12-03-2009, 12:33 PM
BR60103 Wrote:A couple of observations on Mountainman's pictures.
The street in Canon City doesn't have 2 buildings in a row with the same colour of brick. In the one picture I don't think any brick colour is repeated at all.
The first picture: a building with the remnants of its old neighbour still in the wall. This would take a lot of effort to model. (impressive when done)
We had a talk from a fellow who's family used to own a downtown hardware store. In the 50s the neighbouring bank decided to demolish and rebuild. Then they found that the hardware store didn't have any walls of its own; it had been hung from the walls of the existing next-door buildings. The bank had to scale back their plans by a couple of feet to leave the hardware store standing.
The bricks were made by something like eight different companies on site, using local materials, but the over-all color was fairly coherent. The problem is that many of the buildings have been painted at one time or another, nd have faded differently over time.
The color wasn't the point I was trying to amke with the pictures, but the style, after a comment by a poster that style was sacrificed for speed when Western towns rebuilt after fires.