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Saloon 2 Boogaloo
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About the Project
Another installment of my Building the Old West project.
Related Game: Fistful Of Lead
Related Company: Wiley Games
Related Genre: Western
Related Contest: TerrainFest 2025
This Project is Active
So Much Green
Upper floor interior. The area that’s above the masking tape is the back of the sign and will be painted as natural wood. 
Interior bedroom walls. 
First floor interior walls. Several Coats Later
Painting yellow over a grey primer will require multiple coats. This is after the first coat. 
I lost track of how many coats but I think this is around 4 or 5. If I were to do this again, I might’ve primed white on the front of the building and gray on the sides and back. Still, I rather like the slightly transparent look as I was going for a paint job you’d see on a boom town building, gaudy and hurriedly applied.
Front & Rear
I decided to repaint the rear storerooms in more of a buff color. 
I masked off the front doors and used masking tape to hold the sign frame in place. Everything in the frame will be painted black. The horizontal piece of tape marks the edge of the frame. 
Everything painted and the masking tape removed. Storage
There’s a pair of small store rooms at the back of the saloon and I wanted to paint them differently so I test fit the walls in place and masked off the area to be painted.
Here’s what the storerooms look like when partially assembled. 
Here are the storeroom walls after the masking tape was removed. The walls are painted a mix of yellow, white and Burt umber all mixed together. I may try a different color and repaint them. Stairs
I glued the stair steps into the risers on one side. 
Once the stairs were glued into place on one side, I press fit the other side into place and then glued the stairs to the other riser. Walls and Doors
I masked the interior doors with low adhesive tape and then painted the doors. 
Here are the doors after I painted them and removed the tape. I removed the tape immediately after painting the doors while the paint was still drying. 
Here are all the other walls and the interior staircase. Window Treatments
Buildings in the Old West frequently only had the front of the building painted with the sides and rear often left as raw wood. I’ll be replicating that here. As such I’ll glue the window frames into place on the majority of the windows before painting them.
Here are all the window frames punched out. 
These frames I spray painted white and set to one side. 
One window and the rear door with frames glued in place.Paint it Brown
Liquids artists acrylic paints are incredibly cheap. Umber Brown makes a perfect choice to replicate unpainted wood. 
I used this Army Painter terrain brush. 
I painted the floors first and the brush strokes are in the same direction as the engraved floor boards. 
First and second floors done. While these dry, I’ll start on the windows. 
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