Hi. I'm new to the forum and wanted to post some pictures of my current project. This is a scratch built barn made from bass wood and ultracal so far. I am planning on making the roof corrugated sheet metal, but I'm not sure if I will use evergreen or make it out of lead foil. The mix of wood, metal, and stone will enable me to show a variety of weathering effects.


*The first 2 images show construction of the frame.




The floor boards have been sanded to show wear by the doors and in the center where it would have been more traffic.





I used a few coats of Weather All to make the wood look aged.

To make the fieldstone foundation, I poured a slab of UltraCal and carved the sides.




Please share your thoughts and advice.

The barn is very American in its design. I dont know how common these would be in Europe, as the inner frames obstruct bulk storage. This could be used for stables though, by building in stalls and pimping it up with horse related items.
If the base of the barn and the sheet of pured hydrocol dont sit well together, you could build and simple frame under the barn and add putty, where you could also fashion stone work.
What you have done so far looks great though ... will be interesting to see how this progresses. Must get me some of that weather all stuff ... the floor looks amazing!

I agree with Frank on the location points. I think as long as you get a good sealsmallest gap, your construction should work.
Overall I think it is coming along well.

Your barn looks amazing cant wait to see it finished

As far as I know the original wooden barn design it's dutch. It was imported in theUSA by dutch immigrants

http://www.dutchbarns.org/dbpsnewssp91.htm

So you can see some old dutch wooden barn in Holland

They call it houten schuur.

Anyway, a really interesting project

cheers

Thanks guys for the feedback. I am glad you picked it out as being an American barn. It is based on barns in the southern New England area where I live. I am building this for my future stepson's (9 yrs old) train layout. He wanted an "old barn that was abandoned and falling apart". Once I am done with the stone base I will fix the floor to it and hopefully it will be seamless. I have used Apoxy in the past with hydrocal and it seemed to work well, so I might use that again. Frank, I like the idea of the stables. Once the walls and roof are on I'm not sure how much of the interior will be seen though. I am planning on having part of the roof eithier collapsed or missing....so adding detail like stable gates propably would be a good idea. Mauro, thanks for the link. It is very helpful. I will post more pics as it progresses.

The overall construction is very impressive. The floor is excellent. Hope to see it finished soon.

Hi Kristen

I wonder if you have seen this tool I made up that might be of use to make your tin sheeting.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/154938#1298583

I really like the barn and will be watching closely.

Nige

Nige,
This is an excellent tool. I will try to make one myself. Thanks for the info.