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Thanks for the nice posts boys....save some popcorn for me, eh?.
Here's my first time go at a rough old shack. It was a toughy trying to get it to look summat like, but it was good fun....
I came up with the notion that whoever built it decided to use the stone lying around and mud from the stream, and then went up to the top of the waterfall and found a load of timber floating in the lake above....Sound plausible?!! No. I didn't think so either, but it's the best I could come up with!
The door is long gone, I've a couple of ideas I will add on to the shack later to make even more run down, as it's not quite as neglected as I want, but it's a start....
As shown in the pictures, I used my usual 'ouse building method for the shack sides and back. For the front, I just stuck the coffee stirrer, random width planks onto a timber frame in a rough and ready manner, as I suppose the pioneers would have done, then I painted it all with the usual children's water colours......
Here are the stage pictures of the construction....
Thanks for looking, and I hope you like my interpretation....Next up I will do a bit of work on the stream bed.
Cheers,
Ron
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Here's my first time go at a rough old shack. It was a toughy trying to get it to look summat like, but it was good fun....
I came up with the notion that whoever built it decided to use the stone lying around and mud from the stream, and then went up to the top of the waterfall and found a load of timber floating in the lake above....Sound plausible?!! No. I didn't think so either, but it's the best I could come up with!
The door is long gone, I've a couple of ideas I will add on to the shack later to make even more run down, as it's not quite as neglected as I want, but it's a start....
As shown in the pictures, I used my usual 'ouse building method for the shack sides and back. For the front, I just stuck the coffee stirrer, random width planks onto a timber frame in a rough and ready manner, as I suppose the pioneers would have done, then I painted it all with the usual children's water colours......
Here are the stage pictures of the construction....
Thanks for looking, and I hope you like my interpretation....Next up I will do a bit of work on the stream bed.
Cheers,
Ron
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