Finished gatling gun

Drawings for Mousy

These are some drawings I did for my friend Mousy in the UK. They are reference to help him build his own 28mm scale sawmill.

gatling gun is coming along

The gatling is almost done. Need to prime and paint it. I chose a model 1865 1-inch caliber because it was mounted on a regular artillery carriage and only had six barrels. The chamber casing is longer than an actual gatling; this is so because I created the casing by sawing a 12-pound Napolean gun barrel at the mountings. I could have sawed it shorter and created new mountings, but I wanted to get the gun finished. The barrels also are longer, but I did this simply to make the gun more imposing in the game for which it was built.

Rotating death!

Having forrayed into the world of 40mm old west figures, I wanted a gtaling gun, but no one makes one. So I bought a civil war gun carriage from Sash and Saber and have embarked on scratch-building my own gatling. I opted for the early 1862 1-inch caliber model: It was mounted on a regular gun carriage and only has six barrels (giving me a chance at this challenging project.)

Assay office

This here is my assay office (not yet with painted signage.) It took about 9 hours to complete. The interior has yet to be furnished (with a counter, desk, stove, chairs, shelving and assay equipment and chemicals. The building and boardwalk also will be based for strength.

First of my 40mm figures painted

40mm homestead

40mm figures

Just got a bunch of these in. Here's a comparison of a 40mm figure next to a 28mm.

Bulk of my old west fellas

Great-grandma's ferry boat

This is the ferry boat my great-grandma piloted on the Missouri River at Brownsville, Nebraska (across from Rockport, Missouri.) I'm thinking of building it from scratch, but reference photos are few (just two or three that I know about.) So the going my be a bit tough.

Quick photo for LuckyJoe

Hey, LuckyJoe- If you're over here, here's a photo of a finished tree. I realized in the steps shown below, I neglected to actually show a finished tree! So here's a photo to inspire ya! For wild west terrain, I would just use the branches cut off the main stem; trees weren't too big in the scrub of the west (and you'll get a lot more trees for your buck :)

The willow trees use the same stems, but use a different technique: The trunk is actually a bundle of floral wire twisted together and wrapped with white floral tape (touched up with paint to make the birch markings.) As you get higher up the bundle of floral wire (your trunk), you pull out one or two ends of wire to form branches. Thus, the more wire you start with at the bottom of your trunk, the more branches you can have at the top. The branches' floral ends are cut branches from floral stems which are spliced and glued to the floral wire branches. They are then wrapped with more floral tape.

The effect, in my opinion, is more stunning. The construction is also more controlled and using the floral wire allows the branches to be bent into any shape you need. These willows are the only I have ever made- definitely a labor-intensive technique.

Saloon version 2

Here's my second go at a saloon interior. It's gonna get a Faro table and some burelsque paintings eventually.