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Worn weathered bare wood siding on the exterior, aged grimy and grungy interior. It has taken me several weeks to complete these walls. Each individual board is picked out and detailed, one-at-a-time, to fit the specific weathering pattern I'm looking for. This is particularly important in the corners, which I will expand on in the next post.
The following is a group photo of the walls inside and out with the detailing so far:
Aged and weathered bare wood siding.
Interior detailing of the siding to give an aged hardened oak appearance. Of note is the use of standard framing with fire breaks for my interpretation.
What follows are shots of the individual walls in no particular order:
Open west side of the tractor repair section. I beefed up the entrance framing by utilizing 6x6 posts with an off-set and exposed angled supports.
North (back) side of the tractor repair section.
North end wall of the logging section.
Bringing in the east wall of the logging section. This wall was featured earlier.
South (front) wall of the logging section. This wall also featured earlier.
Center wall section separating the tractor repair and logging sections. Wall number seven consists of 6x6 posts, beam, and angled supports (see wall map above).
More later...Ken
Terry
Hey Karl, appreciate your thoughts here. Planning where all Brett’s details are going to go!
Jerry
Thanks Tom...grungy for always and forever!
I spend a good bit of time planning the weathering on my walls and in particular the corners. The corners tend to get more damage and rot and afford great opportunities for detailing and added interest to the structure. Of some importance is keeping in mind where the two walls will come together to form the corner, and how your weathering should blend seamlessly between the two.
Illustrated below are two wall sections that when glued together form a corner of the structure. I like to have frame work showing through areas where there is missing siding from damage and/or rot. This lends some scale and also serves to provide visual interest.
Note how the bottom of each wall has some missing and damaged siding with some framing peeking through. I specifically detailed these areas to match up when the two walls are glued together.
Here are the same two wall sections held together to show how both corners, and their associated detailing, compliment each other and it appears contiguous.
Here are two additional walls with similar detailing in the bottom corner. These two walls serve to really show how the match is realized by a little planning ahead.
Note: The base framing of the walls was done by glueing two scale 2x4s together rather than use a 4x4 so the seam of the two are visible which would have been how the bottom sill was originally made...
The two walls mated together showing the contiguous rot/damage detail across both walls.
Terry