TD Barnecut has sent us up date on his fence and photo of a scratch built mortar.
Recent inquiries have encouraged me to add more color options to the spike fences. Attached is a photo showing the six colors I currently have available – dark gray, medium gray, almond, tan, light brown & chocolate. Still asking $2 each for these but can offer a small discount on larger orders. Also attached is a photo of a Civil War M1861 8 inch mortar I am scratch building. I am at tdbarnecut@live.com.
Mortar looks great!!
nice job TD!
I prefer brown ,more realistic in my opinion
This is kinda funny but has been brought up before. A plastic toy which is supposed to be wood is almost always brown in color; In the Toy world, wood = brown. Marx was able to have a more realistic look when they produced many wood items in tan or grey plastic. Most lumber is light yellow tan when first sawn or split, then weathers to a shade of gray. Look at photos on line of the Gettysburg Park site, the fencing is distinctively gray in color. (The brown plastic fences must represent the ones made by the rich southern planters who imported expensive mahogany for fencing and then had the fence rails stained a rich dark brown.)
Undoubtedly, TD, you’re correct, as my backyard boardfence was originally tan (like the color of a 2 x 4), but has now aged into a gray. Although 100% wood, it was never brown.
However, for my Marx Battle of the Blue and Gray dioramas, gray fieldworks don’t provide a contrast with my gray Confederate soldiers, so I like them in brown, thus adding a new color in between the blue figures on the one hand, and the gray figures on the other.
Undoubtedly, back in Civil War times, the real life spike fieldworks would have looked either tan or gray.