would be restricted to that geographic area.  When trying to find

iron furnaces, I did find one that existed in the Boulder, Colo. area, but just the

one, while southern Ohio, northeastern Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, including not

far from York, have the ruins of many. The materials for illicit liquor distilling are

a lot easier to come by than iron ore and charcoal, so I am guessing this activity is/

was wide spread, maybe national? Seems to have a long history, as George Washington

marched to put down the Whiskey Rebellion, when there was objection way back then

to liquor taxes.

After seeing this post got me thinking a few years back I bought some building from an On30 Cuban layout depicting a Tabaco store.

So have dug them out & taken a few pics.

 

A few more pics of the other buildings.




Must start on that On30 layout soon now I've found the buildings again.
James

Looks great!!! I love the stone detail at the bottom!