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Title: Peeling White House...
Post by: RoughboyModelworks on January 24, 2009, 01:49:59 PM
Here's a beauty, an excellent weathering reference for peeling paint and shake roof. Building was in Washington, DC. Photo taken in 1915 & image comes from Harris & Ewing Glass Negative. Is that a bird's nest above the window or an eave plant gone wild?

BTW, that's not me in the picture.
(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roughboy.net%2Fimgs%2FWeatheredHouseSm.jpg&hash=827c761bb84c94b4985a3e897d74239d67102d46)

Closer view of door & window.
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Title: Re: Peeling White House...
Post by: marc_reusser on January 25, 2009, 02:12:01 PM
Most "bodacious"!....thanks for posting.

That plant looks like some kind of wierd growth right out of the original Star Trek series......or maybe a wasp nest that took hold behnd an old vine. :-\


Marc


Title: Re: Peeling White House...
Post by: Belg on January 27, 2009, 06:04:39 AM
I saw this picture on Shorpy the other day and thought it would be a great modeling subject. I guess I was not alone.

Marc, I think those are perhaps swallows nests?? Pat

Title: Re: Peeling White House...
Post by: Ray Dunakin on April 22, 2009, 11:58:31 AM
Great pic!

There's an old corrugated metal house in Austin, NV that has a very similar screendoor:

(https://www.finescalerr.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raydunakin.com%2FSite%2FAustin_NV_files%2FMedia%2F4969_02AusPorch%2F4969_02AusPorch.jpg&hash=e896eab72895da65e8636ac73f16693cd233d481)


Title: Re: Peeling White House...
Post by: RoughboyModelworks on April 23, 2009, 06:40:24 PM
Nice pic Ray... it is interesting to see the similarities between the doors, kind of variations on a theme.

Paul