Building Crabtree: 2 more buildings and "Just how big is this gonna get?"....

Greetings once again dear readers!

So with Little Wars cancelled, I will admit that some of the "energetic wind" has gone out of my sails, but I am slugging on!

Last weekend I took a bread and my wonderful wife (Gawd bless her!), and myself did some travelling and I ended up doing some photography of some small towns in Indiana, and (believe it or not), paint scheme ideas for some of my buildings.

This weekend the muse is slowly being supportive, and I was able to do the last two major buildings in step one of the "assembly line" process.

The first is The "General Store"...

The General Store has all sorts of dry good, household sundries and items that you would need living out on the frontier. From cans of beans and coffee, to fabric and even horehound candy and lemon drops, The General Store can get you what it is that you need....

Another side shot showing the weathering of the whitewashed building.

I am going with a simply "Black and white paint job" for this building. A lot of Amish building up in Berne, Indiana have this and it's a bit of an attention getter believe it or not.  As always there is still more work to be done.

Next up: THE BANK!!!

"The First Regional Bank" base coated a dark green, this one will be highlighted with a lighter green and a nice yellow trim that will make it stand out and very appealing to the eyes of customers wishing to deposit their money, and gunmen intent on making large withdrawals....

So the first step: "Assembly line" is done. All basic buildings have had their initial paint jobs and assembly line tests done.

Now to get an idea of just "how big" this is going to be",  here are some photos:

Nine of the Eleven currently planned buildings sitting in a row. The other two are O scale plastic style kit buildings. The building in the middle is a scratch-build....

 So then I decide to get some overall pics of them:

"Miss Melodies Ladies Emporium" graces the end. With all the support she gives me, it's only appropriate that she gets building #1 named in her honor...

Two more yet to be names shops.  I think one may be a small cafe style..."Widow Morley's Mockingbird Cafe"...

The Saloon, (Red) and The Undertaker (scratch-built with the white frontage)...Nice size windows for displaying of the latest customers....

A shot showing The Bank, The General Store, The Barber Shop, The Saloon, The Undertaker, and an unnamed shop.  Gonna have to start to some serious city planning if this keeps getting bigger...

A side by side comparison shot of The Bank and The General Store...

Men with guns...on the sideboard-walks of town...trouble is soon to follow....

Another shot of "The side-board-walks of town....trouble is a-brewing soon I think!!!

The "easy part" is now over with...

Now comes "the hard part".

This will include adding doors, windows, trim, wall-paper, decor, signage and final weathering....

Each one is going to take a while but it will get done.

That's it for now...more to come....