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I have wanted to make a stable for sometime and finaly got around to doing it. I started with a frame and then clad it with pine strips. I will be woodburning some detail into it once i finish the mow (the second floor) but I wanted to post this while I had the camera out. It is scaled to be used with a 7 inch horse. it measures about 7wide X8 high X15 long. the stall dividers are toothpicks set into pine strips. I used the same tooth picks set into the timbers to simulate dowels in the framing, then sanded them until they were slightly protruding from the frame. I recycled some hinges from an old picture frame and made an old fashioned swinging door latch to keep the door closed. The open bay will be a feed/tack room for a future wagon, wheel barrow, saddle rack etc. I had originally wanted to make it a sliding door, but I didn’t frame it properly to have that on the outside of the stall walls. My inlaws are horse people (raise some of the finest Hackney Horses in North America) so putting them on the inside of the stall would have been unthinkable. oh well next time… I guess we live and learn.
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stefang
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posted 44 days ago
Beautifully done model. I really love models and some of my fondest memories are from making them. Thanks for posting. I hope you show us the finished project too.
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kolwdwrkr
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posted 44 days ago
very nice. Looking forward to seeing the progress
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Loucarb
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posted 44 days ago
Well done.
cstrang
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very nice work, I can’t wait to see it when its finished
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a1Jim
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posted 44 days ago
neat
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ND2ELK
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posted 44 days ago
I really like this! You did a great job on it. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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darryl
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posted 44 days ago
that’s some pretty cool detail you have in there!
nice work.
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Cedrus
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posted 43 days ago
Beautiful and I love the detail…coulld be used around Christmas for a nativity scene?
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woodbutcher
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posted 43 days ago
romansfivefive,
What a wonderful piece of work! The details are amazing. I would find that size work too difficult for me. I even find the normal sized pieces too difficult for me most of the time-LOL I’m looking forward to seeing it with the second story also. Congratulations again on an excellent build.
Sincerely,
Ken McGinnis
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romansfivefive
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posted 41 days ago
thanks for the kind words everyone
I am sure it could be used as a nativity scene, my first nativity scene was a shoebox and kleenex dolls I made, so this would be an upgrade from that. A few years ago we switched from using the wooden barn idea that St Francis taught to a cave that my kids made out of clay. I guess the original stable was a cave not a barn, at least that is what you can see today in Bethlahem. I guess if you think of Jesus’ birth as forshadowing His death, it makes sence, but I still like the look of the wooden barn better though. It probably has to do with what I grew up thinking the nativity looked like in my imagination.
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