Adding a few more details this Winter. A flooded quarry, a family cemetery and a smokehouse so far.

Impressive Realism...Even the lighting seemed to replicate a typical summer day on the farm! Still needs the MUCH Vaunted Kohler Back-up Generator to be complete though...

Very nice!
Quite a project!

Nice.

This reminds me of what it was like around here when I was young. Many of my relatives/friends had thriving farms.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
Impressive Realism...Even the lighting seemed to replicate a typical summer day on the farm! Still needs the MUCH Vaunted Kohler Back-up Generator to be complete though...

If you look close, the John Deere parked by the fuel tank next to the shop has a PTO-driven generator hooked to it. Modeled after a Winco, but we can pretend it's a Kohler...

Modeling the mid-60s?

It’s really nice.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Modeling the mid-60s?

It’s really nice.

Thanks, I grew up on a small farm in central Michigan in the 50's and 60's until I joined the Navy in '69.

There are a couple of anachronisms if you look closely but I try to stay in the period.

I build scale models. GT race cars, WWII aircraft and tanks.
Haven't built a diorama, don't know where I would put anything that big.
Yours looks wonderful!

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I build scale models. GT race cars, WWII aircraft and tanks.
Haven't built a diorama, don't know where I would put anything that big.
Yours looks wonderful!

Thanks! Space is an issue for sure. I kept adding "acreage" until it's roughly 4 feet by 5 feet. Sort of like the guy that built a boat in his basement, it's there for whomever gets the place after I assume room temperature.

Quite impressive, the amount of hours you have into that I would bet makes the word impressive in adequate.

What scale are you using?

Nicely done Paul it looks real!

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
Quite impressive, the amount of hours you have into that I would bet makes the word impressive in adequate.

What scale are you using?

1:64 scale which is what the little toy tractors and farm equipment are. Equivalent to "S" scale in model railroads. HO trains are 1:87 so a bit small but finding S scale stuff is really a challenge (and expensive) so careful placement minimizes the difference in scale.

The house and barn are HO kits, pretty much all the rest of the structures are scratchbuilt to S scale.

I have no clue how many hours total, but it's certainly in the hundreds. Great therapy tho.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I build scale models. GT race cars, WWII aircraft and tanks.
Haven't built a diorama, don't know where I would put anything that big.
Yours looks wonderful!

Thanks! Space is an issue for sure. I kept adding "acreage" until it's roughly 4 feet by 5 feet. Sort of like the guy that built a boat in his basement, it's there for whomever gets the place after I assume room temperature.

I built models when I was a teenager, They all met their demise to gasoline and firecrackers.

That’s is quite impressive Paul! Very realistic.

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I built models when I was a teenager, They all met their demise to gasoline and firecrackers.

So I'm NOT the only one!

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a few more details

very enjoyable!!! Will search for those details....however THIS may surprise you....

Much of the 1970 decade I lived in an Oregon late pioneer period (pre 1900 here abouts) square nails salt box farm house with that same outside layout. The porch was clear to the end of the Left wall, & the Rt lower window was 2 instead of one....but startling similarity.

I won't butt in with my trivial details but it sure caught me by surprise.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I built models when I was a teenager, They all met their demise to gasoline and firecrackers.

So I'm NOT the only one!

Too funny! A blackcat would blow it up, An M80 would obliterate it!

Nice work Paul!

My FIL did a lot of miniatures. He was always working on one thing or another. We still have a couple.

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a few more details

very enjoyable!!! Will search for those details....however THIS may surprise you....

Much of the 1970 decade I lived in an Oregon late pioneer period (pre 1900 here abouts) square nails salt box farm house with that same outside layout. The porch was clear to the end of the Left wall, & the Rt lower window was 2 instead of one....but startling similarity.

I won't butt in with my trivial details but it sure caught me by surprise.

It's also remarkably similar to the house I grew up in, one reason I grabbed it. I'll post a picture here in a bit.

Very fine work! I don't have that much skill or patience.

flashguy