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Post by Vermin King on Feb 19, 2019 17:49:33 GMT -9
And got called into work again... Still gonna try to build the two wider versions of the first two cage wagons tonight, but it's late. At this point I have a tent, and one built final version of a cage wagon, and no time until Sunday to do much more EDIT -- I figured I might as well print the 4th wagon and the plumed horses. And found some issues on Wagon 4. Here's the corrected file While correcting the file, I added vents and the CWF Circus logo
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 20, 2019 19:53:16 GMT -9
Here are two of the zebras I am working on getting together for a bestiary Got started on one of the giraffes
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 21, 2019 9:11:04 GMT -9
Got a bit done over lunch
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 22, 2019 8:45:29 GMT -9
Had a productive lunch When I saw this photo, I had to include these two.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 22, 2019 18:49:53 GMT -9
Yowsah! Tough night. I had prepped those already designed wagons, so that I could relax by building them tonight, but it will have to wait until tomorrow night or Sunday
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 24, 2019 12:09:52 GMT -9
Well, its Sunday Gonna try to get these other two wagons built, two sets of team bases, some more horses. Bestiary is gonna have to wait until tomorrow, I think Did get some work done on the calliope last night, but I really got sidetracked trying to find images of a 'Ranch Stringer', evidently used to carry tent poles, etc. I don't recall seeing a wagon like that before, but it makes sense that you have to take the poles with you EDIT -- I forgot to show my progress on the calliope
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2019 4:52:50 GMT -9
Still need to do the front end of this, but coming along. Finished building the other wagons, and the zebras, and a set of Xtea's Draft Horses
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Post by ignatious on Feb 26, 2019 5:57:11 GMT -9
It is amazing that you basically pulled off a whole themed set in a month. Fine work.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2019 6:25:13 GMT -9
Thank you, sir.
I had collected various circus sets from the net over the years. I even had a circus parade on my old model railroad, but with plastic, with the tent being set up on the outskirts of town out by the brewery.
I had visions of a Gypsy Zirkus back when I did the Vardoes, and had some source material I'd gathered back then. I wouldn't have gotten this much done had I continued down the path of 'models' of the wagons. By going to EZ-Bild, it took a lot of the load off. Except for the Robbins wagon, these are only seven parts, and three of those are optional - the axles and the wagon bottoms.
Frankly, I think I have shelved my Papercuts idea of Washington greeting Martha at the Presidential Palace in Washington and will continue building the circus theme. There is so much more I want to do. I don't have any performers, nor people to be driving the wagons. I had considered the wagons done, but maybe I should add drivers to those files. In collecting wagon images, there were several with the driver sitting up there with the red jackets and chrome helmets. You have sparked a wonderful idea
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If I do this for Papercuts, I will definitely go back and get closer to a catenary shape for the tent sag. And I will attempt to have either a lift-off roof or a flip-up roof. I want to see performers in there. Also accordion screen posters, and..., and...
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2019 10:04:39 GMT -9
While looking for drivers in my files, I ran across this Yes, the front of the calliope I was working on. I should be able to build it and the giraffes tonight
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2019 12:20:13 GMT -9
While on hold with a company waiting to talk to a marketing rep for 47 minutes, I put together a driver for the wagons and updated the files. I had another driver that could also have worked. If there was more time, I'd have done him also, rather than having the same guy on five wagons at the same time. Oh, well
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 26, 2019 19:50:42 GMT -9
Hmmm, why am I only doing wagons owned by Disney or Schlitz Brewing Co.?
They both had unique reasons for saving these old wagons. Disneyland used to have the Mickey Mouse Club Circus, and the wagons were also used in promotional parades and movies. Schlitz also used the wagons in parades. I imagine that it was their way to counteract the notability of the Bud Clydesdales
I think I am going to get one more wagon done. A freight/tableau wagon that was built by Beggs Wagons of Kansas City. It actually passed through the hands of both Disney and Schlitz. Although I am tempted to do the Disney blue version, I will probably go with its current paint scheme which is an attempt to recreate the 1910-20's paint job.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 27, 2019 10:22:10 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2019 6:30:43 GMT -9
Didn't feel like building anything last night, so started work on adding camels to the Bestiary I actually was distracted at work last night. I kept wondering if I did the driver with Gimp grid set at 75 pixels or 37. If it was at 37, the drivers would be too small. Luckily, I checked and they are the correct size. Whew
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2019 11:06:45 GMT -9
As far as parade animals, there are camels, elephants, giraffes and zebras now. Other than llamas, what else would be in the parade?
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 1, 2019 6:34:59 GMT -9
The horses the acrobats would use?
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 1, 2019 7:20:39 GMT -9
That was the only other thing that I came up with, though the Wild West shows sometimes had small herds of buffalo.
I mentioned the dancing bears a few times. There would sometimes be bear handlers leading bears around. And organ grinders, and clowns. A herd of clowns, hmmm
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 1, 2019 9:08:27 GMT -9
Since I said I was closing this out Sunday, I need to concentrate on building, so put the basic box together on the calliope at lunch and printed the camels and elephants
On the freight wagon, the wheels have a blue ring on the blue one and a red ring on the red one. The red one has no good images of the wheels, so I'll take the blue one's wheels and adapt. Since I will have images of both requiring clean up, might as well do both
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 1, 2019 14:42:37 GMT -9
That was the only other thing that I came up with, though the Wild West shows sometimes had small herds of buffalo. I mentioned the dancing bears a few times. There would sometimes be bear handlers leading bears around. And organ grinders, and clowns. A herd of clowns, hmmm Buffalo and clowns?!?! There is no time for both. Just do a herd of these
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 1, 2019 19:12:15 GMT -9
The herds are going to have to wait, as is the freight wagon. I did get the calliope built.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2019 9:12:22 GMT -9
Deadlines are a pain, but they are useful. Today was my deadline. I have the drivers on all five wagons. More bases being glued for the camels and elephants, also being glued and drying under weight. I had hoped to throw the freight wagon together, but in all the images I've collected the best looking wheels are partials at wrong angles. So, I am cleaning up several of them and will have to cobble them together. So, I considered doing a more utilitarian freight wagon from the Gollmar Bros. Circus, but with limited time, it will have to wait. Also, no llamas, clowns or buffalo. Or performers, carnival workers or sideshow 'celebrities'. While things are drying and awaiting building, I guess I need to set up the Hoard Dropbox folder. I really wanted to do the Sea Shell Freight Wagons And the Gollmar for a utilitarian wagon I'd gotten the front wheel done on the blue one, but not the back one, but after I return the raccoon trap, I just need to build things and call this done
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2019 16:36:07 GMT -9
And the trip to return the trap took longer than I thought. But I am nearly done with what needs built. Enough to call things workable. Here's the calliope And the camels and elephants for the bestiary But right now, I need to get some house work done. I feel confident enough, though, that I can post files to the Hoard
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2019 8:19:44 GMT -9
I guess, ignatious and shep, that this just shows what could be accomplished during PlaSeBuilMo (Playset Building Month)
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Post by shep on Mar 4, 2019 12:33:15 GMT -9
I guess, ignatious and shep, that this just shows what could be accomplished during PlaSeBuilMo (Playset Building Month) You could go ahead and build a Silver Springs for the circus to come to...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 4, 2019 12:39:36 GMT -9
I was thinking along those lines. I was watching some Western movies and TV with the idea of recreating some of the buildings seen in the films. You know me and movies and tv. Seems I try to recreate most of my stuff from films
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Post by shep on Mar 5, 2019 1:37:03 GMT -9
I was thinking along those lines. I was watching some Western movies and TV with the idea of recreating some of the buildings seen in the films. You know me and movies and tv. Seems I try to recreate most of my stuff from films If I as a German might give it a try, I think for a generic Western town, you'l need a saloon, a hotel, a bank, a sheriff/marshal's office with jail, a general store (or two), some kind of horse hiring/trading stables with a black smith's workshop, a town house or two, a farm house or two, a small cemetary surrounding an even smaller church, gallows or a hanging tree, perhaps some gold digger's tents or a small mining camp, a property seller's office, and a train station with water tower and post/telegraph office. I might be wrong, but I think that's all...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2019 4:36:24 GMT -9
Silver Springs makes me think mining, so an Assay/Claims Office. A boarding house, which wouldn't look that much different than a residence, Mining Supply, small school. Missouri Town 1855, which is nearby, gives a nice assortment of what would be found in a burgeoning town. There's all kinds of things that could be included, but it would require townfolk, not my strong suit
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Post by shep on Mar 5, 2019 4:43:42 GMT -9
Silver Springs makes me think mining, so an Assay/Claims Office. A boarding house, which wouldn't look that much different than a residence, Mining Supply, small school. Missouri Town 1855, which is nearby, gives a nice assortment of what would be found in a burgeoning town. There's all kinds of things that could be included, but it would require townfolk, not my strong suit In a mining town, there should really be a brothel, shouldn't there? Also, for townsfolk, you could mod some of okumarts' Whiplash Trigger minis...
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2019 7:12:29 GMT -9
I watched Support Your Local Sheriff again last night. Madame Orr's was prominently mentioned.
Also need the Barber/Dentist/Bath establishment
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Post by shep on Mar 5, 2019 8:58:10 GMT -9
And don't forget the Chinese laundry shop... When I took a class on the American West during my history studies at university, I learned that Germans made their fortune during gold rush (in California as well as (and especially) in Canada and Alaska) by opening German Bakeries/Butcheries. So, one of those or both might just as well be an interesting feature in a mining town...
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