Spent the day in the shop and started looking at all of the scrap wood and other little things laying around and thought that I could do something with all that spare stuff. This is what I came up with:

I took a 24" x 36" painting canvas (I think that's the size) and took the canvas off and mounted it to a couple of pieces of 3/4"x5"x3' planks of plywood that I joined together for the overall width.

I then painted the canvas white, and while it was still wet I applied a thick layer of dry-wall paste on top of it and used a paint scraper to give it texture. 

While that was drying I hot-glued scrap wood together to make the barn and stained and painted it. Once the canvas was dry I stained the sky and painted the fields. I then attached the barn and other items using nails and hot-glue. 

There are a couple of little pieces here and there that I used to get the overall look.

Hope you like it. Give it a shot. See what you having laying around and think of something you can recycle it into.

Oh, and of course - the inspiration:

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This is a very detailed model of an Old Wooden Barn which was created in Cinema 4D v.10.

This model has been UV wrapped and Texture Mapped allowing you to easily customize the look and feel of the model to suit your needs. * Make sure you download the Photoshop files to do this.*

(3DS and XML file may need to have textures ‘re-loaded’ due to Cinema’s conversion process. This is easily done with the naming structure of the files and textures)

Model is perfect for close-up and mid range shots for that rustic farm / country scene.

Memory:             ca. 1398 KBytes
Points:                27443
Polygons:          22970
Objects:             19

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