My grandson came to visit from Florida for a few days. We got to run trains and he went off into imagination land coming up with all kinds of things for me to build. We settled on a jail for the town of Durango as something that wasn’t so hard it would be difficult to make progress. He stuck with me through most of the framing and even clicked the trigger on the nail gun. At 7, I was pretty carefully setting it up and controlling the safety, and he got nowhere near the bandsaw :-).
Started yesterday, and here’s where I am so far today (cartoons won out over helping, though he continued to provide a torrent of suggestions):
Looking at some pictures of old ghost town buildings, I thought I’d take a try at adding some interesting awning supports:
I probably did those in the most labor intensive way possible (lots of filing to create square holes). A little out of scale for the trim I’m sure but it is maybe ok for a 10’ building.
Have to create bars for the windows, put in the door and front window, do roof treatments, and am interesting in trying a Ray Dunakin faded sign technique for the JAIL sign on the front. Current plan is to not paint this and let it weather. As most of my stuff so far, this is redwood.
Cheers!