Saturday 15 August 2015

The old west watering hole

     "When you begin a cattle drive, you can't expect to say you are finished until you have visited a fancy woman and played some games of chance".
                                                                                         - Wild Bill Hickok

     Like I said in my last Dead Man's Hand post, I had planned a few more buildings at least, and a saloon had to be on that list. This is another 4ground kit in the form of Rogan's Bar - renamed to the mended drum - and it's friendly barkeep. 
    This was the most involved kit from this range that I have had to build, most of them can be built without instructions once you have a couple under your belt, but I wouldn't advice that with this one, but having actual window is a really nice addition.




The barkeep is from Brigade Games - one of their hired help pack. Something about him just screamed barman to me. Maybe it's the shotgun?


It's images like this that make me think I need to work out how to make some tumble weed.


       The more I look at these images while I write this the more it is being cemented into my head that I need to buy the second-floor addition to this kit. That bar just isn't imposing enough yet.

Thanks for reading.

6 comments:

  1. Loving this Mike, the first photograph looks brilliant! Would rubberised horse hair work for tumbleweed?

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    1. Thanks Michael. Yeah I'm wondering about something like that.

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  2. Nice one, Mike.
    I'm going to start work on my own pile of 4Ground buildings this week. I bought the two-storey under-construction, to add some height to my layout, but the downside to the model is you need to buy the sub-base B pack to complete it. More expense :(

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    1. Thanks Roy. Yeah I was gutted when I got my partially constructed building home and realised it was not only slightly bigger than the normal buildings, but it didn't come with a base :S.

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  3. Great build dude! That first photograph is superb.
    In fact the whole table looks very impressive.

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    1. Thanks Bob. Its definitely getting there. Just need a few more buildings to finish it off really.

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